Architecture Portfolio by Daniella Persson by Daniella Persson

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Da n iella P e rsson +45 53 16 70 33 daniella.persson@gmx.com dap-architecture.com Rue Saint-Placide 48 75006 Paris, France

Premiere Pro Rhino Sketch up Autocad Maxwell Render

2014

Indesign

Danish Architects’ Association, Copenhagen Denmark – Ambassador

2012

Illustrator

Wo rk E x p e rie n c e

White Architects, Gothenburg, Sweden – internship

2012

Photoshop

Aiditects, Denmark, Copenhagen – founder

Rahel Belatchew Architecture, Stockholm, Sweden – internship

3D Studio Max

Wo rk shops "Hydra“ by Cort Ross Dinesen "Architectural photography” by Erieta Attali “Tensegrity structures” by 3xn, “Idea+square=origami” by Robert Lang “Material and its characteristics" by Kasper Jørgensen

Aiditects is an organisation with the purpose of establishing necessary architectural functions in underdeveloped countries specialized in the fields of conceptual ideas, visualization and modelling

2013 2012

Utsiktsberget, restricted competition, 2nd prize

2011

Our green space project, publication 2011

White Architects White Architects

selected project for publication in the yearly Royal Danish Academy Magazine KA11

E d u c a t io n 2012 - 2014

Swedish – mother tongue English – fluently spoken and written Danish – fluently spoken and written Norwegian – fluently spoken French – conversational

specialized in the fields of architectural competitions for larger housing complexes, interior design and architectural concepts.

Deregårdsentrén, restricted competition, shared 1st prize

2009 - 2012

L a n g uages

Representative for the students of The Danish Royal Academy for fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation

Co mp e t it io n a n d P u b lic a t io n

V-ray Microsoft Office

The following portfolio is a brief selection of my work from my education. I hope that through this selection of work you understand my instinctive creativity in the design process to conceive spaces which both evoke a sense of place but push the boundaries of technology. Please don't hesistate to contact me. Thank you!

2009

C o mputer Ski l l s

I see architecture as a spectra of endless possibilities to add value both socially and environmentally. Many of the projects I have done embrace the artistic aspect of architecture, which manifest an emphasis on exemplary proposal-making and new strategies for future architecture. My aim is to expand my knowledge of the discipline and mesh varying architectural languages to overcome limitations imposed.

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation __“Architecture, Space and Form”

| cand.arch (MAA)

Conducts its project work based on studies of the artistic aspects of architecture, with an emphasis on ideal and exemplary proposal-making, which suggests new strategies for the future practice of the profession. Special competencies: Architectural theory, philosophy, and artistic development work.

__“Architecture, experiment and technology”

| ba.arch

vPrimary field of interest is the specific area, which new information and net technologies create, in connection with the development of new processual and material techniques. Based on a personal, artistic statement and analytical-historical overview, the design process is integrated into the field of study by means of digital tools and new techniques. Special competencies: Information technology, modeling, and material- and construction morphology

2001- 2006- 2007- 20082004 2007 2008 2009

Education co n t. Vera, School for Arts and Design, Architecture and Design programme, Denmark, Copenhagen

Design and modelling of objects and buildings that surround us in the everyday life, idea generation and research.

Folkuniversitetet, School of Arts Stockholm, Sweden

Science of classic art techniques within painting/drawing, sculpturing and print pressing.

Medborgarskolan, School of Interior Design Stockholm, Sweden Interior design conceptualization and transformation Swedish Gymnasiet (Upper Secondary School), Danderyds Gymnasium, Stockholm, Sweden Specially designed Social science programme with International Economy

2013

Kwa Mathias, Tanzania Aiditects research for the establishment of a school and childrens center - masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program Paris, France Organical motion - masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program

2012

London, England Inspirational trip and study of city development and planning - White Architects Istanbul, Turkey Architectural photography in historical aspects - bachelor programme

2011

Tokyo/Kyoto/Naoshima, Japan The Ruhr District, Germany

2009 2010

Ar chi tectu ra l rese a rch trave ls

Helsinki, Finland Study trip with the main focus on the work by Alvar Aalto and functionalism - bachelor programme Berlin, Germany Research of architecture derived as a result of history, contemporary designs - bachelor programme Buenos Aires, Argentina

