Léo Friedmann / Academic Portfolio
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2020 — Five years of Architecture
Contact: Léo Friedmann a → Värtavägen 66, 115 38 Stockholm t → +46 76 592 20 61 e → friedmannleo@outlook.com
The following portfolio represents a selection out of five academic years of architecture school in Paris, UmeĂĽ, and Stockholm. Through the years, I have been striving to achieve balance and relevance, between the urgent need for more flexibility, standardization, and sustainability and the everincreasing necessity for joyful and welcoming buildings that respond to their context. In the last years of my education, I have taken a stance from my early classical architecture education and opened up to the works of architects that embrace the functional aspects of details while freely considering them as a form of ornament. This, I believe, has shaped my values for the future to come as well as it has strengthened my wish to develop engaging, sustainable, human-scaled, beautiful architecture.
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Introduction 4-5 a. Thesis Project 6 – 19 Saving Erskine
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The Living-(book)Room The Culture Hall The Fishery
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c. Domestic 38 – 67 A Core and an Offset A Gable and an Infill A Portico and a Lightwell
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d. Contemplative 68 – 75 A Silent Observatory A Room for Communication
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THESIS PROJECT
Concrete is crushed
The product is brought back to being a component
New building material Tiles made of concrete
Deconstruction
Kiruna, Kv. Ortdrivaren
Inventory of the existing
Demolition planned 2024
Classification on site
Reuse catalogue
Reuse is the new normal
Addition
Växjö, Kv. Lassaskog No renovation planned
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Façade panels reuse Classification on site
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In the following chapter you will find my diploma project Saving Erskine. This thesis is an example of circular heritage architecture that makes use of reclaimed concrete elements from Ralph Erskine’s housing complex Ortdrivaren in Kiruna. These parts will form a new typology to densify another Erskine estate in Växjö.
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SAVING ERSKINE
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→ 5th year, Spring 2020 → Millions of homes → KTH Architecture School → Frida Rosenberg and Erik Stenberg participant → Léo Friedmann program → Youth Housing location → Växjö, Sweden method → Reused light concrete and cross laminated timber
→ Input This thesis is the story of two housing projects by architect Ralph Erskine: Lassaskog in Växjö (1954) and Ortdrivaren in Kiruna (1962). Despite their architectural and historical significance, these two buildings are threatened today: Ortdrivaren will be demolished and Lassaskog will be hastily densified. → Vision As a reaction to these threats, I proposed to deconstruct Ortdrivaren and reuse it in Växjö. Thereon, student housing made of repurposed elements from Kiruna was added to the Lassaskog estate. My objective for this project was to find a methodology for adapting post-war housing estates and for conducting a circular architecture project. → Outcome The conclusion of this thesis is the necessity of adaptation for a general method of reuse to be able to adress issues of preservation.
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I believe this project has illustrated not only one but two examples of practice. On the one hand, it has shown a way of design methodology for reuse and circularity in architecture. On the other hand, it has exemplified a few principles on how to adapt the postwar block tower typology for growing urban areas. My hopes with this proposal is rather to provoke a discussion on these two Ralph Erskine estates that deserve our attention as well as an alternative future.
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Site Plan — Between suburb and town, a transition area 0 10
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THESIS PROJECT Saving Erskine
A. Recycled Concrete tiles — Can be designed and used throughout the project.
Cast In-Situ Concrete Aggregate — This is not unique to the site and could be sourced locally around the Växjö Area
B. New Concrete — This can be used for foundation work.
Untreated balcony wooden boards
A three-level reuse method — The Ingredient Reuse
Board-formed concrete
Rough Concrete
Yellow board concrete
Yellow Render
Wood Painted Concrete
A three-level reuse method — The Dematerialized Reuse
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Symbolistic elements — They bear the identity of the original building but their condition and their amount argue for a wider reuse.
Modular elements in large quantity — Easily reconfigurable and reusable. Their collection requires labour but their number offers a large scale of potentials.
