Saltex

Södra Änggårdsskolan sits where Gothenburg’s emerging Södra Änggården neighbourhood meets the Änggårdsbergen nature reserve. Completed in 2024, the school was the first finished project in the transformation of a former industrial area into a district with homes, workplaces and services. It established education and everyday community life at the beginning of that change. The challenge was to accommodate a school for 900 students on a constrained, steeply sloping site while providing sufficient outdoor space. The building responds with an interwoven arrangement of volumes, allowing play areas to extend across the roof and beneath parts of the structure. At the upper levels, the roof meets the... More