Explorational trip with the emphasis on contemporary architecture and cultural traditions - bachelor programme Research of a major industrial area and individual Hanseatic cities - bachelor programme

The study of urban planning/development and inspirational field tripsfor the study of Le Corbusier - bachelor programme

M em ber Danish Architects' Association, Denmark, Copenhagen Swedish Association of Architects, Stockholm, Sweden

kinetic energy commercial urbanity

our [green] space

mixed use residential

01 02 WHO NEEDS ARCHITECTURE? Architecture affects how people perceive their lives, and everyone has got the right to architecture independent of their preconditions.The aesthetic functions are to play on multiple levels beyond serving basic needs, and the relation between a physical stimulus and sensory responses will emerge from it. Adding value to people and their environment will improve a local community and create a social sustainability. No matter the empirical data or degree of development on site, we can always through creativity strive to add on to the users perception. We can compose innovative objects that interact with their surroundings, allow freedom of movement, and provide a variety of experiences - a compound of innovation and tradition. My project aims to examine how these attributes can be implemented in an underdeveloped region just as in any other place in the world, where space is open for multifunctional usage such as theatrical plays, recreational workshops and assembly spaces for debate. It will work as a concept on what kind of data we can use, decompose, transform and recompose. The resulting objects keep the essence of the original place and at the same time trigger the users, through function and the arising intersected layers. The location is in Kwa Mathias, a small village in Tanzania. The project relies on the principle that culture and beauty are free; they can enter into a relation with simplicity and modesty of means or equally with wealth and an abundance of means.

TRANSFORMATION AND RECONSTRUCTION - creating social arenas in Tanzania

-THE ABSTRACT MAPPING-

Abstract, simplified situational mapping serves as an innovative supplement to basic traditional grounded theory. The first outtake is in the non-human actors, which structurally stipulate the interactions within the locus through their specific properties and requirements. The maps don’t form final analytic products, but opens up the data and interrogates them in new ways, where boundaries are open and negotiations ongoing. These characteristics are reprocessed into abstract qualities and actualities. The intention of establishing a revivification on unfamiliar territory is amongst other things to get an understanding for its attributions and the opportunities these has to offer, i.e. the interplay of rhythm, space and different dimensions.

GREEN STRUCTURE DEFINING AREAS connection between fields non-hierarchy composition of space shifting of density

DENSITY CONSTRUCTING CONNECTIONS interlacement overlap isolated areas boundaries/non boundaries

THE RELATION BETWEEN BUILDINGS structure/non structure organic constellations and composition heterogeneous scale insinuation of heterogeneous height density

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SPACE, BOUNDARIES AND DEVELOPMENT There are many kinds of negotiation in the social arenas maps. New houses and commercial shops are constantly constructed and in motion, which makes the basic social world invariably distabilized and re-constructed. New negotiations emerges from coercion to bargaining, mainly because of the new houses appearing in the space between the existing buildings, which changes the spatial conditions. There are many building projects which have started, then put on pause, because of the lack of money. This results in a lot of empty houses, and half built walls intruige as “noise” in the social arenas. It is not uncommon that a building project takes over 10 years to finish.

Precise data derived from exploration conducted on-site, with a social process analysis of the human elements specified in the village. Information about the functions of the contexture gives an idea of how the society is built up, and how people use the village in their daily lives. Private space shows boundaries constructed by the inhabitants, and public space shows the social interraction. Sensuous impressions and the complexity, dynamics and energy to be found in a city, is now perceived. The sites texture, structure, density and light has added on to our knowledge through in-depth exploration. The mapping has developed into direct information and serve at a concrete level, giving information about the actual situation with both “noise” and potentialities. Some of the information gathered will work as a supplement to the project, other information will be strained out to a point where we can work on a level where situation is no longer relevant.

