Fryshuset - Olsson Lyckefors

01/04

The commission for the extension and conversion of Fryshuset (a cold store warehouse) in the harbour of Gothenburg into offices was won in an invited competition.

For more than a century, the old building has been continually extended. Consequently, the exterior is a patchwork of styles and the interior a mesh of superimposed loadbearing structures. Making sense of the building, in visual and organizational terms, was the main challenge of the competition. We proposed a new logic by moving the main entrance to the new extension and connecting it to the centre of the building with an escalator. New connections were created in a cruciform distributive core. The competition became an examination of the core elements of modern architecture; structure, material, proportion, light and building systems.

Typology	Office
Size	17 000 sqm
Year	2021
Status	In Progress

Team	Andreas Lyckefors, Johan Olsson, Arvid Malm, Björn Bondesson, David Svahn, Elias Lindh, Ergin Can, Anna Bender
Location	Gothenburg, Sweden
Photography	Renders: Monolot