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Johanna Jonsson 1990/11/06 Malmö, Sweden Tel: +46(0)70 456 13 57 Email: johanna.emmelie.jonsson@gmail.com
Education 08/2016 - 06/2019 Master of Architecture, Lund University of Technology
Two year master programme in architecture within the Spatial Experiments specialization
07/2013 - 06/2016 Bachelor of Architecture, Umeå School of Architecture
Three year bachelor programme in architecture
08/2012 - 01/2013
Philosophy, Umeå University
08/2012 - 01/2013
Art History, Lund University
One semester (30 hp) studying theoretical and practical philosophy with a focus on critical thinking, history of philosophy, and the philosophy of ethics and mind
One semester (30 hp) getting a brief rundown of the history of art and learning about image analysis
08/2010 - 06/2012 Photography and Painting, Östra Grevie Folkhögskola
One year furthering my knowledge in photography and one year focusing more on drawing, color theory, painting, and theory of perspective
08/2009 - 06/2010 Art and Design, Sörängens Folkhögskola
One year getting an overview into analogue photography, animation, ceramics, film making, illustration, painting, and sculpting
Professional Experience 08/2017 - 08/2018 Architectural Intern, STADSTUDIO, Malmö
Worked on several different projects and competitions in different scales with everything from building physical models to making sketches and more finalized drawings
06/2017 - Ongoing Co-Founder, Symbiont, Malmö
Part owner of an interdisciplinary design and research studio based in Malmö
2015 - Ongoing
Co-Founder, KISS’N, Umeå
2015 - Ongoing
Carpenter, Hagalunds Byggservive, Nässjö
2008
Course Leader, Medborgarskolan, Nässjö
2005 - Ongoing
Part owner of a company developing a body device that allows females to pee while standing up
Part-time job as a carperter primarily as a painter but also participating in small construction projects
Held and structured several courses focusing on photography and image processing
Photographer, Hagalunds Foto, Nässjö
Part-time job as a photographer for an advertising agency facilitating primarily product-, and nature photography
Proficiencies and Interests Software:
Adobe CC, AutoCAD, Blender, Rhinoceros, SketchUp, Houdini
Photography Physical Model Making
Contents The Weave Äventyret Dynamic Dunes Mythogenisis Dansbanan Grotten Härden Level-UP Library
I. The Weave 2018 Sep - 2019 May Studio Work Supervisor: David Andréen For our master thesis we have delved into an investigation of the intersection between craft and ceramic 3D-printing for the development of a new kind of composite brick. The brick has evolved side by side with a metaphysical investigation into the potential to express the living nature of matter through its material and formal attributes. Furthermore, with the use of fractal geometry and something known as ”dynamisms” (ways of breaking, copying, scaling, and splitting forms into sub-forms used in Hindu temple architecture as a way to express the continuously unfolding nature of the universe) a process of generating a structure has evolved. Situated in the urban realm, we hope the structure can contribute to the renewed discussion on the liveliness of matter.
Initial Experiments We experimented quite extensively with fractal noise. At the bottom of this page four of the different noises that we explored the most can be seen applied to a cylindrical form. If one “dips� a geometrical shape into a noise soup, the noise will transform the geometrical shape by tugging and pulling it in different directions. Some of our initial tests with the ceramic 3D-printer was aimed at achieving a better understanding of the correlation between the level of subdivision of the computer model, and the size of the nozzle when 3D-printing. In the above image the result of some of these experiments can be seen.
Three Important Discoveries Using fractal noise and dynamisms (ways of breaking, copying, scaling, and splitting forms into sub-forms, inspired by the algorithms that drive the design of Hindu temple architecture) we produced four small structures: two columns, one arch, and one that we call the Weave. In the production of these structures we learned several important things that improved the production of ceramic building elements in an architectural scale.
Digital Process Above, a diagram describing the (mostly) digital process can be seen. As previosuly mentioned, elements altered by a fractal noise soup is combined using processes inspired by Hindu temples and shrines known as dynamisms to create a structure. The process of producing a structure is a sort of entangling and untangling process we call “weaving.�
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The Urban Context When placing the structure in the urban context, we have been looking to our mapping of Hindu temples in the city of Ahmedabad that we conducted in the intial stages of the project. We have placed the structure facing south to catch the sun, and to open up towards the people passing by on Sรถdra Fรถrstadsgatan, walking and biking towards the center of Malmรถ. It sits under some trees, close to a wall, from which a base emerges, providing seating possibilities inside the structure, and grounding it to the site. The structure consists of two parts: an inner, and an outer weave. The inner weave is protected from the weather by a skin of canvas. The outer, entrance weave, being only partly covered by the canvas is, however, covered by the canopy of the trees visible through the structure.
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II. Äventyret 2015 Jan - 2015 Jun Studio Work Supervisor: Anton Shramkov, Karin Berggren, Lucinda Correia Äventyret is an exterior water park situated by Rickleån in western Robertsfors outside of Umeå. The goal of the project, which includes a sauna, open-air swimming-baths, changing rooms, a kiosk, a children’s pool, and an “adventure” swimming space is to encourage people to play. The proposal was part of a greater project concerning public spaces in Robertfors, and prior to designing Äventyret a mapping of Robertsfors’ sport, free time and entertainment aspects was carried out, acting as a ground for the development water park.
