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 Malmö is the regional capital, but Lund with its historic university and venerable Cathedral is its historical reference, and now also a future.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.
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.
