Portfolio juliebertelsen 2011207 2 by Julie Bertelsen

PORTFOLIO bachelor Aarhus School of Architecture

Julie Bertelsen student id: 2011207 Spring 2014

Name: Julie Bertelsen Adress: Grete Løchtes Gade 3, 7. Lejl. 12 City and postal code: 8000 Aarhus C Mobil: 26 14 67 29 E-mail: bertelsenjulie@gmail.com Age: 24 years old

Education timeline

Media skills

02.08.2013 – 18.08.2013 MEDS LISBON 2013 – Reaction XL Architecture/Design Workshop, Lisbon Portugal 09.2011 – Admission at Aarhus School of architecture

Office Package, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Autocad, Rhino, Final Cut Pro Video, Revit Architecture

01.2011 – 06.2011

School of Creative Development, Islands Brygge CPH Course in drawing & creative development

08.2010 – 12.2010

Krabbesholm, Skive Art, Architecture and Design School

Language skills Fluent Danish, fluent English, partly German

2007 – 2010 Roskilde Cathedral School High School Graduation (STX) 2006 – 2007 Evans High School, Georgia, USA Exchange Student 1996 – 2006

Hedehusene Preschool

Work Experience 15.09.2013 – 20.09.2013 Architect firm GUSTIN, Aarhus C Culture Bunker Project 18.06.2012 - 01.02.2014 IC Companys A/S, Magasin, 8000 Aarhus C Customer assistant 25.08.2011 – 01.09.2012 Føtex Guldsmedegade, 8000 Aarhus C Sales assistant 12.07.2007 – 31.08.2011 Føtex City 2, 2630 Taastrup Sales assistant 07.2008 Language and Culture Camp in Boston at Stonehill College EF Sqaud Leader 07.2007 Language and Culture Camp in Boston at Stonehill College EF Returnee. 23.02.2004 – 18.05.2006 APV Products, Albertslund Piccoline HOC

CV OF ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES

1st 1st & 2nd semester Assignments

Courses / Workshops Hand-drawing Course Photoshop and In-Design Course

Modul 1.0

Re-making

Modul 2.0 Modul 3.0

Analysis and turn over - Frank Lloyd Wright / Falling Water Waking the dead houses - study trip to Thy

Modul 4.0

Mapping - Falling Water

Brickworkshop House of fragments Workshop

Modul 5.0

From object to building - Moesgaard Forrest

Architecture theory course - significance of formation in architecture

2nd

theme of the year: openings

3rd semester

4th semester

Assignments

A0 Manifesto A1 Windows Safari A2 Recently Separated - Case study, Casa Poli A3 Window Diary / mapping the intangible A4 Perceptual apparatus / Window expander (phase 1+2+3)

The Williamsburg Triology - constructing a scenario P1.1 - atlas P1.2 - who? what? why? P1.3 - program - constructing a strategy Case study - Mulhouse, France - Lacaton & Vassal architects

The art of inhabitation - constructing a place P2.1-2 - general proposal 1:100 P2.3 - micro-unit 1:50

Window in a Valise

Courses / Workshops

New York study trip New York window safari

Academic optic - Searanger competition project HARD CO(u)R(s)E Digital course - Architecture Challange

Academic optic - Tall ship race 2013 competition project Architecture theory course - event script

3rd

theme of the year: Covering

5rd semester

6th semester

Assignments

P1 P2 P3 P4

P1 Relational taxonomy - Case study - Ame lot, student residence, Paris P2 Reflective site readings - Study trip to Berlin / Prora P3 Reprogramming P4 Re-Inhabitation

Defining a field of investigation / exploration of phenomena Constructing a case study archive - Sports Palace - Felix Candela Constructing membranes Materializing membranes

Courses / Workshops

Instant Aarhus - Inflatable structure - study trip to Mols Academic optic - Co-Design and Chaos Pilots Architecture theory course - Virtuality, process and form - A diagram

Study trip to Berlin / Prora Academic optic - Social Design - Kasted / Studio DemokraCity & Studio Design Matchpoint seminar - Social Capital (Robert Putnam)

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2nd 3rd semester Assignments

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A2 Recently Separated - Case study, Casa Poli A3 Window Diary / mapping the intangible A4 / A5 Perceptual apparatus / Window expander (phase 1+2+3) / Window in a Valise Study trip New York City / Lobby studies / Window Safari Reflection sheet

1 2-3 4-5 6-7 8-9

4th semester Page

Assignments P1 / P2 / P3 Academic optic It-Hardco(u)r(s)e Digital

The Williamsburg Triology Scaling Architecture / Aarhus Searanger Competetion Project Architecture Challange / Peak Pavilion Reflection sheet

10-15 16 17 18-19

3rd 5rd semester Page

Assignments Study trip P2 P1 / P3 / P4

Instant Aarhus (IAA) / Inflateable structures / at Mols Constructing a case study archive - Sports Palace - Felix Candela Defining a field of investigation / exploration of phenomena / Constructing membranes / Materializing membranes Reflection sheet

21 22 23-29 30-31

6th semester Assignments

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P2 Study trip Reflective site readings Program sheet P3 Re-programming P4 Re-Inhabitation Reflection sheet

32-33 34-35 36-37 38-41 42-43

Interests Assignments September 2014 Summer 2014 2011-2014

Page Aarhus Culture Bunker Project / A twisted experince MEDS Reaction XL Lisbon / International Architecture Workshop / Recr(e)ates Photographs and handdrawing

45 46 47

OPENING

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Recently separated / Case study / Casa Poli

Casa Poli, Chile - Case study

Starting up the 3rd semester we were assigned a case study, my group with Casa Poli in Chile. The building is a house on a top of a hill with view to the ocean. The amazing thing about this house is the flow and the arrangement of the windows. It has a membrane between inside and the outside, and in this membrane it’s possible to walk through the house. The windows are situated with outer glass on the windy side and inner glass at the calmer side, where it’s possible to sit and enjoy the sun outside. The house is geometricly a simple sqaure and has an enourmes space inside where the different functions are situated in different levels. It’s made out of concrete, but the concrete has an imprint of wooden slats, so the impression is very different from the raw concrete you meet outside.

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / A3 Window diary / Mapping the intangible

Window diary , Mapping the intangible

Since our topic for the year was “openings” the next assignment for our unit was to map our window at home and create an abstract image of what an opening could be. My window frame was very wide and it gave me the oppetunity to use that with the great view it possessed and to ‘frame’ that experience.

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / A3 Window diary / Mapping the intangible

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / A4 Perceptual apparatus / Window expander / A5 Window in a Valise

Window expander, Window in a Valise

This assignment was to map the intangible and somehow expand the wiindow in what way we found interesting. I chose to work with reflection, to make the visual spave bigger to create a never ending space in a space that differet between outside and inside. I was very inspiret by Olafur Elliason and etc. one of his soaces in ARos. The mapping was also a space for the human body and how it was possible to be seated, standing and laying.

To keep the projects from this semester together we were assigned to create an archive. It had to be related to the functions of the window expander. My box was a square and inspiret by Casa Poli with different openings that created a inner space. The openings was covered with a speciel mirror paper that when light was on from the inside it was transparent and when light was outside it was reflective. That ment if a lot of openings were open it would be possible to see the inner space and reveal the secret of the box, and if only one was open at a time it just reflected the surroundings.

