The degree thesis is based on an architecture competition where the community had decided on producing residential buildings on the district Västra kajen. The community of Jönköping wanted to build two types of residents; one part was going to have residents with right of tenancy, were the company VätterHem is going to administrate. The other part of the residential was going to be tenant-ownership were the administrator is going to be Riksbyggen. The line of argument in the thesis is the design process of doing a proposal that would meet the requirements of the competition and of the companies'. Other requirements that also had to be considerate on the proposal were the adjustment with the existing environment and that it had to be appealable to society.

Question that assumes in the thesis and trying to be explained through the reading of the chapters is; "How the area is affected of the external conditions. How a residential yard and construction is going to be designed to get the best possible light- and view-alternative, and to get good internal planning. How the design is on the wining proposal. What are the energy requirement, and the other requirements; what kind of conditions does the area have".

Observation of the location has been carry out where analyzes has been made on wind-, sun-, vegetation-, traffic- and topographic conditions. Some researches has been done on the history of the city which is describe on this thesis and also different point of views of Statsbyggnadvisionen[1] has been explained; which also includes Ramprogrammet¹.

Similar projects have been analyzed to get a bigger perspective on good internal planning and good resolutions on residential buildings with similar conditions. These analyzes have been used and reflected on the design of the project on Västra kajen, which is describe on following chapters. The reference projects have been chosen from three levels which the writers of this thesis choose to name; the community level, the national level and the international level. The objects are Östra kajen in Jönköping, Henriksdalshamnen in the area Hammarbysjöstad in Stockholm and the living area Fyrholm in Kobenhaven, Denmark. The analyses can be found in chapter 4.4.

After the analyzing phase a proposal on the living space on Västra kajen is designed, this design proposal is illustrated in chapter 4.5, where volume, internal planning, the residential yard and material etc is presented. During the whole design process there was a contact with the company Riksbyggen and Invar Selse that was the functionary of the competition, which also is presented in the chapter. The end of the thesis is base on a description of the winning proposal, where a comparison between the proposal of this thesis and the winning one is done.

[1] Is a document from the community of Jönköping that describe the city planning and future vision of the city