CARE CENTRE
KARLSLUNDE

This proposal builds on a housing proposal from the District Plan with green frontages and well-defined balcony facings as one central element. The horizontal balcony theme becomes a recurrent feature lending the buildings an extra living layer both architecturally and functionally. Residents may enjoy the balconies when weather permits; they are meeting places; and they are look-out posts from where residents can follow life throughout the rest of the area.

The building corpuses are fixed by the balcony belt, with the dwellings resting safely and securely behind the protection of the balconies. The balcony facings on the first floor continue as a pronounced ribbon to form a fascia edging for the whole centre floor, thus maintaining and unifying the centre with the residential areas.

A living green sedum-clad roof covers the centre and the residences. From the residential groups the roof above the centre will appear as a beautiful green surface that is soothing to the eye. The roof is sporadically interrupted by circular skylights.

The residential groups and the centre and their rounded corners are clearly related to nearby residential estates. The intention is for the rounded, friendly shapes to be reused in the centre itself. The core interiors will be designed with billowing curves on a central street sequence, allowing a wealth of spatial expressions inviting exploration.