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INDEX RESUMÉ Projects and private competitions Education and skills Exhibitions and publications Programs and languages Contact info HAMMERSHUS VISTITOR CENTRE Arkitema Architects Collaborators - Transformlab, Buro Happold Visitor Centre Bornholm, Denmark
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BELLAHØJ HOUSING REJUVENATION Project manager, Arkitema Architects Collaborators - Alectia Engineers, Transformlab Revitalizing heritage listed 60’s housing. Bellahøj, Denmark
VAGNVERKSTADEN Arkitema Architects Collaborators - Annahem Establishing a Faculty of Sports in closed factory. Malmø, Sweden
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THESIS PROJECT - HANSEN & HANSSTED Investigation into, and design departing from, spatial and aestetical motifs of the late danish municipal architect Hans Christian Hansen Copenhagen, Denmark
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BALANCITY - WAW World Architecture Workshop 2009 Collaborators - Satoshi Marimoto, Selene Wong, Marie Chapuy, Zhang Xue, Liu Tao Reimagining waterfront living Lian Yun Gang, China
THE CONVERTED SPACE Bachelor Project Reprogramming and redevelopment of an industrial building Copenhagen, Denmark
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A CAMPING SITE ON THE CITY’S EDGE 2. semester assignment - 2nd year A camping site in a wildlife preserve Klampenborg, Denmark
THE UNFOLDED SPACE 1st semester assignment - 1st year A spatial exploration of drawings and models
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CV WORK February 2013 – Architect Cand. Arch at Arkitema Architects, Copenhagen Working in the competitions and development department, on projects on all scales and types, from early concept development, to finished competition proposal, both in groups and alone. Co-creator of the creative collective Samling Writing, discussing and making architecture, primalrily through open competitons. Fall 2011- fall 2012 Student assistant at StudioBaki, Copenhagen Helping with concept development and construction drawings for private villas in Copenhagen, Fall 2010/Spring 2011 Internship Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter One of the most renowned studios in Denmark, developing competitions for projects on all scales. VOLUNTEER Akademisk arkitektforening, lokalledelsen København Prat of a 10-person strong elected body, helping put architecture on the political and social agenda.
1e Torsdag, Spring 2013 - present Co-organizer of 1e Torsdag, a monthly after-work event, with three short lectures on a theme followed by networking, usually attended by 100-150 people. Roskilde Music Festival, June 2012 Designing and building the stand for the Danish Independent Record Labels (DUP) EDUCATION Jan 2013 - Master in Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK). A degree from the Department of Heritage, Transformation and Restoration (KTR) , focusing on concept development and redevelop- ment in all scales, drawing on existing works of architecture. Fall 2009 Exchange programme at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing Spring 2009 BA from dept 5, KADK
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SELECT PROJECTS WITH ARKITEMA ARCHITECTS Master plan and design manual for Hovås, Sweden, Feb - April 2013, 1st prize
Energy renovation and transformation, Riddersborgparken, Nakskov, Denmark, April–May 2013, 1st prize Energy renovation of Hjortegården, Herlev, June 2013 Transformation of a factory to a Faculty of Sports, Varvstaden, Malmø, 1st prize Visitor Centre Hammershus, Bornholm, 1st prize Published in: - Danish Arkitekten no. 2, 2014 - Korean C3, no. 355, 2014. Canaltown Kristiansand, Kristiansand, Norway, December 2013 Villa Nielsen, Sketch project, Copenhagen, Jan 2014 Sørenga Housing, Lørenskog Norway, April 2014, Bellahøj, An icon in Copenhagen, Project manager, Feb-April 2014 University of Oslo, Life sciences building, April – June 2014 Bella Area, Housing, Copenhagen, July - August 2014 Sandnes Town Hall, Honorable mention, January 2015
Slagelse Hospital, Phase II Extension, Slagelse, March - June 2015 PRIVATE COMPETITIONS Won - Housing Fund Kuben prize competition on energy optimization of 60’s and 70’s architecture, with a project on Arne Jacobsen’s Rødovre Town Hall, 2012. - World Architecture Workshop, Post Waterfront City, Lianyungang, China, 2009 Shortlisted/Honorable mentions - Orangerie for Gl. Holtegaard, January 2015 (with Samling) - Global Architecture Graduate Awards, Architectural Review, 2013 - New York City AIDS Memorial Competition, Architizer, 2012, (with Samling) - 3 Dimensional Front, anonymous.d, 2012, (with Samling) SCHOLARSHIPS Dreyer Foundation spring 2009 and fall 2013
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CV PUBLICATIONS AR.com, Winter 2014 Article on Professor Christoffer Harlang, our department and a select set of students: http://www.architectural-review.com/academia/t he-danish-royal-academy-of-fine-arts/8660898.article Arkitekten, Arkitektens forlag, August 2013 The official Danish trade publication. Cover and fifteen page spreads on my thesis project, the thought behind it, and Hans Christian Hansen, the architect it centered on. Architectural Review, October 2013 A two page spread presenting my thesis project as part of the shortlist for their Global Architecture Graduate Awards. “Metode”, KADK, Winter 2013 An instruction manual to the values and work methods at the KTR- department. Drawings as part of a select few illustratons. Lost And Found, KADK, 2013 A publication promoting the KTR-department at Karch, 289 pages.
