Programme consultation in Hallunda has started
- We want to se an architecture of high quality that lifts the area, says Katarina Berggren, chair of the committee of the municipality. Hallunda centrum is to open up to its surrounding with a pleasant square in connection to a new busstation with roof. We also want to create greater sense of coherence in the area, where Riksteaterns (the theater) and Folkets Hus (the house of the people) are important actors.
Read more about Hallunda here
Read the whole pressrelease from the municipallity of Botkyrka here
###
Yearly Archives: 2008
Programme consultation for central Hallunda 2008-11-12
Programme consultation in Hallunda has started
- We want to se an architecture of high quality that lifts the area, says Katarina Berggren, chair of the committee of the municipality. Hallunda centrum is to open up to its surrounding with a pleasant square in connection to a new busstation with roof. We also want to create greater sense of coherence in the area, where Riksteaterns (the theater) and Folkets Hus (the house of the people) are important actors.
Read more about Hallunda here
Read the whole pressrelease from the municipallity of Botkyrka here
###
Hinge Magazine Hong Kong vol 49 2008 2008-11-07
[jj-ngg-image-list gallery=74 order="sortorder" width="600" height="400"]
Eco House in Budapest 2008-11-04
Eco House on display at the International Model festival in Budapest – 100 rooms 100 models, 7-9 nov 2008.
###
Villa UH1 in Byggindustrin 2008-10-24
Under the topic "Utstickande diamant i det gröna"("A diamond in the green that stands out") Byggindustrin publishes Villa UH1 as the project of the week.
###
NVP Map Trends on the House Market 2008-10-16
Organic and flexible trend for architects
That is how Nacka Värmdö Posten summarizes the interview with Rahel Belatchew about trends on the house market in their latest issue. "– There is an organic trend that I believe we will se more and more. It mirrors how one wishes to live, says Rahel Belatchew (...) – I always try to design rooms that capture daylight and then white walls work the best. The house should be a good basis for mobile interior design details. According to Rahel Belatchew the current trends can be summarized in three parts: organic, flexible and a tighter economy. – This is mirrored in the planning, choice of material and size." The magazine also attract attention to Eco House. ”In the company's ”Eco-house” effort is put on geothermal heating and solar collectors supplemented with a heating stove , low energy consuming household appliances and toilets. It is effectively planned and as a supplement to the refrigerator there is a big larder with space for recycling. The larder is connected to the washing area and the service entrance. – We departed from the "icon" of a house and conventionalized it. The house is covered in untreated wood both on walls and roof. On one of the sides the roof continues as a pergola and creates an outdoor room. – It can either be closed with glasspanes or let vegitation cover it.” The whole interview can be read here. For the article on Eco House, click here. Eco House is produced by Willa Nordic. ###Eco House, a Green Choise 2008-10-10
In the lastest issue of the magazine Residence (nr. 7 2008) with the theme "Green choices" Eco House was shown as the only example of an environmentally friendly standardized house. Eco House is produced by Willa Nordic.
###
Kungsbroskrapan 2008-10-08
Kungsbroskrapan - a high rise proposal for Stockholm City The Kungsbroskrapan is a high rise proposal for Stockholm City. We believe the city has a potential for new buildings presenting progressive architecture of an international standard. The 30-storey building contains offices as well as apartments. The site has been chosen for its strategic location next to the main railway station amidst railway tracks and roads, where the Kungsgatan street meets the bridge Kungsbron, at the shore of Klara Lake. The building also becomes a counter piece to the existing Kungsbro-towers further to the north on the same street. While designing the building our aim has been to make it part of the surrounding flow of the railway traffic. The building reaches upward in a linear movement with parallel lines continuing without interruption from the street up onto the façade in one sole movement, like the tracks of the railway system. The building then splits into two with one body branching off to the side like a track switch, while the other turns to face the waterside.
###
Finnboda’s Cranetrack 2008-10-07
RB Arkitektur recieved a comission to develop a proposition for the alteration of Finnboda Hamn's cranetrack into a restaurant. The cranetrack is situated on the waterfront and is considered a memorial monument, and is today partly hidden behind brickwalls and a superstructure in sheet metal.
We began by liberating the structure of concrete to be able to highlight it. In the next stage we imagined the heavy concrete structure as a tweezer holding a fragile and valuable object - the new restaurant in steel and glass.
