Type: Direct commission
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Brief: Public outdoor lighting, park activities, pavilion, reduction of energy consumption in a 1960s suburb (including restructuring, new winter gardens, roof terraces and apartment renovations)
Client: City of Stockholm
Phase / Status: Concept design

Architects: Mia Hägg in collaboration with Maris Mezulis

Team: Hiroko Kusunoki, Lina Lagerström

Consultants:
Structure, sustainability and lighting: Arup London
Concept development: Johan Linton, Dirk Peters
Climate engineering: Transsolar, Stuttgart
Photography: Maris Mezulis
3D renderings: Robota, Paris
STOCKHOLM ENERGY SYSTEMS
Urban intervention

This project grew out of a 2009 commission by curator Jan Åman and the city of Stockholm, for a pavilion on the theme of energy consumption. The site for the project was an undeveloped space on the edge of the city, 2.5 km wide and bordered by four suburban neighbourhoods, each with a vibrant culture, but also subject to problems including isolation and crime.

Habiter Autrement began by working with filmmaker Maris Mezulis to discuss the project with the area’s residents. The result was a decision to abandon a single designed structure in favour of a system of installations and interventions, including creating winter gardens inside existing housing and reusing a local mall’s excess heat in nearby residences.

These dispersed interventions are connected by pathways throughout the site of the original commission, defined by hundreds of infrastructural elements, or ‘sprouts’, of two types. The thin, flexible poles of the taller ‘solar sprouts’ collect energy from elegant photovoltaic panels shorter ‘wind sprouts’ sway with the breeze and store kinetic energy. In the centre of the site, a dense collection of sprouts creates a small observatory, in which live data on the energy consumption of the project sites is collected and displayed, creating both a physical gathering point and a catalyst for discussion.

Watch: Järvafältet, A Research Survey from 2008
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Type: Direct commission
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Brief: Public outdoor lighting, park activities, pavilion, reduction of energy consumption in a 1960s suburb (including restructuring, new winter gardens, roof terraces and apartment renovations)
Client: City of Stockholm
Phase / Status: Concept design

Architects: Mia Hägg in collaboration with Maris Mezulis

Team: Hiroko Kusunoki, Lina Lagerström

Consultants:
Structure, sustainability and lighting: Arup London
Concept development: Johan Linton, Dirk Peters
Climate engineering: Transsolar, Stuttgart
Photography: Maris Mezulis
3D renderings: Robota, Paris
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