Year: 2025-2027 (ongoing)
Client: Skellefteå kommun (via Peab)
Focus: Interior Architecture, Circular Material & Design Strategy, Bespoke Furniture, Learning & Innovation Environments
Architect: LINK Arkitektur
ACE Powerhouse is a new landmark for electrification, innovation and sustainable energy in northern Sweden. The seven-storey timber building in Skellefteå will be the home of the Arctic Center of Energy, bringing research, education and industry together under one roof. While still under construction, it was named Miljöbyggnad of the Year 2025 by the Sweden Green Building Council. As lead interior architect, we are shaping the building’s interiors from early concept through to delivery.
Our interior concept, Forms of Energy, starts from the principle that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed. It guides everything from the reuse of existing materials to colour, surfaces and the experience of the spaces. Reused and local materials are left readable, not hidden behind cladding, so the building’s circular ambitions become visible to the people who use it every day.
The building serves researchers and students, companies, visitors and international partners. Office work, research, teaching and public events have to coexist in one coherent, flexible interior, with a clear identity and easy wayfinding. At the same time, the building’s sustainability ambitions place real demands on the interior: material choices should be legible, and circular flows part of the story.
