This project is the story of two housing projects designed by the British-Swedish architect. The first estate is Lassaskog in Växjö, Sweden, and was built in 1954 as one of the earliest examples of industrialised concrete housing in the country. The other one, Kvarteret Ortdrivaren in Kiruna was built some eight years later following Erskine’s utopian ideas for The Arctic City. Despite their architectural and historical significance, these two estates are threatened today: Ortdrivaren will be demolished and Lassaskog will be hastily densified. This thesis is a reaction to these threats, and it is a call for preserving and reusing.

The project was developed within the context of KTH School of Architecture.