KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds
05/01/2016.
[Stockholm] Sweden
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KTH new School of Architecture was the receipient of the 2015 Kasper Sahlin Prize, awarded by the Swedish Association of Architects to the Best New Architecture of the year.
KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
Detail. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
Courtyard. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
Inside view. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
Auditorium. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
Inside detail. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman
Inside. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
Staircase. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
Staircase. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph by Ãke E:son Lindman.
Night view. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
Exploded axonometric diagram. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds.
Basement floor plan. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds.
Ground floor plan. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds.
First floor plan. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds.
Second floor plan. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds.
Third floor plan. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds.
Fourth floor plan. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds.
Model. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
Model. KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds. Photograph @Ãke E:son Lindman.
Detail KTH new School of Architecture by Tham & Videgårds.
For the first time in 45 years, architecture students at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology have their own building on campus – a round block with weathering steel walls by Tham & Videgårds. KTH School of Architecture is the first dedicated architecture facility at the university's main campus since 1970 when they were relocated to a building elsewhere. But unlike the traditional brick buildings that surround it, it boasts a textured facade of pre-rusted Corten steel.
Description of the project by Tham & Videgårds
The site on the KTH campus, with its very tangible cultural and historical context and its physical limitations, could be described as the opposite of a blank slate (Tabula Rasa).
The new school is inserted into an existing courtyard space with existing pathways and is located adjacent to Erik Lallerstedt’s original and quite monumental brick buildings from the early twentieth century.
Based on the logic of a free campus layout that encourages movement, the idea is to accommodate and encourage circulation within the building and all around it as a way of thoroughly integrating and anchoring the new school to the site. With its rounded contours and a total of six floors, the school building includes a sunken garden and a roof terrace, while cultivating the character of the courtyard as one continuous space. The deep red CorTen steel exterior relates to the dark red brick of existing buildings.
The interior is designed to be robust and flexible. Curving walls create a free flow of contiguous space that enhances the sense of openness rather than enclosure. Views and paths are extended through the structure with spatial conditions more akin to a landscape than a traditional institutional building. At the entrance level a series of double-height spaces, the atelier and exhibition area, designate a generous main entrance that also doubles as an open lecture hall. It is in the form of a broad passage meandering through the building.
A deep floor plan creates an opportunity for extensive glass use on the surfaces of the facade. It endows the building with a high degree of generality, offering lavish amounts of light and transparency while maintaining the climate and energy efficiency of the whole building.
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Architects
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter. Lead Architects.- Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård.
Area
9,140.0 sqm.
Dates
Completed 2015.
Location
Stockholm, Sweden.
Photography
Bolle Tham, Martin Videgård. Tham and Videgård Arkitekter
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and directed by co-founders and chief architects Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård. The T&V practice has been awarded prizes and nominations in several open international competitions and has also attracted attention for its experimental and innovative projects.As an integrated part of the architectural practice, Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård also teach and lecture at schools of architecture in Sweden and abroad.
