Parkeringsdäck Gustaf Adolf 9

Parkeringsdäck Gustaf Adolf 9

Mobile parking deck in glulam

For Växjö Central Hospital, liljewall has designed a parking deck whose design was nominated for Växjö City's Building Award 2018. At the same time, we were able to meet sustainability goals in several dimensions. The deck is made of solid wood with a durable concrete joist. The lifespan is therefore long and its expressive form can strengthen the quality of new places. It is also a movable construction.

Year

2019

Location

Södra Järnvägsgatan 1, 352 34 Växjö

Customer

Region Kronoberg

Contact

Frans Gillberg
0765-01 71 40
frgi@ liljewall .se

A parking deck that breaks established beliefs about its expected boredom and ugliness. A building that is sustainable and at the same time functions as a vantage point and part of the landscape.

A building as landscape and a landscape as building

The facades of the parking garage are made up of several hundred standing lamellas of silicon-treated glulam beams and borrow their shape from the graphically irregular tree trunks of the pine forest. The likeness rhythmically places the building in the green park-like surroundings and the nature-like theme is reinforced by the building's rounded corners. With the monochrome gray facade, form and materiality become intimately connected and give the construction a plastic lightness that at the same time supports the movements of vehicle traffic.

Situation plan of the parking deck.

This is a parking deck that breaks ingrained beliefs about its expected boredom and ugliness. A building that is sustainable and at the same time functions as a vantage point and part of the landscape.

A place to view the city's landscape

Like the parks' pavilions, the parking deck is a building to be outdoors in – striking often with unexpected views of the city from its elevated platform. With the project's special key concept, a spacious balcony is created with which the building also allows the pedestrian to stay on the deck, pause in everyday life and observe the city's landscape.

With its solid wood construction, the parking deck in Växjö has become a construction that combines sustainability, aesthetics and function.

By building in wood, the climate impact from the construction is reduced, while at the same time it enables flexibility in the construction in the face of a changing future.