Offices for Skandia Fastigheter in Stockholm
Type: Office interior and refurbishment
Client: Skandia Fastigheter
Date: 2023
Location: Jakobsbergsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden
Sustainability: Reuse - 99% of all furnishings
Size: approx. 1300 sqm
Photographer: Erik Lefvander
Collaborations: Climateworks and Sajkla
Sustainable Office Transformation
Skandia Fastigheter's office on Jakobsbergsgatan in Stockholm has been rebuilt and updated into a social meeting point with digitalized and hybrid ways of working in focus. In a Test Lab, we have managed to save 21 tons of CO2 by recycling 99% of all furnishings and an additional 14 tons for the renovation.
An important reason for the renovation was to attract employees back to the office. It has been important to create attractive mingling and meeting places as well as places for focused work. Now you are greeted by a large, inviting bar-shaped reception, touch-down workplaces and a work-eat lounge that brings together staff and visitors throughout the working day. Further into the premises, employees can work focused in the quiet library or in focus rooms.
By staying in the existing premises instead of moving, minimizing the movement of walls and installations, and reusing building materials and furnishings, Skandia Fastigheter has gone a long way in reducing the carbon footprint in the renovation. Plasterboards are dismantled and reused on site, as are ceiling tiles, doors and glass sections. The project chose sustainable and primarily recycled materials and furniture where additions were needed. 350 pieces of Skandia Fastigheter's existing furniture have been reconditioned, i.e. reupholstered or re-painted in a new color.
Long-term thinking has been as important in the design and in the material and product choices to create an office that Skandia Fastigheter will enjoy for a long time. A clear color concept in green runs as a unifying line through the interior and holds together the recycled details such as lamps, rugs and vases. All decor is purchased from the vintage-market. The art on the walls is borrowed from the parent company Skandia's art collection and is the cherry on top.