Anders Berensson Architects has been commissioned by the Stockholm Center Party to design eleven floating public saunas to be placed in central located beaches in Stockholm. The saunas contains a men and women sauna and dressing room plus a common roof terrace. The stairs to the terrace is becoming wider and longer in some locations creating springboards in different highs to jump into the sea.
Anders Berensson Architects
Sunday 11 February 2018
Thursday 28 December 2017
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2018!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2018! 2017 was a great year for the office with great new projects and we just moved in to our new office space. We got several projects on the drawing board for 2018 plus some fantastic projects that will be built this year. Above you can see the construction of the gingerbread edition of our skyscraper Trätoppen.
Monday 27 November 2017
Trätoppen gingerbread edition
If you are in Stockholm during December do not forget to visit Arkdes and watch Trätoppen as a gingerbread version.
Sunday 26 November 2017
New office
Anders Berensson Architects are pleased to announce that we are moving to a new office in Stockholm. Our new office i situated on the top floor of the classic building Möller & Co’s in Slakthusområdet designed by legendary architect Ralph Erskine. Our new address will be Hallvägen 21 from the beginning of December 2017.
Monday 23 October 2017
Fiskartorpet Ski Jumpers Lounge
Anders Berensson
Architects has designed an extension to a Ski Jumping tower in Stockholm. The
extension will allow ski jumping but most of all open up the tower for
other events such as snowboard and big air jumps during the winter and nice
views and bird watching all year around. Due
to a combination of less practitioners, the fact that the tower has become to
short for professional ski jumping and warmer climate making the lake bellow
the tower not freeze as frequently as before the tower has since long lost its
main function as an arena for ski jumping in Stockholm.
Therefore we decided to think of the tower more as a multi-functional view
and jump tower. The extension is designed as a continuation of the jumping
slope, a board that sits on the old slope following its angle. At the top of
the tower the board bends to a horizontal position making a start for jumping
and a viewing platform. The bending board also create a room below that will be
covered in glass and give a panoramic view over Stockholm and the National Park Norra Djurgården.
Tower in the summer |
Tower in the winter |
All permits are approved and building start
is planned in 2018. Given that the tower is a landmark in North West Stockholm the
design has been carefully reviewed by both the Stockholm planning office, the
Stockholm Beauty Council and the Royal Court.
Tower from lake below |
Tower today with temporary structure and with new extension |
Main section A-A |
Floor plan |
Roof plan |
Saturday 16 September 2017
Double Deck
Anders Berensson Architects has designed the remaking of a porch in Stockholm into a gazebo hideout. When proposing a renovation plan for a private family we know that renovating a whole house is expensive if it includes to much carpentry. We usually propose to just fix what is really necessary and spend a bigger part of the budget on a smaller area that can become the jewel of the house without costing a fortune. In this project we did just that and focused on the house veranda.
Rendering from underneath the deck |
The 1930th house is located in the "Egna hem" (self built) suburb of Norra Ängby in North West Stockholm. The house is small but well planed and in a decent shape. It is however in need of some new layers of paint plus some smaller building projects. One of those projects is the veranda that needs to be rebuilt plus its surrounding windows. The windows and glass doors we decided to make bigger with lager glass surfaces to get a more spacious feeling inside the living and dinning room that surrounds the veranda. The Veranda who is half floor above ground level also serves as a roof to the second entrance of the house. This space underneath the veranda deck is also the view from the master bedroom. Giving the central position of the veranda we decided to put our efforts here. We decided to upgrade the underside of the veranda by adding a new floor, some new supporting walls and a new veranda deck plus a small pool under the veranda stair. The veranda deck/roof needs to protect the underside from water. We proposed to make the deck watertight by filling the gaps between the boards with colored poly-carbonate stripes. The colored gaps creates two visual effects. It cast colorful shadows down to the ground level at noon and in the evening it light up the deck above creating a colored floor.
Rendering of the veranda from the garden entrance |
The poly-carbonate stripes becomes small gutters. Each stripe ends with a chain that leads the water down to a flowerbed. The vines climb the chains and creates a visual protections towards the neighbors. On the same level right next to the flowerbed is a workbench that turns into a small pool underneath the stairs.
