Kiosken

A Tall Heart In The City

Kiosken is a mixed use-project on the eastern side of the central square in Trelleborg, Sweden. The ground floor consists of permeable brick arcades which opens up to the surrounding square and park with spaces for restaurants and shops. Offices are placed on a ‘Piano Nobile’, with extra floor height and great windows overlooking the park and square. Floors 2 up to 9 are made up of residential apartments which overlook the whole city and the Baltic Sea in the south.

The square is framed by the main street, the old water tower, the city museum in a 60’s modern, and four-story residential buildings. The project is a continuation of a competition Arkitektlaget won existing of three residential buildings in red brick, directly to the east of the site along the same street.

The project(s) create a fond for the city park to the north of the project as well as gateways in and out of the park. The idea is to match the rising scale of the water tower and the square, without creating a looming building that takes over the site.

The two houses are built on a modular system grid of brick pillars of 2.4m x 2.4m (continued from the previous project) which are broken down to 1.2m x 1.2m on the residential floors emphasizing the two bottom, public floors. The materials are red brick combined with whiteand gold glazed brick that emphasizes the simplicity of the modular system.