A three-level reuse method — The Elements’ Reuse
Graphic Visualisation — Cataloging the reusable elements
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THESIS PROJECT Saving Erskine
Horizontal 9 — Reuse Data
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Façade Panel
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Light concrete
Site availability
220 units
Vertical 3 — Reuse Data Dimensions
h270,w50,d8cm
Color/surface
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Site availability Façade View — Reuse panel composition
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Detail Section — Kitchen window bench
210 mm reused panel 170 mm insulation on studs 120 mm CLT wall 13-30 mm plaster Plinted technical floor
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Entrance Hall Bicycle Room Recycling Room Central laundry Room Common Kitchen Family apartments
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Interior View — A bench by the kitchen window
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Exterior View — A forest of columns leading to the garden
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Vertical 4 — Reuse Data
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Color/surface
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Site availability
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Exterior View — Figures in a hilly landscape
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This chapter will present projects with a public program. The works here range from the building scale of a library or cultural center, to larger interventions at a nieghborhood scale.
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THE LIVING-(BOOK)ROOM
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→ 4th year, Fall 2017 → Lagom: Swing of song, poise of stone teachers → Johan Celsing, Anna-Karin Edblom, Daniel Widman, Daniel Johansson participant → Léo Friedmann program → Library location → Fridhemsplan, Stockholm method → Glulam frame and CLT panels, concrete spine.
→ Input Reading a book is a very personal activity and for most of us it brings immediate emotions of tranquility and comfort. But can a public building offer this for everyone? Actually, what is a 21st century library? And how in a time when resource is accessible from any physical space can a public library still be attractive? → Vision While today’s production has become very disposable and almost instantly anachronic, what does it really mean to be sustainable? Perhaps a solution lies in buildings and objects that are open to change, and designed to be updated? More than a resource center, a public library should become the locus of informal and equal meeting in the city. It should have a comfortable atmosphere, yet it should boast the modesty of a democratic institution and the adaptability of a public square.
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→ Outcome Finding balance is a hardship, especially when it comes to designing libraries and public buildings. At first I thought of a wooden material presence for a healthy indoor atmosphere to entice a quiet reading time. But essent ially the structure had to guide the design, in ways that it should allow for future transformations. The choice of glulam and cross-laminated timber was the compromise that guided the development of this project. The building is freely laid out in the circumference of its L-shaped concrete spine where timber porticoes provide for the stability and flexibility of the floorplan.
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1. The Café and its indoor square 2. The Playground, a safe children’s area with softer floors, a no-shoe limit and mobile shelves. 3. The Bookstore is thought of as a commuters’ library. Curated books are displayed on large tables and shelvings are designed to display books with their covers facing. Selfservice stations are available. 4. Wardrobe 5. Toilets 6. Temporary bookstorage 7. Delivery alley B. Eastern Access or the street storefront C. Southern Access or the caféterrasse
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1. The Black Box acts as a Conference center for the library. The room boasts a foldable amphitheater, dark atmosphere and acoustic qualities. The space can also be used for projections or music performances. 2. The Silent Hall is a diffusely lit room for reading and organized activities. Thanks to the furniture storage the space can also be used for meetings or accommodate visitors for minor exhibitions or thematic events. Classes can be held in this room. 3. Bookable study and group rooms 4. Wardrobe 5. Toilets
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Interior View — Overlapping of the Café and the Playground, ground floor
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Detail Section — Creating a threshold, groundfloor
Section — A portico to liberate, groundfloor
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1. Grey sheet metal roof 2. Oiled pine window frame 3. Steel weather bar cladding divider & fire barrier 4. Untreated european larch board-on-board & stainless steel nails 5. White hemp/lime plaster bio-sourced plaster for perspiration
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1. White laquered steel railing height 110cm 2. In-situ cast white concrete with unifying polished finish 3. Ash wood handrail Ø 50mm 4. Pre-cast concrete stair with unifying light polish 5. Board formed concrete in white paint coating 6. Ash wood contrasting step, applied on precast concrete step 7. Massive Ash wood first step, set at the start to soften with age 8. White opalescent glass pendant
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Detail Section — Southern Façade, timber