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / A4 Perceptual apparatus / Window expander / A5 Window in a Valise

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / New York City Studytrip / Lobby Studies

“...a story about Seagram, from an architecture student perspective.....” At 375 Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd street you will notice a 38 stories tall building called Seagram, which is designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1958. The Seagram building is world known for its’ floating plans and the relation between inside and outside. When I came around the corner on 52nd I notice this old Greek-looking monument of a building placed in the middle of all the tall shiny skyscrapers and fast driving cars. The old building reflects itself into the lower part of another building where it is surrounded by glass and even bigger poles. I noticed a big flat platform with some green bushes on the side. Taking small steps up to the platform and walking towards the building I feel like I’m entering something very private and very public space at the same time. When I open the door to the inside, it’s very quiet and everything stands still, even the security guard who is standing by the entrance to the elevators. The lobby in Seagram was an open space and very minimalistic. The walls into the elevators seemed like heavy void boxes holding the building up and refrain the glass to crush. The first time I visited Seagram was a late afternoon so the mood in the lobby was a lot like the mood outside the building. It wasn’t windy outside so the border between the inside and outside was lot alike. The facades of Seagram had a rhythm different time a day. During daylight you wouldn’t be able to see the inside very well. The harsh facade and angular poles made of darkened steel didn’t give the impression of being invited into to the lobby. But at night when the light is switched on at the different levels it makes the facade change and being alive. I left the lobby when it was dark outside, and at that point I didn’t feel like leaving, because it felt like so much was going on inside of the building. All the light from the different levels and the small round lights at the entrance reminded me about an entrance to a theater. You could say, at day the Seagram has a strong relation between inside and outside, but at night it comes alive together with rest of the city and welcoming us all to join.

Lobby stydies

At the studytrip to New York the assignement was to make 3 analyses of lobbies. Hotel Marriot, The Seagram building and FordFoundation.

THE SEAGRAM BUILDING

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / New York City Studytrip / Window Safari

Window Safari

New York City is known for its’ skyscrapers. Most of the newer buildings have windows as their facade instead of small details around the windows. The window was an inside to outside function (looking out, opening) where on the new buildings it seems like it’s outside in. A lot of the buildings in NYC, and especially the skyscrapers have the windows as an other perspective. I was fascinated by how the window actually works as a facade in higher priority than it’s actual function. The window has a day and night, and in New York City it has become their front.

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AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Reflection sheet 3rd semester / 17.01.13

Our semesters’ main title is “Openings”. When I reflect upon my projects throughout this semester I think I have learned a lot of how you understand and perceive an opening, how different it can be and I truly learned to work more abstractly with my projects. This semester was really challenging working with new methods and the way of working in teams with the projects. During the window safari I was investigating the surface of the window. Through my walk around the city of Aarhus I realized that the surface of the window definitely depended on its’ function of the inside. I think it was a barrier-breaking feeling of walking around and taking pictures of windows, especially when it comes to private houses. I found that is border a really interesting fact, where does the private zone start and where does the public end? I’m now aware of how different windows are and how much they actually differ from each other. The window safari experience makes me look at forms more judiciously and carefully. In further futures I’ll have to be more specific what I’m looking for, what my purpose is. Writing my manifesto was a whole new experience for me. It was challenging to explain my architectural principles and intentions. But I think, the process of writing it specified my passion for art and architecture generally. The strength in this project was actually the same as the weakness. Being push out not knowing what you are looking for, then registration of the surroundings, wonder and find the essence of what is important in the given assignment.

Recently separated was a group project. We had a strong team with three 3rd graders and three 2nd graders where two of them were foreign exchange students. Our strength in this group was that we had a lot of different thoughts about the project, because of the different grades and experience from different teachers. The weakness was that only the 3rd graders were able to do everything digitally, where we only were able to do the analog parts, which meant that we didn’t learn how to do it digitally, since there was no time scheduled for it. In spite of that, I think the most important thing I learned in this project was how to work together, internationally, with different tasks individually and then work it out as a group. I still think I got some insight to the 3rd graders skills in technology and knowledge. The process of working in the different scales was really interesting too. It made me realized what an impact it can have to make a cardboard model in 1:100 and then scale it up to 1:1. The feeling of an object interacting with the body is so relevant during the development of architecture and it’s not that often we are able to do that, unless you are designing furniture/design objects. Another important point from this project was working with the materials. To go from working with a cardboard model 1:100, will definitely change when it’s made in 1:1 in wood. Working with materials in the different scales taught me a lot and forced me to consider cautiously the choice of material further on. Next time this type of group composition will occur, I will try to manage my time better, so it will be possible to learn most of the technical skills the 3rd graders have. Our semester project started out with mapping our window at home. It was a really great opportunity to get to know your own window better and look at and out of it with a whole new perspective. During the mapping I learned a lot working in InDesign, how to map. Mapping – it was another way to look at the space and surroundings and it got me thinking more abstractly, which today I use for other projects.

For me it was really good to work with pictures in layers and in this abstract form, which created the space and reflection I felled was the potential in my window. One of the strengths in my project was that I took a lot of pictures with different distances and connected them so they created a new relation to each other. I thought it was important to investigate this relation both day and night and discover the difference between. The weakness in my project was the drawings I made which didn’t spoke as well as my mapping through the photos. I have to think about how I use my drawings and therefore I will work with connecting my analog drawings more digitally and only use them if they have another significance than the mapping for instance. In this project I learned what’s important and how I should manage my work and I will try to use it as during my future projects. During the next ‘expanded’ assignment of the mapping, the work was kind of opposite of Recently Separated. The window was in 1:1, and I had to scale that and my apartment into 1:20 model made out of MDF. Through this assignment I tried a lot of different models of how my window could be expanded and in which way I wanted to angle it. Forwarded I have to be better at producing material, then be very exact and criticize my own work more, and then produce again so I will get a much wider examples of models and get deeper into the project. Through my mapping I discovered my wide window frame by placing my body into it. I was also very attracted by the reflection it made in the actual window and out on the ‘outside’. So looking back at my mapping I decided to work with this actual space in the window frame vs. the optical space that’s only available for the eyes and mind. I made a lot of probes on reflection and how light interacted in this reflection. I had Olafur Eliasson’s work in mind – the infinity by using mirrors. The fact that mirrors can reflect as the window did, but also that it creates this space the body can’t be within. I still have to be better to specify what I’m looking for in my models. In my mapping I was interested in the surroundings and the reflection on the outside of the window. Therefore I created a periscope out of seethrough reflecting material so it would be possible to look from the inside to the outside with a different angle than the usual perspective and the outside surroundings wouldn’t be able to see me at the same time. I tried to combine these two strong elements with the expanded place for the body and how that could interact with the rest of my apartment. I decided to work with some folding methods, which brought the element of actual space that the body can interact in. The strength in the project was my ideas and the abstract thoughts about space and reflection. How do you define a spatial form? But I should have connected them better, so they would relate more to each other and not as two individual essentials. The folding method in my expanded window frame was based on different positions of my body looking out. I should have been more aware of how the body would express itself in these folded parts. That’s one of the weaknesses in my project, the lack of plan and section made in Rhino. I had a lot trouble with Rhino and did not use it properly for the project. I will be better at it so I can work more precisely in my further projects, and that is one of my main goals next semester.

