Portfolio 2018

2018

VOL I 2011 - 2018

Po rtfoli o Claire Bay Jensen Cand.Arch.MAA

Master:

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Copenhagen

Bachelor

Arkitektskolen Aarhus Aarhus

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Bachelor degree

2014 Nordic Light & Architecture Aarhus School of Achitecture Aarhus, Denmark

Master degree

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Claire Bay Jensen 29 years

Architectural Intern mmw Architects Oslo

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Contact

Cand.Arch. MAA

Clairebay281@hotmail.com Godsbanegade 3, 2 TH Copenhagen Denmark # 0045-26807530

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2016 Communications Assistant // Research & Development Department of Sustainability Henning Larsen Architects Copenhagen Denmark

2017 Business Development & Communications Assistant Henning Larsen Architects Copenhagen Denmark

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School of Architecture

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Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability

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Projects

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Projected Futures

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Joint Venture : Joinery

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Feeding The Campus

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Bachelor Project The Market - An Urban Catalyst

5 Thesis Project Cabildos & Social Disparities in Havana

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Inter nships & Extra Curricular

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Sabbatical : Volunteering abroad

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Internship : mmw architects Norway

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Internship : Henning Larsen Architects, Copenhagen

Table of c on t en ts

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Description

P rojected Futures

Translating screenplay narratives into sensatory imageries and architectural constructions The project derives from the screenplay Twelve Monkeys; here translating the perpetual battle between the mind, memory and reality. These typologies are exemplified through the metamorphosis of light and materiality.

In Collaboration with visiting teachers from T h e S c h o o l o f C E N T R A L S A I N T M A RT E N S & The Bartlett Period

Second semester

Second semester Assignment

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Individual Assignment

Pablo Zaide, Lector, The Bartlett Daniel Friend, School of Central Saint Martens Thomas Lee, Lector, AAA

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1:1 model - Light, Tulle, Welded metal The conceptual idea from Twelve Monkeys questions man´s unconditional longing for what is rightfully his - his memory of what he sought real.Our memories and perception are from what we construct, and equally does the constructed lead us on to new perceptions of our reality.

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Subjectivity of memories and perceptions of reality.

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The model examines the symbolic nature when humans are among the constructed- of which sensatory and perceptual states. These illustrate how tensions begin to form, when tangible figures such as metal and intangible aspects of light begin to merge reconstruct as a new entity. Rectangular metal sheets surrounds a white coiled tracingpapir, which are lit from above.

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The vessel for timetravel is not constrained to the physical machine, but is the mere hypothetical device for such - in this case, our mind. We as humans are on the constant quest to recollect, perceive and reconstruct our own surroundings. Our ability to sense and adapt are among our most powerful assets in the affiliation and connection with our environment, and it is thus the reason why all our senses, together, ought be a main parameter for why and how we construct and build our future.

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he concept of time-travel is vaguely complex. In theory, it is the concept of movement between point A and point B in time. While time travl traditionally constitutes the psysical movement to or back in time, it does however expand to much more than the physical realm. As we are alive, whether concious or unconsious, we are inevitably able to travel back and forth within our memories and recollect perceptions of time and place.

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Decreasing waste accumulation through disassembly, upcycling and downcycling of unsalvaged materials.

Each group was encouraged to develop and construct connecting joints, together assembled into one wood table standing in Arkitektskolen Aarhus.

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Fourth semester Workshop - group assignment Rasmus Grønbæk, Head of BA-program, Lector AAA Lars Holst, Lector AAA Martin Nielsen, Lector AAA

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Providing the means for recycling, upcycling and disassembly through Nordic and Japanese joiner y

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he problem of non-biogradeble and hazardous waste is a continous issue in most countries. The rapid industrial development and an equal increase in building deconstruction, has led to the extensive accumulation of solid waste, and is today seen as one of the most damaging factors for our environment. Demolitions and deconstructions of buildings are producing enormous amounts of debris including concrete, metals,glass, plastics, wood asphalt, bricks ect. These are most commonly deposited in landfills and waste sites, where it not only pollutes the land and air, but are also left unsalvaged.

Gro up Jo i nt.

Co nnec t i o n wi t h o ther jo i nt made by fel lo w stu dent s

While disassembly and recycling still vaguely are incorporated in construction, governments and municipalities are now responding to anthropologenic effects by implementing policies, taxes and legislation for dissambly, recycling and upcycling.

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The project seeks to meet this increased focus, by the salvation of used oak from construction sites near Arkitektskolen Aarhus. Each group develops and produces jointconnections, which must cohesively connect to the joints of the remaining groups.

