Room for Debate: The Ideal Home? 

On July 2, Sweden’s updated building regulations from Boverket come into effect. How will they influence the apartments built in the future? Step into ArkDes and Torget, and experience an example of what a newly constructed two-room apartment might look like under these new rules.

As a resident, your quality of life is shaped by the design of your home — room layout, size, furnishing flexibility, ceiling height, natural light, and views. These elements are determined by property developers and architects, within the frameworks of municipal planning, guided in turn by Boverket’s building regulations.

How will the updated building regulations affect the apartments of tomorrow? Are critics’ concerns justified? And who ensures housing maintains high standards when guidelines become less stringent?

Join us in exploring a newly designed two-room apartment by designed by architect Love Di Marco, built as an example to reflect the updated regulations. Alongside, delve into the evolution of Sweden’s building regulations, engage in discussions, and share your perspective.

Schedule:

17:00 Explore the example apartment

17:30 Building Regulations and Architecture: Past and Present
Speaker: Ann-Kristin Kaplan Wikström, PhD Candidate, KTH

17:45 Panel discussion on implementing the new building regulations
Participants include Andreas Pålsson, City Architect, Södertälje, Danielle Zachrisson, Policy expert on Business Affairs, Swedish Construction Clients, and Frida Rosenberg, curator for 20th century architecture at ArkDes.

Through ‘Room for Debate’, ArkDes invites stakeholders to discuss pressing issues, in this case, the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning’s new building regulations coming into effect on 2 July. In collaboration with Architects Sweden and the Stockholm Architectural Association, ArkDes is hosting a series of discussions centred around a physical example apartment designed by architect Love Di Marco, based on the new building regulations. The week includes additional programs and tours on the theme. Also, see February 14 – ‘Room for Debate: The New Building Regulations – Out of Sync with Reality and Research?’ by Architects Sweden and February 14 – ‘Room for Debate: The Role of Architects and Regulations in Housing Architecture’ by Stockholm Architects Association.