The future is now, Arkitekten

The article discusses innovative technological tools that are available to architects and designers, enabling design solutions that almost sound like science fiction!

Kjellander Sjöberg’s CEO, Mi Inkinen and partner Ola Kjellander, discuss the opportunities that 3D technology offers their industry.
“Renders are one thing, but everyone knows that they can be manipulated. Being able to show a physical model in the early stages to clients and politicians is an advantage. Simultaneously it enables us to experiment in a different way than you can on a screen. “says Mi.

Both Ola and Mi believe in the 3D-printer as a tool which can regain some of the architect’s lost authority. When you can print out parts of the building itself, you are no longer dependent on subcontractors’ too often mediocre stock range.

Arkitekten, April 2015, no 3, pp 32-37

The new urban life, Dagens Industri, Weekend

Kjellander Sjöberg’s Lena Viterstedt – partner / creative director and Saki Azodi – communications / architect, discuss the urban density of Stockholm and new forms of urban life in the city, in DI Weekend no. 12-2015.

With soaring housing prices, the four walls of homes are increasingly pressed into a bare minimum, relocating practical tasks out to communal spaces. “It will become more common for residential buildings to have shared workshops, car pools or roof gardens that for example, can supply a restaurant located in the same building. This facilitates for increased interactions amongst residents, providing other forms of values, which makes up for the smaller flats.” Explains Lena Viterstedt.

Dagens Industri, Weekend, 27 mars 2015, no 12, pp 3, 16-19

Small-scale housing that fills the gap, Arkitektur

In Arkitektur no. 7, 2014, the editorial team discusses the current Swedish housing gap. Kjellander Sjöberg’s project Sjöterrassen is referred to as a good and innovative example of a newly built housing project.

“Sjöterrassen adds a sequel to the story of human habitat that the industrialized construction has helped creating. Some lessons have been learned. Technology has been toned down. What emerges is lively architecture, which demonstrates that quality can be created if one shows care for the resources available, rather than having access to large quantity of resources.
Meticulousness is visible/ … / in the buildings’ placement in the landscape and in their relationships to each other. Simple blocks come to life through the way they shapes interstitial spaces and places.”

Arkitektur, no 7, 2014, pp 70-73