Anders Berensson Architects

Tibro Station Lab is a series of small architectural interventions aiming to transform an abandoned station warehouse in central Tibro into a potential new public building. The interventions are designed and built by students from the KTH School of Architecture, Master studio Fabulous Future Factory, co-founded and directed by Anders Berensson in collaboration with the KTH Master studio DKV.

The world urgently needs to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to avoid a global warming catastrophe. Today, one third of all emissions stem from the building industry. Using what already exists is essential to prevent the unnecessary consumption of resources and to lower emissions from construction. Another key factor—both for reducing emissions and strengthening social sustainability—is to produce architecture locally. Throughout the spring, we will practice both.

The studio engages with the existing site and building, maintaining, reusing, and adapting materials while developing its method directly on site. The ambition is to establish a hands-on, locally rooted approach shaped by practical experience and the specific conditions of Tibro’s historic center. The project is carried out in collaboration with Tibro Municipality, focusing on the old station warehouse and its surroundings.

The studio works with adaptive reuse and inventive upcycling of buildings, components, and materials that have been, or will be, dismantled in Stockholm. These elements are transformed at DKV67 into new architectural parts and then integrated into the station warehouse or its surroundings in Tibro. The work serves as both prototypes and permanent structures for future interventions and the continued architectural development of the station warehouse.

 

 

Installation 1: Tibro Tile Trail

Ramps for biking, running and sitting outside the station warehouse

 

Installation 2: Tire Tire Tibro

And entry to the house through reused tires also serves as a giant rubber bench

 

Installation 3: Thres Hold Tibro

And entry stair to the west of the house built by reused material from temporary pavilions

 

 

Installation 4: Border Of Disorder

A system of shelves making a border to the rest of the house not yet in use. The shelves were built by reused pipes

 

Installation 5: Deco Rated Shed

A new Alberti inspired facade made by reused windows. All windows are built and installed behind the façade waiting for a new building permit and for a new house owner to put it in.

 

Installation 6: Kiosk K Arat

A kiosk built by reused material to be used at events next to the station warehouse and elsewhere in Tibro