Geological Surgery

While the Swedish group White seems to be organised like a large associated practice (the office in Stockholm has around 300 people), their approach to architecture instead reflects a sensitive regionalism, softened in a contemporary language.

While the Swedish group White seems to be organised like a large associated practice (the office in Stockholm has around 300 people), their approach to architecture instead reflects a sensitive regionalism, softened in a contemporary language. The “Nordic spirit” is the starting point, but the instruments that White use are never taken for granted, such as in the design of a community centre in the national park in the Skuleberget Mountains, along the northern coast of Stockholm. Here architects Mattias Lind and Ulla Antonsson have intervened on the site with a piece of “geological surgery”, sharply cutting into the slope to take away the upper layer of earth and reveal the rock below. The building penetrates into the incision, fixed solidly to the rocky slabs. The new topography, made from the hand of man and the eternity of nature, is emphasised by the volumes above, clad in stone, inviting light inside. Laura Bossi

http://www.white.se

Geological Surgery

While the Swedish group White seems to be organised like a large associated practice (the office in Stockholm has around 300 people), their approach to architecture instead reflects a sensitive regionalism, softened in a contemporary language.

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