My role was to develop and project joints from our learnings about Japanese and Nordic joints. This involved my comprhensive skills in rhino, lasercutting and CNC Intellicarvecarving machine.

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An investigation of an utopian selfsufficient campus at Aarhus School of Architecture Student groups are encouraged to develop ideas for a selfsufficient student campus. The ideas are depicted from narratives in various fairytales, screenplays or cartoons.

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FEEDING THE CAMPUS

Fe e d i n g the Campus

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Prof. C.J Lim, Architecture and Urbanism, Vice-Dean, The Bartlett.

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Fe e d i n g t h e Campus Selfsufficient Campus for Arkitektskolen aarhus

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This class aims to encourage a sustainable architecture and urban planning discourse on food accessibility, security and nutritional knowledge on the campus of the Aarhus School of Architecture. The project is a manual of new innovative multi-use infrastructure and architectural systems to address climate and for rethinking the commonly received notion of campus community well-being. We are encouraging expressions for visionary architecture and urban speculations – inventing alternative realities, creating utopian ‘impossibilities’.

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The school’s campus is divided into plots; each plot comprises layers of three-action plan – seeding infrastructure, growing science and harvesting nature.

Collectively, the individual plots form the basis of a complex narrative and programme for the campus’s edible and sustainable master plan. The class involves the exploration in self-sufficiency in a modern context.

Here each group and individual is challenged to mark a point in society that worth investigating in the realm of sustainability. Among the groups the investigating of how greed in society pays to the lack of sufficient groceries and commodity. Also how the use of wind energy through simple chicken farms are accessible for direct use.

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It is a map of the distribution grid in which we in the future are, able to commune and distribute goods and food to all the existing buildings. The vertical tubes collect goods from above, delivered by an even greater grid of distribution which again lays above. Inthe same way, this grid provides essentials for the greater area of inner Aarhus. My role initially was to define and draw and project the last layer of the distribution grids, which specifically provides the campus with the necessary means for a selfsufficient campus.

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Development of The Urban Market as an catalyst to revitalize social engagement and viable cities.

As the foundation of Z-huset on Aarhus Ă˜ has failed regulatory demands, the abandoned carparking and lot are used as a catalyst for a new urban attraction and encourager for remaining urban developments.

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THE MARKET

An Urban Catalyst

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Sixth semester Individual Assignment

Lars Holst, Lector AAA Martin Nielsen, Ph.D, Lector AAA

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The Market, An Urban Catalyst Engaging through sustainable trade an local ag riculture.

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It is tempting to think that all resources should and must be concentrated in cities in the developing world. However, relative concerns in “mature� countries may be equally as devastating to the sustainable strategy. An average North American shows to consume 16 times more than the average African, and over 8 times more than the average Asian. The same is true to a slightly lesser extent, to emissions of greenhouse-gases.

Europe is also a relatively high consumer, and still consumes over half the amount of energy

Re-creative urban areas, which enforce self-sufficient and revitalized areas are a way of promoting and retaining the urban interest for habitation.

In 2003, Aarhus municipality launched a new vision for Aarhus. The vision expressed a common wish for Aarhus to promote and sustain conditions for its habitants which ensure higher urban quality and reactivation of empty spaces. The vision is a proclamation for other municipalities to follow in this same path for future urban developments.

This project proclaims a new Market area in the harbour of Aarhus, as a mean to revitalize and restore discourages areas of the city, thereby encouraging a higher social interest, and higher urban density to decrease energy emissions.

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While sustainability concerns in the developing countries often are associated with extreme growth rates and profuse energy consumptions, developed countries too are in need of more viable solutions for procuring urban sustainability.

A compact city, is a sustainable one. A scattered urban structure will equally result in a scattered infrastructure, with excessive transportation methods, pollutants and decreased urban quality for its population. The inappropriate use of resources and the lack of resourceful actions are hugely affecting our quality of life, not to mention our qualitative socioecological system. It it merely our duty as architects and citizens of the city to oppose it.

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Today, arguments are moving away from the rather doomed prediction of the global catastrophy from pollutants and high energy consumptions, towards a slight optimism that understands the problems which we are facing. But the optimism is tinged with enormous economic strains, and the still political lack of a more unified commitment for long term solutions.

as the average North American - which in itself are devastating numbers. While we continuously presume that developing countries are having the largest toll on environmental impacts, such affluence of the matured and developed countries, is equally unsustainable - inevitably the reason for the decay and self-destructing city.

