Axel Gillblad

The Hötorget buildings have long been a symbol of Swedish modernist and technological faith in the future of white collar workers, offices and the cityscape.

However as the long-awaited technology arrived and progressed, we have begun to realise and be affected by the consequences on several levels; the cityscape, with its endless possibilities of aesthetic expression, has become a post-historic bundle. The offices have lost their stability, and have gradually filtered out all personality in the name of marketing. At the same time, white-collar workers stand on the threshold of irrelevance, facing an artificial challenger.

Through a speculative future scenario of one of the Hötorget buildings, this degree project hopes to concretise how these changes, or crises, in society can be used as tools to help advance a better relationship with our built environment through a more radically sustainable adaptive strategy when the status quo falters.