Ting1, Residential building in central Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
Ting1 is a residential building in central Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, rising 11 floors with 51 apartments and 78 glass balconies. It sits on a narrow base that widens as it goes up, giving the building a shape that makes it appear to hover above the structure below.
The building was completed in 2013 and sits entirely above a courthouse that dates from 1967, with no physical contact between the two structures. Making this possible required new legal frameworks for three-dimensional property ownership in Sweden.
The facade is covered in a pattern of glazed ceramic tiles inspired by a painting by northern Swedish artist Bengt Lindström called Women's Dance. The motif was translated into a grid of pixels that can be seen clearly from street level.
The building stands in the city center and is easy to spot from the main streets, making it a useful landmark for orientation. Since it is a private residential building, only the outside can be seen by visitors passing through.
The building is heated by four ground source heat pumps connected to 24 boreholes, each reaching 250 meters down into the ground. This type of energy setup is not common for a city-center residential building of this size.
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