There is a distinct development within the building sector, where a big addition in number of houses have appeared only over the last 3 years. Step by step the village is getting more dense. The boundaries in the social arenas are very porous and sometimes barely existent. Except from the houses surrounded by walls and closed gates, there are no social rules for whos land you may or may not step on. The space between the houses is shared, despite of that someone is actually owning the space as private ground. The limits and boundaries do not exist until you enter someones front door - this is where a certain amount of privacy starts, but it is still not comparable to the western Europe policy of privacy.

restaurants

A7 highway/central node/bus station offices for different organisations

VARIOUS TYPES OF HOUSES

market area new houses (2010-2013) commercial/trading

bar area

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MATERIALS LIVING STANDARS AND DIFFERENTIALS. Except from the evident fact that new homes and commercial buildings are being frequently constructed in the area, there is also an indication of a high demand within the building sector - a lot of shops producing and selling building material and components are equally distributed along the shopping street. The materials are locally produced which makes it relatively cheap to buy, and the transport distances are often short. The production of these materials have no significant impact on nature. These factors make this sector highly ranked in the field of sustainability.

The living situation highly differs within a field of 5-7 houses. The different types of houses clearly shows a significant inequality in economical status. The houses within a smaller block varies widely in size, use of materials and security. Most houses are not long-lasting constructions, but seems to serve as temporarily shelter, until there is money to re-construct and make proper walls, floor and roofing. Some houses are made out of conrcrete cast in place or out of concrete blocks. These houses often have proper doors, windows (without glass), and sometimes even a wall surrounding the home to protect during the night. Electricity makes the living easier, and the toilet bowl attached to the floor can even be made out of porcelain. This is an example of a high living standard in Kwa Mathias, although not the most common one.

Material waste is very common in the village. There are for instance piles of wood, car tires and concrete blocks laying in the area. This material waste either continues to lie around as “noise” in the negative spaces between houses, or gets re-used by people who can’t afford buying material themselves. They use the material waste for making a shelter that also serves as a home. The tires found as waste are disposed due to unusability. These are often re-used for practical purposes, for example serving as weight on patched metal roofing. The roof will otherwise most likely blow off, since it is not properly attached. Sometimes the tires are also use as border markers for owned land.

An example as in contrast to the former, are the constructions made out of large “sticks”, where the holes in its construction are filled with mud. These kind of houses often don’t even have doors, no proper roof or casted floor. Electricity is an absent luxury. Water and toilet supplies are scares, where the toilet often serves as a hole in the ground outside, with surrounding walls made out of straw for privacy reasons. The construction of these houses are extremely dangerous, with the risk of collapsing.

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transformation & reconstruction

universal

tilt [have a seat]

room for nature

public space

commerical rurality

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Through a veil of coloured layers, which reflect back on the abstract situational mapping, a new dimension of density appears. The veil enters the site with its own interpretation. The drawing becomes a stronger in its characteristics, where the lines have a different significance than before. The density varies and at some points dissolves completely. The possibilities change. New spatialities and interractions arise.

The most common materials used and for sale in Kwa Mathias is concrete cast on site, pre-fabricated concrete blocks in different size and shapes, wooden boards and forged window frames of iron.

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Textural, simplified models with imprints from our produced drawing. Different compositions and assemblages generate new connections and spatialities. Through overlapping, new spaces arise within another. The single objects put together, show different possibilities to communicate multiple situations. We can decide whether to move within the field of objects, wander in the negative space in between them, or focus on one selected spot.

TRANSFORMATION AND RECONSTRUCTION

-THE SKETCHING AND MODELLING-

Sketching on a chosen site. The lines are based on actual data around the site, where new added lines imagine new routes and intersections. The lines add a new dimension to the drawing, where they span out over an empty space. A precision of a specific selection of lines constructs new form, space and directions. Density, openness and meeting points emerge. The simple line tells us about limits and possibilities of variation. A history is created on both sides of each line.

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A composed structure and assembly of several units. Additional spatialities arise. A variety of space to wander within, where we can follow our own natural route. A fusion of the objects creates new potential for further development of different directions and layers.

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The comprehension of a larger context. The structure of the village consisting of several units are at play. The generated model and the exisiting buildings relate each other. New spatialities which constitute of positive and negative space are evoked. Passages meander between the buildings. The new spatial dimensions decide where the pedestrian may pass, and in the same time keeps the possibility open to travel from a to b in the easiest, orderly way. There is a dynamic and energy in form of a direction that may give directory, but meanwhile keeps the option of choice open.

Destruction and reconstruction. A clarification and a precise decision of dimensions, where the modules are composed to communicate diverse interconnecting relations.