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Within a short time, the issue of the sustainable development has become a significant part of the mainstream. Concern about the future and our resources is now an established way of life and it is accompanied and supported by new European provisions to sustain healthy and energy efficient cities. The debate of sustainability covers many issues including economics, population, city compactness, energy consumptions, pollution and in which way we may aquire more viable results, in order to revitalize social and urban sustainability.

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entail a market area for smaller stalls. Above, lies a market area for bigger and established stalls and restaurants and gardens are located on the top floors for agricultural farming. Japanese qualities such as unclear room divisions, transparency of spaces, and the shutter-like structures are a main focus in constructing the architectural proposal.

A functional layer structure which in detail, is shared by a common staircase. One moves up through layers, experiencing an increase of stay.

The project builds on the exploration of how to revitalize forsaken or the decay of urban areas into re-creative and liveable spaces.

This project also us the great opportunity of being able to work in the scale 1:50. Never before have I focused so greatly on the detail and cohesiveness of a model, and my excitement is hopefully equally apparent. Using the last week for model-making, I challenged myself, utilizing the schools robotic facilities while rebirthing analogue techniques. This meant using the main Wood workshop, the Water-jet, the Laser-cutter, the blade-cutter, casting plaster, staining wood, spray paint, acetone-print and soldering metal.

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Rec reat i o nal ro o ft o ps

“ My e xperienc e and g ratitude to ward this pro j e c t i s di re c t l y l i n k e d t o t he pre v i o u s se m e st e r, di sc o v e ri n g t he m e an s o f n o rdi c a n d j a pan e se c om ponents and d esig n param eters.

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A re a i n fo r m at i o n S i t e A re a: 8700 m2 M ark e t A re a : 3493 m2 S u pe r m ark e t A re a: 1190 m2 Fi shi n g m ark e t : 300 m2 U ppe r m ark e t : 747m2 R e st au ran t s: 341 m2 R o o f G arde n A re a: 391 m2 U ppe r pu bl i c S pac e s: 4 8 1 m 2

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OBSCURA-OBSOLETE

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Development of Læsø through Wat c h t owe r s of Camera O bscura Design realization of the Camera Obsc u r a i n to Watch tower s, i n o rd er to rev i ta l i ze a n d h i g h ten focus on obsolete areas of Læsø.

I n t h e O b s o l e t e Devices in remote areas Læsø Island Denmark

O bcscura - O bsolete

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Iz ab ella Wiec zorek , Lec tor, A A A Clau d ia Carb one, Lec tor A A A Jen s K r i s ti a n N i el s en , C a n d . I n g, Per A a r s l ef f A / S Chris tine H arb oe, PH -d Stu d ent, A A A Sø ren R a ava d , L a bl a n d A rch i tec ts A / S Læs ø Salts yd eri

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Watchtower s on Læsø Island

he of area of Læsø Saltsyderi, is the site for the following project.This project examines methodical parameters from a camera obscura as a way to revitalize the area of Læsø.

An interest in the mechanics of lights interaction with the camera obscura, was initially the catalyst for this project.

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The term Camera Obscura is in many ways a well-known phenomena. For me, creating a Camera Obscura brought much more than predicted. This project investigates dimensions which challenge and questions the intangible boundary between metaphysical aspects and the converted images. Here discovering psycological and psysical aspects perceived through the means of a lens.

Læsø In the region of Læsø, lies a naturepark, striped from trees, buildings and hills. The walk from Saltsyderiet towards Hornfiskerøn entails a long dicoverrance into the mind.

The idea is to come to an appreciation of an seemingly abandoned land. The specific site is approximately 2.5 km from Saltsyderiet. Here ly stones, in a pond, bare of surrounding trees and objects. The stones located on the path, seemingly act as the first encountered resting place. This leads to the first and initial space for the structure.

The building consists of a strip of watchtowers, guiding one toward Hornfiskerøn. The towers function as Camera Obscura towers.

When entered, the lens can be mechanically moved and focused on an event or image of the horizon. The spaces function as stops for breath and rest, while changing along with the temporal conditions. The project consists of context plans alongside sections showing relations between inside and context.

Within the towers construction and mechanical order, one is able to aime the lens at specific accurances of the day. Sections should also reveal the mechanical order of the movement of an optical lens and its tower. How these joints meet and allow movement and direction of a specific tower. There should also exist an exploration of different types of towers and whether these should vary. The consists of 2 or 3 floors, which enable the viewer to experience different images of one space in different levels. The users can direct a preferred lens and experience an expected or unexpected image in an several levels of sight.