Subtilitas.com Post on our Roskilde Music Festival stand.
EXHIBITIONS Afsæt/Impetus , Nov-Dec 2013 14 selected thesis’ works from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation 2013,
Living: Frontiers of Architecture III-IV, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Fall 2011. A redeveloped version of the Danner School House project with Dorte Mandrup.
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PROGRAMS
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HAMMERSHUS VISITOR CENTRE A new visitor center for Hammershus Castle, one of Denmark’s most well known landmarks. The centre is placed inside a sope opposite the castle, offering unobstructed views from within, and from the roof, wich doubles as a sight-seeing platform.To keep the spotlight on the castle, the low-profile visitor center will be integrated into the terrain to provide stunning views of the 13th century ruin, even when the centre is closed. The largest medieval castle in Northern Europe, Hammershus has become a major tourist destination on Bornholm, the Danish Island in the Baltic Sea. The building is made up of a simple material palette: clear glass windows, wooden floors and locally sourced, thick concrete walls. Conceptually, all secondary funtions are placed in the back of the building, in the hillside, to give all primary functions clear views to the ruin. The $8.2 million proposed visitor center is expected to accommodate 500,000 visitors annually and will also house an exhibition, cafe, and educational rooms.
Site plan showing the relationship between visitor centre, and ruin Exterior view with the Hammershus ruins in the background 1
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Interior view showing the cafĂŠ, with the Hammershus ruins in the background Section showing the relationship between visitor centre and the landscape Plan showing the internal layout, 1:400 Axonometric diagrams explaining the structural concept 3
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TRANSFORMING BELLAHØJ Bellahøj, north of Copenhagen, is a social-democratic landmark. Built in the 1940’s, the houses are the first Danish example of industrial building techniques, meant to promote the welfare state through low-cost, highquality housing after WWII. Today, the area is in a state of disrepair, and inhabitants feel insecure and disconnected. Complicating matters, the estates were to be Grade A listed, unless a better option could be found through an invited competition. Our proposal included a thorough analysis of the estates and the area, to determine the delicate balance between preservation and change. We proposed tearing down existing facade panels, as repairs would be inefficient and prohibitively costly, and replcing them with a new and technologically superior insulated concrete cladding with the same wall thickness. The use of glue-mounted insulation and stainless steel mounting brackets, would eliminate corrosion cracking, which had been a major problem until now. The new facade panels could be cast to mach the texture and patterns of the old facade, making the intervention as aesthetically minimal as possible. The original vertical balcony-bands, were opened with bigger glazed areas, to let more light into the apartments, and to provide passive surveillance of the green areas between the estates. The green areas were to be activated by a landscape plan with three hierarchical elements: The arterial roads for cars and service traffic, the main thoroughfare for cyclists and pedestrians and activity spots along the thoroughfare and next to entrances, were inhabitants could meet other inhabitants of their own, or neighbouring, buildings. The proposal would have resulted in healthier, more modern apartments, in an active park, and would have given the Bellahøj estates a new and significantly prolonged life and status.
