Stoccolma.Projects 7. Showroom Kvadrat Stockholm. Woodland Cemetery Skogskyrkogården Stockholm, Sweden Erik Gunnar Asplund cemetery, crematorium, park

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1 Stoccolma Projects 7 Created 04-Jul-11 By alessandro conti, mendrisio, Switzerland Woodland Cemetery Skogskyrkogården cemetery, crematorium, park Stockholm Public Library Woodland Chapel Skogskapellet 3 Markuskyrkan Showroom Kvadrat Stockholm 6 Pionen White mountain 7 Albert France-Lanord (A)rchitects archive, industry, shelter 4 chapel Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec shop, showroom library 2 JLindeberg Flagship 8 Albert France-Lanord (A)rchitects shop 5 Sigurd Lewerentz church 1

2 Woodland Cemetery Skogskyrkogården Sockenvägen Stockholm The Woodland Cemetery - Skogskyrkogården - in Enskede, southern Stockholm, was built between 1919 and 1940 by the architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz On a ridge overgrown with pines they created a sacred landscape with several small chapels arranged to interact with the natural surroundings It expresses on a large scale the design aspirations that characterized Swedish architecture before and after World War II Asplund mainly devoted himself to the buildings, with the Crematorium standing out as a central work both in his own career and in the architecture of the 1930s as a whole Skogskyrkogården was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1994 The justification of the World Heritage Committee was: "Skogskyrkogården is an outstanding example of how architecture and landscaping from our century combine to make a cemetery This creation has had a great influence on the design of cemeteries all over the world" 1940 City of Stockholm Maarten_Scheurwater the visitor centre is open every day from 12-17:00 hr, from the 27th of May to 2 September Closed 22 and 23 June To book a tour, contact the Stockholm Stadsmuseum at 2

3 Stockholm Public Library Odengatan Stockholm Like many of Asplund s other projects the Stockholm City Library ( ) went through numerous modifications and alterations during the design process Unlike most of his major projects, the design work of the Library was assigned to him without a normally required competition This arrangement provided Asplund the opportunity to develop his design in a more relaxed manner Eventually the design was a round hall surrounded by staircases, a tall cylinder with an opaque glazing in the roof lights The base of the building is a square The combination of spherical and cubic forms was a frequent motif, which can be found in both Asplund s earlier projects and those of his contemporaries A strict, symmetrical variation of this motif can be seen as a product of the search for innate aesthetic value of forms in the context of Classical Revival 1928 City of Stockholm Maarten_Scheurwater 3

4 Woodland Chapel Skogskapellet Sockenvägen Stockholm In the beginning of the 20th century Stockholm s burial grounds had to be expanded, so an international architect competition was initiated in order to ensure the dignity, artistic quality and harmony of the buildings, vegetation and landscape of a new cemetery - Skogskyrkogården, the Woodland Cemeter south of Stockholm A part of the Cemetery and the first chapel in the park, the Woodland Chapel, designed by E G Asplund, was completed in 1920 The wooden chapel with its white-washed walls and black roof is adorned by Carl Milles sculpture The Angel of Death, iron gates designed by Asplund and an altar painting by artist Gunnar Torhamn died in 1940 He rests beside the Chapel of Faith under a simple epitaph bearing the words His work lives 1920 City of Stockholm Maarten_Scheurwater The Tallum Pavilion, which is in the south of Skogskyrkogården, has a permanent exhibition about the cemetery and the two architects This visitor centre is open every day from 12-17:00 hr, from the 27th of May to 2 September Closed 22 and 23 June To book a tour, contact the Stockholm Stadsmuseum at 4

5 photo: Desiree Vermeer photo: Desiree Vermeer Markuskyrkan Malmövägen Stockholm Sigurd Lewerentz designed one of his two great churches in southern Stockholm: Markuskyrkan (St Mark's Church) in Björkhagen, a district south of Stockholm's city centre The church is considered one of the great post-war buildings 1962 Sigurd Lewerentz desireevermeer photo: Desiree Vermeer 5

6 photo: Paul Tahon and Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec photo: Paul Tahon and Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Showroom Kvadrat Stockholm Nackagatan 4 S Stockholm Bouroullec designed a showroom structured by textile walls made of independant tiles assembled together via an ingenious folding system The Tiles sytem was conceived specifically for the textile showroom activity It aims at highlighting the various textures and materials of Kvadrat s collection by dressing the spot with sensuality and warmth Moreover, it grants a certain flexibility and a wide range of possible evolution to the showroom Then, the doors themselves are conceived as self-supporting and mobile modules like furniture-boxes that can be moved easily It is the realisation of some long-incubated ideas about constructing soundproofing spaces with textile Conceived like sorts of scales, the Tiles can follow infinite shapes, be they organic or geometric Thus, the high modularity of this system allows to consider multiple applications in order to build autonomous and soundproofing spaces photo: Paul Tahon and Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec 2006 Interior architect Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Naomi Tuesday - Thursday or by personal appointment 6

7 Pionen White mountain Renstiernas gata Stockholm The project takes place in a former antiatomic shelter An amazing location 30m down under the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm The client is an internet provider and the rock shelter hosts server halls and offices The starting point of the project was to consider the rock as a living organism The humans try to acclimate themselves to this foreign world and bring the best elements from earth: light, plants, water and technology We created strong contrasts between rooms where the rock dominates and where the human being is a stranger against rooms where the human being took over totally The choice of lightning has been very challenging We tried to bring as much variation as possible Otherwise it is very easy to loose the feeling of time in an enclosed space Our references come straight from science fiction films, mostly Silent Running and a bunch of Bond films with Ken Adams set design Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Albert France-Lanord (A)rchitects Bahnhof AB AF-LA 7

8 JLindeberg Flagship Biblioteksgatan Stockholm The Stockholm flagship is composed of four distinctive worlds: The entrance works as a 3-dimensional exhibition space The entrance floor houses the 'casual' collection and further in the 'sport' collection Upstairs is dedicated to the tailoring and made-to-measure section Even though each world is unique in its expression, they need to be connected visually through certain materials and furniture because of the deep and narrow shape of the shop Materiality and the juxtaposition of furniture from different époques are the starting point of the design The dominating materials are corten steel, reinforced glass, cocos carpets, concrete and oak The fixtures are a mixed of customized vintage furniture and new produced modules designed by the office 2008 Albert France-Lanord (A)rchitects JLindeberg AF-LA 8