At Almedalsveckan in Visby, NCC lifts the Fittja People's Palace as an example on how renovation of the million program can ad to a sustainable growth. To renovate the housing of the million program is considered as one out of five important pieces in the "housing puzzle" NCC is presenting during the week. Reed more about the puzzle here. Fittja People's Palace is a partner project between NCC, Spridd och Botkyrkabyggen.
Opening of Fittja Pavilion, Venice
PRESS RELEASE 2014.06.05
Today, the Fittja Pavilion opens in connection to the 14th Architecture Biennale in Venice. A cutout of a typical Swedish Million program apartment appears in a Venetian garden in the shape of an open-air wooden pavilion. The surrounding buildings are seen through the walls, and blend with the Swedish welfare architecture.
The Fittja Pavilion in Venice, produced by Botkyrka konsthall, asks questions about how the post-war modernistic architecture of Sweden can contribute to new forms of public space and urban development. Fourteen international architects and artists present works with connection to Fittja. The apartment pavilion is made y the architecture office Spridd, which works on developing new methods for renovation in Fittja.
-Our project in Venice can be seen as a small part of a larger effort to highlight the qualities and the potential that exists in Fittja says Klas Ruin, architect at Spridd. To solve the urgent need of technical upgrade of the Million Programme buildings at affordable cost is a major societal challenge. Previous renovations in these areas have focused a lot on a change of the visual appearance. Our pavilion focuses on the inside, and the great architectural qualities found in apartments from this period.
The pavilion in Venice is furnished with a long table, with drawings on all floorplans of the first building to be renovated printed on it. During the spring, the table was placed in the projects showroom in Fittja, allowing the residents of the house to make omments about their own apartment directly on the tabletop. The colorful stools are painted by children living in the house.
- Our work is very much about Shorten the distance between planning and implementation, says Klas. The dialogue process we have initiated is a way to anchor the project in the area and include the residents and others working in the area in the whole process.
- The debate on how architecture from this period should be developed goes on everywhere. There is no clear answer to the question, and not even a fixed problem, says Tor Lindstrand, architect and researcher. The Architecture Biennale in Venice is the single largest architectural event in the world. To place a suburb like Fittja in this prestigious context is a way to spot the area from a different direction. We want to contribute to broadening the concepts and interpretations of what a place Fittja can be - an area that in many ways is far more interesting than the inner city areas that are built today.
ARCHITECTURE BIENAL MOSCOW: NORDIC BLOCK
Spridd took part in the exhibition "Nordic Block" at Moscows forth Architecture Biennal 21-25 may 2014. The exhibition asks for tendencies in the nordic building blocks, and Fittja People's Palace was chosen as an example on renovation for development of the architecture of the welfare state. Ylva Frid was presenting the project on site in Moscow.
Curator for the Swedish part of the exhibition "People's Palaces" was Emilia Rosenqvist/Färgfabriken. Nordic Block was produced by Project Baltia magazine.
More information: Project Baltia
Photo: Emilia Rosenqvist
Fittja People's Palace in Venice 2014
A cut-out from a typical Swedisch "Million Programme" apartment from Fittja south of Stockholm is temporarily appearing in Venice during the 14:th Architecture Biennale 7:th June - 7:th September 2014. Fittja People's Palace is a method for how to renovate and subtly upgrade the architecture of the welfare state.
The project appears in the Fittja Pavillion in Serra dei Giardini, curated by the art hall Botkyrka konsthall. Rem Koolhaas, the curator of the Architecture Biennale in Venice and one of the most influential architects of our time, asks for a mapping of the modernistic architecture in the international exhibition of the biennale named Fundamentals. In the Fittja Pavillion, several contributing architects and artists are re-evaluating the qualities of the Swedish housing blocks of the 1960's and 70's.
5:th June 15-18
Press preview of the Fittja Pavillion, Serra dei Giardini.
6:th June 16-18
Seminar "Contemporary approaches to our late modernistic heritage". Fittja Pavillion, Serra dei Giardini, Venice
The Fittja Pavillion is presented in collaboration with Architecture and Design Center, Stockholm, partner of the Nordic Pavillion.
Curator: Joanna Sandell, Botkyrka konsthall.
Partner: Botkyrkabyggen AB
More information:
Pressmeddelande 2014.05.20
Fittja People's Palace
Botkyrka konsthall
14:th Venice Architecture Biennale
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Fittja People's Palace