The site is long and narrow and the brief asked for both housing and stores to be implemented on the plot. We wanted to avoid ?a wall of housing? at the street side and we didn?t want to create a blind wall on the backside of the stores, and by doing so hide the park. Instead, we connected the park and the urban street by placing the housing blocks across the site ? thus creating passages in-between the stores as well as letting the existing park continue onto the pitched roof above the shops.

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Architects: Svendborg Architects

Location: Uppsala, Sweden

Lead Architect: Johnny Svendborg

Area: 25000.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Adam Mørk

Team: Pelle Søren Larsen, Linda Juul Johansson, iben C. Krause, Poul Højlund, Nikoline Dyrup, Jason Smith, David Vega, Kathrine Schjerup
Landscape: White

Engineers: Rambøll, Bjerkings

Client: Skanska

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From the architect. The site is long and narrow and the brief asked for both housing and stores to be implemented on the plot. We wanted to avoid ?a wall of housing? at the street side and we didn?t want to create a blind wall on the backside of the stores, and by doing so hide the park. Instead, we connected the park and the urban street by placing the housing blocks across the site ? thus creating passages in-between the stores as well as letting the existing park continue onto the pitc...