Skanska who is developer and initiator to the invited competition has chosen to pursue RB Arkitektur’s proposal for two eco houses in Norra Djurgårdsstaden stage 2.
Norra Djurgårdsstaden in Hjorthagen is a new innovative and sustainable city area that will be built during the coming decade. The area will consist of about 5000 new housings as well as facilities for service and commercial activities.
RB Arkitekur’s project proposal consists of two appartment houses with a total of appr 100 appartments. The buildings are designed to fullfill the new city area’s high environmental standards. A few examples:
- Walls of close to 50 cm in width garantees high thermal insulatin and balconies and shields in the cieleing create natural solarschields.
- The facing’s generous balconies with integrated green houses create, together with wires on the facing, a carpet of vegetation that creates one of the facing surfaces.
- Solar cells on the roofs produce 30% of the buildings’ electricity and ventilation is performed through a so called FTX system.
- Generous entrances and common rooftop terraces creates meeting places for the residents.
- Waste amounts are minimized through waste mills and the garbage removal is performed through a waste suction apparatus.
- The building have green roofs that absorbe rain water and minimize stress on the daily water system.
- Biking is encouraged through fairly sized and easily accessible bike parkings.
The following citation is taken from the jury’s evaluation:
“The most estethically pleasing proposal. (…) The whole proposal maintains a high architectual standard. (…) The general impression is both rich in variety and coherent. Both buildings are sculptural with well well thought-threw compositions, prioritizations and light- and shade effects.
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[RB Arkitektur] has intentionally worked with classic qualities such axiality, acoustic feedbak and dispostion of light in the building. Most appartments have high quailities of experience in spite of the complicated preconditions. The through 4 room appartment in the core strip building distinguishes itself particularly through its spatial elegance. The generous balconies on the point block are spatially well-designed and contribute with an extra dimension to the houseing.”
Read the whole pressrelease here.
More pictures of the project can be found here.
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