The Towers interior space should be constrained to a minimal not competing with natures importance, and shall stand as an acceptable part of the adapted landscape.

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D r a w i n gs -I s o m e t r i c d ra w i n g S t a i rc a s e -E x p l o d e d A x o m e t r i c d ra w i n g Constr uction and L ayers -I s o m e t r i c D ra w i n g G e a r s ys t e m

Gear up and climb Climbing stairs. The staircase leading one through the spaces of the camera interior.

For every stair level, the stair group is tilted 2 degrees, to imply the difficulty of rising upwards into the hierarchy. When a gear train has multiple stages, the gear ratio for the overall gearing system is the product of the individual stages. Any gear ratio that can be achieved by multiple stages of gearing can also be produced by single stage gearing, but for large gear ratios, the large gear can become unwieldy.

Common denominators are very important.

By example, If, however, we wanted an 11 : 127 gear ratio, the only way to get that exact ratio would be with an 11 tooth and a 127 tooth gear (or multiples thereof), because both are prime numbers that can’t be factored. On further consideration of the above 1:11 gearing example, we could have done even better if we instead started with 1:11 as 12:132. We could then write this as 12:44 and 44:132, and the 44:132 is a 1:3 ratio, which we could also make a 10:30. That would leave us with 12:44 and 10:30, which adds up to just 96 teeth

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Section model 1:10 0 26 l a y e r s o f m d f 3D p r i n t e t s t a i rc a s e

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Wo o d a ppl i e s fo r : G ea r s y s tem

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CUBA Cabildos & Social Disparities Master Thesis

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An architectural proposal for a new inf rastucture of Care Center s in Hava n a .

T he project is a reaction to the cur rent deficit wel f a re s y s tem i n H ava n a . I p ro p o s e th e establishment of three Care center s in H ava n a , which are linked by the Cuban railway s y s tem .

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Cabildos & Social D isparities

T hesis Ind iv id u al A s s ignm ent

Runa Johannesson, Architect, Associate Pro f es s o r, p h.D Dag Peter s s on, A s s oc iate Prof es s or Niels G rønb Ìk , A rchitec t, A s s oc iate Pro fesso r Oly m p ia Nou s k a, A rchitec t, A s s oc iate Pro fesso r

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A new (infra) structure of Care Establishing an infrastructure of Care Units in Havana Cuba.

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he collapse of the USSR triggered drastic fiscal measures to recover the Cuban economy.

This initially resulted in drastic reductions in the Cuban state-sponsored social system with the implementatino of a separate social services scheme - not intended for the general population.

The implemented system was a separate social service solely reserved for the armed forces and members of the top government and communist party. It allowed top officials to gain direct access to premium healthcare and allowed them to have first pickings to medicine and acute surgery, a service which was not offered in the public health system.

The implementation suggested higher levels of inequalities, which scholars saw as conflicting with fundamental revolutionary ideologies.

The idea to differentiate between social services likewise fueled other irregularities between local Cubans and high-ranking officials. The government and military forces were allowed higher rationing quotas than average Cuban citizens. It is believed to have stimulated many Cubans into buying the necessary food in ungoverned markets at excessively high prices. The inability to obtain equal commodities has produced even larger social irregularities in the Cuban society.

The ambition to provide the basic needs of care and to close social disparities is so forth the main agenda for Cuban independent social aid organisations. These organisations are known as Cabildo groups. They have, because of their strong African heritage of social aid and ability to mobilize popular support on a community level been re-authorised to tackle community issues such as the above.

Their activities include medical care, food supply, and educational support– sectors which were affected by the economic crisis.

AIM The projects aim is therefor to develop an arhitectural proposition, which combines a day center and museum typology to form new spatialities of care, which the project refers to as Cabildos care centers.

In order to strengthen the access and distribution of social aid provided by the Cabildo groups, I propose to exploit the currently deficit infrastructural grid of the Cuban a by resurrecting the railway and integrating Cabildo care centers into train stations.

The architectural agency is thus to create the physical and contextual link between African history, care and infrastructure.

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Legal potentials and strategies Evidently, the barriers for NGO’s are rooted in the particularities of the Cuban legal context.

Essentially, the Cuban government possess an overprotectiveness, which leads them to apply legal regulations that economically and socially control foreign NGO’s with the aim to prevent foreign and democratic agendas on the Cuban civil society. On the one hand, it is clear that the Cuban government must consider reviewing these legal regulations, in order for NGO’s to sustain their presence and donations to Cuba. On the other hand, it is important that foreign NGO’s increase their understanding of the Cuban political, social and legal landscape if they wish to expand into Cuba.

