KS awarded first prize in design innovation competition

Sege Park presents possibilities for reduced resource consumption

The project It Takes a Block has been announced as the winner for the design innovation competition – The Nordic Built City Challenge – for the Swedish site in Sege Park in Malmö. The proposal has been developed by Kjellander Sjöberg along with the Danish landscape practices Sted and BOGL, Atkins consultancy, Platspilot and students from LTH. It presents affordable housing based on climate-smart and community-based solutions for liveable and sustainable smart cities.

The winning proposal combines a number of strategies in order to support a sustainable lifestyle with a focus on sharing as a way to reduce resource consumption. There are several common facilities within the urban block, such as a canteen and a cultural centre. The roof terraces are equipped with greenhouses and a water centre with a bath and a laundry room. These shared functions and spaces allow for smaller living spaces whilst maintaining or even improving the living quality.

Open and flexible spaces connected to space-efficient functions are a common theme for both the indoor and outdoor design. The residents are encouraged to use the block and living areas as efficiently and innovatively as possible to suit their needs.

The prize was awarded during the Nordic Built Cities Benchmarking Forum in Helsinki.

Official opening programme: The Forests of Venice

Official opening programme: The Forests of Venice, Biennale Architettura 2016

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to the official opening events of the exhibition The Forests of Venice, Collateral event at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Official opening programme The Forests of Venice
Serra dei Giardini, Viale Giuseppe Garibaldi 1254, Castello, Venice, Italy.

26th May at 17:00 – 18:00: Press event, unveiling exclusive material.
Introduction by the Swedish Minister for Culture and Democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke.

Speakers:
Jan Åman, Atelier Slice
Stefan Sjöberg, Kjellander Sjöberg
Sandra Frank, Folkhem
Livia Podestá, The Swedish Institute

27th May at 17:00 – 22:00: Exhibition and pavilion vernissage ceremony.
Inauguration by the Swedish State Secretary to Minister for Rural Affairs Sven-Erik Bucht, Elisabeth Backteman, followed by an introductory speech by the initiators and curator.

Speakers:
Jenny Bergström, The Swedish Insitute
Stefan Sjöberg, Kjellander Sjöberg
Sandra Frank, Folkhem
Jan Åman, Atelier Slice

28th May at 17:00 – 22:00: Think Tank 014 – a lecture and open discussion.
Moderator: Hans Ibelings – architectural historian.

Speakers:
Chris Sharples, Shop Architects (USA)
Andrew Waugh, Waugh Thistleton (UK)
Alex de Rijke, dRMM (UK)
Tobias Olsson, Swedish Association of Architects (SWE)

Panel:
Jan Åman, Atelier Slice
Stefan Sjöberg, Kjellander Sjöberg
Sandra Frank, Folkhem
Morten Johansson, DinellJohansson
Katarina Lundeberg, In Praise of Shadows

The Forests of Venice is initiated by Kjellander Sjöberg and Folkhem, who have produced the exhibition together with the support of the Swedish Institute. The curator is Jan Åman. Additional support from Swedish Wood, Sveaskog and Martinsons. Including seven selected exhibiting architectural practices – Architects without Borders Sweden, Arrhov Frick, DinellJohansson, Horn.Uggla, In Praise of Shadows, Carmen Izquierdo and Urbio.

The initiative brings together some of Sweden’s most prominent architectural practices and highlights wood as a sustainable construction material, while illustrating the interaction between nature and the man-made human habitat in order to respond to climate change and limited resources.

Our host for Serra dei Giardini is Microclima.

The Forest of Venice

KS designs an exhibition at the Biennale Architettura 2016 in Venice

Urbanity, architecture, forest, wood and climate; are the focal points for Sweden’s contribution to the Venice Biennale 2016

The Forests of Venice, Collateral Event of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Serra dei Giardini.

The Swedish exhibition The Forests of Venice has been officially selected as a Collateral Event during the Venice International Architecture Exhibition. The initiative brings together some of Sweden’s most prominent architectural firms, highlighting wood as a building material and illustrates the interaction between nature and habitat for addressing climate change with limited resources.

