Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter creates Lyceum residences inside former college labs
Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter has remodeled the previous Pharmaceutical Institute on the Previous Technical School in Stockholm into light-filled residences that function historic decor particulars.
Designed by Swedish architect Gustaf Dahl in 1896, the heritage listed constructing has been renamed Lyceum and now incorporates 39 spacious flats with interiors that nod to its previous life as a laboratory.
The retrofit kinds a part of a wider masterplan for the previous college, the place Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter has additionally overhauled the previous Zoological Anatomy Institute. Native studio Hultman-Vogt has additionally redeveloped the location’s Materials Take a look at Institute.
“The buildings belong to the previous Stockholm college, which is listed as a historic landmark and has been beneath safety since 1935,” founder Andreas Martin-Löf advised Dezeen.
“The general masterplan allowed the college buildings to be transformed into residences and a pocket park to be inserted into the previous college courtyard.”
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Sometimes, every of Lyceum’s residences incorporates two single bedrooms and loos, together with a master suite and workplace.
These encircle an open-plan dwelling and eating space on the coronary heart of the flat, which function grand four-metre-high barrel ceilings.
The constructing’s unique large home windows designed by Dahl had been restored as a part of the venture. Dressed with sheer, floor-to-ceiling curtains, these make sure the areas are vibrant and stuffed with pure mild.
Authentic niches within the partitions that had been beforehand host to bookshelves have additionally been restored and refitted with darkish wood shelving and writing desks.
This wood detailing continues to run all through Lyceum, with the intention of evoking the previous laboratories and wood furnishings that when crammed them.
That is most outstanding within the kitchen, the place wood stools designed by Pierre Jeanneret and a large breakfast bar take centre stage, alongside storage models that resemble fume cabinets used for scientific experiments.
Elsewhere, the residences are all full with a muted but opulent materials palette that Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter modelled on the present aesthetic of the constructing, which has an off-white facade and inky-black entrance door.
Industrial lights and bed room lamps that resemble bunsen burners have been used to decorate dwelling areas, in addition to Calacatta marble furnishings and bespoke mirrors additionally designed by Martin-Löf.
Alongside the creation of the residences, Lyceum’s renovation additionally included the restoration of the constructing’s present staircases, entrances and facades.
Limestone from the identical quarry as initially used was introduced in to recreate the look of the previous lobby and staircases, and the present pillars and facade had been repainted.
Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter was based by Andreas Martin-Löf in 2008. Alongside Lyceum, different tasks by the studio embody an reasonably priced housing block with chequerboard facades, a hilltop house that overlooks an archipelago and an exposed-bulb lamp that may be clamped to totally different surfaces.
Pictures is by Erik Lefvander.
Mission credit:
Architects: Andreas Martin-Löf Arkitekter AB Andreas Martin-Löf, Adrian Utrilla, Gregor Sutherland,
Developing architect: Edgar Mann, Kristin Karls
Panorama architect: Johan Paju
Constructing heritage guide: Stellan Ridderstrand
Consumer: Oscar Properties
Inside idea: Oscar Properties
Contractor: Oscar Properties Bygg AB