Midsommarsnö

Proposal for a suburb square outside Stockholm.
Triangular parts is folded upwards to create shops underneath and hangout areas on top. The square is then painted with white road paint, a cheap and elegant choice.
The shops will lit up the square like lanterns at nighttime and stimulate to activities and attract customers.

Bowling Night

A rich client in Jönköping, Sweden, wanted a bowling hotel. The house should also be very environmentally friendly. We had one night to make our proposal.
We designed the hotel as a leaning structure, cladded with suncells towards the south and the industrial part of the town.
The north side of the hotel is mirrorcladded, allowing the guests to have a nice view of the down and the bowling. The Bowling area has a glass roof, that makes it possible to see the ongoing activities inside the house from the city. Great PR!

Diagram of sight lines and sun direction

The hotel

Picnic City

Competition entry for a new city district in Copenhagen on the old Carlsberg brewery grounds.

The Layout
A dense mass is laid out, almost in a Pompeian way, which covers the site.
From this mass the most important buildings and places are excavated.
The result will be startling, dramatic and unique.

The roof
The citizens want free space, but simultaneously a dense urban city district.
How do we solve both requirements that confront each other?
By lifting the free urban space onto the roof we can at the same time create a high density and at the same time also free land.

A new landmark is created,
a hill in the centre of Copenhagen. Where the citizens can enjoy the great view, take a walk during the lunch break, bask in the sun, have bbqs and fall in love.
It’s possible to take the elevator directly to the roof from your house or office,
or from any of the many public ones.

The roof will also connect the green structure of søndermarken in the
northwest to the vestre kirkegård in the south.

Where the listed buildings stands, the new hill has been carved out which creates open spaces in between the new and old structures. Roads are connected from these places
to the surrounding areas around Carlsberg.

The Buildings
The listed building will get different public use such as cultural centre and so on. The steel silos on the site carry a great value to the overall identity and we therefore suggest that they will remain on the site, different activities such as a public swimming pool can be established and designed with a unique architectural space.
Pools in the tanks with different temperatures that you can access directly from the roof are a possibility.

The new blocks will be designed by different architects where they have to design it to assure a mix of uses. Public spaces can be carved out almost in a cavelike manner also caves and tunnels can connect different streets to add to the complexity of the district.

The identity
A new part of the city that is dense and packed with life,
a landmark as a whole, great diversity in its parts.
A district that attracts and connects the surroundings.
A Picnic city

On top of the new city

Density diagram

Concept diagram

Plan, section

Plan, night

Roof top, day

From above

Cuts in the city structure

Square

Guns n Ammo

A Second Life adventure with a fox that starts an architectural warfare for a better world.

Älvedon

Boring Gothenburg with their river that once harboured important shipindustry and was the true pride of the city, but now lies like a dead ugly grey snake and just causing trouble and distances.
This town needs a headache pill.
A rotating, reflecting skyscraper is placed in the river that divides gothenburg, to stich the city together and to push the centre more towards the riverside to inject new life into this area and to strengthen the connections over the river.
heroic in both scale and mission.
The building is a steel construction that cantilevers on a bearing.
The bearing gets power to rotate by the constant force of the river.
As the building rotates for boats to pass, it also mirrors the city and lets its inhabitants get a variated view; riverscape, cityscape.

Headache pill

Plan

The skyscraper is facing the river at daytime

And the city at nighttime

Paradise Hotel

The homes for the Elderly that has been designed in Sweden in recent years has been very institution-like creations that has treated the elderly inhuman and patronizing, like cattle hidden away in hermetic rooms along never ending corridors. Its time for a change!



Paradise Hotel - A innovative home for seniors mixed with a hotel.
The concept is like having a vertical cruise ship; reletively small cabins with an abundance of quality common areas focused in leisure and relaxation.
A tropical garden with strong lights, a restaurant floor, roof terrace and so on.




On each floor, is a space for social activities, with great views, computers, a fireplace, board games, books and so on.



Each apartment is modern and with its own terrace. The construction allows different sizes of the appartments, because none of the dividing walls are structural.



The winters in Sweden are dark which can lead to winter depression due to the lack of light and warmth. In Paradise Hotel a whole floor is set aside for a tropical garden with butterflies, colorful plants and intense light.

About

Visiondivision is an architecture firm founded in Stockholm, Sweden by Anders Berensson and Ulf Mejergren in 2005.
Visiondivision deals with all kinds of architecture and design problems and with any client, always with the promise of making it world class.
The office does not have a fixed design idea, which benefits each project thus making every solution unique and custom made.
Things that makes us stand out in this business is their ability to think inventive and brave.
The office is one of the most published firms in Europe and have already received several prices and mentions and have been invited as speakers and tutors at various universities around the world as well as exhibitions.
Visiondivision is good at making conceptual designs and unique solutions for all of our clients.
We are not afraid to expand our role as architects to solve any kind of design problem.
The team has also extensive knowledge when it comes to detailing and construction work since the team has always been deeply involved in the building process, sometimes even building the projects by themselves.
We honestly love what we do and will treat every project with the uttermost importance.
The office has a wide portfolio of international work and the attitude of involving external consultants to improve the design intelligence of a given project team. The use of complementing teams ensures that a project will never suffer from being too conventional nor too naive.
If you are interested in a collaboration, internship/employment or becoming a client, contact us at:info@visiondivision.com

Modul Royal

Modul Royal, proposed for a small town in Sweden in a park environment, we tried to propose something for the +55 category that wants to sell their villa and move into the town, where there are more service and closer to things, but still be able to enjoy the advantages of their former living.

So the concept is fairly simple; stacked housing with a lot of gardens to combine the best of both the countryside and the town, density and service with exclusiveness and a green environment.


The competition wanted a modular system to make it cheap and easy to construct.
Stacked in different heights, the houses emerges.


A unique detail is this "cactus-circulation".
Three houses shares this elvevator/stairs module, and ramps that you can flip up connects the individual houses, so the effect will be like a medieval castle.



To please the competition regulations, we divided some villas into smaller apartments.
The cactus is also a glass house with tomatoes, roses and herbs.

Another important detail is the facade.
The gaps between the sheetings makes it possible to grow plants to cover the building in.