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Navestad - Silverringen & Guldringen Architect: Eric Ahlin Arkitektkontor Year: 1968-1972 Location: Norrköping municipality Client: Norrköpings Hyresbostäder AB Contractor: Skånska Cementgjuteriet Navestad, which consists of Silverringen, Guldringen and the low-buildings Atriumhusen, was the last development of a series of large projects commissioned by Norrköpings Hyresbostäder AB. Its director was Karl-Erik Anebäck who established a very early example of a public-private joint venture together with Skånska Cementgjuteriet, part of Norrköpings Elementfabrik AB which opened in 1965. The architect Eric Ahlin had been closely tied to Norrköpings Hyresbostäder since the 1940’s. Together with the engineer Arne Johnson he was commissioned to design a rational construction process. The result was a system called ‘Norrköpingsmetoden’, System Norrköping. It was used in
1. ARCHITECT’S RENDERING
several developments between 1965 and 1972, when the
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factory declared bankruptcy. Navestad was thus the last, and by all measures the largest, of the schemes carried
Construction process
out. Navestad was never popular in Norrköping and from
About 250 tons were erected in a day. The construction is
the very beginning it carried a social stigma which meant
carried out from both sides of the building with the help of a
that large numbers of apartments stood without tenants,
crane. Containers are lifted into the building with material
for decades. In the 1990’s plans got under way of a massive
for the internal completion works while the frame is raised.
refurbishment which was eventually carried out in the first
The first image depicts one day’s construction. The second
years of the 21th century.
image shows the building after five days, the third after ten days when one unit is completed. 67