III. Dynamic Dunes 2016 Sep - Jan Studio Work Supervisor: David Andréen By: Johanna Jonsson and Mai Lee This project explores the potential of aggregate architecture in the extremely arid Moroccan climate. Aggregate architecture is a term coined for an architecture that produces forms from the accumulation of smaller designed modules, using no added adhesives or joints. Abiding by a strict “bottom-up” approach to architecture, we set about to design the optimal granulate form—the “component.” The sum of these many smaller parts will ultimately dictate the final form, Our site is Tamegroute, Morocco, a village situated in the Draa River valley renowned for its pottery. To take advantage of the culture of pottery production in Tamegroute, this project utilizes ceramics for its availability, cost efficiency, sustainability, and the functional properties of clay. The project envisions the creation of a market shading structure through the accumulation of our modular elements, acting as a sort of mashrabiya. These shading structures will remain dynamic in the way that the form will always be changing. As parts may crumble or degrade due to the harsh desert climate, forms can be rebuilt anew, each time different from the previous. Just as the Moroccan sand dunes continually shift in size and shape, We hope to explore an architecture that challenges the conventional top-down approach of form creation—one that expands, shrinks, breaks and rebuilds.
Aggregation study of tribar modules with different dimensions Regular
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Module easily creates mass, the least fragile of the modules.
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Module suited for structures with mixed modules, works as an ‘binding’ element for smaller modules.
Module suited for smaller spans, works as fill-in to create mass in structures with mixed modules.
Module suited for spans, works as an ‘binding’ element for smaller modules
module is very fragile and stacks poorly, least useful of all modules.
module stacks poorly, but could be used for densifying the structure.
Mixed modules Conclusion: The mixed modules creates the highest aggregation, It gives possibilities of varying the structure in terms of density, translucences, height, width. The variation of the modules sizes enables locking moments which gives more stability. To mix the modules is the most beneficial way for creating stable structures with the most different possible forms.
IV. Mythogenesis 2017 Oct Competition Mythogenesis is a proposal for a competition about designing a marker or a marker system for a nuclear waste site that should last for at least ten thousand years. The project is about harnessing the power of bottom-up myth formation and using this as a way of conveying a message into the distant future. With Mythogenesis we hypothesize about a future where the internet (in what ever form) will imply an even more profound interconnectivity of both things, places and humans. From the memetic point of view the internet used us to invent itself. With this mind-set there is no going back. The internet is a natural development in the cultural evolution of ideas (memes). By the removal of the internet and jamming of technology and its entailing functions (digital maps, cameras, phones etc.) on the nucelar waste site we speculate and illustrate how the place will transform step by step into a culturally valuable and sacred one that the future population will protect and cherish.
Exploration Phase
Memetic Phase
Explorers come and find the large buried crystal resposible for the internet and technology black-out.
As myths and ideas surrounding the place and its meaning spread, the site undergoes a semi-religious transformation.
Temple Phase
Ruin Phase
Finally there stands a temple on the site, celebrating the dichotomy of humanity’s disconnectedness and unity. The nuclear waste resting calmly deep underground as far more important, sacred things are happening on the earth’s surface.
As humans have become almost extinct after a devastating catastrophe, the temple envitably turns into a ruin. The mystical ruins remain culturally valuable for the remaining human population that finds them.
V. Dansbanan 2014 Jan - 2014 Jun Studio Work Supervisor: Allan Greve The open air dance floor Dansbanan, with its situation in the Ume river flowing through UmeĂĽ, is a project exploring the relation between modern dance and space. By the creation of abstract models and drawings, dance workshops, and a site survey, the architectural proposal presented here aims at trying to make modern dance available to the inhabitants of UmeĂĽ, and to create an open stage for dance.
VI. Grotten 2017 Jan - May Studio Work Supervisor: David AndrÊen Grotten is a urinal-space in Kødbyen, Copenhagen. With the use of an algorithm inspired by growth processes, an intricate shape is created that is impossible to design using more traditional and/or conservative tools. Through an iterative process that involves recursive subdivions of a mesh surface the form has evolved into the shape presented here. Stochastic processes has been an important factor in the form-finding of this project and an approach that we had to embrace since a large portion of the control of the shape is given away to the designed process.
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VII. Härden 2014 Sep - 2015 Jan Studio Work Supervisor: Anton Shramkov, Ana Jara, Karin Berggren The folk high-school Härden is situated in central Robertsfors, outside of Umeå, on a field behind three apartment buildings. The project revolves around two large chimneys and the ritualistic work of heating the building with fire with the intention to make the students attending the high-school conscious of the effort that this labor entails. The project is part of a greater scheme and mapping looking into how people dwell in Robertsfors and in general, that proved to be a valuable ground upon which the project is built.
VIII. Level-UP Library 2016 Jan - 2016 May Studio Work Supervisor: Sangram Shirke, Richard Conway Level-Up Library is a library situated in Old Town in the city of Ahmedabad in north western India. Experimental processes aimed at creating playful spaces was the focus during the development of the project. The spatial concept of the proposal was to create a hard shell with a few openings, surrounding a large space with softer, playful forms.