BIG plans '79&park' residences for stockholm with foliage-covered terraces

bjarke ingels group (BIG) has revealed plans for a residential complex to be built in the swedish capital of stockholm. the project has been developed in collaboration with developers oscar properties, and will contain 140 apartment units, each offering sweeping views across the neighboring countryside. titled ‘79&park’, the scheme has been designed to harmonize with stockholm’s most prominent green space — the royal national city park — opening up onto the city’s gärdet and djurgården districts.

image courtesy of oscar properties (also main image)

the boundary between the gärdet park and the new building is both blurred and defined by foliage-covered rooftop terraces, which emerge from the building’s cubic form. BIG has arranged the units around a central void, which provides each residence with necessary amounts of daylight and ventilation. in order to energize the site throughout the day, the ground floor houses commercial spaces open to the public, activating the edge of the plot. 

image courtesy of oscar properties

‘the southwest point of the building extends farthest into gardet; and, to create a humane edge between building and nature, is pushed down to the lowest profile, transforming it into a public platform with a 270 degree view of parkscape and simultaneously freeing the majority of the residential units to views of the park,’ explains BIG. ‘the same move also ensures that the central courtyard will always receive copious amounts of sunlight.’ the project is expected to complete in 2018.

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project info:

name: 79&park
type: commission
client: oscar properties
collaborators: ACAD-international AB, andersson jönsson landskapsarkitekter AB, BIG ideas, de brand sverige AB, DRY-IT AB, HJR projekt EL AB, konkret, metator, projit, tengborn
size: 20,000 sqm
location: stockholm, sweden
status: under construction

partners-in-charge: bjarke ingels, jakob lange, finn norkjr
project manager: per bo madsen
project leader: cat huang
project architects: hogni laksafoss, enea michelesio
constructing architects: jakob andreassen, tobias hjortdal, henrik kania
team: agata wozniczka, agne tamasauskaite, alberto herzog, borko nikolic, christin svensson, claudio moretti, dominic black, eva seo-andersen, frederik wegener, gabrielle nadeau, jacob lykkefold aaen, jaime peiro suso, jan magasanik, jesper boye andersen, jonas aarso larsen, julian andres ocampo salazar, karl johan nyqvist, karol bogdan borkowski, katarina mackova, katrine juul, kristoffer negendahl, lucian racovitan, maria teresa fernandez rojo, max gabriel pinto, min ter lim, narisara ladawal schrbder, romea muryn, ryohei koike, sergiu calacean, song he, taylor mcnally-anderson, terrence chew, thomas sebastian krall, tiago sa, tobias vallo sorensen, tore banke