This project shows a solid knowledge of the lights interaction with colour, shape and material. The project has been carried out with tremendous passion and expertise about study environments, and the belief in the young person and her legitimate demands for dignity. The ergonomic and innovative light treatment integrates both function, experience and atmosphere. Darkness has an obvious place in the lighting design and creates focus.

With great courage and creative power, the lighting designer stages original expressions of security, confidentiality and wonder that enhance the feeling in this unique learning environment.

The lighting solutions are created for different individual study situations, with varied sitting positions and working tools, digital as well as analog. Lighting is individually adaptable to the physical circumstances as well as to personal preferences of the students. In addition, it contributes to a calm, contemplative, pleasant atmosphere that stimulates corresponding.

The outer space is a shoe-free place for collaborative work and interaction, inspiring conversation. It is a room with lots of daylight, furnished for various social situations. There is a cool colour gamut in green, light blue and white. The luminaires are therefore equipped with slightly cooler light compared to the interior room (3000K and 2700K, respectively).

Insight (Insikten), the study room, is housed in a shelter with no daylight. Both furniture and lighting signal a quiet room for individual reading and work situations. What stands out here is the variety of different types of seating and different lighting solutions. The darkness is also here, to create focus around the working places.

This space offers many different ways to sit and change positions and working methods during study sessions. For different personal preferences as well as to be adapted to analog and digital reading and work situations, the lighting is also individually customizable. In the center of the room has 14 specially designed armchairs in a circle around the focal point of the room, a gas fireplace. It is a contemplative eye-catcher and visible from every place in the room. The gathering around the campfire is the archetype of meeting people in all cultures since ancient times. The circle is also no bigger than being able to read all the faces, which is perhaps the most important criterion for quality conversations. The acoustics in this part of the room can be instantaneously adapted to the conversation situation.

Beställare: Akademiska Hus AB
Ljusdesigner och Belysningsplanerare: Jonas Kjellander
Arkitekt: Jonas Kjellander
Medverkandearkitekter: Seidi Afverberg, Alberto Badillo, Rayyan Haddad, Sofia Lindholm, Maria Parent Trovik
Elkonsult: Brawida Sverige AB/Magnus Ringvall
Elentreprenör: Brawida Elservice Uppsala/Magnus Ringvall
Armaturleverantörer: Ateljé Lyktan, Bergdahls, Erco, Hidealite, Ljusdesign AB, Zero, Zlamp
Leverantör styrning: Brawida/KNX
Leverantör gasbrasa: Eldmakaren, Ruuthsbo
Specialsnickerier: Mobacken Trähantverk AB
Photo credit: Åke E:son Lindman and Mikael Silkeberg