Preliminary suggestions Before coming to Cuba, it is important for foreign NGO’s to realise that Cuba differs from many other emerging economies, in which it employs a tightly managed approach to social development. This means that organisations who work or wish to work in Cuba in the future must be aware that maintaining their organisational autonomy to will not be possible.

They must likewise acknowledge that Cuba has risen from a background of colonisation and subjugation, which means that an attitude of European superiority or organisational hierarchy may not be welcomed. It is thus important NGO’s and the EU to reflect upon and pursue more than one alternative if they wish to advance their activities. The suggestion is that it may be beneficial for NGO’s form partnerships with the Cabildos, who have gained a resourceful and significant legal position in regard to social work. a) Cabildos can deflect state interference in tofinancial processes.

In the Cuban legal framework, foreign organisations have no legal personality without a Cuban partner. Foreign organisations must therefore consider it a mandatory step in order to develop aid activities in Cuba. The ability to form a collaboration with a Cabildo is thus an interesting and most beneficial alternative.

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with a certain degree of economic autonomy (Brundige, Cisneros, Penalver, & Spitz, 2017, s. 209). By creating a partnership with the Cabildos can thus enable NGO’s to keep a closer record of their funding into relevant projects and help them maintain degrees of economic autonomy as a foreign organisation. b) Cabildos can reengage non-profits withthe community Cuban law prohibits foreign organisations from engaging with the community, except in partnership with an accepted Cuban entity.

Forming a partnership with the Cabildos instead of a state-run organisation can thus help the EU to stay more attuned to the citizens’ concerns and become more responsive in mobilizing resources to deal with the task at hand.

Because Cabildos inherently belong to the civil society, they can help the EU in the moral and ethical dimensions of decision-making in the public sphere providing foreign organisations with knowledge about social systems and cultural differences/similarities. The Cabildos can likewise challenge basic assumptions and unrealistic expectations by non-profit representatives, providing them with a realistic opinion of what it means to be a foreigner in Cuba. Altogether, the collaboration between the EU and a Cabildo can create a synergy in which the local Cabildos can close bureaucratic gaps - creating a closer relationship between community needs and non-profit responses. c) Cabildos can help secure successful projectapprovals Legal guidelines for social project approvals are extremely discretionary. NGO’s complain that even when legal requirements are met, approvals may not be granted, and denials are often camouflaged by the government’s lack of response (Quiroz’s, 2003). Forming a strong relationship with a trustworthy local partner, with a good understanding of bureaucratic processes is thus essential in order to reach successful approvals. It is therefore vital, that the NGO remain critical when it forms a partnership to a local partner, as it can determine the success of applications.

It can be valuable to collaborate with the Cabildos, who are both part of a global religious institution and the Cuban civil society thus helping NGO’s foreign non-profit to navigate in complexity of approval processes. Furthermore, the Cuban government has in recent years put religion as one of the main pillars to boost the economy. This means that Cabildos have gained a commercial an economic interest, from which NGO’s can exploit to frame applications and ultimately secure successful approvals for projects that are valuable. d) Cabildos can help NGO’s execute services that are within state jurisdiction According to the Associations Law first established in 1976, an organization - Cuban or foreign - can only be created to serve concepts in; science and technology, art and culture, athletics. This prohibits organisations in duplicating [ p.41 ]

services that are within the jurisdiction of the state including educational and medical assistance and hospitalization. The law of duplication applies to organisations on a national, provincial, or municipal level however does not include ministries, state-organisations like Minvec and religious organwisations.16 Religious organisations in Cuba sustain a long history of social aid and have therefore have been allowed to continue their services in medical aid and social projects - services that are also provided by the state.

A collaboration with a religious group such as a Cabildos can thus be valuable for foreign NGO’s in Cuba, who wish to offer services that are within the jurisdiction of the state such as health and education. Cabildos are also well-connected with the international reli-

gious organisations Caritas, who facilitate programs for seniors, children with and without disabilities and young people at social risk(ibid), 204).

They are interesting for the Cuban government because they provide funding and material support to churches or religious communities and channel significant donations into state-run programs (Caritas, 2017).

Despite the establishment of a new political agreement between the EU- and Cuba, it is hard to see how the EU may actually be able to engage with the civil society unless Cuban laws are revised by the Cuban government. It is however a scenario, which has not yet been accepted by the Cuban thus producing the need for other alternatives.

