Location: Stockholm, Sweden.

Architect: DREEM Arkitekter.

The building’s design is guided by its role within the urban fabric and its responsibility towards the regeneration of the city. It serves as a backdrop for the new urban park and helps define the streetscape along Dalviksgatan behind it. The public functions at the street level aim to provide a new public destination and profile while the residential on top will kickstart the site’s repopulation and its conversion from a 9 to 5 office area into a mixed-use 24/7 neighbourhood. The generous floor height at the lower levels is intended to provide a strong public character and a double-height space facing the park connects both public floor plans. The total integration between the park, public terraces and market hall encourages visitors to freely use and appropriate the spaces at the ground and first-floor level.

Kista’s public roof terrace reinforces both the open public character of the building and its appropriation by the users. A set of repetitive vertical wooden ribs support the balconies and hallways, providing shading for shared outdoor spaces and enclosure for indoor activities. The building’s changing height responds to its location, gradually lowering from the urban scale at Grönlandsgatan towards the smaller residential scale of Hörnparken and the inner residential streets. The chosen materiality is a transparent, lightweight / pavilion-like expression and a strong link between the building and the park.