The structure of the restaurant has been borrowed from the site's historic cranes. Its surface coat that runs from impermeable to transparent creates both a contrast to the cranetrack's heavy concrete structure and to the infinite movements of the water.
[jj-ngg-image-list order="sortorder" gallery="85"]
Finnboda's Cranetrack
###Townhouses 2008-10-07
The location for these townhouses is a south facing lot sloping in two directions and offering a beautiful view of the outskirts of Stockholm. Surrounding buildings vary from big establishments to smaller entities. The target group is younger families who have grown to big for their appartments and who long for a house but would rather not move out to the suburbs. Our townhouses should be a link betweenthe big and the small, between the city and the suburb - the dream about the house in the city!
Every housing entity has two floor and access to a private garden or terrace. Together the entities form two rows of townhouses, one on top of the other, that climbe up the slope.
When choosing materials and colors we studied the lot as it looks today, a green overgrown slope. By designing the faces of the houses in the same range of colors, creating a camoflaged face, we recreated and apsired to give back some of what we had claimed.
[jj-ngg-image-list order="sortorder" gallery="84"]
Townhouses in Stockholm.
###Hallunda Centre 2008-10-05
1:st prize Invited competition for the expansion of Hallunda Center.
The goal of the competition was to create a place where the inhabitants of Hallunda could meet, feel good and secure. Furthermore the competition aimed at uniting different functions like new housing, an extended center, new workplaces, a new buss terminal and an ameliorated traffic situation in the area.
Out of three invited architect firms the jury chose to continue working with the proposition designed by RB Arkitektur. The planning of the traffic has been made in cooperation with Grontmij.
Client: Municipality of Botkyrka, SL and the property owners of Hallunda Center.
[jj-ngg-image-list order="sortorder" gallery="81"]
###
Villa W in Vårt Nya Bad och Spa 2008-09-18
Villa W, rebuilding of, among ther things, a basement into a spa is presented in an article in the magazine Vårt Nya Bad & Spa, nr 1 2008
###
Kameleont, a Friggebod of 15 m2 2008-09-17
Kameleont is a friggebod (shed not requiring a building permit) of 15m2 designed by RB Arkitektur. Kameleont can take various shapes and be adjusted to your current environment. The clothed roof bends townwards and forms the wall. The entire exterior layer thereby becomes maintenance-free. A big glass-section with double doors opens up the front. A translucent roof forms a outdoor room on the terrace in front of the shed. WC, small kithen and shower are located together on one of the short sides to leave place for as much flexibility as possible in the rest of the shed. Kameleont can thereby be used as sauna, shed, summer house, studio, hosuing for an adolecent, office, spa or guest house. Kameleont is sold by Lilla Villan and are exhibited at Hem och Villa's fair October 9-12 2008.
###
###
Rahel Belatchew review French wood architecture 2008-09-03
Extract from pressrelease from Skogsindustrierna February 9 2008
"The architect Rahel Belatchew Lerdell participates as the only non-French expert in the jury for the French architecture competition Les Totems. The purpose of the competition, which is a cooperation between Skogsindustrierna in Sweden and the sister organization CNDB in France, is to increase the French decision-makers interest for modern wood construction techniques and environmentally friendly construction. The winning constructions will be announced on November 26 in Paris." (...) "Today as it has become more important to consider the environment wood comes out as the obvious alternative, says Rahel Belatchew Lerdell. In France wood adhesives has long been integrated in constructions, and today one can see how wood is becoming more prominent in different projects. It will be interesting to bring Swedish experience with wood constuction into the jury."
###
Tenant Adjustment for Canal Digital 2008-09-02
Canal Digital Sweden has moved into new premises on Tegeluddsvägen. RB Arkitektur has through architect Rahel Belatchew been responsible for the tenant adjustment. We have also bought all the interior decoration for approximately 100 workplaces with fitting interiors for conferencerooms and breakrooms.
###
###
Villa UH1 in Dagens Industri 2008-08-30
Villa UH1 is published in an article in today's issue of Dagens Industri.
"The lots in Nacka outside of Stocholm are small and often very hilly. In this case the point of departure was a relatively steep slope demanding a tailored solution. The result was a big, light, modern house (...) The light flows into the house from the protected court forming a continuation of the surrounding rooms."
"We fell for this house right away despite the fact that we were originally looking for a lakeside lot" (...) "We wanted space in the house to be able to hang art" (...) "The big glassurfaces eraces the limit between the inside and the exterior", says the new owner of the house.
Article written by Eva Johannesson
###
