It's time again for the Business Arena Stockholm Waterfront Congress from the 16th to the 17th of September 2015. We are on site to meet with representatives from the environment industry and above all to participate in seminars and debates on current challenges, trends and future issues that are crucial for the development of Sweden.
Klas Ruin, architect and founder of Spridd, participates in seminar 6 on Wednesday, the 16 of Septemberat 16:00, New perspectives on social sustainability.
Topics to be discussed: How to apply the conclusions from a social impact assessment to the reality? How to avoid preconceptions when renovating a Million program area? What is the experience regarding urban planning as a tool to avoid social segregation?
Ola Broms Wessel, ceo, architect and founder of Spridd, participates in seminar 12 on Thursday, the 17th of September at 11:30, How to keep the city open to all?
Topics to be discussed: Is it possible to balance the market forces influence with the need for a public place? What can architects and planners do to make the city inclusive? How do the major property owners see their role in making the city accessible to everyone?
See you at the Business Arena, please let us know and we'll book a meeting in advance!
We are improving from the inside
Klas Ruin, architect from Spridd speaks at the Södertörn Conference under the theme "We are improving from the inside". The conference focuses on the development of infrastructure and residential areas in relation to goals of social sustainability set in the region of Södertörn.
With the process in focus, Klas Ruin presents Spridds ongoing projects, including the renovation of apartment buildings in Fittja and development of public spaces in several Million Programme areas.
The Södertörn Conference is organized by Salem and Botkyrka Municipality in collaboration with the Multi cultural Centre in Botkyrka. The conference takes place on Subtopia in Botkyrka Thursday, September 10, 2015.
ÄLGÖ KULTURHUS IN THE BOOK 'SVENSKA VILLOR'
Älgö Kulturhus is one out of 24 projects on display in the newly released book Svenska Villor published by Arkitektur Förlag. The book presents the most interesting private houses built in Sweden in between 2010 and 2014. Photos, drawings and descriptions by the architects are giving a unique view on the houses and the thoughts behind.
ALBYBERGET - COMPETITION PROPOSAL
Land allocation competition for the municipality of Botkyrka. Proposal on new housing and enforced picture of the center. The proposal works around a large square. The building system provides rental apartments as economic system, which means economic challenges. The environmental goals are also on high level. The client is Mitt Alby. Se more of the proposal here.
NEW IMPRINTS - THE FITTJA PAVILJON
During the summer the pavilion in Venice had five teenagers from Botkyrka as visitors. Their mission was to explore, investigate, leave trace and tell stories. Botkyrka konsthall hired them through the project Junior Residence. Read more here.
The project will be shown at the art biennial Fittja Open opening on the 13 september.
MILJONPROGRAMMETS ROLL I BOSTADSPUSSLET
At Almedalsveckan in Visby, NCC lifts the Fittja People's Palace as an example on how renovation of the million program can ad to a sustainable growth. To renovate the housing of the million program is considered as one out of five important pieces in the "housing puzzle" NCC is presenting during the week. Reed more about the puzzle here. Fittja People's Palace is a partner project between NCC, Spridd och Botkyrkabyggen.
Opening of Fittja Pavilion, Venice
PRESS RELEASE 2014.06.05
Today, the Fittja Pavilion opens in connection to the 14th Architecture Biennale in Venice. A cutout of a typical Swedish Million program apartment appears in a Venetian garden in the shape of an open-air wooden pavilion. The surrounding buildings are seen through the walls, and blend with the Swedish welfare architecture.
The Fittja Pavilion in Venice, produced by Botkyrka konsthall, asks questions about how the post-war modernistic architecture of Sweden can contribute to new forms of public space and urban development. Fourteen international architects and artists present works with connection to Fittja. The apartment pavilion is made y the architecture office Spridd, which works on developing new methods for renovation in Fittja.
-Our project in Venice can be seen as a small part of a larger effort to highlight the qualities and the potential that exists in Fittja says Klas Ruin, architect at Spridd. To solve the urgent need of technical upgrade of the Million Programme buildings at affordable cost is a major societal challenge. Previous renovations in these areas have focused a lot on a change of the visual appearance. Our pavilion focuses on the inside, and the great architectural qualities found in apartments from this period.
The pavilion in Venice is furnished with a long table, with drawings on all floorplans of the first building to be renovated printed on it. During the spring, the table was placed in the projects showroom in Fittja, allowing the residents of the house to make omments about their own apartment directly on the tabletop. The colorful stools are painted by children living in the house.
- Our work is very much about Shorten the distance between planning and implementation, says Klas. The dialogue process we have initiated is a way to anchor the project in the area and include the residents and others working in the area in the whole process.
- The debate on how architecture from this period should be developed goes on everywhere. There is no clear answer to the question, and not even a fixed problem, says Tor Lindstrand, architect and researcher. The Architecture Biennale in Venice is the single largest architectural event in the world. To place a suburb like Fittja in this prestigious context is a way to spot the area from a different direction. We want to contribute to broadening the concepts and interpretations of what a place Fittja can be - an area that in many ways is far more interesting than the inner city areas that are built today.
ARCHITECTURE BIENAL MOSCOW: NORDIC BLOCK
Spridd took part in the exhibition "Nordic Block" at Moscows forth Architecture Biennal 21-25 may 2014. The exhibition asks for tendencies in the nordic building blocks, and Fittja People's Palace was chosen as an example on renovation for development of the architecture of the welfare state. Ylva Frid was presenting the project on site in Moscow.
Curator for the Swedish part of the exhibition "People's Palaces" was Emilia Rosenqvist/Färgfabriken. Nordic Block was produced by Project Baltia magazine.
More information: Project Baltia
Photo: Emilia Rosenqvist
Fittja People's Palace in Venice 2014
A cut-out from a typical Swedisch "Million Programme" apartment from Fittja south of Stockholm is temporarily appearing in Venice during the 14:th Architecture Biennale 7:th June - 7:th September 2014. Fittja People's Palace is a method for how to renovate and subtly upgrade the architecture of the welfare state.
The project appears in the Fittja Pavillion in Serra dei Giardini, curated by the art hall Botkyrka konsthall. Rem Koolhaas, the curator of the Architecture Biennale in Venice and one of the most influential architects of our time, asks for a mapping of the modernistic architecture in the international exhibition of the biennale named Fundamentals. In the Fittja Pavillion, several contributing architects and artists are re-evaluating the qualities of the Swedish housing blocks of the 1960's and 70's.
5:th June 15-18
Press preview of the Fittja Pavillion, Serra dei Giardini.
6:th June 16-18
Seminar "Contemporary approaches to our late modernistic heritage". Fittja Pavillion, Serra dei Giardini, Venice
The Fittja Pavillion is presented in collaboration with Architecture and Design Center, Stockholm, partner of the Nordic Pavillion.
Curator: Joanna Sandell, Botkyrka konsthall.
Partner: Botkyrkabyggen AB
More information:
Pressmeddelande 2014.05.20
Fittja People's Palace
Botkyrka konsthall
14:th Venice Architecture Biennale
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Fittja People's Palace