Stockholm, Sweden
2020 - 2022
Restaurant Rummel
Nestled in the streets of Stockholm is restaurant Rummel, a 500 m² timber building carefully crafted with disassembly in mind. Enabling flexible usages and a prolonged life cycle of its parts; the building design embraces temporality, demonstrating that everything – including our built environment – is in a constant state of becoming.
With a burnt wood exterior and glulam frames, Rummel’s timber structure is designed with changing angles and heights, forming the building’s irregular shape. With an architectural gesture that found its inspiration in the neighborhood’s collage of older, low-lying buildings and newer, high-rise constructions, the 500 m² building progresses from a height of 10 meters on one end, to 4 meters on the other.
Informed by temporality
Design for disassembly was a central concept in Rummel’s design, enabling flexible usages and a prolonged life cycle of the building components.
“Disassembly is part of the design language of Rummel. The way in which the parts are mounted and bolted together is visible, making it easy to understand how the building is constructed. This also makes it easy to dismantle so that parts can easily be inspected, removed, or replaced, when necessary, without cutting through the cladding.” — Peter Tegner Matz, Project Manager and Constructing Architect
In this way, temporality is pragmatically embraced, enabling the reuse and healthy second life of building materials and, perhaps most importantly, challenging the traditionally linear economic models that characterize our industry.
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