The Cabildos present diverse experience and initiate programs that are both socially engaging and meet the needs of the civil society – a capacity from which NGO’s can potentially harness. Forming a partnership with Cuban social groups and aid organisations is thus a necessity and not an option if NGO’s want to reengage and enhance their activities in the Cuban community.

How can an increased support to foreign NGO thus increase the impact of the Cabildos?

In conjuncture with the rising social disparities in social services and, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Cubans to obtain material goods such as building materials and average commodities which are now in

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high demand. Followed by the continuous scepticism by the Cuban government toward foreign NGO’s, social groups such as the Cabildos find it increasingly difficult to conduct their work in the community, as they cannot obtain or receive external funding and materials to restore homes and food supply (Lozano, 2017).

A collaboration between them and a foreign NGO can thus create a synergy, in which the NGO’s can help generate new opportunities for the Cabildos. A partnership could potentially mean that the Cabildos could utilise the foreign NGO to provide access to funding, building materials and food supply. On a larger scale, a bilateral partnership with an EU NGO’s can potentially create a link to other NGO’ groups to other

organisations that are either related in terms of social work, or in terms of financial capacity and support.

The EU can thus assist in channelling information and expertise about other community programs and non-profit organisations into Cuba from abroad. By expanding the network of NGO’s could ultimately result in financial independence for the Cabildos, rather than depending on support from the Cuban state. Altogether, the collaboration between the EU and a Cabildo can create a multifaceted synergy between two partners who are driven to initiate community projects, which may ultimately help Cuban civilians and develop the currently vulnerable local Cuban society.

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DEVELOPMENT th rou gh edu cation For more than half a century international communities recognized education as a fundamental human right. In 2000, the acknowledgement of education as an inde dispensable mean for people to realize their capabilities, was made by the Millennium Development Goals. However nations continously discredit the centrality of education in agreements, and have yet to recognize education as a catalyst for development. While numerous governments have intensified their commitment to support for education, the interest among investors and developers remains insufficient and economically undesirable.

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In Guatemala, initiatives have proceeded to emphasize schools for both children and adults, as a mean to inhance social sustainability. Here studies show that higher levels og acedemics and cognitive skills among young adults and parents, increases the number og years that their own children spend in schools. It is a regognition of the benefits of better-educated individuals, which in turn protects and advances their heir to come.

The volunteer work drew from notions, that we as students of architecture have the direct potencial to help augment the social and economic stability of nations which suffer from a higher rate of inequality and poverty. The projected consisted of the enactment of a school for adults in the highlands of Zhaltpanzan, Guatemala. The schools holds eight buildings, os which each represents a practical course such as electrical mechanics, cooking or sewing.

Clssrooms also offered academic subjects such as Math and English.

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Bui l d i n g a n ew s c h o o l f o r a d u l t s, t o l i f t eco n o m i c a n d s o c i a l c o n d i t i o n s o f t h e t ow nsh ip Z h a lt p an z an , G u a t e ma l a .

Working collaboratively with Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke also known as Global Contact, we were able to engage in a series of projects in El Salvador and Guatemala. The projects firstly involved a one month stay in El Salvador studying Latin American culture and engaging in Latin American politics.

This initially entailed having daily lessons in Latin subcultures and participating in a daily local routine sin the local regions. These lessons were supplied with Spanish lessons and the preparation of living with representative families in Guatemala.

As the project was delayed for four months, we were not able to see the final result of the construction. However we managed to lay the foundation for the main administration building, hence building and ensuring the first stage of the architectural work.

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ASKER SYKKELHOTELL A counteraction against health risks from vehicle and air pollution The occurance of harmful air pollutants is still a major healthrisk in our society. Especially, densely populated cities and dense urban centers suffer from dangerously high carbon monoxideand nitrogen oxides levels - which account for almost a quarter of the hydrocarbons emitted into our air.

Passenger vehicles and trucks are currently among the main sources of airpollution, which includes ozone deterioration, dangerous particulate matter, and smog forming emissions. The health risks of air pollution are excessively serious and poor air quality is believed to increase and promote respiratory deceases such as asthma and bronchitis, heightening the risk of life-threatening conditions like cancer. Economically, poor air quality is equally as troublesome as it sets high burdens on our healthcare system which substantialy increasing medical costs and need for care.

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half a tonne of carbon dioxide per year if they made the effort to bicycle rather than driving.

Mmw architects has acquired assigment toward a cleaner Oslo Area. The project entails supplementing the existing trainstation of Asker municipality with a bycycle hotel. As a way to accomodate the increased demand for health solutions from bicycling, the hotel offers a closed facility where ones bycycle may be stores safely- encouraging the means for which the population may choose the bicycle rather than the car of other polluting transportation vehicles.

