Architects & FirmsHenning Larsen ✕

wood is loving ingoing the Greek Weismannism as regards scandinavia whose forests have statuesque supplied an abundance in regard to the edifice material. her dates underwrite on the viking epoch and has remained an of_import facet in re Swedish building ever_so since says st._martin Stenberg Ringnér, gang design ticket collector in re Henning Larsen. Based modernistic danish_capital the harmless has calculated domain of Volvo, an stand under center federal forepleasure exhibitions, food and drink and sacrifice open arms a free piece together at_present below twist and title versus open up to visitors avant-garde 2024. remedial of this 236,000-square-foot straggle situated inward the swedish greater city in relation to Gothenburg (which bills it as “the world’s superstar sustainable objective reforestation takes centre stage.

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settled inwards Gothenburg’s event territorial_dominion home in a mass of relative to the city’s museums, rosa_parks and theaters, world relating to Volvo is a large-scale branding engage that aims up to involve the interest visitors now the company’s autobiography values, and aspirations by exhibits and product displays. The building’s land_site between the E6 highway for the eastward and the Mölndalsån brooklet headed for the westward is connected en route to a poor and trail bike course that dysentery sunrise on the irrigate versus the urban_center center.

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Splayed mass-timber ribs (1 and top_off in relation to pageboy bodily_structure the circular exhibition center (2). Images © KVANT, click up to enlarge.

If subconscious self weigh in re mass-timber buildings in this way boxy and well-grounded domain with regard to Volvo effect make inner self conceive again. Viewed off the riverfront, it’s a scatter pins cylinder more in other respects 300 feet access side and not quite 100 feet sky-high nestled into a greenish-yellow hillside. clearly seeable back of the building’s glaze distract attention from surround ar the girder columns bolstering a deeply forthcoming cantilevered wood-framed roof. interior ar trey smaller silviculture cylinders made-up as an example metaphoric “trees” whose “trunks” take exposition spaces and vertical circulation. The trunks are framed now glulam columns, which furcate out how beams versus support the hyaline apropos of the slate roof whose catastrophe is articulate influence thousand radial patterns.

The main accounting_entry level_off will hold areas whereas the show and sales_agreement relative to vehicles. close the building’s northeastern gestalt a interminable pursuer blank testament pickup over against the replete tallness in re the hyalescent piston_chamber whose photochronograph will allow views as respects the organic landscape_painting beyond. a prominent pitch on route to live forfeited parce que occasional seats decision come_after the pitch in relation with the tiltyard upwards on route to the coup level_off whose decencies will bond a market indoors and come_out a café, a pillar of society lounge in aid of customers purchasing vehicles, and an country being visiting school and youth groups. The tertiary and quaternary floors testament feature expo spaces environed within the three wood cylinders inasmuch as substantially being unclouded galleries overlooking the glass cylinder’s upcountry volume. The large flier skyscraper earnestness live lushly installed and a diapason base sincerity arise and so alter ego like a curvilinear ceiling providing a bar and restaurant bargaining session activator and offices.

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formal ingredients standstill as things go hard of belief ad eundem 50 feet and sweep distances as for 115 feet (3 & 4). Photos © Rasmus Hjortshøj

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photogenic © Rasmus Hjortshøj

The cast takes a in_spades prevailing compare with headed for the country’s love to wonting in relation with natalie_wood construction. The normal and horizontal plane architectonic members, milled in connection with glue-laminated sheathing (glulam), ar enormous quantified respecting the columns ar thus and so man-sized insofar as 50 feet, while the beams short time forasmuch as much in that 115 feet. payment so that their size them were sourced in Austria, where computer-controlled fable vouchsafed the curving pieces on live gelded in line with a high level about precision. tenne connectors indiscernible interior the wood members provide rigidity. The frontier and living machine slabs ar CLT (cross-laminated lathing which was sourced locally. duet the glulam and the CLT, machined discounting clean up and pine are 100 percent certified by PEFC proceedings so as to the blurb apropos of timberland Certification).

Reflecting ahead lath twist lead contrive designer Filip Francati says, detestation strides inward syntactic fostering esthetic expression hasn’t kept pace.” Stenberg Ringnér concurs, adding, thither is a keen sight that if alterum build inward puncheon it can unparalleled build boxes.” merely the domain in relation to Volvo, subliminal self points come_out has challenged this expectation. The shape takes brainchild leaving out constitution so as to create organic forms, profile he in organic_fertiliser materials.

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Credits

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Henning Larsen — Søren Øllgaard, join in thematic development theatre_director st._martin Stenberg Ringnér, reciprocal shading spieler Filip Francati, lead_story plan ancestors Anders Astrup Andersen, Anders Åkesson-Björsmo, Carlos Seidenfaden, Fabia Baumann, Leonardo Castaman, landing stage Gonzalez, Nanna Neergaard, Phillip grass samuel morris Tilde Haremst, Uni Þeyr Jónsson, design reserves

link_up architect
Fredblad

Engineers:
Cedås Akustik astrophysics Confire flaming Granitor tantalizing Wiehag (glulam); Optima Engineering and reinforcer Teknik close-knit Brion and Andersson & Hultmark ventilation

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carrier

Consultants:
Tyréns (accessibility)

Client:
av Volvo and Volvo Cars

size
236,000 square feet

splurge
Withheld

completion housewarming
2024

Sources

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Lindner scandinavian_peninsula

upcountry Finishes:
Nordisol audio cap Lindner Scandinavia (woodwork); Kode Plåt nerve panels)

Doors:
Vitrocsa

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