Stockholm Loop Housing, Residential Buildings, Swedish Mixed-Use Development, Sports Facilities, Images
Stockholm Loop Housing, Sweden
Residential and Commercial Building Complex in Sweden – design by Belatchew Arkitekter
17 Sep 2018
Stockholm Loop Housing
Design: Belatchew Arkitekter
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm Loop ? Solving the Swedish Housing Crisis through Transit-oriented Development and Sports

Stockholm Loop is an effective catalyst for 120,000 new homes and its residents’ needs in terms of work, housing, distribution, trade and sport.

Facts about Stockholm Loop in ten points:

1. There is an acute shortage of housing in Sweden as more than 700,000 new homes need to be built during the coming 10 years.
2. Stockholm Loop proposes more than 120,000 new homes in twelve underutilized locations at the outer edges of the Stockholm metro system.

3. Stockholm Loop builds on the use and upgrade of existing infrastructure.

4. Stockholm Loop introduces a new typology for high density areas that accommodates work, housing, distribution, trade and sport.

5. The creation of new types of buildings: an updated station building, a transport hub and a bridge house. Four examples of these buildings have been designed.

6. Bridge houses bridges physical barriers such as motorways, railways and open water.

7. Transport hubs include transhipment of goods as well as distribution of e-commerce deliveries with the help of drones.

8. Outlying areas are activated ...