© Laurian Ghinitoiu
Stepped down to the southern corner of the site, this housing development with 169 dwelling units resembles a natural hill. With an outer skin of cedar boarding, the architecture also adopts the theme of the Gärdets Sports Fields in front of it. The grid dimensions on which the scheme is based are the human scale of a room 3.60 × 3.60 metres on plan, which might lead one to suspect a timber or steel skeleton-frame structure, divided by lightweight partitions.
“Of course, we wanted to make the building sustainable and construct it with as much wood as possible,” explained Bjarke Ingels. “Ultimately, though, structural requirements, fire-protection and sound-insulation needs, but above all the costs, led to the construction of a building with load-bearing concrete walls.”
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“Of course, we wanted to make the building sustainable and construct it with as much wood as possible,” explained Bjarke Ingels. “Ultimately, though, structural requirements, fire-protection and sound-insulation needs, but above all the costs, led to the construction of a building with load-bearing concrete walls.”
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