Mästersmeden
Housing for rent and a café in Österbybruk
The housing is situated in Österbybruk, a small town in mid east Sweden. The buildings are from one to three floors in height, timber clad externally. They are positioned so that the inner sides are shielded from traffic noise. The building on the south-western part of the site is circular, enclosing one of the schemes three courts. These are traffic free shared areas accessed from peoples gardens, stairwells and via passageways and paths between the houses. There are 38 flats of varying sizes in three linked groups. Car parking is generally close to the flats, some as car ports, some as open car parking and bicycles stands under cover. The shared areas are landscaped, grassed, with flower beds, fruit trees and other greenery, and with play places and benches in sunny locations.
The housing consists of light and airy well equipped flats ranging in size from one to four rooms plus kitchen. Flats with ground contact have small gardens enclosed by a hedge, with a lawn, fruit bushes and space to grow your own plants, and a paved area for garden furniture etc. Flats without ground contact have either a large balcony or a roof terrace. All the flats have an outside store either in their gardens, on roof terraces or in shared external spaces. A building that could house a café is situated by the main road, with an open fire place and out-of-doors service partly under cover.
The construction is to a high standard of insulation. Heating is an environmentally sound deep bored geothermal system, with heat recovery as part of the flats ventilation system.
Client: Östhammarshem
Builder: Boris & Son Bygg AB