My responsibility in this project has involved preparing and packaging facade badged for production. This initially meant adjusting facade pattern to each facade element, ensuring a coherent meet with another badge neighbour. Here I also advised in 3d modelling for rounded and asymmetrical badges. Together with Maiken Seglem and Hallstein Guthu, I consulted in facade appearances and metal tone and coloration.

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Business De v elopment PQ fo r H e n n i n g Larse n

Since its origin in 1844, The Imperial Shipyard has played a major role in Gdansk’s as well as in Poland’s larger history. First as a key player in Gdansk’s economic rise as a power center for shipbuilding by the Baltic Coast, and later as a place playing an active role in the historic collapse of Communism and the rise of the Solidarity movement.

The Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk is located on the banks of the Martwa Wisla and Motława rivers close to the city’s historic center. The goal of the 400.000 m2 development is to reclaim the shipyard as a powerful financial and social engine building a thriving, mixed-use, inner-city neighborhood by the waterfront that is alive around the clock.

Pedestrian life and biking in the inner city Gdansk has a strong history of communities and the redevelopment of the shipyard will support the feeling of this important legacy while creating new opportunities for waterfront living, working, and recreation. The new plan is anchored by three attractive urban spaces: The Plaza, The Park, and The Dock.

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Henning Lar sen selected to develop the 400,000 m2 historical Imperial Shipyard in Gdansk. The aim is to bring new life to the old industrial site connecting it to the city center

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tribute to the place where the Gdansk Agreement was signed in 1980 as a victory for the worker’s movement. The Plaza now gives the city a new space to have market days, ice skate or go to concerts. The Park has views over the river and the city with a lush urban forest for people to enjoy outdoor life. The Dock by the waterfront makes up the heart of the new development.

It connects The Imperial Shipyard to Gdansk city center while making the waterfront accessible for people. Broad sidewalks, a large wooden bench element that doubles as flooding barrier, an urban beach and marina alongside facilities for kayaking are all part of the scheme to reclaim the Shipyard for the people.

The Imperial Shipyard master plan is developed in collaboration with A2P2 Architecture and Planning and BBGK Architekci for the owners of the Imperial Shipyard, the two Belgian developers Revive and Alides.

This is the third mayor urban development project that we have been selected for in 2018. In February, Henning Larsen won the Belfast Waterside project in Belfast, Northern Ireland and the Key West development in Brussels.

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Contribution to Henning Larse n bo o k “ T he ri g ht t o l i g ht “ Pe rso n al w ri t i n g D e pa rtment of Research & D e v e l o pme n t Sustainability He nn ing Larsen Architects

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he façade, as a building component, is now more relevant than ever. New European building regulations, in effect from 2015, are once again prompting higher facade efficiency and emphasis on recycling and disassembly in response to excessive waste disposals.

Construction and demolition waste Important aspects, which needs to be addressed, are implications from “construction and demolition” waste. In some cities, obsolescence and deterioration of building facades represent as much as 40% of the total waste stream. Moreover, existing façade systems are if recycled, restructured, where such constructional interventions often are replaced with newer but lesser performative components -essentially deteriorating the quality of the indoor environments.

As a part of a new sustainable strategy, governments and municipalities are responding with regulatory policies and taxes, which address the advantages of high performance materials and recycling strategies. Many architects are likewise assuming the responsibility to improve sustainable constructions, by targeting critical design parameters, which ensure sustainable

The façade of the future The façade plays a major role in the buildings full life cycle and energy preservation. One of the conclusions argues that office-building façades account for nearly 25% of the building individual resource-consumption and equally 25% of the total environmental impact. The facade is the decisive element, which separates the outdoor and indoor climate - a separation, which is the fundamental premise for the sustainable environment. In the aim toward a CO2-neutral society, architects are increasingly aiming for holistic approaches. Designing for disassembly of façade components can prolong building service age – supporting and supplementing current energy proposals.

Three terms form a joint strategy for the future design of façades; recycling, upcycling and disassembly. Recycling describes the reuse of building materials; upcycling handles the conversion of, or what was previously considered waste or of low value and disassembly allows the deconstruction of building components, with the purpose to replace damaged parts, or for material extraction with the intention of recycling.

Architect and Ph.D. student at KADK Pelle Munch- Petersen, studies in which ways designing for disassembly may facilitate a new paradigm for the façade of the future. Its goal is to map the DNA of the façade, examining the particular material characteristics, technical building joints and configurations, of which an optimization of these prolongs the building service age. The project forms the foundation for which strategic guidelines may be used to improve potentials for building deconstruction, and in which way these procure long-term investments for the environment and the client.

