Norra Tornen: Two Inherited Building Envelopes
Norra Tornen: Two Inherited Building Envelopes
- urbanNext, November 19, 2018.
- 502 words.
High Density, OMA, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms
Active Public Spaces, Adaptive reuse, Architecture, City, Collective housing, Colour, Concrete, Construction, Density, Exploring Housing, Façade, High-rise, Housing, low cost, Monument, Prefabrication, Project, Refurbishment, Residential, Stockholm, Sweden, Tower
Photography: Laurian Ghinitoiu and Ossip van Duivenbode
The Norra Tornen project started with two inherited building envelopes, the remains of a cancelled project initiated by the former city architect Aleksander Wolodarski. Each a kind of ‘crescendo’ composition of different heights – neither slab nor tower – prohibit the unfolding of an uncompromised typology. Conversely, the opted program, apartments with an emphasis on large outdoor spaces, prevented too literal a translation of the envelopes into architectural form.
2575-5374
Architecture Project Stockholm, Sweden Sweden
High Density, OMA, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms
Active Public Spaces, Adaptive reuse, Architecture, City, Collective housing, Colour, Concrete, Construction, Density, Exploring Housing, Façade, High-rise, Housing, low cost, Monument, Prefabrication, Project, Refurbishment, Residential, Stockholm, Sweden, Tower
Photography: Laurian Ghinitoiu and Ossip van Duivenbode
The Norra Tornen project started with two inherited building envelopes, the remains of a cancelled project initiated by the former city architect Aleksander Wolodarski. Each a kind of ‘crescendo’ composition of different heights – neither slab nor tower – prohibit the unfolding of an uncompromised typology. Conversely, the opted program, apartments with an emphasis on large outdoor spaces, prevented too literal a translation of the envelopes into architectural form.
2575-5374
Architecture Project Stockholm, Sweden Sweden