SARA CULTURAL CENTRE
Place: Skellefteå, Sweden
Program: Sara Cultural Centre is the new home of Västerbotten Regional Theatre, Anna Nordlander Museum, Skellefteå Art Gallery, and the City Library. The 20 storey high-rise houses a hotel with 205 rooms, a congress centre, three restaurants, a skybar with roof terrace and a spa facility.
Schedule (delivery, duration of construction, support eventually): Construction start Q3 2018, delivery Q2 2021, inauguration Q3 2021, duration 2,5 years.
Owner of work/ client: Skellefteå Municipality
Architect: White Arkitekter
Wood engineering: DIFK A/S
Main enterprise: HENT
Wood Construction Company (s): Martinsons
Area: 30,000 sqm
Construction systems: The extremely diverse programme has called for a range of innovative solutions in mass timber construction to handle spans, flexibility, acoustics and overall statics. Standing 75 meters tall, the hotel is built up from premanufactured 3D-modules in cross-laminated timber, stacked between two elevator cores entirely made of CLT. The low rise is built with columns and beams of GLT and cores and shear walls in CLT. The integrated structural design has eliminated the need for concrete entirely from the load bearing structure, speeding up construction and drastically reducing the carbon footprint.
Wood type (s): Pine and spruce
Label (s) or certification (s): Miljöbyggnad guld
