KS discussing Commoning Kits at ABAR

Upcoming ABAR focuses on KS’s exhibition Commoning Kits. An exhibition presenting innovating prototypes designed by 13 Scandinavian architectural offices to discuss urban commons, meeting places and sharing in our future cities.
The event will be opened by Johan Pitura from Kjellander Sjöberg, followed by a discussion of the exhibiting architects about their proposals and prototypes for the exhibition. The public is invited to participate in the discussion.

Lecturers:
Johan Pitura (Kjellander Sjöberg)
Uffe Leth (Leth + Gori )
Susanna Rahm (Nilsson Rahm)
Anna Nilsson (Nilsson Rahm)
Magnus Kvalheim (Vardehaugen)
Anna Forslöw (Ahaa)

The event is free and open to everyone.

Time: Thursday Sept 5 at 17:30
Place: Form/Design Center, Lilla torg 9, Malmö

How Stora Sköndal becomes an urban melting pot

The public hearing phase for the new Program for Stora Sköndal has now been launched. It marks the starting point for Sköndal’s transformation into an inclusive urban neighbourhood with nature and heart. The district is centrally located in southern Stockholm and has a long cultural history with valuable nature, proximity to water and broad existing social activities. The vision shows possibilities for creating an integrated diverse city with 4,400 new housing units, workplaces, nursery and healthcare services, education, various amenities, recreation and sport – all for people with functional variation. Kjellander Sjöberg has, as a part of the workgroup, designed an urban structure with good opportunities for increased diversity as well as more mixed and denser urban development. The proposal is based on the precondition to create a socially and physically inclusive environment, taking into consideration Sköndal’s high cultural values, ecological links and existing activities. The development process is a way to introduce better connections to the surroundings and to offer new functionally varied meeting places – a square, streets, parks and pathways.

The landowner Foundation Stora Sköndal has initiated the work on the Program with the overall goal to manage and develop its activities in the future in close collaboration with the City of Stockholm. To adopt such community-building task, the Foundation Stora Sköndal has created a workgroup with broad competence. Kjellander Sjöberg has worked with urban design and architecture, accompanied by The City Planning Office, EBAB, Landskapslaget, Ekologigruppen, WSP and Spacescape.
The construction start for Stora Sköndal’s first stage – Magnoliatomten – is scheduled for 2019.
The Program for Stora Sköndal is exhibited for public hearing from 2017-09-26 until 2017-11-06.

KS curating exhibition at Form/Design Center

What do we need to build apart from housing?
What creates identity, local involvement and a sense of belonging in an urban neighbourhood?

The exhibition Commoning Kits at Form/Design Center showcases 13 examples of how new meeting places can be created to generate and kick-start qualitative development and community in an urban district.

The exhibition is a dialogue process and an investigation presenting innovative prototypes – toolkits – designed to be used in different settings and cities, based on desired needs.
Behind the proposals are some of the Scandinavia’s most creative architectural practices:

Arrhov Frick
EriksenSkajaa
Förstberg Ling
In Praise of Shadows
Krupinski/Krupinska
Lenschow & Pihlmann
Leth&Gori
Marge
Nilsson Rahm
Norell/Rodhe
Rintala Eggerston
Sted
Vardehaugen +AHAA

The point of departure for this exploration is the development of Sege Park, which will become a new hub in Malmö with the ambition to be a showcase for social and sustainable urban development.

Commoning Kits offers several opportunities for open Think Tanks and further discussions about the city. The inauguration opens with a seminar where guest speaker Finn Willams together with the exhibiting architects will discuss how we can create better communities in our cities.

The discussion and exhibition is a collaboration between Kjellander Sjöberg, Form/Design Center in Malmö and Malmö City.

Welcome to a discussion about Commoning Kits!

Place: Form/Design Center, Lilla Torg 9, Malmö
Seminar: 6 Sept kl 15:00 – 17:00
Vernissage: 6 Sept kl 17:30 – 20:00
Exhibition runs: September 6 – October 10
Initiative and idea: Kjellander Sjöberg
Curator: Stefan Sjöberg
Exhibition designer: Kjellander Sjöberg

Culture block in Östersund

KS, together with Bogl, designs a proposal for a new central meeting place, Gustav III’s Square in Östersund. The site is to be transformed from a bus terminal into a vivid attractive destination point with great programmatic variation. The municipality, together with Diös Real Estate, will use the proposal to investigate further possibilities of including a new concert hall, city library, art school as well as hotels and housing into the area. KS project creates new paths and connections with an open and humble spatial formation that relates to the small-scale urban fabric. Focus has been put on creating meeting places with a good microclimate, flexibility and inviting character, which can be used by different social groups year round. The new buildings will create synergy between various programs and strongly contribute to the vibrant urban life of Östersund.

KS wins a competition in Helsingborg

KS has, together with Veidekke won a competition for a housing block in Oceanhamnen, new town district in Helsingborg.

“The proposal takes vision of sustainability for future housing to a new level” describes the jury.
The block, designed by Kjellander Sjöberg, consists of around 55 apartments where flexibility, sustainability and programming have been the leading factors of the design process. The eco-labeled buildings in CLT and recycled bricks connect to the surroundings of the harbour in both configuration and program.

Focus has also been on social sustainability. On the smaller scale of each individual apartment, smart and flexible solutions can vary the accommodation character based on changing conditions and future needs. On the large scale, the buildings connect and invite activity and movement, as well as inspire social initiative and further integration using meeting places and open facilities.

The Forest of Venice in Rome

The Forest of Venice exhibition for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 will be shown in Rome at Casa dell’Architettura, inaugurated with a seminar about timber as a sustainable material for the future.
The exhibition, by international press named one of the most interesting projects at the Architecture Biennale last year, is initiated and produced by Kjellander Sjöberg together with Folkhem, supported by The Swedish Institute.

The points of departure for The Forest of Venice are the climate change and rising sea levels threatening coastal regions worldwide, what new urban solutions and strategies we face today and the possibilities of wood as a renewable material. The discussion continues – now with The Forest of Venice in Rome.

The exhibition and seminar are a collaboration with the Swedish Embassy in Rome and Swedish Wood. The vernissage will be opened by Alf Karlsson, state secretary to Peter Eriksson minister of housing and digitalization.

Exhibition: 26 May- 8 June 2017
Inauguration: Friday 26 May at 19:25
Place: Casa dell’Architettura, Piazza Manfredo Fanti 47, Rome

Photo: Adam Mørk

KS at the seminar Urban Dynamics – Scandinavian influence in Czechia

Ola Kjellander is invited as a guest speaker to a conference about sustainable cities at NEXT Institute in Brno in Czechia, where he will give an insight into the Swedish approach to planning sustainable districts and urban mobility principles. After the conference, there will be a public lecture on how we program our neighborhoods and what influences people’s movements.
The events are a part of the NEXT Institute’s research track Urban Dynamics which explores the mechanisms and strategies of urban mobility.

Conference:
Time: Friday May 5 at 13:00
Place: The Distillery, Pekarska 76, Brno, Czechia

Public lecture:
Time: Friday May 5 at 17:00
Place: Moravian Gallery, Governor’s Palace, Moravske namesti 1a, Brno, Czechia