Årstafältet Co-Living Blocks

A housing plan for a shared community

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Årstafältet is one of Stockholm’s largest ongoing development projects. Currently the site is an open field landscape, just south of Stockholm’s dense urban core. The ongoing masterplan proposes a dense ring of housing organised around a large, central park. The Årstafältet Co-Living Blocks is a project developed for a land allocation competition in the north-east corner of the masterplan. 

The Co-Living Blocks form a threshold between city and park. The cluster of tight urban structures invite and expose the qualities of both contexts. The proposed buildings are entirely constructed in wood. And through a range of innovative housing typologies, each block expresses a distinct architectural character. The community offers residents a wide choice of housing typology, unit size, price and lifestyle.

Through an experimental combination of interior and exterior spaces, Årstafältet Co-Living Blocks has the highest ambitions to build and share public life in the neighbourhood. One of the partners in the project, Swedish Co-living association HållkollBo, are focused on creating communities that operate on principles of the sharing economy, resource efficient living and engaging social interaction. Årstafältet Co-Living Blocks transforms these principles into functional, spatial solutions. 

The blocks are stitched together with a collection of intimate courtyards, generous balconies, public greenhouses, sheltered atriums and rooftop terraces. These spaces form the collective platform to build, gather and celebrate a shared, green and strong community.