Garden architecture

Falkonergården’s Gymnasium is a 60 year old school in need of a new sports hall.

How do you create a contemporary sports school within the framework of an outdated building complex? The task was to reconcile Falkonergården’s brick architecture and the life inside and around a contemporary gymnasium.

We propose to replace the existing pergola, and let the new pergola physically tie together the many different buildings. The pergola transforms into a wide roof, which covers one large sports hall. Rather than attempting to add yet another classical brick building that adapts to the existing plan, we create a fluid architectural interaction between old and new, between building and landscape, between inside and outside.