Nya Hovås Apartment Building, Gothenburg Real Estate Development, Swedish Housing Architecture Images
Nya Hovås Apartment Building in Gothenburg
16 Dec 2021
Architects: Unit Arkitektur
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Photos © Erik Lefvander
Like many growing cities, Gothenburg has had a chronic housing shortage since at least the beginning of the 21st century. Due to legal complexities and nimbyism slowing down permitting procedures in central locations, developers have started searching for more peripheral plots. This is exemplified by Nya Hovås, fifteen minutes by car from Gothenburg, neighboring a prosperous suburb.
Nya Hovås
Nya Hovås was proposed in 2006 by the real estate the developer Next Step Group after they acquired a property containing Kodakhuset. The red brick building, built in 1982 next to the exit of the local trunk road, had been made obsolete by the digitalization of the photography industry.
A proposal was made for a neighborhood modeled on the European city center and Next Step Group joined with other developers including HSB, Skanska and Veidekke to realize their plans.
In the fall of 2017 Skanska invited Unit Arkitektur to a design competition for three apartment buildings in Nya Hovås. The design by Unit Arkitektur, containing 131 apartments and one commercial space, was chosen among proposals from White Architects, Arkitekterna Krok & Tjäder and Skanska Teknik. On adjacent plots, HSB and Veidekke are also developing housing making a total of about 300 units.
All these buildings are to be connected by a common parking garage for 150 cars, also designed by Unit. The proposal by Unit Arkitektur for the apartment buildings is built around the strong expression of continuous balconies with rounded corners. These balconies also provide a valuable and unique amenity. In many cases, apartments have balconies in two or three orientations amounting to outdoor spaces comparable to a small garden.
Because the surrounding buildings are characterized by darker brick facades, the proposal introduced a lighter color palette where the lightest accents are the bronze- and metallic yellow screens on the continuous, rounded balconies.
Other façade materials are perforated corrugated aluminium, aluminium cladding, standing seam metal, formliner cast concrete and wooden screens. The project broke ground in 2018 and will welcome the new residents during 2021.
Nya Hovås Apartment Building in Gothenburg, Sweden – Building Information
Architects: Unit Arkitektur
Client: Skanska Nya Hem
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Completion: 2021
Gross Built Area: 11 857 sqm
Lead Architects: Klas Moberg & Mikael Frej
Project Architect: Jon Tibell
Assistant Architects: Lisa Wischermann, Josefin Mattsson, Matthias Wild
Project Management: SWECO
Landscape Architect: 02 Landskap
Color Consultant: Märit Lagheim
Structural Engineer: Skanska teknik
Mechanical Services: TN System
Electrical Planning: KLT Konsult
Acoustic Engineer: SWECO
Fire Consultant: BRIAB
Main Contractor: Skanska Sverige AB
Photography © Erik Lefvander
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