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.
Finnboda’s Cranetrack
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