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Reflection sheet 3rd semester / 17.01.13

I will prioritize my time better so I will have time for studying programs like Rhino. This project working with the different scales was really diverse from Recently Separated and again it shows what a difference it makes to work in dissimilar sizes and materials. I definitely think the digitally part and the abstractness of this project was the biggest challenges, but it made me understand again how important it is to be able to connect different techniques and devices such as analog, digitally, and physical models etc. To collect all the material from the semester we were assigned to make a port-folio box made out of MDF within a certain size. The box should represent what I found most important throughout the semesters’ projects and how I wanted other to understand it. It had the same folding system as my expanded window to have a connection from the semester assignment to the port-folio. For me it was very important to make sure that it would show the spatial atmosphere and effects of reflection and the impact light had on it. The box was build up with small spaces or boxes with openings to the outer shell that only fit my work just right in it, which means that the box, my port-folio, was working outside-in. But it also worked inside-out because of my idea with the space interacting with these boxes and how the light would make the reflecting material be see-through as a window and that would all connect with each other in the box. The actual building of the box was a big challenge for me, since my physical idea was better on paper than in practice. Next time I will be more experimenting and find out how the materials work together. The strength in this project was my idea that went from the expanded window to the actual box, the weakness was that it didn’t work as the way I had in mind. I do need to be better at differ between important decisions and less important ones, since I got a lot of ideas and plans for my projects. I have to be more realistic of what can be made in real life and what I should prioritize my time on. The Lobby assignment in New York City was very exciting because the lobbies were so different from each other. The relation of inside/outside, void and space in the Seagram building was spectacular, the way it was so simple but at the same time very detailed. I think the relation between the inside and outside with only the window as a wall from public to almost private was really interesting and it makes one think of how strong simple elements can be.

I think it was really good to have the window safari in mind while being in New York. A city like New York, the vertical city with its’ enormous facades build up by windows. The relation between building and window is so different than most buildings in Denmark. The window becomes the facade and is not registered as a window-function only. I believe that if I didn’t have the window safari in Aarhus city I wouldn’t have recognizes all the different types of how a window is represented. So it was really good to have that in mind while exploring the city. It made me wonder how a window is working as a facade. We had a special project named Beyond Scale where we were working with urban planning during the TallShipRace’13. I could use the practice of registration to understand what we could use the harbor for. It actually ended up with all our senses was stimulated by the smell, sound, view of the harbor, so we made an installation build on the senses that should be brought out in public so we would be able to get people from all cities around and in Aarhus to join this beautiful festival. The installation was to connect a camera to a voluntary guest and then stream the video live out to sails as a projector around the city. We also talked about getting them intro trains, busses, basically everywhere it was possible to catch attention.

I think this project was very interesting because it is studied by connections between urban planning, the harbor and the city. There’s also a social study in mind – to make an Arhusianian a tourist in his own city instead of only thinking about the foreigners who come to Aarhus. We were thrilled about the curiosity of mapping your own city and find your way through tracks with smaller exhibitions. A weakness in this project is how people will react to the camera since it will be on day and night and the sails with the streaming will show different things – it depends on the people wearing the camera-strap-on. But I think the undefined and unknown quistion is an interesting point in the project. In my specialist course my group and me worked with some photos we had photographed in a system with ground, detail and elements of a whole. We used these in a rhythm that was connected to the sound, which we collected in our registration too. We used a zoom in and out method to have a systemized flow in the video we ended up creating.

Then there was Hotel Marriot Lobby, which differed from Seagram to be more complex and had mostly all geometrical forms in their design. It went from this linier long outer elevator shaft that was holding the building standing and had a lot of empty space surrounding it, to this smaller flat room where carpets, walls, chairs, lamps, and stairs made a chaos of geometrical forms all mashed together in a very compositional way.

This project was very abstract and very different from other projects. It was very exciting because we worked with diverse devices as photos, drawings, video and sound. With my knowledge from the other project I had this semester I was able to reflect upon them and then create a project that combined it to new relations and new knowledge that I can build and reflect upon again.

FordFoundation was like an airy greenhouse with a grid surrounding the plants. It was like a pearl being protected in a shell, the plants were protected in this big monument of a building, black poles and powerful from the big harsh city, although the citizens of New York were able to have a peek of paradise through the big windows.

I defiantly think Mapping my window was part of my strongest work. It opened another way of thinking for me both in an abstract form but also through materials.

These 3 lobbies had some strong elements in their architecture. During the drawing I made for each place it occurred to me how different they were from each other and how spatial feeling is shown. It was a good experience and it prepared me for looking more intensely on other spatial buildings and how “empty” space can be such a strong element in architecture.

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / The Williamsburg Triology

The Williamsburg Triology

The first assignment after the study trip to New York, was about creating an archive. I was very fascinated by the feeling and rhymth underneath the Williamsburg Bridge. Making the archive we worked with the windows on the streets at the site and how the trains rhymth reflected in the window and in comparison to the picture of Williamsburg bridge.

The theme of openings was really clear in the 4. semester project on hybrid building sitet in Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York. We had to make up a character and create a micro-unit where he could live and inspire the hybrid building. The case study by Lacaton & Vassel, inspiret us to differ betweem light and heavy openings and how an opening can be. Using time schedule of different functions it allowed us to create a building that contained hotels room, apartments, a lobby, a woodworkshop and a restaurant. Light was important for our project and the building and microunits were grounded in the view and sundirection. Since Williamsburg was a light crime area and a lot of people over there were afraid of getting together on the streets we decided to make sure our hybrid building should be able to offer a lot of different possibilities to the people and that it would be a nice light place they could gather at.

Williamsburg Bridge

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / The Williamsburg Triology / Constructing a scenario / P1.3 Program

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / The Williamsburg Triology / P2 The art of inhabitation / Constructing a place

The wood workshop and the restaurant are creating a hybrid through the lobby

2nd floor

Everything in the building is open 1st floor

Wood workshop and restaurant is closed off from the lobby

Ground floor

Basement

Kitchen 10-24 O’clock

Seating 10-24 O’clock 18

Everything in the building is closed

Restaurant

Exhibition room Machinery 10-24 O’clock 10-18 O’clock

Toilets 24 hrs Rentable space 10-24 O’clock 18

Woodworkshop

Toilets 24 hrs

Hotel suit accesible 24 hrs

Exhibition room 24 hrs

24 Accesible 24 hrs

Check in 14-24 O’clock 18

Hotel Rooms

Housing

Hotel accesible 24 hrs 12

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / The Williamsburg Triology / P2 The art of inhabitation / Constructing a place

Cross section

Longitudinal section

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B B

Cross section

Situation plan

Roof

Situation plan

Plan

Pespective

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / The Williamsburg Triology / P2 The art of inhabitation / Constructing a place

P r o g r a m m e s “The mixing of uses in a hybrid building generates a potential which is transferred, as in a   system of connected vessels, to those weaker activities so that all involved are benefited.  Hybrid buildings are organisms with multiple interconnected programmes, prepared to  house both planned activities as well as those unplanned activities in a city...” Javier Mozas 15

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Academic Optic: Scaling Architecture / Aarhus Searangers competition project

Situation plan Aarhus Searanger competetion project, Scaling Architecture

The project with the Searangers was a competition of making them a new office, on water. Their wishes was to have some platforms that had to be able to move back and fourth from the harbour. They wanted to have something that was related to the sea. We designed triangle platforms that could be put together in almost any kind of ways. Then we looked in the shape of shellfish and used that for inspiration. We were also fascinated by Frank Gehry and his huge spaces within buildings that looks like tilting facades. For our project it was important that it was in contact with the water, since both the searangers, biologist and teachers were using the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;officeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Section

Plan

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / IT- Hard Co(u)r(s)e Digital / Architecture Challange

Peaks Pavillion, Architecture Challange

In the It-course we used Rhino and Grasshopper to create a pavillion with help of the lazercutter. We created a 1:1 scale, 3 meters tall, OSB pavillion. Due to the construction of the design, we had to build it over a very short limited of time for it not to crash. Once it was assemble the construction would be very stable. It was an architecture challange, as the project was said to be!

