Housing Development in Stockholm

 - Frank Kaltenbach

Stepped down to the southern corner of the site, this housing development with 169 dwelling units resembles a natural hill. With an outer skin of cedar boarding, the architecture also adopts the theme of the Gärdets Sports Fields in front of it. The grid dimensions on which the scheme is based are the human scale of a room 3.60 × 3.60 metres on plan, which might lead one to suspect a timber or steel skeleton-frame structure, divided by lightweight partitions.

Housing Development in Stockholm
A housing block with two faces: to the north and to neighbouring buildings at the side, the dwell-ings are screened off with wooden facades; to the southern park, they are glazed. © Laurian Ghinitoiu