Content // Projects - Body Exposed - An Alternative Bath House - Airport as Speaker’s Corner - Inhabiting the Informal City: Cairo, Zabbaleen - Hidden With-ins and the Momentum //Competitions - AKT/IN - Why Open a Door When You Can Walk Through Walls - 1st prize // Workshops//Selections - Elevator Exposed - Experimental Paper Structure - Transolar Art Pavillion - Trästock Music Festival Pavillion - Morphology & Typology
Body exposed An alternative bath house Bachelor Thesis - Ume책 School of Architecture - Spring 2012 Tutor: Juri Soolep & Johan Berglund
Part 1 - Research - Analysis - Concept development Part 2 - Design Developement
Approach//Study of Phenomenolgy
“With our senses we experience and create our view upon the world: how it appears to us. This is not only limited to the visual domain but includes the full potential of all the human senses. The project exposes this by displacing the body; the human one as well as the architectural, and let them enter another medium: the medium of water. Starting from within the experience, the project explores concepts and phenomena of the body in relation to water and pushes the imagination/imagery through the concept of a distorted industry.�
Part I: Research, Analysis, Conceptual Development//Collecting and Exploring Findings About Swimming//Kickstart Workshop
“ Winter bathing is a way of exploring your body. I feel how my body members disappear when I am in the water, it’s an amazing experience. I feel most challenges are exciting, especially absurd ones. To bathe during winter is simple physically, but much harder mentally. That’s why I always feel satisfied and happy afterwards. In the changing rooms you notice how everybody opens up, it’s like a sense of freedom afterwards.” - Interviewed person in newspaper article -
“Let’s take a leap and dive into this ambiguous medium!”
Pool Studies//Reference, Therme Vals by Zumthor
Industrial Input//Deconstructing and Distorting the Body
“Liquids run through the bath house. Steam burst out of the machinery. Dirt, flesh and odeurs spread in the bodily processes. The cleansing of the body comes in different small laboratories.�
Conceptual Model//Flows vs. Borders//Vertical vs. Horizontal
“Being in water, the body experiences space differently: it encounters inertia and a sense of being almost weightless. Sounds travel faster and our view gets blurred and distorted.”
“The investigations and explorations led up to a concept of exposing the body - the architectural as well as the human - through the notion of a distorted industry and the medium of water.”
Part II: Design Development//Site Plan//Out-door Perspective
Site The bathing procedure mimics the movements of the site. Yet the pace of the flow is being slowed down by introducing angular borders and encounters. The connections come from two directions. They both attach directly to the public spaces on the lower level. The bath house become an urban meetingpoint.
Site & Historic Reference of Industrial Use//Swedish Out-door Baths Reference
Some Swedish out-door bathbath houses Some Swedish out-door houses
Many of the out-door Swedish out-door Many of the Swedish baths baths areatlocated at the coastline. are located the coastline. They They often are positioned on the often are positioned on the edge or edge or extend over the water, creating an extend over the water, creating an intresting relation to land. intresting relation to land.
Bjärred
Bjärred
Ulricehamn
Ulricehamn Riddersborg
Riddersborg Landskrona
Landskrona Borgholm
Borgholm Kastrup
Kastrup
100 m
100 m
Edge
Edge
“Where the river bends the bodily procedures takes place. the site has fragments left behind from the industrial transportation of timber on the river.”
Experiences From Within
“The human body experiences different exposures as it flows through the building. The borders and transitions build up a layering effect.�
Process Model//Borders & Transitions of Floor Levels
“We have an ambiguous relation to water, it can be both sensational or frightening. Within this architectural body, relations define and control the experiences of water. The dramatic internal changes stands in opposition to the external surroundings.�
“The public spaces on the lower level gather people not necessarily coming here for swimming. Observations of the city and the water, from land to the sea allow for new perspectives among the citizens. The connecting park and the out-door bath gathers people during the summer and extremists during the winter.�
Acoustics Bath//Floor Plans//Section A-A
The transition of the cold shower shuts off sounds from the common area. Descending into to the warm pool drowsiness spreads through the body. Relaxed the sounds of pouring water in the pipes become more present. You float and look to the skylight.
