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increasingly meant that we have devoted far too little attention to Location S:t Eriksplan
Client Utopia Ideas
what is happening between the buildings and with our public
Type Public space
spaces. S:t Erik's indoor park is a concrete proposal for how we
Year 2017
want to create a non-commercial public indoor environment for
play, socialising, contemplation and cultural experiences which
can be used for a large part of the day, all year round. The park is
the rst in a series of proposals for Stockholm's development, Share on Share on Image
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which we are calling Utopia Ideas. The project is co-nanced by the
Swedish Federation of Glazing Contractors
(Glasbranschfreningen) and the Swedish Wood Building Council
(Trbyggnadskansli).
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The more of us there are who have to be able to associate and share experiences
outside our homes, the better our public spaces need to be designed to be able to
meet the future's major and more complex needs. Stockholm, and many other
cities, has a major need for more non-commercial public indoor environments.
People who want to get together in an indoor environment outside the home are
today, with the possible exception of libraries and certain museums, almost
exclusively directed to commercial environments such as shopping malls,
restaurants and cafs. The increasingly commercialised inner city means that, for
purely economic reasons, large groups of people are circumscribed in their options
for socialising outside the home.
Increasing the number of non-commercial spaces is a desire and an ambition
which is also clearly expressed in Promenadstaden (the Walkable City), the current
structure plan for Stockholm City. Yet we are seeing very little of the development.
It is clear that the city needs an injection of strong ideas and concrete realisable
projects to manage this. S:t Erik's indoor park is one example of a solution which
can create these badly needed environments. S:t Eriksplan is a potentially suitable
location, even though the need for these environments is naturally at least as great
in many other parts of the city, not least in its outer areas. We would like our park
not just to be viewed as a proposal for what can be done specically in S:t Eriksplan,
but rather as the start of a wider discussion on how we can and should manage our
existing, and not least future, public environments.
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S:t Erik's indoor park is a public space for play, socialising, contemplation and cultural experiences.
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The park building consists of a total of six linked ellipsoid-like volumes of varying size and shape and an additional volume covering the nearby underground
entrance.
The building
S:t Erik's indoor park is constructed in the form of a load-bearing laminated timber
construction clad in vaulted glass. The park building consists of a total of six linked
ellipsoid-like volumes of varying size and shape. The slender wooden beams make
the buildings' facades almost completely transparent, at the same time as the
internal column-like sections are closer together, giving the elevated volumes a
sense of stable anchorage.
Today's underground exit on the other side of Odengatan's extension has been
replaced with an entrance building which is a companion to the main building.
The entrance building creates a powerful visual connection with the main building
and strengthens S:t Eriksplan's overall identity as the site for the city's only indoor
park.
The wood and glass materials produce a light and elegant building which, with its
verdant interior and abundant lighting, will stand out as a landmark in the
cityscape. The park is strongly integrated with its surroundings and easily
accessible for the general public in purely physical terms. Entrances and passages
are generous, welcoming and clearly linked to surrounding pedestrian routes.
The building will be some 23 metres tall, at a level with the eaves of adjacent
buildings, and will have an area of about 1,500 square metres.
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S:t Eriksplan is a typical example of how at present many public spaces in Stockholm are often poorly designed in order to create a living urban environment
the inhabitants can share experiences and meet up.
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Entrances and passages are generous, welcoming and clearly linked to surrounding pedestrian routes.
Sustainability
The point of departure for the project has been to create a fundamentally
sustainable building. The material is climate smart, resistant and recyclable.
Solutions for heating, cooling and lighting are selected for the highest available
standard when it comes to energy eciency. The building can produce its own
heating for a large proportion of the year. During the colder times of year, the park
should be able to reuse heat from exhaust air from the adjacent underground and
the garage beneath St Eriksplan.
Project partners
The Swedish Federation of Glazing Contractors (Glasbranschfreningen) and the
Swedish Wood Building Council (Trbyggnadskansli) are both partners and co-
nanciers of the proposal for S:t Erik's indoor park and have been valuable
collaborative partners during the development of the project. The complexity of the
proposed solution's design and functionality provides major opportunities to
highlight beautiful, new thinking and innovative solutions from each partner.
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