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Reflection sheet 4th semester / 17.06.13

Our main title ’Openings’ has come to a whole other level in the 4th semester than it had in the 3rd. This semester has reflected with more depth and intensity in the light of our study trip to Williamsburg in New York. Working on a specific site where a lot of different people are involved was really interesting and very different than operating with my own window. The design of the building was not just a regular task, we were asked to create a hybrid so the boundaries were much more floating and therefore it would create undefined spaces and combining that with the programs we choose. In the start I found it a bit difficult because it was a really abstract way of thinking, but digging into it, it became really interesting and my curiosity forced me to try different opportunities. I think that way of working was very useful and it forced me to keep questioning whenever I design something, which is very helpful for me in the future. In the first phase (P1.1) we settled in groups, mapped the site and constructed an Archive for our Atlas based on what we found interesting at the site. My group worked with several things, but we all agreed on working with lights and the feeling of the atmosphere that was created through the actual windows. Furthermore we mapped the reflection from the driving cars to the windows and the rhythm of the trains filtering light and train’s continues beat.

A weak part of our process was the start of the project, where we researched and compared something that didn’t make sense in the end, but after stepping back and reflecting on our project we manage to turn around and choose a realistic path, which I think turned out really well. In (P1.2) we individually had to create a character, or use someone we met in Williamsburg. I chose a guy at my age that I met. Since my experience with him was somewhat real, I didn’t give him any extra craziness, I kept him simple and clean. I thought of giving him a darker side, but to respect him and for my own curiosity to analyze him I chose not to. Though, reflecting upon it, I wish I had. Through the phase working on the micro-unit I didn’t feel that I could express his fascinating about food and cooking enough. Therefore the work concerning the micro-units was rather lacking. The duration was only a week, but to find the idea of how to create the special space for the inhabitant (the character) it took a lot more time than expected which concluded in some complex situations within the four walls. In that week I started to learn how to use Autocad and I made all my drawings in that. Another assignment for the character was a video of story of the character. WHO.WHAT.WHY. At that time I had never made any video before so it was really challenging to create something extraordinary in short time but through the semester I’ve learned how to use it properly. The next phase (P1.3) we worked in pairs having our characters in mind creating several programs for our building. The thought behind our programs was to get people to interact with each other in a natural way and have the possibility to change the buildings’ spaces to fit the current event/ program. In that way our building would be a living machine where each individual is part of the change. In the start of our research on minimal living we came across Graham Hill and his small multifunctional apartment in Soho, New York City. The way his apartment could turn into two bedrooms or a wall could turn into a bed was really an innovative way to organize a small apartment. We wanted to use the functions within our micro-units and within our building as a concept for the way the spaces could change.

Both of us have also been really interested through the whole process how light has an impact in a living space. So we did a lot of several light studies and created the different part of the building due to the light circumstances. I think the strong part in our project was definently the light study and how light can be used in the different spaces. We created our building as a circle where you would be able to walk in it, on top of it, beside it and underneath it. It was the point to get the people in Williamsburg together in a more natural way to meet. Working with the micro-unit I’m now aware of how important it is to use different strategies.I realized in a late phase that my idea with the staircase and roof in my micro-unit wasn’t possible and I wasn’t able to change it anymore. I know now that I should have drawn a 3D model or made a psysical model a lot earlierI would have seen some of the complex parts better and would have figure out another solution for it. I learned that is so important that plan and sections are not enough when you have to do with a rather complex situation. I guess my wish for this to happend was so strong that I didn’t realized it was’nt able in real life, which I definently regret now. I’ve to be more critical on my own work and to quistion it more. I will from now on always know how important stairs are, I never realized that before. I have made a couple of drawings of how it was supposed to be like, genereally. But I think that if I could change it, I would probably change the whole idea. Making the books for a representation of the whole project was a good experience. Generally the blog and the books are good for me to look back at and reflect upon the semester, since it becomes a lot clearer to me what was succecsful and what was not. While dealing with the semester project we had a smaller phase where we investigated an innovative built proposal of collective housing. We had the architects Lacaton & Vassal who created Social Housing, Mulhouse in France. I think this phase was a good proposal for inspiration for our semester project. The boundaries between inside and outside are very clear in Social Housing, Mulhouse by the constrast of the material use. I think that’s what inspired me to move it on to our project. We used different materials to separate the different programs from each other and the point of open up and close the building with moveable walls. Visiting Trapholt and Koldinghus was a great experience. I was particular astounded by the big room in Koldinghus and how they managed to combine old and new such as the vertical ‘poles’ that looked like trees and horizontal hanging bridges. I was also impressed with the ‘big bookcases’ because of its scale; it felt like you were Thumbelina walking around. I think it gave thought to mind how it’s possible to create such an atmosphere. In this semester we have been working much more in pairs and only a small part individually, which actually has been a very instructive experience. I think it is very important that you are able to work with others and get used to combine various ideas. But at the same time I think it is essential that when you choose a person to work with, you have to make sure that both of you want to commit equally to the project even though with different backgrounds, as age, family, mind and time.

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I think I learned a lot of how you work together as a couple and how crucial it is for both parts to be inspiring and motivating, since it’s hard to have all the responsibility on one’s shoulders. As a group we have been discussing things through, but from my side I think we could have done better if we had more tangible decisions and then move on. I feel like there we’re too many undefined situations and I think our project could have got into a deeper level if we had done that. Therefore I think our teamwork has been quite stressful an unorganized, which I think is a shame for the project and individually. But in spite of that I think I’ve have learned and adapted a lot of technical skills from my partner, since she is older and more experience than me, which I’ve appreciated a lot!

TO OBSERVE EVERY LITTLE DETAIL IN WILLIAMSBURG TO EXPERIENCE THE VIBE AT THE SITE TO EXPLORE THE CITY TO COLLECT INFORMATION TO REFLECT ON EVERY PART OF A PROJECT TO EXTRACT WHAT I FOUND IMPORTANT TO THINK HOW THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS SHOULD INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER TO REACT UPON THE SITUATION IN WILLIAMSBURG TO ACT UPON THE RESULTS TO DO A LOT OF RESERCH TO MAKE SEVERALS MODELS

In my academic optics ‘Scaling Architecture’, a competition project in relation with Aarhus SeaRangers we should create a platform made out of modules where The SeaRangers could have their office, kitchen, and storeroom. They were very focused on keeping it simple and making it an icon as a new part of the harbor used for events, education, sightseeing, and as an office. My group and I did a lot of research and ended up using a form from a crustacean, which had some really interesting architectural points. I think this project was very successful, because of it’s delicate simple structure and form which contained several functions for education, events and organization. 19

The challenge of this project was to design something on such a short time but also because it needed a bit technical knowledge on how something floats due to wind and water. For me, this project was really exciting because we came across all scales from urban design to building and then to industrial design and it was up to us where we wanted to put the extra thoughts to it. When I reflect upon this semester I think I achieved my goal of learning digital drawing, I may not have used Rhino as much as I thought I would. But learning Illustrator and Autocad was not in my head 5 months ago. I’m really happy and satisfied taking that step and since it has been a success I now have the courage and strength to put even more interest and will into it generally. It doesn’t mean that I’m professional, I still have a lot to learn, but I learned a lot more than I expected and that’s a possitive thing. Beside the school I’ve been doing a project for a competition where we should make a video for an architecture workshop in the summerholiday of our own material. I used my vacation on learning a rather complex video program and it went really well. I’m looking forward to be able to develop all my new skills in the next semester. Beside the ‘learned lesson’ mistake on my micro-unit I think this semester has taught me personally that I need to trust more on my own decisions and believe in what I think is right. I’m aware that it is important to listen to others as well and especially in a group where you can get great inputs from each other to produce a even better project. I still have to learn to be more determined and structural on everything I do. Make a decision, believe in it and move on.

