Åhaga : a collage of time

Sammanfattning: Åhaga is a facility building for music, theater, sports, trade shows, product-launches and other events located in the city of Borås. The building is owned and run by the Åhaga Foundation and annually has over 100 000 people visiting it for different purpose. It consists of the original part from 1903 and three different extensions from 1920, 1940 and 2002.   The task of this project was to do another extension to the existing building which deals with the question of adjusting and relating to Åhga's cultural/ historical context and together with the original building meet new demands and functions.    "The accumulation of overlapping traces from successive periods, each trace modifying and being modified by the new additions to produce something like a collage of time” is a thought shared by Kevin Lynch in his work What time is this place.    The essence of the project has been to add a new layer of time to a historical context while enhancing the complexity and contrast. The aim has been to accomplish an interesting architectural entirety.