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1. Glue-laminated pine beam height 65cm 2. Off-white coated steel column Ø 150-170mm 3. White stained pine parquet 150mm wide planks 4. White hemp/lime finish flat interior irregular finish 5. Cross-laminated pine slab for an exposed finish use 6. Exterior glass light fixture warm white opalescent glass 7. Polished concrete floor from white cement
1. Grey sheet metal roof 2. Glass curtain wall with metal supports on timber frame 3. Stained pine cladding interior mounted 4. Visible black rubber expansion joints 5. Oiled pine window frame width 125cm
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Elevation — Southern Façade
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PUBLIC The Living-(book)Room
Interior View — West documentation wing, 3rd Floor
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Interior section— Silent reading hall, 3rd Floor
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THE CULTURE HALL
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→ 4th year, Spring 2018 → Lagom: Swing of song, poise of stone teachers → Johan Celsing, Anna-Karin Edblom, Daniel Widman, Daniel Johansson participant → Léo Friedmann program → Multi-purpose hall location → Djurgården, Stockholm method → Glulam frame and CLT bracing
→ Input Reading a book is a very personal activity and for most of us it brings immediate emotions of tranquility and comfort. But can a public building offer this for everyone? Actually, what is a 21st century library? And how in a time when resource is accessible from any physical space can a public library still be attractive? → Vision While today’s production has become very disposable and almost instantly anachronic, what does it really mean to be sustainable? Perhaps a solution lies in buildings and objects that are open to change, and designed to be updated? More than a resource center, a public library should become the locus of informal and equal meeting in the city. It should have a comfortable atmosphere, yet it should boast the modesty of a democratic institution and the adaptability of a public square.
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→ Outcome Finding balance is a hardship, especially when it comes to designing libraries and public buildings. At first I thought of a wooden material presence for a healthy indoor atmosphere to entice a quiet reading time. But essent ially the structure had to guide the design, in ways that it should allow for future transformations. The choice of glulam and cross-laminated timber was the compromise that guided the development of this project. The building is freely laid out in the circumference of its L-shaped concrete spine where timber porticoes provide for the stability and flexibility of the floorplan.
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1. Liljevalchs Art Gallery 2. Wingårdhs Extension of Liljevalchs 3. Restaurant Blå Porten 4. Abba Hotel and Museum A. Common Museum Forecourt B. Summer Festival Area C.The Water Deck
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PUBLIC The Culture Hall
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Scenario of use — the Fair or the Conference scenario
Landscape Plan — the Entrance, the Stage and the Deck
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Axonometric — a monumental structure of glulam and clt panels
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PUBLIC The Culture Hall
Detail Section — North Facade
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Detail Section — Meeting of the exhibition hall and event arena
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Detail Section — South Facade
Detail Elevation — South Facade
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Detail Elevation — West Facade
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Detail — Exterior Lamp Design
Exterior View — The Café
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THE FISHERY
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→ 3rd year, Spring 2016 → Insular Conditions → Umeå Arkitekthögskolan → Carla Colevecchio, Tobias Westerlund participants → Léo Friedmann, Jonatan Urpiala program → Food Tourism Center location → Traena Island, Norway method → Concrete and timber frame
→ Input On the island of Husøya, in the Norwegian municipality of Traena, on the Arctic Circle, lies a marine food treasure. Although constantly threatened, it has been delighted and protected by generations of islanders and fishermen until today. Oilrigs, nuclear powerplants and over-fishing are ebbing concerns for the local industry. But new ideas and entrepreneurs have joined in the salty rush of marine products, strengthening existing networks and culture. → Vision Fiskeriet (or The Fishery), aims at bringing these currents together in a single platform, weaving a net of local businesses, culture and small scale tourism. It’s aim is to be flexible and open for all. This is our proposal to ensure and sustain the Fish Society. → Outcome The difficulty for this project lied in our wish to address very local circumstances
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with an architecture that couldn’t only mimick the existing. Finding the appropriate contemporary vocabulary that would represent locals and attract newcomers was our ultimate goal. Preserving views and existing landscapes are issues that raised questions of feasability, which made us challenge and rethink the hill condition on site. Views of the harbor from the hill are left untouched as the grass beds covers the Fishery: The result of this building landscape is a peculiar architecture of cabins, all protected by a roof and illuminated with south facing lightwells and skylights.