Main Floor plan
Lower floor plan
Upper floor plan
Zoom-In Section A-A
“My perception is not a sum of the visual, tactile and audible given: I perceive in a total way with my whole being: I grasp a unique structure of the thing, a unique way of being, which speak to all my senses at once.� - Merleau-Ponty -
Ice Bath & Sauna//Fume Bath//Section B-B
Two extremes in the bathhouse where to circulate in between. Descending into the dark, brittle and icecold water is something deeply personal. Endorphines start to rush through the body, which gets active. Walking into the sauna, the body opens up socially in the warm inviting space
The ongoing cooking in the kitchen on the lower floor produces fumes which rise through the ventilation into the bubble pool above. The desire of eating is being stimulated, it smells so good! After a while the body cannot restrain itself and transit through the building down to the bar/caféteria. “A burger please, I’m starving! No, actually I’m fine with a Ceasar Salad. Sorry.”
//airport
as Speaker’s Corner Spring 2011
Tutors: Katja Hogenboom, Ebba Hallin, Johanna Gullberg
“A society which allows expressions within the city, in the most expensive market, is a good society.”
The Airport as Speaker’s Corner was the outcome of the course “The airport as Metropolis”. It was an introduction to urban planning and how to work with strategies in a larger context. The city of Umeå, Sweden, which wants to double its population, was used as site and the relation between the city and the airport was of great importance.
How should our cities develope? What are our common values and how should we deal with them? My proposal was an exploration of how to allow an open publicness in the airport for people to take part in the democratic process of expressing what they dream and wish for them and their city. It would act to
create a dialogue, a social space, between a speaker and a listener, on many levels working socially, culturally and politically. I used modelling and drawing extensively for exploring the concept of “the dream”.
“ It grows up from the river to the sky and glows in the northern darkness.“
Final Model//Manifesto//Urban strategy
Manifesto This AIRPORT as metropolis ALLOWS the DREAMS and EXPRESSIONS within the CITY. This airport as metropolis shall be BRAVE, INDEPENDANT and SPONTNEOUS. AN EXPLOTION of expressions and CREATIVE ENERGIES interrupting the flows! It shall be led by and used by the CITIZENS (as well as the TRAVELLER) so that they FEEL the airport is theirs and part of their CITY LIFE. It shall be a CENTRE of CREATIVE, INTELLECTUAL and MORAL FORCES within a city full of energy and life! It is part of a continuous development of UMEÅ’s YOUNG IDENTITY. A fragile identity with ENORMOUS STRENGTH. It shall always be crowded with TRAVELLERS and CITIZENS, DEMONSTRANTS and POLICEMEN, ARTISTS and ACTORS, POLITICIANS and HOMELESS.
Concept of Publicness//Speaker’s Corner//Social, Cultural & Political Catalyst
“The stage shall be a guarantee for different voices to reach out, it shall embrace fragments from many different dreams and realities.”
Its purpose is to strengthen FREEDOM OF SPEECH and DEMOCRACY. THE STAGE shall be a guarantee for DIFFERENT VOICES to reach out, it shall embrace FRAGMENTS from many DIFFERENT DREAMS and REALITIES. It shall increase TOLERANCE as well as EMPATHY. THE THEATRE is unique in letting different people MEET, on stage and in the saloon. A visit to the theatre, or if you prefer, the airport, is a COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE. This is where people are invited fragmentarily, only to be released and SCATTERED once again. It allows TIME, CHANGE and MOMENTS. We live in a society, where the market and politics are fighting and where media’s power is increasing. That is why THE ROLE OF THE OPEN STAGE and freedom of speech has never been more IMPORTANT. For it allows a SPACE where we can be FREE, where no one tells us what to think, buy or believe, where no interests disturbs us. A space where we are allowed to REFLECT upon our life and what it means to be HUMAN in today’s society.
