Nynäshamn City Hall

Abstract: Nynäshamn City Hall Nynäshamn is a small archipelago city south of Stockholm with around 15,000 inhabitants. Our task was to design a new City Hall that would represent an expansive and progressive community like Nynäshamn. The municipality has an explicit goal of approaching citizens and making them feel included. A building that represents a municipality where its political representatives work is a building that belongs to the citizens as much as it belongs to its employees. I entered the project by trying to find a way to integrate the public activities into activities that a closed state building has. The goal was to achieve a functioning entirety of two entirely different functions one building can have. The collaboration between these two functional extremes made it possible for large parts of the building to be available for visitors, which gave the City Hall an open character. The facade is intense. That's how I want to express inner life. The collision between two extremes forms an entirety. The centre of the building is an atrium that represents the people of Nynäshamn. It is the buildings largest public area. The atrium reaches out and penetrates through the facade of a state building and symbolically explains the character of the building.