Application Portfolio- Exchange in Architecture, TU Delft & Tokyo University

PORTFOLIO

Hugo Regan | Chalmers University of Technology

BA Architecture | 8. Semester | Winter 2024

EDUCATION

Sept 2023 Now

Sept 2019 May 2022

Sept 2018 May 2019

Aug 2014 - June 2017

JOB EXPERIENCE

May 2023 - Now

Aug 2022 - Feb 2023

Hello

My name is Hugo, am 25 years old. was born in Dublin, Ireland and grew up in Belfast, London, and Stockholm before moving to Gothenburg. In my portfolio, plan to show my progress throughout my education through seven key projects. will begin with my senior year research project from gymnasium, and end with my Bachelor Thesis Project. Throughout my education, have developed a skill set of methodologies to visualize my ideas. In addition, have been driven by curiosity to explore my objects of interest within architecture, whether they take form as an architectural period, biology, a tectonic expression, or building material. My pursuit to explore different facets of architecture plays a key role in my intention, inspiration, and decisionmaking while broadening my understanding of different building typologies and scales.

September 2017 - Maj 2018

Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg

Master in architecture

Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg

Bachelor in archicture

Nyckelvikens Arts College Stockholm

Thorildsplans Gymnasium Stockholm

Technology | Society Building and Environment

Anatoli jewelry | New York

Jewelry designer & graphic designer

Kockum, Luttinger & Söderström architecture studio Stockholm | Intern

Arts teacher and substitute teacher in maths, sciences, Swedish & English | Borlänge & Stockholm

Illustrator | Indesign | Photoshop

AutoCAD | Revit

Rhino | Sketchup

Twinmotion | Enscape

Native speaker

Native speaker 6 yrs in school. 3 yrs in school.

Casa El Far | 01

Barcelona | Spain

Moby Dick | 02

Bohuslän | Västra Götaland

Hermit | 03

Delsjön | Gothenburg

Herring-bridge | 04

Chalmers campus | Gothenburg

Tea-house | 05

Härryda | Gothenburg

Lanterna | 06

Masthuggstorget | Gothenburg

Bachelor thesis project | 07

Majnabben | Gothenburg

CASA EL FAR

Towards street Elevation & Section 1:200

Towards backyard Elevation & Section 1:200

Sketches

Type Place Proposal Residential Barcelona | Spain Gymnasium senior year research project

My journey in architecture began when I was fifteen. It was during a day-long family trip to Barcelona that had my first architectural epiphany—seeing Casa Batlló, a mosaic of symbolism and natureinspired shapes. The colourful facade and the eclectic interior design made me think that this is where nature, science, history and beauty intersect. This inspired me to pursue a career in architecture. When it was time to decide on a topic for my final research project in Gymnasium (equivalent of GCSE exam), decided that I wanted to design a Guadí-inspired apartment building. would create my natureinspired vocabulary of shapes and forms. In the beginning, this being my first architectural project, did not know where to start.

The project is set on a corner within Barcelona’s gridded city blocks, I began by gathering inspiration, and skimming through Gaudí’s

projects before I started drawing the facade. wanted a lighthouse to serve as a stairwell and become the most imposing feature of the building. was inspired by the skeletons of different animals— the lighthouse was inspired by the snake skeleton, the top of the lighthouse by the jellyfish, and the pillars by the human spine, just to mention a few. Throughout the year worked on the project, the plans evolved naturally out of the facades and the creation of the appropriate sculptural effects. Because my framework for the project was vague to begin with, the project was never entirely finished. The material presented was made by hand, consisting of freehand sketches and blueprints as well as a short essay. As my introduction to architecture, this project taught me how to work within a spatial framework, as well as how to draw inspiration from unlikely places.

Bottom Floor plan

Café & office space 1:200

Second Floor plan

Next floor two-story apartment 1:200

First Floor plan

Two-story apartment 1:200

Third Floor plan Apartment 1:200

in chronological order from top-left to bottom-right.

MOBY DICK

Type Place Proposal Hiking shelter

I n 1865, a blue whale washed up on the shores of Gothenburg’s coast and was mounted on display in the Naturhistoriskamuseet of Gothenburg. On a small, barren island on Sweden’s west coast lies an abandoned granite quarry, about a thirty-minute hike from the remote island village Bohus-Malmön. Located here, and inspired by the whale of 1865, my structure consists of a wooden footbridge, connecting the roofed fireplace and the sleeping quarters, hung with derricks that allow the capsule to gently swing—as if in the belly of a swimming whale.