Plans//Site//Groundfloor
People of the city not flying can visit the airport, containing a theatre and a bar with small event spaces.
Sections//Program//Structure
“ Let’s go to the airport! Thay have new performances going on in the bar, tonight’s theatre! ”
Study Models//Process Fragments
Study Models//Process Fragments
west side
east side
A project in the 5th semester of UMA with aim to work in another context outside Europe to provide with knowledge of architectural practice at a global scale. Working from within a given context of an informal settlement, the goal was to develop projects based on methods of mappings closely connected to the people of the settlement.
Tutor: Alberto AltĂŠz
Story Introduction//Site Zoom-in//Elephant Momentum//Diagram Model
This is the story of the city surrounded by deserts.
This is the story about what they decide to leave and what they decide to keep.
This is also the story of what is hidden with-in the city and its importance.
Programming the Momentum//Hidden Within Diagram//Women Situation
Intervention//Extended Over Time//Women Participatory
A Box of Concepts//Concentrating the Hidden Withins//Background Unfolded
A Box of Concepts//Concentrating the Hidden Withins//Background Unfolded
Plan//Section B-B//Epilogue- What happened later?
Section A-A//Epilogue - What happened later?
Competition//1st Prize//Why Open a Door When You Can Walk Through Walls? Johannes, Frida, Joanna//Spring 2012
This door lies in the border of being a wall. Its components and moving direction reminds of the wall it inhabits. Like a secret door, people transit to the place behind. The transition has extended into becoming an experience suited for places holding stories; museums, cinemas and libraries for example. Walking into fantasies becomes a play with materials and light, you glimpse the shadows of the people behind the wall and the stories therein.
Winning entry in a national competition organized by Besam Sweden. It was open for anyone studying architecture, industrial design or civil engineering at universities in Sweden. The task was to make an innovative automatic entrance.
1. Wood 2. Concrete 3. Steel Frame 4. Translucent Glass
Context: Fotografiska (Public Building) Function/Logistics: The entrance slides between three positions in an orthogonal direction to the wall. Innovative Elements: A moving wall with integrated light. The materials enable an experience to the door, other than its function.
A visitor moves towards the entrance.
The wall reacts and slides back allowing the visitor to enter.
When exiting the wall operates in the opposite direction.
Workshop//Elevator Exposed//Vertical Dialogue Albin, Amanda, Frida, Joakim, Joanna, Johannes, Lina//Spring 2012
How to expose what it means to travel in an elevator. Relation body/object.
Projections of surroundings inside
Antennas to sense vertical movement and vibrations
Workshop//Adams Kara Taylor//Paper Experimental Structure
Johannes, Patrick, Sara//Spring 2010
Climate Workshop//Transolar//Art Pavillion Agnes, Johannes, Nils, Sara//Autumn 2010
Proposed art pavillion of ice for Ume책, northern Sweden. The contrasting situation of light over the year is spatially interpretated as a sequence, giving an illuminating effect. When spring comes, the ice melts and leaves behind the static portals as a memory of what has been. The city, enclosed during winter, opens up in summer.
No artificial light! No insulation! No heating!
Pavillion//Trästockfestivalen - Music Festival//Open Wooden Structure
Albin, BjĂśrn, Emili, Ida, Johannes, Patrick, Sara//Summer 2010
Open festival pavillion built from recycled wood. Central meetingpoint for visitors to gather, rest and spend time in between performances.
Mapping Analysis//Morphology & Typology//Disecting the Urban Landscape Ida and Johannes//Autumn 2011
Elaborated mapping analysis of an area containing one residential and one industrial part.
Thank You! Johannes Sverlander +4670 25 41 945 johannes.sverlander@hotmail.com