The Forests of Venice is initiated and produced by Kjellander Sjöberg and Folkhem with the support of the Swedish Institute. The exhibition is curated by Jan Åman, and is supported by Swedish Wood, Sveaskog and Martinsons.

The exhibition is housed in Serra dei Giardini, a greenhouse built in 1894 and situated between the Biennale’s two main exhibition areas – Giardini and Arsenale. The exhibition takes the city of Venice’s origin and situation as a point of departure, drawing similarities to contemporary times when climate change and rising sea levels pose a global problem of flooding to threatened towns and densely populated coastal areas worldwide.

In dialogue with the Doge’s Palace; one of the city’s most public buildings and symbol of its representative government – Kjellander Sjöberg have created a pavilion installation of solid wood which sits alongside the greenhouse in the garden. The Forests of Venice continues inside the greenhouse where seven selected architectural firms – Architects without Borders-SE, Arrhov Frick, DinellJohansson, Horn.Uggla, In Praise of Shadows, Carmen Izquierdo and Urbio – speculate on how classical Venetian architecture and urban elements can be reformulated into strategies for our time using wood as the main building material.

The exhibition The Forests of Venice connecting to the Biennial theme Reporting from the Front, which explores the architect’s role in the struggle to improve the living conditions of people worldwide.

Our host for Serra dei Giardini is Microclima.

The Forests of Venice is open from May 28 until September 18, 2016.

Serra dei Giardini
1254 Castello, Venedig

Co-creation Malmö

KS invites for an open discussion

This Think Tank takes a closer look at collaborative ways of operating in design and planning processes. We would like to investigate how this may be done in distinct but related fields from art and installation to design and urban planning. What kind of new work can arise by including wider user groups and the people closely connected to a place?

Co-creation points towards possibilities of sharing knowledge and facilitating processes of a complex nature. Join us for a discussion on the power of dialogue, cross-sectional teams and participation, how an activist-approach can empower citizens and address the complications of rigid structures.

Panel Guests
Elin Eyborg (UK), architect and performance maker
Rosa Lund (DK), architect and partner at STED
The Connectors Society (SE), community of architects and urban planners, Malmö
Jessica Segerlund (SE), Älvstranden Utveckling, Göteborg

Time and place
28th April 2016, 17:00
Kjellander Sjöberg
Grimsbygatan 24 (Saltimporten)
211 20 Malmö

The event is free of charge. Wine, beer and snacks will be served

Everyone is welcome, please invite friends and colleagues!

New school in Burkina Faso

KS designs a project in West Africa

A school building designed by Kjellander Sjöberg is currently being built in the village Nakamtenga in Burkina Faso. The project is an initiative of the organization Yennenga Progress, which has already built another school in the area. The project proved to be a great success in the village; children make rapid progress and the school also attracts students from the surrounding villages. The need for classrooms is extensive across the whole region.

The building’s robust concept derives from a modular frame system across three dimensions. This provides opportunities to create spaces for the stairs, entrance balconies, canopies and solar protection within the same system.

The school is built entirely by local builders and craftsmen, thus creating much needed local livelihoods. The building’s foundation is in place and the classrooms will be ready for the start of term in September.

The project is volunteer based and carried out pro-bono by Kjellander Sjöberg.

Nordic team finalists in Malmö

Sustainable lifestyle in a climate-smart block

Kjellander Sjöberg has been selected as one of the four finalists in the design competition”Sharing for Affordable and Climate Smart Living”. The competition aims to find climate-smart solutions for Sege Park which will become Malmö’s new showcase for sustainable urban development, comprising 800 new housing units, within ten years. Sege Park is one of six in the Nordic competition series “The Nordic Built Cities Challenge”.

KS has together with the Danish landscape practices Sted and BOGL, along with LTH students and Atkins consultancy, developed the proposal It Takes a Block. It focuses on the lifestyle aspects of creating a sustainable society and how it can be supported by the built environment.

The second phase of the design competition will be carried out in the spring of 2016, in parallel with a land transfer competition for the area, offering a possibility for collaboration across both processes.

The four finalists will be exhibited at the Form/Design Center in Malmö from 3rd February until 6th March 2016.