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- creating social arenas in Tanzania MERCHANT AND TRADING The preponderance of shops, bars and markets are established along the big main road crossing the A7 highway and along the old highway. These are mostly owned by the locals in Kwa Mathias. Many people working in the village, take their merchandises they produced in their own home to sell along these roads, others owns a small shop providing mainly basic products or services. Along these big roads there is a constant flow of pedestrians and vehicles.

INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRASH The main character of the roads, regardless bigger roads for vechicles or paths, is that they are remarkably bad condition. The roads are seldom, or never, maintained, which leads to the traffic of vehicles being redirected by the users own discretion. Durin rain season, this holes gets filled with water, which also leads to a redirection of pedestrian.

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Deconstruction. A reconstruction of the site, constructed by pixels. Pieces of a puzzle displays a portrait with on-going negotiation between space and object. The pixels are shaped by the density and connections in the concerned area. The transformation creates new spatialities where the eyes wander around the new grid. The identity is almost unrecognizable, but at the same time holds on to its original nature and characteristics.

In many cases, to create more comfort walking zones, the uneveness in paths gets filled up with bags consisting of sand or other soft content that may facilitate the passage.

Even though most of the houses along the big roads of Kwa Mathias are intended for shops, many parts of these houses are standing as empty pockets - the cause of this is simply because the trade of goods is not sufficient enough to make the businesses go around, which leads to bankruptcy. The overall products or services provided along the shopping street are often to be found at numerous other places in the village - the range of merchandise does not vary much and the competition for making your business survive is hard.

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Except from bags and objects with the purpose of making the pedestrians route more comfortable, the paths and roads are equally scattered with trash. The reason is that there exist no trash cans, and trash is freely thrown out in the nature.

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-THE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGA plan drawing that consists of several mutually dependent parts within a static relationship. They reflect back on the empty walls intruiging the village, and at the same time allow freedom of movement and usage, and provide a variety of experiences. The boundaries are porous and the nature is incorporated. They are related to the village by holding on to the investigated essence. 4

Imprints engaging activity fields

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The objects are joined to a compositional context where the users may incorporate the surroundings as they please. There are no leading paths from the surroundings - these are created by the users through time. The functions are open for a variation of activities, though some of them are more specific than others. The multi-culture, creativity and debate amongst the people may choose their stage and scenery.

1. Theatre for performance 2. Workshop for creating props out of waste material found in the village 3. Space for debate 4. Exhibition, information and performance 5. Water well

passthrough and tempo

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Porouse boundaries that intergrate nature and light

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Theatrical stage where the play between construction and light frames the scene

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kinetic energy center for urban culture parkour, street art and performance Copenhagen | Denmark | fifth year, autumn 2013

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object possesses energy due its motion.

D e f i n i t i o n â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ki n e ti c Energyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; : the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its stated velocity. In classical mechanics, its a non-rotating object of mass travelling at a speed. Kinetic energy might convert into potential energy, and vice versa.

Drawn organism infiltrating the environment and change its phenotype. The all-over structure could be seen as arteries, and a pulse emerges regularly, like frequencies or heartbeats. This could be seen as potential energy, or stored energy, evolving into kinetic energy.

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street art

art installations

performance

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transportation

parkour

urban archive

exhibition

wc/wardrobe

exhibition

conference/ workshop

administration

Ingerslevs street

exhibtion

Enghave street wc/wardrobe

exhibtion

movie/ workshop

exhibition/ café wc shop

café/ kitchen

exhibition/ café

outdoor field/ parkous

railway area

plan 0

Ingerslevs street outdoor area/ train access

studios/ workshop

concert hall/ street are

conference/ workshop

underground skate park

Enghave street changing rooms

kitchen

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CafĂŠ

conference

street/train exhibition outdoor field/ parkous

analogue production

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shop

workshops

gallery

concerts

Open Stage seminars poetry slams

Parkour urban library plan -1

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let yourself just be

congeniality

materials reinterpretation

proportions limits invites details

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tilt [have a seat] food market for the upcoming Carlsberg area Copenhagen | Denmark | third year, autumn 2011

