Tryckpunktstation Liljeholmen

In Liljeholmen, Urban Design is designing a new pressure-point station intended to help secure Stockholm's electricity supply. The facility is typical of our energy projects — it combines a complex urban-planning context and technical functions with a high level of architectural ambition, where the result will be a good neighbour to the buildings along Liljeholmsvägen. The available ground area has been very limited. The building replaces an existing electrical grid station that will remain in operation while the new one is being built, which is a particular challenge. The old one is then demolished. The new station is to function as a solitary building during the first five to ten years and thereafter becomes part of a new city block. Since the block has not yet been zoned, all of the building's façades have been given careful design, including the one that will later become the courtyard side. The building's design can be described as a contemporary and playful interpretation of a classic electrical grid station, with brick arches and a large stair hall for loading that also functions as a "street gallery" with glazed arches facing the street. The brick arches around the bays of the transformer gates at ground level are given mirrored arch forms in the brickwork. This contributes to a varied and worked façade expression — something that is a challenge for a building as large as a six-storey house but with few windows or other façade elements.