Swedish structure workplace Tengbom has arrange its studio inside a renovated Thirties manufacturing unit in Stockholm, with a demountable fit-out that depends virtually totally on reused and present components.
The venture, shortlisted for a 2024 Dezeen Award within the sustainable inside class, noticed Tengbom relocate from a modernist inner-city workplace to a manufacturing unit in-built 1934.
The structure studio repurposed as many components as attainable from its earlier studio, together with shelving and show desks, earlier than promoting any remaining to be put to exploit elsewhere.
The studio positioned assembly rooms, ancillary areas, a gymnasium and a mannequin workshop within the centre of the plan, with two gigantic skylights bringing in pure airy. Open-plan areas that host each day conferences and short-lived shows are organized across the perimetre.
Within the open-plan areas, every thing above 2.6 metres was spray painted with a particular shade of pink, whereas lime wash and linseed oil-stained plywood have been chosen for the partitions of the assembly rooms.
The workplace inside was designed to be demountable, with noticeable screws used rather than glue.
“To minimise waste and supply an basic and sustainable end-of-life disposal, noticeable screws have been used in all places,” mentioned Tengbom.
“No cladding is glue-mounted and might subsequently be simply dismantled and hopefully repurposed someplace else relatively than disposed of.”
The place attainable, Tengbom sought to take care of the constructing’s unique options in an additional bid to minimise the venture’s embodied carbon footprint. For instance, the studio stored the wood floors in addition to the prevailing glass panels used within the assembly rooms.
The manufacturing unit’s vaulted concrete columns are left uncovered, whereas the ceiling is roofed in wooden wool tiles for sound absorption.
So as to add to the playful pink inside, Tengbom created a floor-to-ceiling mirrored portal to function the doorway to the open-plan kitchen, which additionally encompasses a mirrored sink and faucets. Enormous potted vegetation are positioned all through.
“Colors, supplies and biophilia have been used to reinforce wellbeing and connectedness with nature throughout the studio,” mentioned Tengbom.
“The liveliness of imperfections similar to stains on zinc surfaces and erratically painted partitions are to be celebrated. Even the bathrooms have an unique architectural or panorama sketch handpainted on the partitions to encourage our creativity.”
Based in 1906, Tengbom is one in all Sweden’s oldest structure practices, with earlier tasks together with a Swedish woodland path centre that mimics the form of a pine cone and a zinc-clad extension to a classic brick courthouse within the city of Alingsås.
The studio’s Stockholm workplace is up in opposition to 5 different tasks within the sustainable inside class of Dezeen Award 2024, together with an Aesop retailer created from Nineteenth-century constructing fragments. The winner can be introduced tonight in a dwell ceremony on the not too long ago restored Hackney Church in east London.
