Södra Ängby

Södra Ängby is a district in Stockholm's Bromma district. Södra Ängby consists of about 500 different houses, all of which were designed during the years 1933 to 1939 in the architectural style of Modern and built. This Södra Ängby one of the largest, preserved functionalist villa settlements in Europe. The settlement is protected by the so-called Riksintresse ( Reich interested in particularly valuable buildings ).

Background

With the breakthrough of functionalism in Sweden, which is commonly equated with the Stockholm exhibition in 1930, the functionalist ideas and style elements have been implemented in the housing sector, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s. Around Stockholm city building had been bought and developed new suburbs with apartment buildings, such as Hammarbyhöjden, Traneberg and Kristine Berg. In Enskede, Norra and Södra Ängby Ängby other hand, you realized the dream of owning a home.

Common to all these projects was the idea realized from air, light and closeness to nature and good sanitary facilities, the full kitchens and the bright facade paints, which is why these suburbs soon from enthusiastic professional people " Den vita staden " ("The White City " ) were called. Södra Ängby was one of the last residential suburbs in Stockholm, which was created in the spirit of the garden city idea.

While one small single-family homes and townhouses planned in Norra Ängby for those with low incomes, they wanted to appeal to the upper middle class in Södra Ängby. The houses were turnkey, built on " speculation" of different construction companies and then sold. The technical standard of the houses was high, several bathrooms, separate dining room and a maid were not uncommon. The size varied from 120 to 200 sqm.

Architecture

The development plan of the architect Albert Lily Mountain (1879-1967) was characterized by an intricate, well-adapted to the terrain roads and paths. The existing vegetation has been largely preserved. Almost 95 % of the villas are from a single architect, Edvin Engström ( 1890-1971 ), who made also with the design of multi-family homes a name and had drawn up to 5,000 single-family homes during his playing days. Despite its extensive manufacturing its buildings were technically and aesthetically always well planned.

Characteristic of the homes in Södra Ängby are the bright, almost white plastered facades, flat roofs, rounded balconies, large mounting without windows, small round windows and graceful railing. Despite the "modern" style of building a majority of the houses are of conventional design. The Swedish design of this year consist, for example, the outer walls of stationary 50 - mm - thick vernuteten planks, which are provided on the outside with lime plaster or wood panel, inside with hardboard. According to today's estimation, the insulation is almost equal to zero, which makes additional insulation necessary without changing the character of the house. In 1987 monitors the Riksantikvarieämbetet ( Reich antiquarian Office). A detailed development plan since 1993 ensures that the exterior of the houses and the surrounding nature are preserved.

Detail pictures

Literature and source

• Södra Ängby, the vita staden. Flootlights Publishing, 2000, ISBN 91-631-0275-7