| dc.description.abstract | The aim of this study is to document and make proposals for action to Lillhagen greenhouse facility,
with consideration to its historic and cultural characteristics. Based on literature and archival studies,
the essay reports the historical facts concerning the greenhouse as a building type and furthermore
Lillhagen hospital and the greenhouse facility. The facility was originally a part of the former
psychiatric hospital Lillhagen, which is located close-by the greenhouses, in Skogome in the
municipality of Gothenburg. Then, its purpose was to provide the hospital with vegetables and plants
but also served as part of the occupational therapy practised at the hospital, keeping the inmates at
work in the greenhouses and the park surrounding the hospital area. Nowadays, it is run as a market
garden, by a co-operative called Multikult. A description of the greenhouses and the buildings
connected to it is presented, along with a valuation of the cultural and historic aspects the facility
holds. Prior to the proposals, studies were made of two other greenhouses which recently have been
restored/renovated, in order to gain knowledge of what might be suitable suggestions for the
greenhouses of Lillhagen. The proposals, the first one having a conservationist’s perspective, are
based on the valuation made earlier. The second one is a compromise between the ideas of proper
conservation and those of Multikult and their needs for an everyday usage of the space and their
financial situation. This essay also makes note of and discusses the fact that there has been a constant
reduction of a lot of the small scale market gardens, with greenhouses that hold cultural and historical
values, in the region of Västra Götaland, and hence there are not many left today. However, this is
probably not just a regional phenomenon, but nationwide. This study has only kept a regional focus,
though. There is no data on how many of this kind of greenhouse facilities that exists today, since no
inspection or survey has been carried out. Overall, the focus concerning greenhouses within the
conservation of built heritage in Sweden has often been that of orangeries and houses of the upperclass
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