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Site Plan — A central position on the island 0 10
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Landscape Sections — A discreet but contemporary typology
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PUBLIC Subtitle
1. Verkstedet: The center’s workshop and storage space. 2. Torskbaren: A tasting room, a deli or a museum store. 3. Kjökkenet: The kitchen can be used during the Traena winter festival as the restaurant’s kitchen. Off-season, it acts as the preparation room for the weekly market or as the teaching lab for the island’s school kids. 4. Markedshallen: The market hall, or the island’s living-room. This multipurpose room serves different functions throughout the year. In high season it is a market and food hall, as well as an exhibition center when the summer market is outdoors. During low season it acts as the culture house of the island or the weekly market for the islanders. 5. Toilets 6. Lightwell A+B. Main entrances C. Night entrance for the deli
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Perspective section — An architecture of skylights
1:50 Model — Plaster and leftover wood pieces
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PUBLIC The Fishery
Axonometric drawing — Structure and materials
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1:200 Sketch Models — White cardboard
1:100 Model — Grey cardboard, mdf sheets and flywood
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This chapter will present works relating to questions of domesticity and housing. Projects will vary in scale from room extensions, townhouses to multi-family housing estates both new and renovated.
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A CORE AND AN OFFSET
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→ 2nd year, Autumn 2015 → ‘Logements Collectifs’, Studio Michel Jacotey teachers → Jacques-Henri Baju et Stéphane Thomasson participant → Léo Friedmann program → Logements Collectifs location → Theoretical Site, Paris method → Pillar and Beam concrete structure with fiber cement façade
→ Input The studio project was led as a theoretical real estate development for a residential neighborhood at the urban limit of Paris. Every student was given a plot within the masterplan and each had to follow urban code and building regulations. These regulations are most notably the cwwrrent French accessibility and thermal regulations (RT2012) and most of the exercise’s constraints mimicked real estate and social housing prerequisites. → Vision Contemporary housing architecture in France and especially in suburban areas is the locus of trends and aesthetical disputes. A sustainable approach to the task has been for me to focus on building to last. Architecture is a slow medium and requires an increasing wealth of resource and technology and this building is an attempt of defining a timeless structure. The structural system of the
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building and its simplicity allow for more flexibility. The modular character of the apartment layout, with servant cores and served spaces and no fixed partitioning, enables evolution and transformation in time.
→ Outcome The difficulty in the approach chosen might have been to step back in the aesthetical process and to impeach over-defining. The crafting of details and their mundane beauty has been the main focus for the senses and aesthetics of the building. Asserting the timelessness and sustainable aspects in a functionspecific building with regulations and commercial requirements has proven to be interestingly challenging. The thermal regulation being focused on exterior insulation, this has proven to be a challenging technical task to find appropriate material that boasted a robust character that will last over time.
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South Elevation — The waterfront
Type Plan — 1st Floor
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DOMESTIC a Core and an Offset
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Flexible Plan — A generous two-bedroom apartment
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Interior View — A comfortable dwell/work divide
Interior View — West documentation wing, 3rd Floor
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Façade section — Investing the winter gardens
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Façade close-up — A play of shadows with repetitive elements
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A GABLE AND AN INFILL
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→ 4th year, Spring 2017 → Lagom: Swing of song, poise of stone teachers → Johan Celsing, Anna-Karin Edblom, Daniel Widman, Daniel Johansson participant → Léo Friedmann program → Collective housing location → Söder, Stockholm, Sweden method → CLT Timber infill
→ Input The old gymnasium hall at the former Katarina Skola is the last structure on site that hasn’t been transformed today. The assignment was to reflect on re-using gables in masonry and design contemporary housing within this frame. → Vision
A Gable and an Infill is drawing on archetypes of the Swedish 6-part plan and its flexibility. By using cross laminated timber elements and a modular floorplan, the building is allowed to be modified in time and adapt to the needs of its inhabitants. Historical references in plan layout provide qualities of light and circulation in the apartments. The choice of oiled hardwoods and terrazzo with recycled tiles, as well as a light palette, all contribute to a feeling of domesticity. One of the strenghts of the project is to draw consequences from a critical reading of the Swedish Standard. The building has been designed
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with communities in mind and is equipped with communal amenities. This in turn allows for smaller kitchens according to SiS. Other rooms therefore profit from this gain of space and are given a generosity that allows for a nonhierarchical use of the apartments.
