Adaptive Reuse for Hasten 21

Abstract: Passagenhuset, a historical building marked green by Stockholm City Museum, is under threat. In the 2017 proposal by Pembroke, it is to be demolished and replaced with a 14-storey tall glazing building. The protest against this proposal paused the demolition of Passagenhuset. There has been a renowned aggressive preservation culture in Sweden. The protest for Passagenhuset and Almstriden is merely the epitome of the culture. However, the city of Stockholm is unavoidably being transformed for the function of the next decade, probably in a violent way unfortunately. The contradiction shows the incapability of aggressive preservation, which could be a hinder instead of a solution when it comes to city development.  Therefore, Hasten 21 has become the object of the preservative reuse experiment. In the preliminary structure preservation, a new interior space of the building has to be implemented, in order to make the contemporary function possible within its chassis. And the study of new tensegrity structure opens the opportunity for the adaptive reuse of Hasten 21.