Humlegarden Apartment Refurbishment | Tham & Videgard Hansson Arkitekts
April 13th, 2009 - Posted in Apartments
Complete apartment refurbishment project designed by Swedish architects Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekts located in Stockholm with a colour scheme representing the changing seasonal colours in a nearby park. The apartment features oversized parquet floors and wall panels that merge through shades of green, yellow, orange, red and brown to winter grey and black.
Departing from the traditional Swedish interior use of colour and patterns, developed by artists and architects like Carl Larsson and Josef Frank, this apartment also relates directly to the setting at the park Humlegården where the greenery outside changes with the season. From winter grey and black to summertime bright and deep green, to orange, red and yellow in autumn.
Our first starting point was to re-establish the well crafted quality of this once high-class turn of the century apartment (late Jugend / Art Nouveau (1800/1900) that had been totally altered, and even for some time transformed into a hotel, leaving very few traces of the original.
Inspiration was in part the location and the quality of a long row of rooms relating the greenery in the park outside, very present also in the interior spaces. But equally important were the idea to address and experiment within the Swedish traditional use of colour and patterns in interiors developed by artists and architects like Carl Larsson and Josef Frank. We had also used patterns and colour to order space in previous projects that this family had seen, which made us confident we could find a solution in that direction, something that would connect to both the physical and the cultural context.
Refurbishment of an apartment at Engelbrektsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden.
Oversized and multicoloured parquet floors and walls. Stockholm (2008)
by Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter
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