New catalogue about Gjuteriet in Malmö

Kjellander Sjöberg releases a comprehensive new catalogue documenting the process of the award-winning transformation of Gjuteriet for Varvsstaden – the journey from a derelict ruin to a vibrant new social hub in the heart of Malmö.

Gjuteriet is a prominent, listed building in Malmö, a historic player in the shipbuilding industry and a key part of the city’s identity. It was originally built in 1910 as a foundry producing components for ships and bridges. The main approach to the renovation was to preserve the heritage; to leave and reveal as many traces and stories as possible. Material sustainability was the key design strategy, seeking to minimise the use of resources and climate impact through extensive reuse and smart material choices.

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Floor Plans catalogue

KS brings floor plans into the spotlight. The new ‘Floor Plans’ catalogue highlights layouts as an important tool and presents drawing examples from 30 projects of various types and scales. Asking questions about flexibility, context and inclusion, KS is approaching a design process focusing on meetings between people and social interaction. A layout can act as an instruction as well as a description. It is an attempt at order and a clear arrangement of exterior and interior spatial sequences, aspiring to provide conditions for a viable, sustainable, vibrant society for all.

‘Floor Plans’ is the latest catalogue in the KS series, comprising the previously published ‘Hand Sketches’, ‘Commoning Kits’ and ‘Kjellander Sjöberg 1998-2018’ publications.

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KS publishes a catalogue of hand sketches

Kjellander Sjöberg publishes a collection of sketches created in the office during the recent years. The “Hand Sketches” catalogue presents a selection of sketches from various stages of the design process, ranging from initial pencil drawings to digital mixed media presentation illustrations. It highlights hand sketches as important tools for the creative work, a point of departure for joint discussions and critical reflections, as a way to transition from a contextual analysis to design ideas. Just a few strokes can create a better understanding of space, content, and future qualities of the environment.

“Hand sketches” are printed in the same format as the previous publications Commoning Kits and Kjellander Sjöberg 1998-2018.

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KS Woorkbook

Kjellander Sjöberg, 2015

Kjellander Sjöberg Workbook is our tool to reassess and improve the way people interact with the built environment, in order to create sustainable architecture and urban design.

KS’s work method emphasizes the process itself and is based on an open dialogue and close collaboration within both project teams and with our clients and partners.

Kjellander Sjöberg has, over a long time, established an extensive experience base and a particular approach to sustainability in its broadest sense. In order to raise the quality of resource-conscious projects, Kjellander Sjöberg has developed the KS Workbook – a unique tool and a process guide for a wider cooperation on forming the physical environment; for architecture and urban planning processes where sustainability is fully integrated in each step. The KS Workbook introduces a way of initiating a broader dialogue and means of achieving common goals using critical thinking and direct reflection, leading to more specific input and higher value to the end result.

Introduction to the KS Workbook
Today’s society has a unique opportunity: to imagine and create built environments and contemporary, inclusive lifestyles, that exist within nature and resource constraints. The search is on for new forms of human settlement, business, and culture based on long-term visions and adaptive potential.

KS believes that many – close to all – answers can be found in meaningful, precise and sensitive design of the urban fabric. Good architecture and planning often inherently achieve material sustainability. It also provides the spatial context for thriving public space, and the social dynamics of progress and renewal. We have a strong belief in teamwork and the collaborative process, and we seek simplicity and clarity in complex issues, involving many stakeholders and diverse objectives. This book is our tool to strengthen the design processes we participate in, by helping us and our clients to reveal the new potential in resources, space, and society. It is also a contribution to a shared process – for broader dialogue, critical thought and reflection – leading to better-directed interventions and more valuable projects.

KS Workbook has been developed in collaboration with John Manoochehri at Resource Vision.
Design by THIS IS Studio, London.

A Short Introduction to Swedish Architecture and Design

Guidebook

This is the title of a new book in Russian with 120 fact-filled pages, that tells the story of Swedish architecture and design history, focusing on events and institutions that have shaped it and presents a selection of the most influential players of today.

– Russia is a growing market for both Swedish design industry and Swedish architects. With this book we hope to increase awareness of Sweden and we hope to contribute to an increased exchange of culture and knowledge between our countries, says Gustaf Kjellin.

The texts in the book are written by Daniel Golling and Gustaf Kjellin. The book is produced by Summit with the support of the Swedish Embassy in Moscow, Semrén & Månsson, Senab, Stockholm Visitors Board and Sweco.

Nordic Architects – Ebbs & Flows

David Sokol, Arvinius+ Orfeus Publishing, 2013

Ebbs & Flows, the second volume of Nordic Architects, features the work of 60 leading offices in the Nordic architectural scene. Showcasing their latest works, including unbuilt competition entries, this book gives an incomparable view of the present and future of the new wave in Nordic architecture. Through interviews with all the architects, author David Sokol explores the questions and ideas most relevant to Nordic architecture today. The book features Kjellander + Sjöberg’s projects Annedalsterrassen, Tornhuset, Västra Johannelund and Snäckan.

David Sokol, Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, September 2013, pp 230-239

Kjellander + Sjöberg Architects

Monograph, Tomas Lauri, Arvinius Publishing, 2011

220 pages fresh from the printer. The book is published by Arvinius Publishing.
Editor Tomas Lauri, text by Hans Ibelings, Olivier Namies and Tomas Lauri
Graphic design by Nille Svensson
Photography by Adam Mørk and more

“Kjellander + Sjöberg Architects are considered innovators of Swedish architecture. During more than ten years, they have created an architecture far from the obvious, that lasts over time after a long period of daily use. It´s an architecture where housing, social issues concerning how we live our lives and our need to participate in public life is central. Architecture should come close. It should intensify and improve everyday life. “Kjellander + Sjöberg let architecture be what it should be”, says Hans Ibelings in one of the book´s essays.”

What’s New in Housing?

Exhibition catalogue

Every year since 2006, Belgrade International Architecture Week is organizing a nine-day manifestation to reflect on the quality of the built environment and to present a stimulus for establishing criteria, which contribute to improve future architectural production. During the years BINA have produced a series of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, debates, conferences, guided tours, and film projections related to contemporary architecture and urbanism both on the local and the international scene.

Kjellander Sjöberg is presented in the catalogue ‘What’s New in Housing’ with their contribution ‘Expanding the Context’.

The exhibition is organized by The Association of Belgrade Architects and the Cultural Center of Belgrade.

Ana Jankovic-Corbic, Association of Belgrade Architects, 2010, pp 54-55

Nordic Architects

A selection of the latest projects from 67 Nordic architects is collected in the book ’Nordic Architects’.

From the publisher’s website:
“This inspiring book showcases the work and words of 67 practitioners from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Written by David Sokol, Nordic Architects includes a unique question-and-answer format that provides firsthand accounts of the dialogues shaping northern Europe’s design community. Readers will engage with the region’s enduring legacy of modernist architecture that is sensitive to both site and occupants, as well as the global currents that are roiling designers toward experimental work and provocative thinking. The volume spans architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture within the Nordic countries.”

The volume includes two K + S housing projects: Klisterburken in Vällingby and the recently finished Stora Katrineberg in Liljeholmen.

David Sokol, Arvinius Publishing, 2008, pp 234-237