COVERING

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Instant Aarhus (IAA) / Inflatable structures / Studytrip to Mols

Inflatable structures, Instant Aarhus & Mols

Before Mols we were in groups learning how to staple the plastic construction which we had to make at Mols in big scale. Therefore we had to made a small assignment with the theme of covering relating to the human body. We designed a cover for at homeless person, that could be placed everywhere. Afterwards we made a smaller scale of that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that we had to make at Mols. At Mols we designed a new structure that should be connected to the city.

Tension structure, Plan and section

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / P2 Constructing a case study archive / The Sports Palace / Felix Candela

The Sports Palace, Felix Candela, Constructing a case study archive

Case study on Felix Candelaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports Palace in Mexico and Pier Luigiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Small Sports Palace in Rome. Through the understanding of hyperbolic paraboloids and catenary arches we developed models showing and experimenting the constructions - compression and tension - after lectures and talks with an engineer. This case study prepared us for the next project of thinking abstract architecture with construction as a goal.

Paraboloids and trusses

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An overview, Kinetic Saturation

An overview of the 4 phases of the semester project of Kinetic Saturation with the intensity of work amount in the middle and inspiret by the plates.

Icons study

To keep track of all the projects, a ‘layout-team’ would create a icon-catalogue to make sure we had a common ‘language’ which would make it easy to find just what was needed for every different topic in every group.

(P4): Studies on materials and context, and applying conclusions to a further development of the prototype created in (P3). Investigations were made into human scale as well as revisiting the connections that were first selected as the structural parameter for the design.

(P1): Investigations on the phenomena of wind and rain - their properties, their causes, their consequences and their opportunities for integration with architecture.

(P3): Development of a time-scale and situation, as well as a variety of probes to test the effects of wind and rain on fabrics, structure and systems. Additionally, investigations were made into scale and its effect on movement, as well as abstractions of the “rain chain”. To conclude, a prototype was made to model conclusions which included an early development of the kinetic facade as well as a mechanical roof, which was later replaced.

(P2): Construction of a “case study archive,” examining a multitude of different structures and structural principles such as tension, compression, prestressed membranes, arches and trusses. Following the case studies, a selection was made on the Kildeskovhallen for its principles of structure and intricate connections, which seemed to provide the most opportunities for kinetic movement due to wind and rain.

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Situation plan 1:500

Weather phenomena

Using the two phenomena, rain and wind to create a cycle of reactions to make a cover.

Map of rough and mild winds and effect on the structure.

Open structure

Closed structure

Most likely structure

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Constructing a membrane

Using the case study with the structure from Kildeskovhallen to test materiality and structuce with wind and rain. We focused on the joints of the structure and to see how water would be tranported with wind - creating a membrane

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1: Bearings 2: Bearing socket 3: Independent panel movement mechanism 4: Material panel + frame 5: Panel axel 6: 50mm steel cable 7: Cable clevis 8: Steel structural frame

Elevation 1:100

Plan 1:100

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When no wind or water interferes the installation is reflected in the water and seems to be continued.

When wind and/rain interferes with the installation the surface of the water becomes blurry and non-reflective. 27

Section perspective

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Kinetic Saturation

This picture shows the aestatic program of the project.

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“The way to understand the dynamic nature of structure is to pay attention to the fact that we actually newer “see” a structure, in the ordinary sense. We only perceive its results, an assemblage of parts and materials. Structure is what makes this assemblage possible. Structure is a potency.” 29

Antoine Picon

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MOLS – INFLATABLE STRUCTURES The trip to Mols working with inflatable structures was extremely educating and reflected a whole other way of doing architecture. Normally, from an outer perspective, architecture usually has something to do with a layered wall, hard roof and solid ground. This trip to Mols change every normal parameter on what architecture is and can be. I understood architecture as temporary, as moveable, very fragile, and at the same time it could be very strong, scary and beautiful. We learned a certain folding-technique to make sure these inflatable structures could hold when huge fans blew air into the structures. It made something that seems impossible to do, possible and much more than ever expected. Working together in a big group was at some points quite difficult since lots of opinions and thoughts were on the table and not all could be discussed. The positive of working in a big group with a mix of 3rd and 5th graders made it possible for everyone to learn something new and pushed the 5th graders to show the 3rd grader how to do, and for the 3rd graders to live up to that. RAIN Starting the 1st phase after departing from Mols, decisions of a weather phenomenon to work with through the semester project was made. I chose Rain. Studying rain for a week, both facts on the Internet, shape and design of a drop and the feeling and aesthetic part of rain was really interesting and surprising. 30

The strength of choosing rain was, since this assignment was due during the fall, very easy to exam the phenomenon and study it even more. The weakness of it could be that rain normally never stays for a long period of time and is a phenomenon that you have to experience in that very moment it occurs. The challenge of studying rain is that it’s transparent and needs a surface to be discovered and because of its liquid condition it is hard to study it as an individual and therefore instead merely as a general aspect. Getting together with a group partner who had chosen wind let us to investigate interesting aspect of combining something that was possible but challenging. CASE STUDY - FELIX CANDELA / PIER LUIGI After studying the weather phenomena we created groups and were assigned to different case studies upon abstract architecture. Working with Felix Candela and Pier Luigi, hyperbolic paraboloids and catenary arches was somewhat relative to the inflatable structure we studied and experienced at Mols. In the analysis and interpretation of The Sports Palace in Mexico we focused on the outside, the cladding and the membrane of the structure and how Candela is using material that doesn’t show the actual purpose of the hyperbolic paraboloid.

We put the irony of that purpose into a model to show that we understood the concept of his thoughts and his actual work. Another time we should be more considered working with the inside and with the human scale, how you enter and experience the structure. After having the lectures and talks with an engineer (Morten) we were very focused on comparing the structure and materials of Candela’s Sports Palace in Mexico to Pier Luigi’s Small Sport Palace in Rome. It was exciting to be able to understand and investigate a building’s construction and form and how sometime architects/engineers hide special conditions due to the expression they want to communicate. In our group the weakness was basically about the communication of the presentation and the hierarchy of the project’s result. The strength in our group was all the dedication and interest of understanding the abstraction of the case studies, since we are not engineers; everyone seemed to have learned something about construction (compression/tension), which is a big convenience. KINETIC SATURATION After having the knowledge from the case studies we began the group work with the two weather phenomena. We chose to look at one of the structures from the case studies and explore how the two phenomena reacted upon it with the use of different materials. It was important in the experiments that rain and wind were both equal investigated and the result they gave was something we could use for further analyses and experiments. Through the phases making the probes, the structure of investigation was very simple and clear, which made it really easy for us to keep track of the project’s depth and development. Our hypothesis and conclusion basically pushed us to the next level and almost showed what way we should turn. With exceptions for some wrong time decisions as material developments we ended up with some great results, which covered a lot of different potentials. Next time more precision and choice of model-knowledge would be good as the questioning and enlightenment from different perspectives. One of the most important things I learned was a strict investigation gives clear results. I also got to know that it’s alright to fail, if it brings you back on track. To know how to differ between what’s important and what’s not helps and develops the project. The concept of the project was in the start a bit abstract and had to be brought down to earth and get real. With the limited amount of time it was sometimes necessary to choose maybe not the best or pretties solution, but the one that communicated the best for later to be developed in aesthetics. Some of the weaknesses in the project were the lack of realization. To keep up the strict investigations the use of the wind-machine was prioritized. It would definitely be much more realistic if the tests had been outside in the real wind and rain. But since they didn’t occur at an exact time and always fitted our time schedule we decided to investigate on a weather-concept that was a bit general. Therefore it could be said that the final structure will never be 100 % precise as our investigations, but the aesthetics effects will still occur and have the same expression that we had as a goal.

