Programme for Stora Sköndal approved

The planning committee of Stockholm has approved the development programme for Stora Sköndal in southern Stockholm. The consent, highlighting social ambitions of the plan as particularly positive, implies the neighbourhood will get 4,500 new residential units, new businesses and services, as well as spaces for people with various needs and conditions. The plan connects Stora Sköndal to the existing surroundings, develops the existing historic areas and takes into consideration local ecological values. Great emphasis will be placed along the pedestrian path and local square designed to become an inclusive environment where technical and digital solutions will allow for sharing and shared economies. The development programme for Stora Sköndal has been developed by KS in collaboration with Stiftelsen Stora Sköndal, Stadsbyggnadskontoret i Stockholm, Trafikkontoret i Stockholm, EBAB, Landskapslaget, Ekologigruppen, Nyréns, WSP, Iterio, Spacescape, Brandskyddslaget, ÅF, Åkerlöf Hallin Akustik.

KS designs a community bench from recycled materials for Skåne Innovation Week

KS has been commissioned by Varvsstaden to design a seating bench with reuse and upcycling in focus. As a neighbourhood bench, it will contribute to the community feeling in the emerging area – first as a meeting point outside the Skåne Innovation hall during the ongoing Innovation Week, to afterwards become a permanent part of life on the street. The bench incorporates recycled material from Kockum and provides a new lease of life to the bricks and sheets of metal that were conserved after the industry was demolished. The seat is made of pine, to add a living material to the urban furniture. The Peab School in Malmö has worked on the pine and metal detailing, where the original metal sheets acting as backrests have been rounded off on top.

Visualising The Remarkable City

Kjellander Sjöberg invited as one of the participants to the “Visualising The Remarkable City” workshop in London on 15^th May 2019. As per a sustainable business commission by the British government, the workshop sought a proposal for the most sustainable urban development with 1 million residential units imaginable between Oxford and Cambridge – OxCam Corridor. “A resilient, open and inclusive, green and vibrant city with positive environmental benefits as a metaphor for the global change”, explains the initiator Jonathan Smales from Human + Nature, assigned to formulate the brief. An invited team of architects, engineers, ecologists and sustainability experts was commissioned to discuss and visualise the ultimate city for the 21^st century which resulted in a manifesto; The Remarkable City.

Two new KS publications

Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing is now releasing two new books by Kjellander Sjöberg. The two publications share a similar format and newspaper quality paper.

Commoning Kits is the catalogue of the exhibition curated by Kjellander Sjöberg at Form/Design Center in Malmö, displaying 13 proposals for how new meeting places can be created in order to generate and kick-start qualitative regeneration and community development in urban neighborhoods. The catalogue presents innovative prototypes designed to be used as toolkits in different settings and cities, based on local challenges.

Kjellander Sjöberg 1998-2018 is a catalogue and a collection of impressions of a series of places we have visited and that inspired us, of processes we had the privilege to participate in, and of reflections and strategies for emergent situations with inherent eternal questions.

Regeneration of Gjuteriet in the former Kockums wharf area, Malmö

KS has been selected, in a competition with three other practices, as architects for the redevelopment of Gjuteriet, a former foundry in Malmö. The building from 1910 is one of the most prominent historical landmarks within the Kockums shipyard area and an integral part of the city´s history. The former industrial hall represents an interesting preservation challenge in its current state, lacking roof and having its brick facades partially eroded by frost, exposing the steel frame. The commission aims at maintaining the building as a central piece within the greater urban development of Varvsstaden with public programmes and content on the ground level, while at the same time designing for a single tenant with very high expectations. “Getting Gjuteriet to meet the present through conservation and careful sustainable development of new qualities is something that truly triggers our creativity”, says Stefan Sjöberg. The client is Varvsstaden, a joint venture of Balder and Peab.

