Outdoor environments play an important role in Akademiska Hus' work to create attractive campuses where students, researchers and visitors thrive and feel good, and where the environments contribute to learning, performance and recovery. In the autumn of 2021, a collaboration with the University of Gävle was therefore initiated, where the students from the Industrial Design Programme were tasked with designing something that reduces the barrier between outside and inside. Two of the projects have been realised and are now ready on campus. The projects have been carried out as part of Akademiska Hus' innovation work.
Quarter break
The idea behind the project is based on silence and pause and appeals to our senses. Here, those who need to take a break can sit down in the multifunctional furniture, smell the flowers, taste berries and look at the work depicting the note value of a quarter of a break, which is supposed to communicate the importance of planning and make room for recovery in everyday life.
Sweet spot
The project points out places on campus where students and staff can go for recovery and energy replenishment with the help of nature. Each Sweetspot offers its own solution to how to use nature to feel good. It can be by listening, feeling or challenging yourself.
Frida Melin
Fastighetschef