Double deck sketch |
Floor plan of the veranda, Top floor to the left, Ground floor to the right |
Facades with small changes |
Floor plans |
Tuesday 1 August 2017
Look Out Lodge
Anders Berensson Architects has designed
and partly built an extension to a house in the Stockholm archipelago. To keep
a low budget and still being able to elaborate with architecture the office
divided the house into two categories. “The house box” that is designed like a
simple box to be built on site with local materials and building techniques and
the “Prefabricated architectural elements” that are designed and prefabricated
by the architects and later inserted into the house during the building
process.
Look Out Lodge interior |
The house is designed with a focus on
simplicity and function just big enough to host a sleeping area and a small
space for working. The office then focused on designing two custom-made windows
that could be built and prefabricated by the architects for those two spaces
and purposes. One window to look towards the outside fields while working and
one window to look towards the sky when resting or falling asleep. Another goal
with the design was to redefine the idea of a window as a flat readymade glass
piece into an architectural element that creates its own space with a clear
focus towards the outside. This goal led to the design of a sky tower one can
crawl into when being in bed totally dedicated to the sky and one corner window
with a desk inserted to it that creates a work space on the inside and table
for flowers on the outside with a clear focus and direction to the outside
field. The office also designed and built the lamps and some other small
architectural details that could be added on during the building process.
Diagram of prefabricated architectural elements |
The Sky Tower
Looking towards a starry sky when falling asleep is a countryside
luxury. We wanted to enhance that feeling by making a round tower dedicated to
that view where you can lay down in bed and only see and focus on the sky
above. At day time the tower takes in a lot of light and is a good place to sit
and read. At night time it is the perfect place to study the stars and space. The towers inside is cladded with spruce boards with a sky light on top that appears invisible when looking out.
Hanging in the sky tower |
Looking out the sky tower |
The outside of the tower is cladded with overlapping boards. There
is a local tradition of making jig saw patterns in this type of façade so we
decided to design a pattern of big animals, amphibians, birds, flowers and
fishes that are living in the archipelago and the Baltic Sea.
The outside of the tower cladded with the fauna pattern on the overlapping boards |
The Desk window
The Stockholm archipelago is known for its fantastic flora of wild
flowers, outside the house lies a meadow with many of the species represented.
We designed this window to focus on this local treasury. The spruce board celling
continues seamlessly above the window and protrude long enough to cover the sky
and direct sun light framing a view towards the meadow. A desk is inserted
through the corner window. On the outside the desk I made out of terracotta red
concrete with holes for flowers to grow. The concrete was casted against the cutaway
part of the wood board sitting on the inside so one can see the subtle pattern
of the wood continue into the red concrete board outside. The inside of the
desk is made of birch plywood with holes cut out for different purposes. The
biggest hole is for sitting in the corner looking out. A bench going under the
desk in the corner creates divan type of chair where the whole becomes the
armrest. The mid-size holes are for ventilation, cables, lamps and pencils, the
tiny holes are pencil sharpeners.
The desk window from inside |
The desk window from outside |
mid-size holes for ventilation, cables, lamps and pencils |
Tiny pencil sharpeners holes |
Reading lamp |
Look Out Lodge front facade |
Local fauna pattern |
Look Out Lodge at night |
Desk
window from outside at night
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Desk
window from outside at night
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Section |
Section |
Plan |
Plan |
The window was inserted after the primary structure and the cladding was done by first placing the glass and then the boards holding it in place. The desk on the inside and outside was then added as the last piece of the window. The concrete casting and the wood desk was built by the office in Stockholm and transported to the site. Unfortunately those photographs were lost.
The tower was prefabricated on site and added when the primary
structure was up.
The construction of the tower was made by jig sawed horizontally
placed plywood sheets interlocking with vertical studs. The last layer of
boards with the pattern of the local fauna was jig sawed and mounted at the end
of the building process.
The lampshades
of thin birch plywood that was cut, boiled and bent into its shape and then
mounted on different stands depending on function. The lamps was added as the
last piece to the building.
Tower construction and tower mounted on site |
Tower mounted from the inside |
Cutting the lamp shades |
Boiling, bending and drying the shade to a round form |
Assembling
the shades
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Finished
lamp
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