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The irony of our project was the theme ‘Covering’. It was not that obvious in the result of our project. After one of the experiments we made went wrong, we decided to turned lemons into lemonade and created a ‘experience tunnel’ where it could be possible to be covered, but at the same time it was a risk to be a victim of the weathers mood. One of the most positive things in our project was that we both were very dedicated to every piece of the project. The project was almost never missing out any perspective, because we questioned it from every angle. It would have been great to develop it even more and to see how it would work in real life. Both the case study and weather phenomena project has forced me to think every detail and the whole picture at the same time. The project of inflatable structures makes sense of how architecture can be interpreted and how architects think. I found out that sometimes, abstract architecture can be so simple if you just question and explore it deep enough. The 5th semester has enhanced me to rethink architecture as a living subject where human and form is an equalized cohesion that pushes each other to create the desired spacious experience.

CULTURE BUNKER During the start of the semester I was asked to work on an old bunker in Aarhus that was opened for the fall. In Aarhus there’s more than 300 bunkers from the 2nd world war and is not used for anything. We were asked to create something crazy that should contain a space for a poet and an underground cinema. It was a really hard job, but fun. Having one week of creating architecture 1:1 was much more serious than I expected. We were 3 students to build a 13 meter long tunnel with small wood pieces that created a space that was on the edge of impossible. I learned hands-on building, to have budget for materials, and that a day only consist of 24 hours. It was a very awkward feeling of tarring down 70-year-old bunker benches just to transform it into new ‘benches’ that’s only going to be used for a shorter period of time and then shut down again. This experience has shown me how some of the real architect work can be and how it is to work for a client.

A very positive effect of being on the international unit is to be able to work with someone who has a whole other way of thinking and be able to share these thoughts with each other. I have gained a lot of new knowledge, understanding and open mindness to think architecture and how to work together as a team. ACADEMIC OPTICS - CO-DESIGN The Academic Optics was very useful for the work as an architect in real life since it addresses to CO-design work. In the optic we were assigned to work with something we could test, and work with people and not for them. We decided to work with dorms in Aarhus and how housing as social life can have an effect on stress and health. Since 3 of us were living in 3 different kinds of dorms we decided to use them as referents. After few days we went to the Chaos Pilots to work with them on a future Master Program on an education of Co-design. So using Co-design to create a Co-design Master education we managed to put together a video in 3 days to send out to powerful people, in hope on such a future education. After the days of working in Co-design relation we had to develop the concept for the project. We learned to use different methods on Co-design and used them to develop the project. It had some great and very surprising results, which could be drawn into real conclusion. Reflecting upon the design workshop I attended in Lisbon this summer, were I worked for some locals, I now realize that the methods we were using was actually Co-design. Talking to people, understanding their needs and wishes, then together with them create what they don’t know they need and wish for. That was amazing. Even though I learned so much in this optic at school, I learned much more about what I’m using this education for and how. It opened my mind in a different way than usual and that’s probably the most I’ve gained from this optic.

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Studytrip to Prora at Rügen and Berlin / Spatial Transitions

Spatial Transitions - Infiltration The Berlin University of Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin – UdK, including fine arts, architecture, media and design, music and the performing arts collages) decides to expand its activities to the island of Rügen because of a generous donation from a benefactor. I was really interested in the circulation and flow, both vertically and horizontally. The action of infiltration as the transformation would give the possibility to create something that could open up the staircase and interact with the courtyard and across the building.

The artform I chose was architecture, since architects like to discuss and reflect upon own and others ideas, which could be unfolded on/in this extended staircase (flow/ circulation area). Inspired by several of buildings, designs, interior and exterior I found the complex idea of something penetrating the building creating in-between spaces. The ramp system is supposed to be a “red thread” to follow throughout the building and into varouis spaces, with different kinds of slopes and dips. The penetration through the inside spaces is defined by the actual transparancy, such as the physical vs. visual connection to the other programs.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;...data collection and processing, site analysis and extraction of architectural potentials, development of abilities for registration and representation of tangible and intangible qualities.â&#x20AC;?

The jewish musuem, Berlin

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Prora / Reinhabitation / XL Territorial relations

1936-1939 Prora beach resort is build. Prora is located on the island of R端gen, Germany. The building extend 4,5 kilometres and was planned as a holiday resort, though it never was used for this purpose. 1939-1945 With the onset and during World War II, all building on Prora stopped. The complex was then used for refuge during the Allied bombing campaign. By the end of the war, the complex housed female auxiliary personnel for the German Luftwaffe. 1945-1955 The Soviet Army had control of the region and used Prora as a military base. Two of the housing block was demolished. 1956-1990 The East German military rebuilt several of the buildings. The formation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1956, made the building a restricted military area and were used for Parachute combat training.

1990-1992 The Military Technical School of the Bundeswehr used some parts of the building. 1992-1994 Part of the building was used for housing asylum seekers from the Balkans. In 1993 parts of the building were subject to decay and vandalism. 1995-2006 From 1995-2005 part of the building was Prora Center, which housed several museums. Since 2004, the blocks of the building have been sold individually for different uses. 2008 Plans were approved to have Prora fill its original purpose and to turn it into a modern tourist resort. 2011 The largest youth hostel of Germany opens. Prora Zentrum opens, a non-profit organization, which deals with the regional history of the national socialist times and the GDR history in Prora.

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Program sheet Introduction Arriving to Prora was quite an experience. Part of the resort was only leftover ruins, where the fence didn’t really invite you to have a close-up look on the façade, but only let you have a look from a further distance with signs of danger. The building where Prora-Zentrum was located at, was the exact opposite of the ruins. It was nice, clean, and white and had no marks of the history of war, military, or any kind of German history written on the façade, only anonymous bright colors and institutional interior as in a kindergarten was placed. It was like a mask on a face with no expressions at all. Moving to the last part of the Prora resort was the more preserved ruins, where we had access to walk around in. This was an amazing experience and let us really close to the atmosphere of what was supposed to have been a (propaganda) summer holiday beach resort. Dealing with a structure in decay reveals great tectonic potential in preserving parts of the old history, while re-enforcing what is already there, and adding an intervention, which consist of a more lightweight material we chose this to be the part we wanted to apply our transformation to.

The act of transformation: Infiltration; to enter, to gain access to, penetrate… The choice of infiltration as my transformation is because I’m interested in the overlap and meeting between the old building and the new applied and how the relation between the courtyard and the building communicates.

