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Qville

  • 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

We find ourselves in an enclosed wooden courtyard that stands in stark contrast to the streetscape outside. Here wood helps to create a warmer and more welcoming environment for social meetings and encounters.

The concrete access balconies are lined with slender wooden battens, which combine with the more closely arranged cladding on the façade to create an inviting external room. This framing of the access and entrance balconies establishes a space within a space. The cladding feels at once solid and enveloping, and transparent and porous.

There is a tangible sense of finely detailed wood that can be felt with the whole body through scent, light and sound.

 

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SituationsplanSite layout plan 

Qville
 

Type of building Block of apartments


Location Gothenburg


Builders PEAB

Architect Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter;
Senior architects: Johan Olsson, Per Born- stein, Andreas Lyckefors; Acting: Jenny Höfvner; Contributing: Petr Herman, Caroline Jokiniemi, Ainhoa Etxeberria, Caren Cubells, Viktor Stansvik

Building contractors PEAB

Structural engineer Optima Engineering AB

Year built 2018


A word from the architect The interior of the courtyard is clad in heat-treated and fire safety impregnated pine. Balconies, access balconies, stairwells, façades and false ceilings are made from the same wood with the same treatment, but with different design and details. Straight rebated grooved boarding covers the façades while
 the rails, stairwell and false ceilings on the access balconies are covered with a wooden grating that allows the light through. The reason behind the choice of materials was to create a cohesion and sculptural spatiality using simple methods. In addition to the design-related gains of using wood in the courtyard, a fragrance sensation is created in the transition from outside to inside as the heated wood further enhances the experience and creates a unique atmosphere.