The report is a result of collaboration between Liljewall Arkitekter, the Leif Blomqvist Research Foundation, Sverigehuset and Akademiska Hus.
"Part of Akademiska Hus' mission is to build student and researcher housing, and we know that there are large rates of ill health among young adults today. We want to start from what research says about how residential courtyards should be designed. If we can help young people feel better, we should of course try to do so," says Sofie Bårdén, strategic property developer at Akademiska Hus.
Seven keys to healthy residential courtyards
The report contains a research overview and a review of the history of residential buildings in Sweden. It then lands in seven "keys", all of which can play a crucial role in how well a residential yard will succeed in promoting health and well-being for the residents.
Hanna Morichetto, Vice President at Liljewall and Technology. Dr. at Chalmers, is the one who has been the project manager for the research report.
"There are seven areas that we hope and believe can help to be able to talk about the residential yard in terms of health. We have based our work on research in the field and tried to systematise and cluster together seven keys, which we believe cover the field in a good way and which should be able to be of concrete use in practice. says Hanna Morichetto, Deputy CEO, Liljewall.
Well-attended seminar
There is great interest in the construction and real estate industry in questions about the importance of residential yards for our health and the subject of "neuroarchitecture". On 23 April, a seminar was held, where the report was presented and panel discussions were held on how the insights can be useful in practice. There was great interest in the seminar, both on site in the Studio at A Working Lab in Gothenburg and remotely. If you want to watch the seminar afterwards, there is a recorded version. See link below.
Torslanda Com as a test bed
The hope is that the seven keys will be able to be applied in practice in development projects to put focus on the residential yard. The Torslanda Com area has served as a test bed in the design of the seven keys, a kind of case study where ideas and reasoning have been tested in parallel in an actual example, in order for the results to be as applicable as possible.
"The report and these seven keys will be a kind of explanatory model and help in the ongoing work for us at Sverigehuset. It's long-awaited, very grateful and good! I envision that we at Torslanda Com will create fantastic residential courtyards with the help of these seven keys," says Anna Henriksson, Sverigehuset.