During my years in gymnasium and art school, I developed skillsets in sketching and

Bohuslän| Västra Götaland School project

drafting. Therefore, for my first project in architecture school, I put emphasis on the sketching phase. My introduction to learning about Gothenburg’s history was reading about the whale that washed up in 1865, so that became the project’s inspiration. As in the previous project, created my own interpretation of the anatomy of the whale through an arrangement of structural systems—for example, the trusses carrying the shelter resemble a ribcage, which is shown in the building model. Over time, a narrative evolved about a whale stranded on the beach, reappearing after the ice age and later being transformed into a shelter during the Migration Period.

Sketches of whale →

MOBY

MOBY

Short Section 1:100

Building model

Long Section 1:100

Type Place Proposal

HERMIT

Recreational Delsjön | Gothenburg School project

I n this project, had the opportunity to improve my drafting and modelmaking skills. The focus of the project was to design a sauna including yoga facilities. As shown in the previous project, combined tectonic expressions in my designs, which proved to be more difficult because the program of the project was more complicated. found inspiration in Japanese architecture, which outwardly displays its structure and allows ample flexibility through moveable partitions. Similar to Japanese architecture, the building has an opening in its center, as well as columns within a gridded system. The shape of the building is inspired by the Hermit crab crawling onto land, which gave the

building its name and inspired the reclusive character of the building.

The sauna is situated in a pine forest on a small peninsula, about thirty minutes from Gothenburg’s city center. Inspired by old Japanese ceremonial buildings, the structure has an extended thatched reed roof covering its wooden entirety. Like old Japanese homes, the rooms are connected by roofed passageways with closelyplaced pillars, which allow sunlight to enter without exposing inhabitants to passersby. The structure can be reconfigured within the gridded plan or repurposed somewhere else, consistent with the project’s philosophy of impermanence.

1. Entrance

2. Restroom

3. Ladies dressing room

4. Men's dressing room

5. Office and storage

6. Sauna

7. Stair up to yoga

8. Secluded outdoor bath

9. Sun jetty

Building model

View of entrance

1: 50

Bottomfloor Plan

1:100

Eastern facade 1: 100

Northern facade 1: 100

Section B-B

1: 100

Section A-A

1: 100

Type Place

Proposal

HERRING-BRIDGE

Group project Bridge Gothenburg Competition

Malin Broberg, Myrra Carlsson, Elin Edstam, Carl Johansson, Shaher Kawaf, Linnea Niklasson, Carl Rajala Pettersson, Kajsa Stern

S imilar to the previous projects, this design is reminiscent of a sea creature.

I had the opportunity to work with eight other people, including three engineers, who gave me insight into working in large groups on small projects.

After made the first draft of the bridge, which later became our poster, we made a model in scale 1:50 to test the structure.

We later spent a weekend building the 13-meter-long bridge scale 1:1 on Chalmers

campus, competing against four other bridges. Our bridge won the popular votes of the audience. The bridge’s shape is inspired by the common fish, served during holiday festivities in Sweden. The design can be summarised in three parts; “The Artery”, which allows the flow of people across the canal, “The Spine and Ribs”, which counter bending moment, “The Support” or “Fins”, which raises the bridge from the ground.

Constructed with group on Chalmers campus | Scale 1:1

Obligatory competition poster. Designed and drawn by me.

TEA-HOUSE

Type Place

Project Hiking shelter

When Chalmers announced the competition for architecture students to design a hiking shelter within 3 x 3 x 3 meters, took the opportunity to try SketchUp and Twinmotion for the first time. enjoyed experimenting with new visual presentations, and found that was able to take my subsequent projects to a completely different level. The shelter is hanging in a tree in the forest, glowing in the dark. It is not far from Chalmers Recreational Building, open for students to visit from Gothenburg. The walls are made of wooden joists clad in white greenhouse film, providing relative thermal comfort in

Härryda | Gothenburg Competition

negative degrees while emitting light from the walls. The floor and bunk are made of plywood. The construction is attached to the tree with German tree screws.