Transformational intervention During the initial research on-site in Prora, the chosen courtyard to make the intervention, were made due to several things. The chosen building were selected partly because of its finished construction and despite decay and vandalism, still a building with its structural system in order and potentials to re-enforce the functional parts with a new structure. Having a closer look inside the building and at the different courtyards I was so enthralled by the continuity of the spaces of the building (inside)/courtyard (outside)/ building (inside)/ courtyard (outside) and so on, to each side of where I was standing. The courtyard was not a space where any interesting was taking place but a space to park the car or make nature grow wild, which I found strange. The courtyard I found interesting was one with a door to enter the wing of building, entering the staircase, a circulation area.

Walking up the stairwell on every level there was the above-mentioned feeling of continuity overlapping outdoor and indoor spaces. The vertical space in the stairwell somehow introduced to a less communicated space between each level, but with somewhat extension into the courtyard could turn out to something much more spatial and fundamental for communication. Using ramps to work as circulation in the building, but also for shorter vs. longer stay within, and to make this cramped worm penetrate the building and mark the raw historical spots to exhibit and tell the story of Prora. This ramp is meant both for the public to interfere in the life of the students and for the students to be inspired and connect on different levels.

The act of artform: Architects; form-giving, aesthetic, practical, social, curious. The choice of having architect students inhabitants in the building is because an architect would always be curious about the space they inhabit and how they themselves can be a part of process of inhabitation. The intentional investigations The intension is to deal with the issue of the non-existing interaction between the courtyard and the building. The investigation will deal with the choice of materials in the meeting between new and old, how to preserve the existing and re-enforce the historical layers, by adding a contrast where the new structure infiltrates, so that it will have certain markings in the changing from existing and the transformed. These historical layers of materials are of great tectonic value, and it is important to secure parts of the old history with a treatment of respect, so that it will have traces of the old structure in the new one. What are going to be influential in the project are the spatial investigations where focus will be on the transition between courtyard and building, new and old, private and public spaces and the meeting of the two transformations. The concept of these transitions will conduct open spaces with multiple views and having physically and visually connections to the public because of developed systems of ramps. The project is developed through a series of investigations, which includes models and drawings.

The two transformations meet The project is seen as one common project, having both a parasite and infiltration transforming the building. The initial programs according to each art form are intended to share some common facilities, but developed individually according to the need of the art form, and the spatial transitions between old and new and the transition in-between the two transformations.

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Axonometric section with focus on the fascination of the building.

The first idea of a new flow in the building

Axonometric section with focus on re-programming in the building.

PROGRAMMES OVERVIEW

STUDIO STORAGE

FOYER CIRCULATION (RAMP)

The long hallways - infinity

HOUSING

MODEL WORKSHOP

STORAGE

FOYER CIRCULATION (RAMP)

MODEL WORKSHOP

HOUSING

36 WOOD WORKSHOP

STORAGE

Raw material - palimpsest

FOYER CIRCULATION (RAMP)

HOUSING

WOOD WORKSHOP

STORAGE

The foyer different views

FOYER CIRCULATION (RAMP) AUDIOTORIUM

SEMINAR

TOILET / BATH / CHANGING

STORAGE

FOYER CIRCULATION (RAMP)

physical relation - circulation

AUDIOTORIUM

SEMINAR

PRIVATE PUBLIC CAFE´

SEMI PUBLIC / SEMI PRIVATE

Original structure and skeleton of the building

STORAGE

FOYER

CIRCULATION (RAMP)

PASSAGE

ADMINSTRATION

CONFERENCE ROOM

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A visual but not physical relation

The ramp can be used as an observatory for the public to see the life for a student.

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Axonometric of ramp assemble 1. Metal wire to transport tension 2. Bolts 3. Small metal L-beam to connect the big L-beams.

4. Big L-beam to be the loadcarrying beam of large spands. The material is metal that ages and rust due to weather and time as an aesthetic point.

5. Floor, made of linoleum, with a bright color to identify ramp as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;red threadâ&#x20AC;? in the building.

6. Glass rales to create a transparent atmosphere.

7. Metal laders gitters used as a light constructuction and as an aesthetic point.

8. Top frame of metal to transport tension.

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Prora / P4 Reinhabitation / Spatial qualities

A Section 1:200 -with focus on 4th floor

â&#x20AC;&#x153;...Exploration and development of programmed spatial relationships in dialogue with an existing physical context.â&#x20AC;?

Plan 1:200 -with focus on 4th floor

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Prora / P4 Reinhabitation / Materials and Spatial conditions

Material in existing building

New material in contrast to

Concrete/ heavy, big surfaces, grey , in decay

Steel and Corten steel/ Corten steel is a heavy and rough material. It seems quite dirty but at the same time it’s very rustic, nordic and beautiful.

Bricks/ heavy, red, small pieces, in decay

Floor clay/ light, red, soft, in decay

Small windows/ small amount of light and no relation to the outer space

Corten steel in contrast to a blend of a lightweight material as glass would be something that’s light and easy but also steady and dense. The remarkable thing about the choice of steel is that steel will due to several weather conditions age/decay over time which means it will change it’s expression and therefore it will be another experience. The color of corten steel could also be seen as a red thread for guidance, flow and circulation in the building

Carrying structure/ the raw basic structure of poles, poters, and fins in the building creates a skeleton of Prora and is a guideline for dividing and selecting space, although some might be cut within and exposured in two-stories-spaces. The exposure and visibility of the above-mentioned structures shows the story and memories of Prora - just in a modern space.

Glass/ Glass is a lightweight matierial in it’s optic, since it’s transparent. The transparency work as a opening for view, light, and comminication. It can work as a rood, wall or floor and as a optic space for relations between indeside and outside. Bright color ground/ A use of a bright color ect neon green to indicate the tranformation - infiltration flow throughout the building.

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Prora / P4 Reinhabitation / Materials and Spatial conditions

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being an architect isn't only about construction, it's about creating wide spaces with small spaces.â&#x20AC;? Yannick Heywang

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Reflection sheet 6th semester / 16.06.14

RELATIONAL TAXONOMY – Ame-Lot Student residence The first assignment of 6th semester taught us to what covering also can be. The 5th semester was very much about the relation to certain weather conditions where now it’s about architecture as an applied condition to something already existing.

REFLECTIVE SITE READINGS Coming home from Berlin and Prora we reflected on all the buildings, sites and experiences we have had. The reflections of the trip were exhibited merely abstract in a book. I believe the time for the reflection was too short, to create something that was well considered and reflected enough.

Before going on the study trip to Berlin and Rügen (Prora) it was important to understand those applied conditions of architecture. Divided up in teams, we got to choose a project and interpreted the covering.

Even though it was not supposed to be very deeply thought through, it would have been more precise and accurate due to more time, since it was a really interesting assignment of mapping and analyzing.

In my group we chose Ame-Lot student residence, by the French architect Stephane Malka, a building with a cover/a mask of flexible pallets that were attached on top of the façade to create a closer relation between the public street and the private residence.

Taking notes, mapping the site in Prora, analyzing the interesting points, in that early stage, not knowing what it was for, led to understand later on what I actually found interesting at the very moment I was there. That type of mapping where it captures your fully interest at the moment is a very good exercise

The idea of studying these other types of covering was a great initiative to get to understand them properly. The biggest challenge in the project was the amount of students in the group.

