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Kyrkogårdspaviljongen

  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman

Jury’s statement

This low-key building slips effortlessly into the context of the site. With its glazed façade, it reflects its surroundings, history and people, making visitors an integral part of the context.

The interior is organised to perfectly fulfil the building’s intentions and requirements. Robust workshop space combines with offices, an intimate garden room and a place of worship, weaving the profane and the spiritual together. The feel and beauty of wood envelops us in the ceilings, walls and floors.

With fine precision and detailing throughout, the wood makes its presence felt on every level, from the spatial to the human.

The project expands the art of working and building with wood. The contemporary end grain floor intersects with the modern panelled wall, which in turn meets a ceiling of closely spaced glulam beams. The wood stands out in all sorts of ways through the variation in its materiality and structure. Modern technology has enabled the creation of an artisan building for our time.

 

 

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Site layout plan 

Kyrkogårdspaviljongen
 

Type of building Cemetery pavilion


Location Sundbyberg cemetery

Builder Church of Sweden, Sundbyberg


Architect Wingårdh Arkitektkontor; Gert Wingårdh, project manager and architect; Anna Söderberg

Building contractor Oljibe AB

Structural engineer Ramböll

Year built 2017


A word from the architect The cemetery pavilion has been built using short-glued wood for the walls and roof. The elements stretching the length of the room were manufactured at a factory in Lithuania and assembled on site by the producer. The high finish of the short-glued wooden elements allowed us to leave them visible in the interior. The character of the wood is complemented by the powerful ribs that keep the roof’s noise insulation wood fibre boards in place. The surface has been treated with a white pigmented hard wax oil. The matter-of-fact and rational floor plan could be perceived as rigid and formal if it were not for the wood’s ability to bring the interior both warmth and softness. These are particularly valuable properties in a building used, among other things, to take care of people who are mourning. With this building, the wood gains a significance that goes beyond its qualities of eco-friendliness and practicality as a structural element.