The Carlsberg industrial area is requested to be transformed into a more dense and vibrant urban quarter, where there will be focus on social sustainability, urban space and urban life. The siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history and location also presents a clear opportunity to create a new quarter which will arouse international attention and attract visitors from different cultures. This food market is a location that creates opportunity for people, cultures and opposites to meet in a tense atmosphere. It will reflect the social diversity of the neightbourhood, and create opportunities for social interaction and relaxation. There will be an exchange with more lively, recreational rooms and areas to just sit and have a break. The building is in dialogue with the streets by multiple entrances and angles. The building is active from early morning to late at night, but with different areas opened depending on the hour- It adaps to the change of the needs among the people in an urban quarter. The main function is the market halls, which tells about the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s content and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impact on the urban social life. It is active, open and aimed at offering a dialogue with the passers-by in this area. This market hall is articulated particularly in relation to the rest of the building. These areas are alive with its on-going activity all around, the varieties of selection, smell, the sense of a common interest among the visitors and the opportunity to spend the time you need - it offers the visitor the choice of a quick pass-through or a longer sensuous stroll.

light studies concept [connections and negotiations] and light studies

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The building offers an exchange between more active rooms and relaxing areas - the visitor have the possibility to bring with them the food they bought from the market, and to choose the atmosphere they desire during their meal, where these rooms will put emphasis on different qualities of natural light. The rooms will have certain specifications to meet the need of the East visitor or a particular goal: a vibrant hall for strollers, stairs to sit and have a meal while observing the activities around you, or a more relaxing private rooms for those who want a more peaceful experience

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storage/ service ready-to-gofood

WC/ cleaning outdoor market wine and beer cellar cafĂŠ

office/ administration

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market

outdoor market

bar

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WHO NEEDS ARCHITECTURE? Architecture affects how people perceive their lives, and everyone has got the right to architecture independent of their preconditions.The aesthetic functions are to play on multiple levels beyond serving basic needs, and the relation between a physical stimulus and sensory responses will emerge from it. Adding value to people and their environment will improve a local community and create a social sustainability. No matter the empirical data or degree of development on site, we can always through creativity strive to add on to the users perception. We can compose innovative objects that interact with their surroundings, allow freedom of movement, and provide a variety of experiences - a compound of innovation and tradition. My project aims to examine how these attributes can be implemented in an underdeveloped region just as in any other place in the world, where space is open for multifunctional usage such as theatrical plays, recreational workshops and assembly spaces for debate. It will work as a concept on what kind of data we can use, decompose, transform and recompose. The resulting objects keep the essence of the original place and at the same time trigger the users, through function and the arising intersected layers. The location is in Kwa Mathias, a small village in Tanzania. The project relies on the principle that culture and beauty are free; they can enter into a relation with simplicity and modesty of means or equally with wealth and an abundance of means.

TRANSFORMATION AND RECONSTRUCTION - creating social arenas in Tanzania

-THE ABSTRACT MAPPINGPrecise data derived from exploration conducted on-site, with a social process analysis of the human elements specified in the village. Information about the functions of the contexture gives an idea of how the society is built up, and how people use the village in their daily lives. Private space shows boundaries constructed by the inhabitants, and public space shows the social interraction. Sensuous impressions and the complexity, dynamics and energy to be found in a city, is now perceived. The sites texture, structure, density and light has added on to our knowledge through in-depth exploration. The mapping has developed into direct information and serve at a concrete level, giving information about the actual situation with both “noise” and potentialities. Some of the information gathered will work as a supplement to the project, other information will be strained out to a point where we can work on a level where situation is no longer relevant.

restaurants

A7 highway/central node/bus station offices for different organisations

GREEN STRUCTURE DEFINING AREAS connection between fields non-hierarchy composition of space shifting of density

DENSITY CONSTRUCTING CONNECTIONS interlacement overlap isolated areas boundaries/non boundaries

THE RELATION BETWEEN BUILDINGS structure/non structure organic constellations and composition heterogeneous scale insinuation of heterogeneous height density

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market area new houses (2010-2013) commercial/trading

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Destruction and reconstruction. A clarification and a precise decision of dimensions, where the modules are composed to communicate diverse interconnecting relations.

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passthrough and tempo

Imprints engaging activity fields

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negotiations

1. Theatre for performance 2. Workshop for creating props out of waste material found in the village 3. Space for debate 4. Exhibition, information and performance 5. Water well

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MATERIALS

SPACE, BOUNDARIES AND DEVELOPMENT

LIVING STANDARS AND DIFFERENTIALS.