→ Outcome Historical references in plan layout provide qualities of light and circulation in the apartments. Depth and variation in sights and atmospheres is enhanced by the enfilade of rooms and the circular movement. Furthermore the choice of oiled hardwoods and terrazzo with recycled tiles, as well as a light palette, all contribute to a feeling of domesticity. The key aspect of this infill is its structure that boasts a rational double module of rooms: threemeters-wide water rooms and three-meters-sixty-wide livingrooms. By simplifying construction and cutting down on cost, this housing project creates a sense of domesticity made of flexibility and variation.
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Site plan — A gable condition
Main Façade — Facing west along Östgötagatan
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Kitchen View — The room enfilade allows circular movement throughout the apartment and provides a higher quality of natural light.
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Living-room view — A definable room only determined by a glazed frame and a circular movement.
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A PORTICO AND A LIGHTWELL
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→ 5th year, autumn 2019 → Mass Housing for Millions of Homes school → KTH Architecture School teachers → Frida Rosenberg, Erik Stenberg participant → Léo Friedmann program → Collective housing location → Växjö, Sweden method → Timber extensions and restauration
→ Input This project was preceded by an exhibition on the work of Erskine with prefabricated concrete housing structures. A meeting with the local housing company in Växjö, as well as elderly inhabitants, shaped the project towards a restauration of Erskine’s joyful details and towards a strengthening of the social qualities of the estate. The original facade of the Växjö residence in 1955 displays a natural concrete grey tone from the panels’ finish. The entrance porticoes were also subject to a colorful evolution when they were painted in bright red, today, they are in need of restauration. → Vision The word restauration is here used with a certain measure, as one could see mainly a renovation or an extension of the Lassaskog Estate. But, following Viollet-le-Duc’s approach to restauration, decisions were made to not only repair Erskine’s entrances but also
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further develop their climatic and social functions. An attention to color was given, as a study of the architect’s work suggest that the anglo-swedish architect envisioned a colorful facade, which he later realized in Kiruna for instance. The vision for this project is that of a respectful attitude towards the original buildings as well as a wish to engage and reinterpret the symbolistic and romantic aspects of Ralph Erskine’s playful architecture.
→ Outcome The result of this approach is a reasoned architecture of few elements that is careful about existing tectonic relationships. The inherent qualities of the estate meant that the intervention should be accupunctural. By providing with common functions and by highlighting a newfound groundfloor potential for commerce, this small-scale project secures a sustainable future for the estate. In the scope of the wide array of million program areas throughout Sweden, this project asserts the possibility of recreating urban qualities for the surburban tower-block typology.
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Site Plan — The six blocktowers of the Lassaskog Estate
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DOMESTIC a Portico and a Lightwell
1. CNC-milled cross laminated timber panel protected with a colored oil-based stain. The form comes from original concrete porticoes designed by Ralph Erskine. 2. Coated metal joint to anchor the portico in the concrete foundation as well as to stop water capillarity from the floor to the timber. 3. Color-coated corrugated metal roof for weather protection. The industrial sheets are screwed to timber sections, which are slightly angled for rain evacuation. 4. Industrial timber roofing sections. 5. Bed of white gravels for water collection on the existing grass mounts.
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1. 120mm thick CLT panels are used throughout the extension. They have a medium quality finish when unreachable and a high quality finish together with one layer of white stain when touchable. 2. The existing floor is extended with reinforced concrete and is insulated from the outside, as well as covered on the floor with either long lasting terrazzo or polished concrete. 3. The facade socle is insulated from the oustide with a timber frame covered with a colored plaster render. The socle is slightly recessed from the wooden panelling to create depth. 4. The main body of the facade is covered with colorful tar-stained plywood panels which are 600mm wide, according to industry standards. 5. The vertical window seals are made of the exposed stuctural CLT panels that form the walls. Horizontal seals are made of plywood panels of fir that are finished with a colour indoor stain. On the lower part of the windows, the socle extend as a convector cover that functions as a bench.
