Röda Oasen is a resident-led building community in Malmö, Sweden, formed to convert a former hospital building in Sege Park into a collective house. In this model, the people who will live in the building organise and lead the housing project themselves.2
The group received a land allocation in 2016 for a building on the grounds of the former Östra Hospital. Its plan was to renovate the building in stages and provide apartments of different sizes and tenure types, alongside shared spaces.2 The project was intended to create a collective home rather than conventional flats alone.
In 2020, Röda Oasen was awarded SEK 400,000 through a Swedish government start-up grant administered by Boverket. The grant programme offered a total of SEK 3 million that year to building communities for early project costs incurred between land allocation and the start of construction.2 The article described the funding as support for the project’s early phase, including the possibility of hiring external architects; member Ludvig Haav said it would provide time and resources to develop the project further.2
Röda Oasen’s developer is the building community itself: residents organise and act as the project’s building client, rather than relying on a commercial developer.2 The article identifies Ludvig Haav as a member and quotes him on the grant, but does not name a project architect or give a founding date for the community.2