Portfolio Kaja Dons Petrusson 2021
Kaja Dons Petrusson 21-02-1997
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born in Oslo, based in Copenhagen
Education 2019-2022
Furniture carpentry, 6 months basic course, Next Kbh
2018
Photography, KBH Film&Fotoskole, Copenhagen
2018
Food Academy, 6 months course, Suhrs Madakademi,
2017
Krabbesholm højskole, 12 months, Design and Graphic Design
2016-2017
High School, Elvebakken VGS, Media & Communication, (Photography) Oslo
2014-2016
Technical skills
Rhino SketchUp V-Ray AutoCad SolidWorks 2
kaja.dp@hotmail.com +45 42716298
Experience
BA in architecture, The Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture
Photoshop Illustrator Indesign
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Welding Wood workshop, machines, from when studying carpentry Analogue and digital still- og filmphotography
Editor and graphic design, KÅRK architecture magazine
2019-2021
Curator, KBH Kunsthal, Skive
2016-2017
Summer school, EASA, European Architecture Student Association, Finland
2021
Student assistant, Further and Continuing education, The Royal Danish Academy
2019-2021
Fotografi Studioassistant, Whitelight Studios, Oslo (2 år) Photoassistant, Martin Rustad Johansen (1 år) Event Host in creative workshops (linoleum, painting, croquis m.fl.) Folkehuset Absalon (culture house), Copenhagen
Interests Art photography Bookbinding Carpentry, big/small scale Graphic Design, layout
Index BA in architecture, The Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture 2015-2016
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2017-2021
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Furniture carpentry, 6 months basic course, Next Kbh Photography, KBH Film&Fotoskole, Copenhagen Food Academy, 6 months course, Suhrs Madakademi, Krabbesholm højskole, 12 months, Design and Graphic Design High School, Elvebakken VGS, Media & Communication, (Photography) Oslo 3
HOUSE FOR AN ARTIST 1st semester project, fall 2019
Location: Hammershus, Bornholm, Denmark In the Baltic sea outside Sweden and Denmark, lies the big island Bornholm. An old island, with many traces back to the middle age. Here lies Hammershus. A ruin of an old castle. Today, Bornholm is associated with the culture og artists settling who working within ceramic and glass. This project fascilitates a house for the artist, where the artist works and live on the same time. With view over the landscape of Hammershus, the dwelling is located on the edge of a hill, down towards a lake. The dwelling is 30 square meters, and is designed so it adapts to the landscape, with pillars which grasps the landscape’s formations. Here you are close to your surroundings through the big window in the livingroom, where you can sense the light and the landscape up close. The feeling of connectedness.
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Section drawing of the house in relation to the atelier on the left side.
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HOUSE FOR AN ARTIST
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Model in process; compositions, passages and lines in collage
1st SEMESTER
Study of light in the model in process.
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HOUSE FOR AN ARTIST
1st SEMESTER
SNITT A
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Plan in process. Plan-section drawing of the model. The space in between.
Plan-section drawing of building.
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HOUSE FOR AN ARTIST
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Entrance and view through kitchen window through livingroom.
1st SEMESTER
View from livingroom, looking over to the atelier building.
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HOUSE FOR AN ARTIST
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Section A: view from north-west side. Bedroom, and overlap to bathroom.
1st SEMESTER
Model 1:20, view from the south-east side.
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TRANSLATIONS FROM SURFACE TO FORM 1st semester, fall 2019
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Registrations of stones in landscape. Frottage technique.
Translation of the landscape into a new evitable form. Glass, casted in sand.
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GADEHAVEGÅRD: TRANFORMATION OF A SOCIAL HOUSING BUILDING / A housing complex for co-living 2nd semester, fall 2019
A transformation project of a social housing, 1 hour outside Copenhagen. Here we find Gadehavegård, in Høje Taastrup. An area where emigration, and a high average age is very present. Around Gadehavegård, you find empty streets during the day. It’s a place where the residents highly appreciate their close neighbourship, but with the fright that they will have to move because of renewal of the area. With that in mind, my project suggest a transformation of the old, tired buildings, where community is highly valued. The new dwellings are customized shared housing, from 4 - 8 people living in one apartment. A housing complex for co-living.
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Site plan, transformation of existing surroundings: several small hills in the backyards and new path across the area
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GADEHAVEGÅRD: TRANFORMATION OF A SOCIAL HOUSING BUILDING
The current building
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2nd SEMESTER
The transformation
Axonometric section, view into the apartments from the south side. One big on ground floor, two smaller on 2nd.
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GADEHAVEGÅRD: TRANFORMATION OF A SOCIAL HOUSING BUILDING
2nd SEMESTER
West
South
East
North
Elevation. 10 apartments and one common room accessed outside on 2nd floor. 20
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GADEHAVEGÅRD: TRANFORMATION OF A SOCIAL HOUSING BUILDING
2nd SEMESTER
Visualization. View from the backyard and view upon the common balcony. The yard works as a meeting point for the residents, where a small hill is located and makes the garden more private from roads and other buildings.
