Article source: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture

KKA has designed a new group-home for six young disabled persons situated in the rural town of Vetlanda. The dwellers expressed a strong wish for the building not to have the appearance of a large complex but rather to relate to the scale of surrounding villas and farmhouses. Therefore we designed each dwelling with its own pitched roof. The houses are gathered around a common dining room. Much effort was put in to design the homes to suit the users´ specific needs of universal design.

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• Architects: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture
• Project: Vetlanda Group-Home
• Location: Vetlanda, Sweden
• Client: Vetlanda Municipality
• Type: Disabled Persons Home, in Swedish: “Enskillt boende”
• Stage: Under construction
• Year: 2011
• Team: Joakim Kaminsky,Maria Martinez,Pamela Paredes,Fredrik Kjellgren,Johan Brandström, Josefina Högberg

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