Vectura Campus F

Vectura Campus F will become Stockholm’s new sustainable melting pot for innovation, co-working, culture, and social activities. Located in the intersection between Norra Stationsgatan, Karlsbergvägen, Rörstrandsgaten and Tomtebodavägen, the new campus will tie together the diverse neighbouring areas and educational institutions.

It goes beyond just a research facility, encompassing labs, co-working spaces, meeting facilities, a culture and experience lab, student housing, shops, and restaurants. Vectura Campus F aims to become a vibrant hub for world-leading companies, start-ups, and talents working in the Life Science field and citizens alike. The grand social gathering space, the Orangery, and DNA-inspired stairs serve as architectural highlights, promoting both horizontal cohesion and vertical connections across functions. With the design fostering synergies and strong links to the surrounding community, Vectura Campus F will offer an inspiring environment that bridges science and the surrounding community.

The corners of the building have been pulled back to make space for a new urban plaza. Here, people will have access to the roofed community room, the Orangery, which connects all the different functions in the building, offering a range of cafes, restaurants, and small boutiques. The transparency of the Orangery allows the public to follow what is going on in parts of the building reserved for scientists, students, and companies working within the life science sphere.

The tradition of the campus began with the medieval European universities, where students and teachers lived and worked together in a monastery-like environment.

Vectura CampusF reinterprets how such a collection of buildings, areas, and functions belonging to an institution can be organised into a lively and living whole.

Reorganising the spaces and functions from traditional, horizontal campus structure to a stacked one, fitted to dense urban setting.

Vertical coherence between the layers is created by three DNA-string-inspired staircases placed in the atriums that allow for the inflow of daylight into the core of the building. The dynamic shape of the stairs encourages physical movement and casual meetings across professions, levels of experience, and interests.

As the cherry on the cake, the building’s top story and roof terrace spreads over three levels lifting towards Hagastaden to integrate the building in the existing urban plan as well as to offer great views of the surrounding areas. The top story’s flexible programme allows for a wide range of uses to house conferences, a restaurant or a bar. The roof terrace is designed as a green space for recreative activities, planted with native species to increase biodiversity.