Anna Chavepayre, who designed this year’s Kasper Salin-winner Hamra ateljébostad on the island of Gotland, the Swedish resident in France and driving to architects Collectif Encore.
To Hammer ateljébostad cams home price is a bang in several ways.
Chavepayre is the second woman in history to be awarded the Kasper Salin-price for a project in their own name. Of course, it is for get. But the fact that more men may be stars and the women middle managers also applies outside the world of architecture.
the architecture that is richer in reality than on the picture. A wise and sympathetic approach in a bildfixerad world; life is lived best in more dimensions than two.
Ateljébostaden is not luxurious in the sense of teppanyakihäll; no, it is built in simple materials such as concrete and wood. Exclusivity consists rather in how large the house feels in relation to its surface, and that it has many variations and odd experiences. Joint surfaces, but also nooks and crannies to get away to.
Separate Hamra has an open floor plan but still several places to withdraw to. Photo: Michel Bonvin
the Client’s desire for a house guaranteed free from mice has resulted in a special shape with a cut off meeting with the ground, which gives the house an impression of lift. A solution which was also used in the extreme privatbostaden Koniecznys Sheets in Poland, which was nominated for the international Mies what der Rohe award this year. Also this betongvilla need to demarcate themselves from the nature around.
is that a vacation home is to receive the prize and not the renovation of the national museum, which had been the predictable choice. The Kasper Salin prize goes traditionally to a larger public project, the public can visit.
Possibly want to the jury to point out that it is in the villaarkitekturen as the Swedish architecture is spetsigast right now. It is here that the clients are engaged, open to less conventional ideas and want to see the best possible results. The architecture of the public rarely keeps this level. Kiruna’s new city hall by Danish Henning Larsen is, for example, not nominated. Here, one should point out the ongoing demolition of the former city hall, which received the Kasper Salin prize in 1964. Hardly fitting in a klimatmedveten time.
Inredningspriset Guldstolen went to the association Library No 5. Photo: Henrik Nero
distributed under the Arkitekturgalan yesterday testify it privatägdas edge. Inredningspriset Guldstolen went to the exclusive bostadsrättshuset Library No 5 in Stockholm – a public project and the unique design collaboration between Swedish designers – and not to The restaurant. Bostadspriset went to the interesting bostadsrättshuset Inspiration Rosendal in Uppsala, sweden, which among other things has a running track on the roof.
not long ago, Sweden was a world leader in public spending; the house of culture is just one example. Today, it is in a higher degree, your finances determines if you have access to the best new houses and environments.
It was a long time ago that the media was considered ugly to do at home-out and about in the luxury condos. The architecture that is highlighted, for example, in SVT, is, for example, usually if privatvillor, but where the basic conditions of the economy are rarely discussed. Architecture is presented as the dream images and not as a social force.
on new schools and other public projects. How is it that these houses do not come in question for the best prices?
There are voices that places the responsibility for the bad quality of the architects ‘ personal tastes. Sure, it can be sometimes. But the reality is much sadder and more complicated than that: it is the primary responsibility lies with the policy and municipalities.
How to gain access to equally well-designed and innovative houses that Separate Hamra?
Well, you have to mimic the Separate Hammered approach. Take, for example, into the architects already at the project’s inception, then have the architect, the client and the builder work together more closely around the budget and what are the qualities that should be given priority. In the day destroyed many of the projects at the end of the day when you want to save money.
Jubileumsparken in Frihamnen, Gothenburg, sweden, may Sienapriset. Photo: Peter Kvarnström
select the architect. In major public projects are, however, procurement rules that make that less and untried architects rarely get the chance. And a few big companies without competition does not create the best architecture.
Let us see the year the Kasper Salin prize as a turning point. Anna Chavepayres fine Ateljébostad Hamra was selected ahead of giants Wingårdhs and the Danish BIG.
the Next step is that a small office is also challenging them in the competition for the big projects.
