The house closest to the river, south of Strandgatan, consists of four floors and includes a so-called "black box", with space for 400 seated or 1,000 standing visitors.

The four lower levels of the building closest to the road Storgatan have about 15,000 square meters of area that Umeå municipality disposes of their businesses, including libraries.

The architects are Norwegian Snøhetta and White arkitekter,[5] who also collaborated in the construction of several of the buildings on Umeå Arts Campus.

However, even before the inauguration the rather daring design in this context was portrayed as a plagiarism, since three vertical slums with similar facades already had been erected in Copenhagen in 2006–2008.

[6][7][8] Väven includes studios, a children's cultural center, theaters and Umeå City Library, the cinema Folkets Bio and the new Women's History Museum.