It was a bit difficult to agree on how exactly we should interpret it, since there were several opinions. When parts of the project was delegated into the group, we worked very well together, so we were able to finish in time with good results. Generally the most important thing I learned in this project and studies of covering – masking, parasite, infiltration, intertwining, is how different they are to each other and what they are capable of doing to an existing structure, which were to be used in the main project of Prora. STUDY TRIP - BERLIN AND PRORA Spending 4 days in Berlin and 2 days at Prora, studying various buildings in relation to construction, the covering and the atmosphere was a very educational importance and inspiration for the project in Prora. Visiting the building in Rügen and the possibility to come inside at feel the atmosphere on own body made it much easier to understand the spaces, the potentials for further development and the needs.

SPATIAL TRANSITIONS Giving the situation of housing and making workspaces for 12 students from The Berlin University of Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin – UdK, including fine arts, architecture, media and design, music and the performing arts collages) and common spaces, indoor and outdoor performance/exhibition spaces, and storage spaces, we were oblige to choose a type of actions of transformation and a type of art form. I was really interested in the circulation and flow, both vertically and horizontally. The action of infiltration as the transformation would give me the possibility to create something that could open up the staircase and interact with the courtyard. The art form I chose was architecture, since architects likes to discuss and reflect upon own and others ideas, which could be unfolded on/in this extended staircase (flow/circulation area). In the mapping of potential strategies of the transformation in relation to the existing structure we worked together 2 students (Morten and I) with the 2 different actions of transformations and the 2 different types of art forms to transform the building, added something new to the already existing structure. Even though each of our actions and art forms were very different, they complemented each other very well. The infiltration became a flow, meeting- and viewpoint throughout the building and the parasite that Morten worked it.

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Reflection sheet 6th semester / 16.06.14

The strength in my part of the project is the ramp-system. Since the ramps (infiltration) works very well with the existing structure it could be more than only that one courtyard, and follow throughout the entire complex – being an icon. One of the early problems in the project was the programming of the ramp with the other spaces. Since the ramp system was really complex, it was hard to implement it with Morten’s programs and develop them together. Therefor we split up and came together later on where we connected the critical issues together, which I think worked well. A weakness in the project was the lack of time to develop even more (precise and finished) models, to show how the atmosphere inside works together with the actual construction of it. Since the complexity of the ramp system was hard to show in drawing it would have been great to create a really precise and spatial model of the whole situation with the parasite as well.

ACADEMIC OPTIC – Social Design, Kasted Experiencing this semester’s academic optic with a taste of one of the master programs was truly a great experience. With Studio DemocraCITY and Studio Design and with the theme “Social Design”, we developed a strategy for a little community in a very small, idyllic village just 8km northwest of Aarhus. Kasted, as the village is called, contains 65 houshold, a church and a sheep guild. We had several workshops with them during the project and ended up designing a strategy for financing future dream projects. The project was a lot like last 5th semesters project – Co-design. We were in touch with the users all the way and developing the project for their needs and wishes. With this project we actually developed something they could use in real life, and I think in relative to other projects it was nice to experience the user’s evaluations and questioning of our design, based on the inputs and ideas from them.

The “diagrammatic” model we made as final explains the idea of the combination but didn’t show well enough the actual architectural principles but only the conceptual idea. 43

Generally we both had lots and lots of ideas, which in the start was really good for the brainstorming, but pass midt-crit we seriously had to cut down the ideas and find the core idea about the common project. Since we had very different minds about that, I think it was a bit difficult and maybe a bit frustrating to do so. I think in the end, we manage to have a few foci each and one together, becoming one project. One of the challenges for me was the large spans of the ramp. It was quite difficult to figure out how to place them constructional-wise and at the same time encounter the slopes and dips. The crucial question for me was “how much ramp is actually needed in the building to show the flow, and how much of visible construction, and making the construction the aesthetics be one? I ended up talking to an engineer who discussed the issues with me. Through several model-, drawing- and photographic investigations it came out pretty well, with wishes for further developments though. It would have been good with a little more time to re-evaluate the design and material use of the inside of the ramp. This semester certainly taught me even more about construction than last semester. It was yet another great opportunity to understand and learn about how construction and aestatics unite.

INTERESTS

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Aarhus Culture Bunker Project Sep. 2014 / A twisted experience

A twisted experience, Aarhus Culture Bunker

A 13 meter long bunker in Aarhus was going to be transformed into a underground artistic cinema and poemreading space. In cooperation with the architectfirm GUSTIN, we were 3 students from Aarhus School of Architecture to design, build og convey the experience in the bunker tube in only 1 week. Since the tube was less the 2 meter in diameter it was a big challange to create something where it was possible to move, sit and stand. Therefore we decided to design a twisted rotation that was based on different sitting/laying positition. Since the place had some restriction in relative to the performers it was important to keep the space open and make spots were it was possible to stand up. The architect we worked for made himself very clear that we had to push the design just to the edge of impossible. We did. With belts we created the sitting positions not only on leveled ground but also hanging in the air. That way, we could keep around 15 people in the tube (restrictions from firedepartment) and they would all have a different perspective of the space. With colored light covering underneath the walking passage kept changing the atmosphere in the tube and for what we have heard, an increadible transformed experince of a 70 year bunker.

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / MEDS Reaction XL Lisbon / International Architecture Workshop / Recr(e)ates

MEDS - meeting of design students

- was hosted in Lisbon from 2nd to 18th of August in 2013, with the theme of “REACTION”: a hands-on collaboration with the traditional community of Graça to improve public space in the area. 250 students from over 30 different countries loaned their hands to create temporary interventions with lasting effects.

Lisbon as a city seems just as great as other big southern cities in Europe. But Graca was a litlle hidden pearl of a neighbourhood that needed care and help, since the community was taking control of everything and the inhabitants had no voice anymore. In a group of 250 students from allover the world we were around 15 people who dealed with a certain problem in Graca. A group of local, both families with children, single parents and elder came to our convent and told us their needs and dreams. Since the community had taken the spot they used to get together at they needed a concept-design that they could move around in the area from day to day. It was very important for them to have a place where the elder could play games with the younger, where the elder man could help the boy to fix his bike, and where a living library could excist with a poet could read out loud and books could be exchanges. Since the program was a non-profit project, there was basicly no money to use but with help of old stuff from the locals it became possible to design something they appreciated. We made a lot of ‘feel the temp.’ in the city to actually figure out their wishes. Since it was extremelly difficult to get anything through the corrupt community and since they tried to work against us and the locals, we desiced to work wtih crates, because it was something that both elder and youngsters were able to move and put together, it was recycled and nobody really used them. It was also something they all could relate to, some old ones that were used to carry milk and newer ones that carries coca-cola etc.

We used old doors and transformed them into game tables and library shelfs that just fit into two crates. With the use of the crates it was possible for the inhabitants to design their own get-together in a new way everytime, and we even created a smaller manual (ikea-style) to connect

AL! Laboratory / Unit D - international / Bachelor Portfolio / Spring 2014 / Julie Bertelsen / 2011207 / Handdrawing and photography skills

Handdrawing with pencil of peberfruit, 1st year at AAA.

Photo of bubbly glass lamp at Marriot Hotel, NYC 2012

AL! Atmospheric Laboratory Aarhus School of Architecture Unit 2+3d Julie Bertelsen student id: 2011207 tlf.: +45 26 14 67 29 bertelsenjulie@gmail.com Grundfos Kollegiet Grete LĂ¸chtes Gade 3, 7. lejl. 12 8000 Aarhus C Teachers: Unit Master Izabela Wieczorek Tine NĂ¸rgaard Karianne Halse Anders Krogdal Nielsen Tine Bernstorff Aagaard