Winning for climate-smart neighborhood with character

FOJAB, together with Kudu and NCC, has won a land allocation competition in Stångby outside Lund. The site will be used to build a characterful, small-scale neighborhood with its own courtyard and roof. According to the jury, this is a well thought-out and ambitious proposal with good quality architecture.

Stångby is one of the places in Lund municipality that will grow the most over the next 20 years. Around 3,000 new homes are planned. Today's single-family homes will be supplemented with apartment buildings, everyday services and trade, with the small town and garden city as a model.

Six teams were selected by Lund Municipality to participate in the land allocation for four blocks in western Stångby. The real estate developer Kudu Projekt AB, together with NCC and FOJAB, won the tender for the Högaffeln block. In its motivation, the jury highlighted, among other things, the high sustainability ambitions, both social and economic in addition to the environmental.

The block contains a combination of terraced houses and apartments with "terraced house qualities", totaling 31 new homes. Each ground floor apartment has its own terrace facing the courtyard, and at the top of the buildings the apartments have correspondingly generous roof terraces. In the center of the block there are common areas where residents can meet, socialize and grow in greenhouses and containers. Recessed entrances in the terraced houses provide space for greenery and interaction with the street. Brick, wood and crossed gable roofs hold the design together.

- "The dimensions of the apartments are well studied and the floor plans are space-efficient," says Martin Montelin, the architect in charge. The terraced house apartments can be supplemented with a loft that provides that extra space that may otherwise be lacking in modern apartments.

The proposal includes a number of measures to reduce the project's climate impact. These include the use of a mix of timber frame and climate-improved concrete, windows with recycled glass and facades with recycled bricks, as well as customized materials to reduce waste and transport. The ambition is also to create a home with reduced car use.