The project has been carried out free of assumptions, where new ideas have been put to the test of experience and knowledge. Expert competence has been collected with the intention to, early during the projects most rewarding phase, gain a comprehensive view and preserve all aspects on energy issues, technology, visualisation, economy and implementation among other things.
The concept, which has been highly successful and acknowledged, was introduced in November 2005 with an exhibition at the Swedish Gallery of Architecture, an exhibition that is now visiting different locations in Sweden.
The building will provide many residences in a small area; a home with 26 storeys with room for 160 flats of varying size and character. The design originated in a fundamental idea that a very well insulated building envelope encloses a compact structure with a repetitive carcass.
A high degree of prefabrication permits great flexibility in planning. The sun will be used as the primary light and energy source. This gives the building its transparent andvaried south facade. Architecture and technology interact and potentiate each other, and the building’s physics and configuration unite, such as in the ventilation chimneys and the highly insulated glass facade.
The concept ”A Room with a View” has been adapted into a residential building. With the proposition “The parts that make the whole” WSP participated in Hammarby Sjöstad’s Environmental Technology Competition. The proposition shared 1st price with the motivation: “a systematic and well executed presentation of combinable technical solutions to accomplish a low overall energy consumption…”.