To enter the shelter three meters up, visitors must climb a ladder and slide the door aside. Inside, a window screen can be opened to see the view overlooking the Chalmers sauna and Lake Sandsjön. The shelter was inspired by Japanese tea houses, simple small separate structures clad in rice paper where people sit on mats and perform rituals of drinking tea.

LANTERNA

Type Place Proposal Office & Foodcourt Gothenburg city center School project

I n this project, what contended with most was working within limits: Swedish building codes, zoning regulations, the complexity of the given program and the structure. This inspired me to be more creative in designing quality office spaces concerning lighting and usable floor space. The project also included a more extensive list of submission requirements than in the previous courses, including more detailed drawings. Working efficiently with 3D modeling programs, which had practiced in the previous

project, helped structure the complex building program.

This building is situated close to Gothenburg’s city center, and is part of a larger urbanization effort to develop housing and office structures on Gothenburg’s waterfront. The area below the project site offers Gothenburg’s most buzzing nightlife scene. The height makes this building stand out in the city skyline, as seen in the illustration below. The name, ”Lanterna”, refers to a boat’s signal lights—a dedication to Gothenburg’s history as a seafaring city.

2. Restaurant

3. Bar

4. Kitchen

5. Storage

6. Preparation room

Bottom floor plan

Foodmarket & reception 1:200

7. Recycling

8. Garage entrance

Perspective

Window opening

Seen from inside office

2. Pentry

3. Copy machine

4. Head office

5. Meeting room

6. Conference room

7. Bar & lobby

8. Terrace

Fourth- eleventh floor

Green Logistics office 1:200

Roof top Conference skybar & gym

1:200

The “client” for this project, the company Green Logistics, requests an office building and food market with an entirely load bearing CLT structure. The building consists of a two story open food market on the bottom and office spaces on the top nine floors.

The CLT-structure is covered in glassblocks, reminiscent of the surrounding brick architecture. This provides light quality throughout the entire structure for comfortable office space. The building has roofed yards with three-story-high openings on every floor.

1. Foundation and bottom floors

2. Shaft and stairwell

3. Wood joist grid

4. Third floor and conference

5. Three story window and slanted columns

6. Glass block facade

7. Fourth to eleventh floor and office

8. Roof terrace

Exploded axonometric Overview of construction

1. Conference 45 ppl.

2. Conference 95 ppl.

3. Bar and kitchen

4. Courtyard

5. Gym

6. Changing room

7. Sauna

LANTERNA

Section 1:400 Between North and south

Section A-A 1:100 Rooftop terrace

MAJNABBEN’S LIBRARY

Type

Place

Proposal Library

T he library is situated in a bay within a larger city planning thesis project, in an area located by Göta älv in Gothenburg. The concept is for a local library, consisting of three floors with a large gallery in the center.

The building is clad in two layers of double-paned glass with one meter between, allowing air to flow naturally between the layers. This will help keep the building cool during the summer, and during the winter will serve as an insulator. In the building’s gallery, light

Majnabben | Gothenburg Bachelor thesis project

falls in from a grid of skylights. The inner walls are made of semi-transparent thin marble, reminiscent of old wrinkled paper.

Every floor of the building has been thoughtfully considered, and is designed for different purposes and experiences. The first level includes the gallery—a flexible, multipurpose area. The bottom floor, being the loudest, is an effective communal space.

The second level is designed for courses and discourse to take place. Finally, the third floor is designated for quiet study.

GÖTA RIVER

LIBRARY

MAJORNA

Situation plan

Majnabben 1:4000

Perspective

2. Gallery

7. Book storage

Perspective

Bottom floor Bar & Café Towards the bay

1. Library

2. Silent work space

3. Group rooms

Perspective

Bottom floor Children’s library

First

Second floor plan 1:200

Perspective

First floor Library

1. Entrance & Reception

4. Children’s library

6. Changing room

8. Reflective pool

Bottom floor plan 1:200

floor plan 1:200

Double glazed

Eastern Facade and

Section

Bitumen

Reinforced

Section through model

Gallery 1:200

Building model

Seen from cross the bay 1:200

Thank you!

Hugo Regan | Chalmers University of Technology

BA Architecture

Semester | Winter 2024