Project Competence News & Press About us Contact SEE DK ONE Currently Press Calendar Sustainable landmark with the meeting as the engine After the holidays, hundreds of Gothenburgers return to their regular jobs - albeit in an above and unusual environment. Namely in the newly built landmark that gives Johanneberg Science Park its profile of sustainable imagination with the meeting as the engine. In June, HSB Gothenburg's head office with 130 employees was first among the tenants in the Skanskabyggda office building, which is the start of the new community building cluster that Johanneberg Science Park will be. More players in the construction and society sector will follow shortly. Then it starts to boil seriously in the building, which is designed to stimulate the power of ideas, competence development and creative work. The architects from White have, together with the client Chalmersfastigheter, taken radical steps to emphasize the house's role as the public construction sector's new meeting place in western Sweden. The entire ground floor consists of a café, restaurant, conference areas and places to socialize. This is not unusual. But here the meeting concept is taken several steps further in a new business model, where those who want a cup of coffee or a lunch simply have to get to the common meeting level. - It is a social experiment that we built into the house, explains Mattias Lind who is the responsible architect. Our mission has been to create environments that bring people together, and then the café culture is unbeatable. The office premises consist of two buildings of a total of 8200 square meters, which are connected by two bridges. The two exteriors are basically monochrome, one carbon black and the other shiny like gold. Together with elegant glass solutions and exciting displacements, the building is a strong signal of the future in contrast to Chalmers' heavy brick dominance. The big exclamation point in the interior is the grip of letting the house itself tell about its origin. As a visitor, you can read and derive the entire construction process; from traces of earthworks via the building's frame construction to the last surface layers - with visible chalk lines, numbers, abrasion marks and the like that have arisen during the construction process, and which are normally clad or covered. All concrete is shown as raw concrete, even in the un tiled toilets. - It is a consistent pedagogical idea that the community builders' houses should be able to tell about how a construction is done, Mattias Lind explains. Karin Hedén at White in Gothenburg has been environmentally responsible for the house, which is classified as Miljöbyggnad Guld. The house is tight, well insulated and with a minimum of cold bridges. Local energy production contributes to exceptionally low energy consumption: less than 30 kwh / m2 / year. - It is the biggest achievement - to combine complex form with challenging environmental solutions and advanced technology. Which again proves that sustainable architecture can definitely be expressive, says Mattias Lind. Photo: Bert Leandersson Published: 2015-07-08 By: Ann Nilsson Share: