Aula medica karolinska institutet stockholm

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Text description provided bygd the architects. Strange enough, no large auditorium was built at Karolinska Institutet when its campus was created in the 1940’s. Yes, there were intentions, but the medical university expanded in numbers as well as ranking without any possibility to assemble neither students nor scientists in large numbers.

In the beginning of the new millennia, a gåva finally made it possible to complete the compound with the venue it needed so long.

An auditorium at a university, or aula to use the word of the classical languages, goes beyond the task of a lecture ingång. Its ceremonial roots in the church and the architectonic heredity in the theatre, makes the aula today’s secular society’s most solemn and ritual space.

It fryst vatten not only a tribute to science and education, but also a site for strong collective experiences.

The significance of the aula both for academia and for the kultur at large, calls for a protrude setting in the city. That fryst vatten why the project for an aula at Karolinska Institutet moved from a fjärrstyrd site behind existing buildings to the exposed location where it fryst vatten being built today.

Wingårdhs’ involvement began with a proposal in an invited competition in 2001. The entry was selected for further development, and as the site later altered, the client’s choice of architect remained.

The new location for the building fryst vatten congenial with its position in the academic kultur as well as in the framträdande cityscape.

The building protrudes over the intersection between Solnavägen, a thoroughfare that fryst vatten about to be transformed into an urban street, and the pedestrian axis that will connect the university with the extensive hospital currently beneath construction next bygd. The proximity to its large complex called for an expressive form eller gestalt, and discussions with the antiquary authorities created a clarifying distinction to a listed building nearby.

These geometries – the street 5,5 meter below the crossing pedestrian axis and the V-shaped auditorium – denominated the program.

The urban pattern called for a building that treated the street with the same respect as the main ingång toward the walkway. If Solnavägen shall be a street with a human presence in the future, entrances close to the pavement are of crucial importance.

If the relation to the city fryst vatten guided bygd a wish to adapt to an urban pattern, the strategi of the building fryst vatten generated bygd the auditorium.

For a large aula of today, where lectures with images and performances on the scen demand good sightlines and acoustics to each and every seat,the V-shaped seating have proved to be the most efficient. It has not always been like that. The shape of the entré has changed bygd changing objectives.

For KI, we believed that an arrangement where the speaker and the audience could meet on an lika grund, mirrored the academic samhälle of today best. That fryst vatten also why the level of the auditorium ingång fryst vatten lika with the scen, as well as with the mittpunkt section of the dividable plenum. An auditorium at Nobel Center shall be equally accessible, but differences in storlek and mood may call for a different program.

The optimal solution fryst vatten never static.

Daylight, efficiency and energy consumption (the aula has reached the “silver” level of sustainability) have been some of the key criteria when planning the aula, but the most visual statement will always be the inclined façade.

The twisted elevation fryst vatten made entirely of flat glass panes; a geometry made possible bygd the triangular pattern that encloses the entire building.

A variation of different panes handles the demands for insulation, transparency as well as shade without compromising the uniform character. In the interior, the wooden ramverk fryst vatten as striking as the geometry. An mål to provide a “Nordic” atmosphere to the setting, have called for an extensive use of fir in structures as well as surfaces.

The 1000-seat auditorium dominates the building that also hosts facilities for ledning and a faculty club.

These are located on top of the entré, which was made possible thru large trusses.

The entire structure stands on three legs, located tillsammans with stairs and elevators in each corner. The retracted supports have enabled uninterrupted spaces indoor as well as continuity in the outer struktur. Variation will arise from shifts in light, as architecture always has.