There are many kinds of negotiation in the social arenas maps. New houses and commercial shops are constantly constructed and in motion, which makes the basic social world invariably distabilized and re-constructed. New negotiations emerges from coercion to bargaining, mainly because of the new houses appearing in the space between the existing buildings, which changes the spatial conditions. There are many building projects which have started, then put on pause, because of the lack of money. This results in a lot of empty houses, and half built walls intruige as “noise” in the social arenas. It is not uncommon that a building project takes over 10 years to finish.

Some houses are made out of conrcrete cast in place or out of concrete blocks. These houses often have proper doors, windows (without glass), and sometimes even a wall surrounding the home to protect during the night. Electricity makes the living easier, and the toilet bowl attached to the floor can even be made out of porcelain. This is an example of a high living standard in Kwa Mathias, although not the most common one.

There is a distinct development within the building sector, where a big addition in number of houses have appeared only over the last 3 years. Step by step the village is getting more dense.

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The boundaries in the social arenas are very porous and sometimes barely existent. Except from the houses surrounded by walls and closed gates, there are no social rules for whos land you may or may not step on. The space between the houses is shared, despite of that someone is actually owning the space as private ground. The limits and boundaries do not exist until you enter someones front door - this is where a certain amount of privacy starts, but it is still not comparable to the western Europe policy of privacy.

VARIOUS TYPES OF HOUSES

Except from the evident fact that new homes and commercial buildings are being frequently constructed in the area, there is also an indication of a high demand within the building sector - a lot of shops producing and selling building material and components are equally distributed along the shopping street. The materials are locally produced which makes it relatively cheap to buy, and the transport distances are often short. The production of these materials have no significant impact on nature. These factors make this sector highly ranked in the field of sustainability.

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-THE SKETCHING AND MODELLING-

The most common materials used and for sale in Kwa Mathias is concrete cast on site, pre-fabricated concrete blocks in different size and shapes, wooden boards and forged window frames of iron.

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MERCHANT AND TRADING

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INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRASH

The preponderance of shops, bars and markets are established along the big main road crossing the A7 highway and along the old highway. These are mostly owned by the locals in Kwa Mathias. Many people working in the village, take their merchandises they produced in their own home to sell along these roads, others owns a small shop providing mainly basic products or services. Along these big roads there is a constant flow of pedestrians and vehicles.

The main character of the roads, regardless bigger roads for vechicles or paths, is that they are remarkably bad condition. The roads are seldom, or never, maintained, which leads to the traffic of vehicles being redirected by the users own discretion. Durin rain season, this holes gets filled with water, which also leads to a redirection of pedestrian.

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In many cases, to create more comfort walking zones, the uneveness in paths gets filled up with bags consisting of sand or other soft content that may facilitate the passage.

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transformation& reconstruction

Theatrical stage where the play between construction and light frames the scene

Porouse boundaries that intergrate nature and light

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[BOOK] theatre, performance and handcraft enriching culture Tanzania | Kwa Mathias | fourth year, autumn 2013

our [green] space apartments and exhibition space for the Tacheles area Germany | Berlin | second year, spring 2011

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Theâ&#x20AC;&#x153;Our green spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x153; building consists of mainly two parts. A public part accessible for all the people of Berlin, and private residentials. Rather than making a traditional housing with the floors topped on each other, the building consists of volumes pushed apart which creates more space around each single apartment.

