‘Hage’（封闭花园）丨瑞典

A recycled wall with bricks from a jam factory. Hage by Brendeland & Kristoffersen

[Lund] Sweden Suecia

A recycled wall with bricks from a jam factory. Hage by Brendeland & Kristoffersen

‘Hage’xa0(enclosed garden) is the first permanent commission for

Råängen

designed by Norwegian architects

Brendeland & Kristoffersen

, in collaboration with engineers

Price & Myers

from London, the garden is made up of a canopy, seating area, and brick walls enclosure.

Over the coming years, when a new neighbourhood will grow around the garden, shifting from being an object in the landscape to a local garden for a new community, becoming a public space in the city, an integrated part of daily life at Råängen.

Yesterday, ‘Hage’ was announced as

one of the 5 finalists for the 2022 European Public Space award.

The project is located in Skåne, the southernmost part of Sweden, a farming province with smooth topography and great fertile soil. Malmö is the regional capital, but Lund with its historic university and venerable Cathedral is its historical reference, and now also a future.

Brendeland & Kristoffersen architects

raised the proposal in an area of upcoming urban growth, northeast of the city of Lund, very close to two world-renowned research centres such as the Max IV Laboratory, a materials research centre, already operational, and the Fuente European Spallation Facility, a multidisciplinary research facility, due to open in the middle of the next decade.

A second important aspect of the project is its promoters. The initiative, on this area of about 450 hectares called Brunnshög, has the impetus of the municipality that has several partners, among which is the Board of the Lund Cathedral. Of the 150 hectares currently owned by the church in Brunnshög, ten have been earmarked for development, with the Cathedral directly embarking on its development.

A quite unusual actor in real estate development, which makes everything in this project exceptionally different.

The project is presented in this plain territory, on an agricultural landscape, as a walled garden for people to meet, talk, play and exchange ideas, with a morphology similar to that of other constructions in the area, closing it on three sides with a simple wall of 2.4 meters high made with old recycled bricks.

Lund Cathedral decided to use its properties to develop an alternative public space to the logic of the rapid urbanization of the surroundings.

The fourth side of the enclosure is open and protected by a steel canopy, beneath which sits a long wooden table, accompanied by two generous benches. The two stone blocks supporting the table have been sourced from a nearby quarry and the 48,000 reclaimed bricks came from the recently demolished Björnekulla jam factory.

Brendeland & Kristoffersen architects

.xa0 Architects.- Geir Brendeland, Olav Kristoffersen, Thomas Skinnermoen.

Engineer.-

Price & Myers

: Tim Lucas, Ian Shepherd.

Lunds Domkyrka (Lund Cathedral).

2020-2021.

Lund, Sweden.

Geir Brendeland. Peter Westrup.

Geir Brendeland, Olav Kristoffersen. Brendeland and Kristoffersen

Brendeland & Kristoffersen.

Norwegian architects

Geir Brendeland

and

Olav Kristoffersen

have developed a wide-ranging practice over the past fifteen years, designing exquisite buildings, teaching students, and thinking through the implications of building in the 21st century. Known for their ambitious approach to housing, urban development and social provision, they have also worked on temporary, sometimes peripatetic, projects including exhibitions, installations and public interventions. Both Brendeland and Kristoffersen teach in the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, which situates their practice within a critical discourse.

Their interest in Råängen stems from a broad commitment to a common good as well as long-term engagement in issues relating to land ownership, communal ways of living, vernacular architecture, craft and local materials. Many of their projects involve communal activities that involve a broad range of people, including teenagers, children and adults. Their public space for Råängen will help set the tone for future development on the Church’s land in Brunnshög and will involve collaboration with Lund Municipality and the University.