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Sweden

Tina Wik is an architect running her own studio. Since 1983, as a partner within Mattsson & Wik Arkitektkontor AB and since 1997 within Tina Wik Arkitekter AB. The office is engaged in new projects and conservation projects. Conservation works are mostly at listed buildings, new project often museums, Parish Houses, Embassies, housing, schools and officies, both in Sweden and abroad, mainly in Bosnia Herzegovina and Tanzania. Tina Wik has also been teaching subjects as Wooden Architecture as well as Architectural Conservation as a professor at the Royal Technical University, the Royal Institute of Art and at University Dalarna. TW Studio is, in most projects, involved with the projects from the very beginning to the end. This includes the detail plans, sketches, designs, presentation drawings, program documents and analysis, building permits and working drawings as well as documentation drawings and documents. In some projects, both housing projects and public buildings, new building sys-tems in wood has been developed and still following the Swedish building code. Many projects are assignments due to them being the first prize in architectural competitions. Some competition was not only about architectural design but also structural innovations concerning new wooden structures. Wälludden was the first multi-storey residental building in Sweden built with a wooden structure, Nora Parish House used a solid wood intermediate floor for the first time in Sweden. Several of these projects have been awarded with different prizes, Wälludden recieved an urban prize in Växjö, Nora Parish House was nominated to the Wooden Prize and received an Europa Nostra Award. TW was additionally participating in the project of Leksand’s Cultural House that received the most prominent architectural prize in Sweden, the Kasper Sahlin Prize. Since 2006 Tina Wik is the castle architect of Örebro castle and from 2016 the responsible architect of the listed building on Skeppsholmen and Kastellholmen in central Stockholm. Tina Wik has continuosly been involved with sustainable wooden archiecture.

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