Diagram explaining the degrees of intervention, from conservation to remodelling. Exterior view of the remodelled Bellahøj estates. 5
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Interior view of an existing and remodelled living room. Elevation 1 from the remodelled FSB-estate, 1:400 Elevation detail 1 from the remodelled FSB estate., plan, elevation, section, 1:100 Elevation 1I from the remodelled AKB-estate, 1:400 Elevation detail I1 from the remodelled AKB estate., plan, elevation, section, 1:100 Landscape plan with the reinterpreted “towers in the park”-concept, 1:4000 Exterior view of entrance the remodelled AKB Bellahøj estate.
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VAGNSVERKSTADEN Our proposal for the new Facultty of Sports Science for Malmö University College. The faculty is the first development in the area, but will soon be surrounded by new housing, institutions and schools. The faculty compises a new addition, inserted into an old tramcar-factory on the harbor. The old facade form 1912, is treated as a skin that demarcateds the site, but not the building. The new faculty is contained within the old facade, but is pulled back in places, to create ”activitypockets” where the local inhabitants can co-mingle with the students and faculty. This makes it possible to keep the double- and triple high glazing uninterrupted, and to keep a semblance of the spatial qualities of the old industrial halls. The new faculty will include a multi sports hall, space for gymnastics, research labs and offices. The multi sports hall is conceptually and physically the heart of the building, and all rooms of the building have visual contact to the activities within. The vision for Malmö University College, Faculty of Sports Sciences, is to create optimally functional and flexible spaces for students, faculty and researchers to explore the physical and theoretical sides of sports science.
Axonometric view of the school Exterior view of the public plaza in front of the school 9
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Axonometric view of the “activity lagoons” dispersed around the school Interior view of the lobby, with views to the sports hall. Exterior view of the entrance and an “activity lagoon”, with a view to the sports hall. Elevation northern facade, 1:800 Section trough the sports hall and lobby,:1:300 11
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THESIS PROJECT: HANSEN & HANSSTED In the west, our generation of architects is the first which will primarily be involved in transformation and refurbishment of already built environment. In Denmark, as in much of Europe, new standards for energy efficiency demands a new look at our post-war built environment.This radically new condition requires a restructured framework, where new work springs form old, and intervention follows understanding. It will be increasingly important for young architects to understand their predecessors, in order to reimagine this part of our collective history. My final postgraduate project is a meta-project in the cultural heritage field. By examining, photographing, digitalizing, analyzing and interpreting selected works by Hans Christian Hansen (1901-79) my favorite Danish post-WW2 architect, I tried to look at cultural heritage in a new way. Hansen was influential in Copenhagen in his time, but little archival material exists nowadays. By going beyond the built, I tried to examine the themes which form the basis for his work, and - by extension - that of his contemporaries. By looking at his thoughts, rather than his finished work, I was able to build an addition to one of his schools, which reinterprets the old, in a modern way. In the process, I gathered a knowledge-bank of post war architecture, and a great deal of personal architectural themes to draw upon in future work. Forty years after Hansen’s death, I took up his themes anew, and continued where he left off. That’s also a kind of conservationist approach.
