BIG!

VM Housing

Ørestads Boulevard 57-59
2300 Copenhagen
Denmark
http://www.vmhusene.dk

So much to see!

BoKlok

http://www.boklok.com/Sverige/Vara-projekt/Skane-lan/Slutsalda/Tygelsjo-Sjotorpsangar/Projektet/

It’s a BoKlok project where they are building the houses when you are here. If you click on “Karta” you will get a map. The address is Sjötorpsvägen, Tygelsjö. Its about 15 minutes drive from Malmö and I think it’s easiest if your contact could help you get in touch with the site manager, if not contact me.



Bau-How

http://bau-how.com/#/welcome/

Here you should contact Sverker Andreasson

They are building their first house in Copenhagen about now, Sverker knows more about where and how.



NCC Komplett

This is a now closed initiative from NCC where they did build house elements with everything in a factory, put them on trucks, transported them to a BIG tent and put them together. Sverker Andreasson used to work with this and could probably tell you more. I’ve attached a presentation done a few years ago by Sverker, and I think Glenn has some more information about it to. There are houses built in Stockholm that you should be able to look at. If Sverker can’t give you an address contact me and I will help you.



Open House

http://www.openhouse.se/?id=8

This is a company that has built a lot of houses, but closed their factory about two years ago. They have an area just outside Malmö where you can se how their houses look, and hopefully you will be able to look inside an apartment. This is a really interesting “block” just outside one of Malmös better suburbs on a field. In the start there were mostly Danish people living in the apartments because it was so close to the bridge to Denmark, and it was much cheaper to live in Sweden. Now it has changed a bit, and the houses doesn’t stand alone on the field any longer, but it’s still a very interesting place to go to. It takes about 10 minutes to go by car, but you can easily go by bus.

I have talked to a man called Jörgen Olsson who will help you.

I’ve attached a presentation done by the former manager a couple of years ago.



Modulenthus

http://www.modulenthus.se

This is a housing company building one family houses. They have come a long way in industrialising and have a high level of prefab. Their factory is located in Hässleholm, about 1 hour drive from Malmö and a lot of houses being built around Malmö.

I have spoken to the factory manager, Jan Persson, he is excited about you coming. I happened to mention Glenn Ballard, witch he is a big fan of…



Then there is a company in Stockholm doing prefab called Lindbäcks Bygg http://www.lindbacks.se/bygg/page15.php

I will try to get in touch with someone there in the next week

transportation

Bjorn! How about bus? I've heard from someone that bus is much cheaper than train. is it ok to take bus maybe from Linkoping to Stockholm based on your suggestion? I found this website http://www.swebusexpress.se/

copenhagen

Architecture in Copenhagen


1.JDS Architects - http://www.jdsarchitects.com/
BIG_Bjarke Ingels Group - http://www.big.dk/

About their housing
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.arcspace.com/architects/plot/vm/17.vm_houses.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.arcspace.com/architects/plot/vm/vm.html&h=300&w=300&sz=15&tbnid=YSF5HrBCRx_uYM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3DVM%2Bhouses&hl=en&usg=__9e-Zn5N7x-jPGyBmZXf9TB8E86U=&ei=QXJYS6L9EJXIsAPe25XGBw&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=1&ct=image&ved=0CAwQ9QEwAA


2.3XN Architects
http://www.3xn.dk/

Tivoli Concert Hall
Copenhagen, Denmark

Horten Facade_Danish Law Firm, Horten Headquarters in the Tuborg South neighbourhood of Copenhagen.


3.Green Light house(sustainable prefab building)They offer a tour but it costs about 400 dollars which is too much...
http://greenlighthouse.ku.dk/english
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=10576

Suggestions from Anna

Hi guys,

I spoke to a woman who works for a consulting firm in Malmo. She suggested some more things to see:

Moelven (Bjorn also suggested this visit) - She will provide us with a contact. The factory is somewhere on the way from Malmo to Stockholm.

Bauhow - a group designing prefab in Malmo. These people have not built anything yet (later this year), but they were part of a failed NCC (Swedish construction company) initiative to do volymelement (the box units prefabbed with MEP).

Open House - Another failed initiative, but there are some built houses outside of Malmo. She will provide some contact info so we can talk to them if we want...

She also mentioned that they would love to take us out to lunch and we are welcome to drop our bags in her office...

Itinerary (right now)

Sat Feb 6 - Arrive in Copenhagen
Mon, Feb 8 - Production development - BoKlok - Malmo

Tuesday Morning, Feb 9 - Travel to Gullringen. Visit BoKlok sites.

Tuesday afternoon/Wednesday morning, Feb 9/10: visit Boklok factory

Wednesday - visit Moelven(?)

Thursday or Friday - Visit Anders Holmsberg(?)

Saturday or sunday - Flay to SFO

Bjorn - What do you think the feasibility is of driving in Sweden at this time of year? It seems like we might need to drive to Gullringen and I am wondering if we should drive all the way up?

I've done some more research for you guys.

I spoke to a guy at "Arkitekthus" to try to get some info on how/where their houses are produced. It turned out the level of prefabrication is not particularly high. Walls are prefabricated in a factory (2,5 h from Stockholm) and all the rest is done on site. The thing about Arkitekthus is that they offer a nice collection of "monteringsfärdiga hus", a common genre in Sweden, but in this case with unusually high ambitions in terms of design. There are other things I think would be more interesting for you to look at, in case you don't have a lot of time and want to a broader scan of the market.

I talked to one of the young architects I mentioned to you before. His name is Anders Holmberg (www.andersholmberg.se) and he's currently working with a small manufacturer (1 h from Stockholm) on a collection of affordable houses using a supposedly very ambitious prefabrication method ("A new affordable typehouse collection for Björklidenhus" on his website). Some of these houses, and some zero energy ones where he's using a different technique, are about to be assembled just outside of Stockholm around the time you get here, in case that is February. He would be happy to support you with a guided tour, images and other stuff you need. (Anders on American prefab: "They need help over there!") :-)

Another manufacturer at the forefront of offsite construction in Sweden is "Moelven". They claim to be ahead of the big companies in this sense, and they will probably have a project at various stages of completion in their factory around the time you get here. The factory is just outside a small town where the train stops going from Malmö to Stockholm, and they will probably also do onsite work on another project in Stockholm around the same time...

How does this sound?

/Björn