KS’s lecture tour around North America: Polar Shift

Stefan Sjöberg will be lecturing in the north of USA over two weeks in April – May 2019. The journey begins with three lectures in three cities around Alaska. Stefan was invited by the Alaska Design Forum to present the work of the practice in sustainable urban development and architecture. The discussion on the topic of “Polar Shift” will be angled from a Nordic perspective, comparing various regions with a similar cold climate, offering an exchange and comparison of experience. The last stop will be a lecture at the University of Oregon.

Tour dates:

Anchorage April 29 at 19.00, Anchorage Museum

Fairbanks April 30 at 18.00, The Blue Loon

Juneau May 1 at 18.00, 360 North

Eugene May 5 at 18.30, School of Architecture and Environment

Kjellander Sjöberg invited to City Development Competition in Denmark

Kjellander Sjöberg, in collaboration with GHB Landskab, has been selected for the Faaborg Harbour and City Development Plan competition. Three teams have been invited to create a development plan for Faaborg with a special focus on three areas for densification – around centrally located industries, the harbour and the railway station.

The basis for the competition is an attempt to turn around a decrease in population by creating positive and vibrant city environments, both for residents and tourism. How to connect the old city centre to the surrounding countryside and archipelago, and how can the town and port be secured against flooding? The task includes work with three focus areas: massing studies, climate adaptation and culture.

The competition will be conducted as an open process, enabling dialogue between the participating teams and the jury and advisors, to contribute to and build knowledge. The winner will be announced in December 2019. The client is Faaborg council and Realdania.

The other two teams are Adept together with Mandaworks and SLA together with Praksis Arkitekter.

Photo: Faaborg-Midtfyn Kommune

KS nominated for EU Mies Award 2019

We are thrilled to announce that KS’s Elderly Care Skärvet in Växjö is nominated for the prestigious international European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2019.

The EU Mies Award is a continuous process focused on how architects are thinking and working in Europe today. The Prize objectives aim at promoting and understanding the significance of quality and reflecting the complexity of Architecture’s own significance in terms of technological, constructional, social, economic, cultural and aesthetic achievements. It seeks to recognise and commend excellence in European architecture.

– We are very proud to be nominated with an elderly care, a project carrying such an important role in society. The design is an innovative response to a combination of challenges involving both the construction and the building type. Lena Viterstedt, partner in charge.

Elderly Care Skärvet combines four sections of different types of tile patterns creating a vivid and varied facade. Apart from design and material use, Skärvet is designed to achieve LEED platinum and Skanska’s top-level environmental classification. The elderly care is a part of the neighbourhood Skärvet, a starting point for a new urban district in Växjö. KS, together with Skanska, won the land transfer competition for the development of the site in 2014.

Etaget wins Design S Award

Kjellander Sjöberg has been awarded the Design S – Swedish Design Awards 2018. The residential building Etaget won in the category Architecture – best completed project.

Design S – Swedish Design Awards is Sweden’s biggest and most comprehensive design award, backed by the entire design industry. The award is aimed at professional designers, architects, individual specialists, producers and companies that work with design in a broad sense. Design S – Swedish Design Awards works in partnership with several industry organisations that together with Svensk Form (Swedish Form) select the jury and contribute to the award’s enormous span within all disciplines of design.

The jury’s motivation:
An inspired residential building rises from a dense streetscape, with a mission to reestablish the city’s sense of dramatics, to shake some life into the surrounding neighbourhood. The building revels in the many challenges presented by the site and density, playing with volumes and materials all the way up to the terraces and ledges of the green roofs’ communal spaces and viewpoints. In surroundings still in part characterized by the monotony of industries and offices, this architecture shapes its own order and rhythm, with a complexity whose references range both far back and far ahead in time.

Etaget is an infill residential building combining an existing context with new build. The volume, made up of staggered cubes, has a distinct silhouette, discernible both at a distance and from the surrounding streets. The focus is socio-ecological sustainability, green spaces are used to provide experiences within a compact city.

Client: Tobin Properties
Architect: Kjellander Sjöberg
Interior architect: Koncept
Landscape architect: Urbio