Exterior view of southern side of the building Site plan with the existing school to the south-west, and the additon to the north-east 13
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Interior view the southern hallway Axonometric studies of circulation as part of the structural system. 15
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Plan 1:50 Ungdoms- og fritidsklub, samt samlingssal Stueplan
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Opstalt 1:50 Ungdoms- og fritidsklub, samt samlingssal Sydfacade
Interior view though the facade towards the old school Plan, section, elevation of the northern part of the building Section and elevation (detail) 1:20 17
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Model photo collage showing the principle of the animated section Model drawing detailing animation Elevation and cross-section though the facade towards the old school 1:100 Exploded axonometric showing the four elements of Hansen’s spatial configuraion. Model photo collage showing the secound principle of the animated section 19
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WAW 2009: LIANYUNGANG BALANCITY
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平衡的城市
该提案以动态的视野审视人与水的关系，并利用 现有湿地，中间立场，但在生态潜力丰富
RMIT (Australia), Tohoku and Miyaki University (Japan) ENSAM (France) was invited to the 2009 WAW in Lian Yun Gang (China), which focused on post-waterfront living. The site was the moderately sized city of Lian Yun Gang, final destination of the new cross-continental freight-railway connecting Europe (Rotterdam) and China (LYG). As the railroad opens, the city is expected to grow by more than 100% over the next 20 years, hoping to turn into an oxymoron; an attractive container hub. In these times of rising sealevels, it seems counter-intuitive to build a metropolis by the sea. We have tried to accomodate that, by dividing our city plan into three parts; freshwater/land, marshlands, and seawater/islands. - On land, freshwater from the inland will be led through canals, providing floodcontrol, and facilitating water transport and water features in the city. - The marshlands will work as a buffer, cleansing the city´s wastewater, and against seawater overflow. Here, the line between land and water is blurred, as buldings seldom stand in the water. -The islands will be built on reclaimed land, in shallow waters. Here we introduce the idea of balanced reclamation; islands built with the soil we dig out between them, negating the need for long distance soil replacement. Here, the border between land and water is distinct, both in height and materiality. As the sea levels rise, parts of the marshlands will be zoned out to islands, as part of the main land gets turned into marshland, and so, the city adapts over time.
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Diagrams showing the concept of balanced land reclamation, waterfront maximation and massing concept Site plan collages of the existing situation, and the proposal 22
THE CONVERTED SPACE Bachelor project The site for this assignment was one of the former brewery buildings of Carlsberg Breweries in the western part of Copenhagen. The whole area is being transformed into a new urban neighbourhood. Our assignment was to make a lobby/reception room that would connect a planned railway station, our building, and the rest of the Carlsberg site. Using Guiliani Hönger Architects´ Hochschule Sihlhof in Zürich as my inspiration, I tried to bring light and a sense of wonder to the massive concrete building. By making a series of protruding terraces and “hidden” light-openings, the ground-bound commuter would get a sense of the scale of the building while walking through it. The light-openings would be marked by coloured tile, giving the concrete rooms different shades during the day. The different levels can be reached by “commucation-knots”. Each knot is color-tiled throughout, each knot in a different color, visually connecting the ground level and other levels. The scale of the lobby is a generous gesture, otherwise it would be dwarfed by the existing building, which now is bigger than Copenhagens safety and building code allows. By introducing this communication atrium, the whole building is broken into manageable, legal parts, whilst giving it a sense of scale and identity.
Cross- and longtitudional section of the arrival hall 23
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Diagrams showing constrution, carved space and points of light entry. Perspectives from the project Axonometric of the carved space constituting the project 25
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CAMPING ON THE CITY’S EDGE 3rd semester 1st assignment This semester was dedicated to landscape, and our assignment was to bulid a camping site, with cabins, in a forest north of Copenhagen. I wanted to try to show the constant change in both the nature of the site, and the nature of seasonal dwelling. The cabins exteriors are fitted with wooden plates that were opened and closed according to the parts of the cabin in use. Making the cabins change with time and use. When the camping site closed for the winter, so too would the cabins close up. With the plates hiding all windows and doors, they would resemble objects rather than buildings. A 1:1 scale model of a cabin. A seed waiting for spring.
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Site plan hand drawn plan exxagerating the landscape Perspective showing the site Site section showing the cabins in the landscape, under the canopy of the forest
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Axonometric showing the construction Folded axonometric showing the concept Axonometric skecth of the early concept Axonometric of the cabin in winter- and summer mode
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UNFOLDING AN INNER SPACE 1st assignment 1st semester The assignment was an introduction to the basics of architecture. A series of drawings of our own classroom, were further developed through drawings and models, to a room. The fold, of paper and space, was the principle that bound the drawings and models together. I used the assingment to explore tectonics and seriality, by setting up a simple set of rules which could turn the thin, fragile paper into complex, stable forms.
Sketches gradual development from 2d drawing to 3d model 31
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Sketches detailing development of design principles Perspective from the project Model photos of spatial and volumetric models 33
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