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ncorporating sustainability into building processes has never been more important.

According to The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), buildings now account for more than 40% of the overall global energy consumption, and almost an equal 40% of the overall CO2 emissions. While buildings hold a significant share in the environmental discourse, they themselves bear the direct potential to reduce the environmental impact. Daylight in buildings has today become one of the most essential design-parameters of which buildings can meet the sustainable agenda – However, the claim to induce abundant daylight shows to have somewhat compromising results for the quality of daylight in our indoor environments.

Energy preservation As we are experiencing vastly growing urbanities, the pressure to sustain proficient energy consumptions is becoming increasingly profuse.

The emphasis is on sustainable buildings, which pose a minimum impact on the environment.

New European energy initiatives are sanctioning abundant and even daylight distributions, as a way to reduce energy emissions from heating, cooling and artificial lighting - where electric lighting alone consumes more than 19% of the global electricity.

Despite the environmental benefits, the occurrence of excessive daylight in buildings shows to have prolific consequences for the quality of daylight. The new Danish building regulation, BR15, promotes standardized daylight factors, which assigns fixed and even daylight distributions as the basic premise for good indoor environments. New knowledge in learning and social sustainability however proclaims relevant and varying daylight as an evident protagonist for academically and behaviorally stimulating indoor environments.

The new daylight provisions are with good intent, an estimation and suggestion for such acceptable and safe indoor environments. They act as a quantitative parameter for sufficient daylight entering the space, yet they fall short in assessing qualitative parameters, such as human preferences and behavioral reactions to daylight. Veitch et al emphasizes that behavioral outcomes comes from much more than the mere quantity of light, but equally from the visual perception of daylight. He argues that qualities such as color, shadow and variability of light are essential for the perceptual experience – and inevitably essential for our wellbeing and performance rates.

What we see today, is a radical change in learning and office environments. Learning paradigms have shifted to settings that are more mobile, and offices are progressively offering new dynamic settings. Studies show that contrast-filled spaces are promoting academic results and enhancing task performances – evidently prolonging attentiveness and decreasing absenteeism. Yet, varying daylight is not part of the regulatory memo. The newly inaugurated standards simply refer to one single daylight metric – however are in no way sufficient in evaluating qualitative measures.

Suggestions for future provisions Architects are suggesting a broader understanding of daylight quality - and how energy provisions may support it. The requirements should encompass all human needs – while sustaining the economic and environmental agenda. Researchers are identifying these qualities as a significant part of the new sustainable innovation.

Sustainable innovations must expand beyond the environmental agenda and equally support psychological and behavioral needs. It is critically important to include more than mere numbers and data in determining daylight levels in indoor climates. We cannot appropriate common daylight levels for every purpose - because they are of course conditionally different.

Daylight levels must rather be appropriated its specific purpose, whether it is for concentration and contemplation or for activity and social encounter. Whether a quantitative or qualitative measure, both together, must act as one coherent solution - explicitly essential for the viability of our future.

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The environmental imprint The problem of non-biodegradable and hazardous waste is a continuous issue in most countries. The rapid industrial development and increase in construction, has led to the extensive accumulation of solid waste and is today among the most damaging factors for our environment. Such amounts of debris containing concrete, metals, glass, plastics, wood, asphalt, bricks etc., pollute both land and air because it is either deposited in landfills or left un-salvaged and broken down. The impacts of waste accumulation is unarguably one of the most economic and urban atrophies, not to mention immensely health inflicting for urban citizens.

buildings through methods of disassembly. The ambition is to shift the emphasis from the act of constructional creation, toward an equal focus on the full life cycle of the building, through the new façade paradigm – designing for disassembly.

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Thank you for taking the time to read my portfolio.

Please feel free to contact me by mail or phone for further questions on my projects or other.

For any inquiries regarding projects, internship or personal matters kindly contact :

Former tutor - BA Claudia Carbone +45 8936 0305 email: cc@aarch.dk Teaching Associate Professor Arkitektskolen Aarhus Former tutor - MA Runa Johannessen r joh@kadk.dk Teaching Associate Professor The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, KADK Former office employer / mmw architects Magne Magler Wiggen (+47) 22 17 34 40 email: magne@mmw.no CEO mmw architects Former office employer / Henning Larsen Architects Frida Ferdinand +45 8233 3077 email: frf@henninglarsen.com Director of Business Development & Marketing Henning Larsen Architects

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