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General view— A subtle but colourful intervention Bringing activity at the pedestrian level and life between buildings
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This chapter will present projects with a public program. The works here range from the building scale of a library or cultural center, to larger interventions at a nieghborhood scale.
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A SILENT OBSERVATORY
year studio school teachers
→ 3rd year, Spring 2016 → Insular Conditions → Umeå Arkitekthögskolan → Carla Colevecchio, Tobias Westerlund participants → Léo Friedmann program → Temporary Pavilion location → Sörmjöle, Umeå, Sweden method → Metal, timber and plaster
→ Input “The composition, in the design process implies to put one thing next to the other. It is about the placement, organization or arrangements of elements, to relate the different parts in order to create a whole, to distribute and organize the elements to build up a unity.” Carla Colevecchio → Vision The main idea behind this observatory was to create a room for observation and contemplation of the site’s natural landscape. The aim was to shape spaces that have a string built presence while emphasizing the surrounding nature. This intervention’s goal was to stimulate and stress human senses. → Outcome Sound is treated as two sequences; a silent corridor of high ceilings, and an exterior space where the sound of the ocean sounds
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are diffused. Sight is stimulated in all three dimensions with framed views, diagonal movement and dramatic variations of light and shadow. Touch is associated with the foot of a walker , again as a sequence unfolding: sand, concrete and sand; an endless circle that composition try to hollistically emphasize. The result of this composition is a silent and shade infused chapel erected as an ode to nature. Although a strong aesthetical and sensorial experience, the intervention aims at casting light on the mundane beauty of wild and preserved landscapes.
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1:100 Model — Grey cardboard, mdf sheets and flywood
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A ROOM FOR COMMUNICATION (LA CHAMBRE) year → 4th year, Spring 2018 competition → 120 hours competition participants→ Léo Friedmann and Chloé Tiziani program → a room for communication method → Temporary timber structure
→ Input “You are challenged to design an ideal room for communication. A physical space in a world where interactions have become intangible. Through your design, you are expressing how architecture can initiate communication. Your are free to choose how small, how large, how tall, or how low your room can be. Keep in mind, it should be bigger than an elevator and smaller than a football field.” → Vision La Chambre is an ideal public decor that can be placed globally and aims at housing a newly found freedom of an un-opressed communication. In a world of fake thruths and privacy loss, La Chambre draws on historical archetypes of secret conversation rooms, it builds on collective memories of the antechamber, the parloir or the confessional.
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A return to the essence of our bodily needs is a counteract on the artificial and intangible world of information technologies. Therefore our proposal secures both physiological needs and safety needs around a scenography of supper and by providing a shelter free from datacollection and cultural inhibitions. We wish it brings back a sense of belongingness.
→ Outcome La Chambre is a place for everyone to meet and exercize their freedom of communication. It is the ultimate ship for citizens and their endeavours. Consequently, we have chosen to keep the anonimity of our users, as they sit in a zone outside of data collection and restriction.to entice a quiet reading time.
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Axonometric — Sequences in light and dark
3. explore debate, bond, touch
1. encounter the catch of a glimpse, a flirt of hands
1:50 Plan — A series of events
2. babble weather and other simulated interests
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CONTEMPLATIVE A Room for Communication
1. Users can communicate their Privacy
3. A South window acts as a Solar Clock
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2. It has no view except the one of Others
4. The table acts as a device for the Senses
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‘Somewhere in the middle of an Occidental city, hidden from the streets, citizens come and go; talking about the upcoming snow. Some, as they finish their plates and hold each other’s hands, exchange glances and words meanwhile, in the Orient, it’s the beginning of a full-moon night. In the intimacy and sound of a boiling kettle, secrets and wishes are shared. As hearts open wider, the hum of whispers and laughters grows louder.’
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T H A N K YOU FO R CON SI D ERING T HIS P O RT FOL I O AN D AP P L I CATION! Léo Friedmann a → Värtavägen 66, 115 38 Stockholm t → +46 76 592 20 61 e → friedmannleo@outlook.com
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