Urban development in the city center of Södertälje – A green building scheme including new housing and commercial space at street and park level.

A gluelam timber construction in two levels.

The site is on the border between a former urban/industrial development and a small forest.
The project mediates between these different contexts and scales. A semi-enclosed entrance courtyard constitutes a first exterior space, where parents and children gather before entering the premises. The facade panel, 50×50mm sawn wood, filters direct sunlight into the school and creates hidden windows that underscore the building’s curved interior and exterior spaces.

Entrance level:  On each floor, three groups find their own secluded class rooms as well as common spaces for playing and learning.

Main entrance on Osquars Backe leading to ateliers, workshops and exhibition area. Teaching rooms and offices are on the three upper floors.

The new School of Architecture in its context. Facades are glass and deep red corten steel connecting to the existing buildings of dark red brick at the KTH Campus. Construction is in-situ cast concrete with load bearing parts visible as freely placed fields in the facade.

Working model 1 – Double height main spaces on the ground floor shape the mezzanine, where 3rd year students will be working at upper-courtyard level.

Working model 2 – Each of the upper floors have flexible open atelier spaces along the perimeter of the building, while a core contains communal areas and meeting  rooms.