A House is a member’s house where solopreneurs and larger corporations work side by side. The location, a brutalist icon in the centre of Stockholm, refines the concept of bringing work closer to life.
When it was built in 1969 the A House building was a pivotal architectural example of how to generate sharing, dialogue, innovation and production.
When the building was inaugurated it was heavily criticised and since has been voted the ugliest building in Stockholm several times.
A House is recycling and reinventing the radical brutalist ideas that were the foundation of the former architect school in Stockholm.
The original purpose of the building was to be a machine; to educate architects to cover the needs of the accelerating urbanisation of Stockholm in the 1970s.
When the architect school moved out in 2015, the strategy for transforming the building was simply to rediscover the building and its radical heritage.