A. extended floor coating from in-

doors to outdoors, and gives a more blurred transition

B. fireplace that maybe used from

both inside the apartment and the terrace area

C. floor-to-ceiling

windows facing the courtyard and the private terrace

D. Open floor plan based on sight

lines. The functions of the common area are divided by pillars

E. screen of translucent glass

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This residential complex works to connect and be a part of three diverse areas surrounding the site - a shopping street, a residential street and a street for night life - while in the same time have itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own zone of privace. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a living where being able to feel the high pulse of the city, or be in a relaxing green private zone. The building consists of mainly two parts. A public part accessible for all the people of Berlin, and private residentials. The site is a wide open area, and gives the opportunity for making a residential structure that stretches over the site and provides the residents the green space and sunlight they need when living in the middle of a big metropolitan. The volumes of the apartments are what forms the ceiling for the public room and the workspace area, exposing the residential contexture. The public area with art exhibition and workspace is with itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s glass facade facing north, getting a natural light all day. There are also smaller openings throughout these rooms towards south, emerged by the shifted residential volumes, giving sunlight in definite areas and during a certain time of the day inten sifies the reflections of the glass material. The planning of the apartments are based on sightlines, where the common area is an open plan and the functions of the room are divided only by pillars. Entering this room you are facing a view of green surroundings. Its floor-to-ceiling windows open up throughout the whole facade facing the courtyard and the private terrace, in the latter creating an extension of the inner area to the outer. These windows can also be opened so that the whole facade along the terrace is free.

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room for nature/ the transcendental walk

- retreat and artistic recreation in the Stockholm Archipelago

creative studios, temporary living & exhibition VĂ¤rmdĂś | Sweden | fifth year, spring 2014

among the treetops

secrets in the forest

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forest to air

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mountain to water

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secrets in the forest fire/wind encounters reflection

on the cape

the opportunity to observe how this is created.

The location resides on a depopulated point in the Stockholm archipelago. The area lies within an open, accessible place that can work with the premises of the landscape and be conceived upon natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s indefinite temperament as inspiration - a surrounding of eternal renewal. The diversity and temporality in the environment will work as a medium for space and time, where the architectural elements in synergy with the scenery works as an exhibition in itself.

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The path for arrival serves an important role, and works as an extentional part of the concept for an all over experience. The accesses to the area are of different natures; through the forest, along the shore or from open water. A journey close to nature - a discoverable route, and overwhelming horizon, natural sound and light, or the mystique fo the forest.

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bridge

forest

new paths diagram

path parking

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car road

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new dock

mountain elevation

existing paths

enclosed pasture

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dock

main entrance

temporary living

secret entrance

photography lab

A exhibition

service/wc

exhibition

entrance from bridge way

Studio 1 natural skylight artificial light

texture isolation

m o u n t a i n

sculpture installation

B plan 1

- the expressive

exhibition

photography dark room

photography studio

mountain to water

water yard

exhibition

photography

installation art

w a t e r

workshops

art in motion

plan 0

reflection

free flow contained free flow

guided controlled

under ground

behind

in front

section A

circular water system

section B

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w a t c h i n g t h e w a t e r

The two studios architecture and embracing forest. be under constant

and the space for reflection works with the relation between the the surrounding environment; the water, the rocky slopes or the They are available all year around, since its environment will always change and act as a part of the experience- it discloses the present.

water curtain photography room

print pressing

painting

sculpturing

exhibition

The private space consists of temporary living differently situated on the islet - along the shore, on the edge of a mountain or up in tree, provided with different sightlines in the nature. These may be habited by artists working in studios or for people needing a break from the stressful city life.

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As people we often get the feeling of freedom and calmness when we spend time in nature a discoverable route, an overwhelming horizon, natural light and sound, a mystique of the forest, an endless ocean or just an open sky. Here our sensory impressions rarely requires our immediate attention, as compared with the urban environment, thus gives us more space for personal reflection. space that functions as a retreat for spiritual engagement, recreation in nature and a walk with a scenery of eternal change.

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walk out to the treetops

A sanctuary is in its original meaning a sacred place. By modernization of the Swedish society the selection of what is sacred for oneself has become more individual and the term “sanctuary” has been extended as a definition for a place working as a source of relief and comfort, free from hardship.

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Sweden is often categorized as one of the most secularized and postmodern countries in the world. There is an increasing interest in a more broadly defined supernatural realm, and the majority of the people have some sort of belief in a spiritual dimension or a “force of life”. Experiences and events that evoke transcendent meaning are handled through an individually constructed way. When looking for consolidation it has rather become more natural with pursuance in a self-selected “safe place” or activity, and the collective base for retreat and reconciliation is no longer very common.

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In the forest different kind of installation art is exhibited, sometimes along the path, sometimes somewhere hidden and found by exploration.

What in this case would be defined as a personal “sanctuary” would be aspace where to go when needing a break from the everyday stress we are exposed to, get inspiration from creative work at a place close to nature, that provides the opportunity for reflection and has a soothing influence on our lives.

on the cape

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