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GADEHAVEGÅRD: TRANFORMATION OF A SOCIAL HOUSING BUILDING
2nd SEMESTER
The aisle, positioned as an addition on the outside of the buildings north side, works as a pathway for common use. The structure is formed with pockets and rails with different heights, which makes the aisle feel less rigid. The intention with the aisle’s design is to give the residents the opportunty to settle in their own way and to make it a common project so they can feel a sense of belonging.
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GADEHAVEGÅRD: TRANFORMATION OF A SOCIAL HOUSING BUILDING
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2nd SEMESTER
plan section
plan section
Ground floor Apartment A
2nd floor Apartment B
plan section
plan section
1st floor Apartment A
3rd floor Apartment B
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GADEHAVEGÅRD: TRANFORMATION OF A SOCIAL HOUSING BUILDING
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Visualization, view out on the balcony and common backyard from apartment B, first floor
2nd SEMESTER
Visualization, view in apartment B, second floor and mezzanine.
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The Vertical House / A Meeting Point 1st semester, fall 2019
Location: Dybbølsbro, Copenhagen, Denmark
In a complex meeting between rails, bicycles, car streets and a big bridge, there is a ground which is unaccessible. It is a void in the middle of one of the most busy traffic corners in Copenhagen. ”The Vertical House” is a project which works as a meeting point, connecting the variety of movement in the area. An assembled building of three parts; tower - apartments (12 floors, 36 apartments) base 1 - common space, washing machines and librairy for the residents base 2 - a public space for the residents and other visitors (study space, restaurant)
A place for both residents and visitors. A meeting point for togetherness, but also a meeting point where you can experience a new connection in the traffic corner, by moving through the building down by the rails.
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The Vertical House / A Meeting Place
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Model studies of volumes, douglas wood
3rd SEMESTER
Elevation, axonometry and plan section of the buildings construction.
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The Vertical House / A Meeting Place
3rd SEMESTER
TÅRN Ungdomsboliger
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Study of form and directions at the site for further development of the building’s volume
BASE Offentlig lesesal og folkekøkken
BASE PÅ GADEPLAN Inngangsparti for beboere og fellesareale
The varieted forms for each volume and parts of the building is put together and become one. Each volume has it’s own access from different levels.
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The Vertical House / A Meeting Place
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3rd SEMESTER
Section of building from south east.
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The Vertical House / A Meeting Place
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Throughout the building, a shelf system works as a room divider in the common area in the student house and as a collector for books in the library.
3rd SEMESTER
The shelf system seen from the hall towards the librairy at street level.
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3rd SEMESTER
The Vertical House / A Meeting Place
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Visualization of the entrance at street level. The librairy works as a luminous box in the evening.
Plan section of ground floor and -1level. Common space for the public and the residents.
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The Vertical House / A Meeting Place
3rd SEMESTER
PLAN AV TÅRNET 12 etasjer 3 boligenheter i hver etasje, studieboliger
PLAN AV TÅRNET 12 etasjer 3 boligenheter i hver etasje, studieboliger
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nr.2
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Plan section of the tower. 1: Construction with solid core and beams. 2: Core, beams and walls which divides the three dwellings.
Plan section of the dwelling’s floor plan in the tower. Three apartments of different size.
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The Vertical House / A Meeting Place
3rd SEMESTER
KONSRUKSJONSNITT
CLT wood block plywood kryssfinér CLT
isolering insulation mot for akustikk acoustic
cement-based facade sementbasert board fasadeplate
isolering insulation
noise
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The facade’s design is a composition of slats overlapping eachother and moving vertically with the building’s direction.
A section of construction showing the technical components.
overfladesurface treated behandlet douglas spruce douglas gran
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The Vertical House / A Meeting Place
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Visualization of the building’s facade. The building’s volumes and levels has different functions and accessibility, which can be read from the outside by the different colors.
3rd SEMESTER
The facade’s slats moves vertically and becomes the dynamic skin of the building.
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The Vertical House / A Meeting Place
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Visualization of the common area in the buildings level by the rails. This is where the people meet and have access to the garden outside.
3rd SEMESTER
Visualization of the garden between the building and the rails.
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SHARED HOUSING FOR YOUNG CRIMINALS / THE SPACE BETWEEN LIBERTY AND SAFETY
Location: Sundholm, Copenhagen, Denmark South at Amager in Copenhagen, is an area called Sundholm. In the early 1900, it worked as a labor prison, but changed in 2000 to shorter housing and care services for homeless people and alcohol dementia. On the edge, lies the juvenile prison where youth from 14-18 are for some months. ”The Space Between Liberty and Safety” is a project that explores the possibility for the youth to live in a transitional housing area, where they live and study together in a open space, not behind closed walls. There are 8 dwellings for the youth. In the same housing construction, will the youth live side by side with 4 elderly people who works as their guradians during the stay. The functions are componed with a thought of the youth’s movement throughout a day. The private area (blue) in the right with close access to the street, the semiprivate (green) shared functions and the teaching area in the other. The project investigated how it is possible to live in a shared living space in two very different starting points. dewllings for the youth and the elderly shared functions - kitchen, librairy, TV-room classroom,
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Site plan, Sundholm, Copenhagen. The yellow and green buildings are the common fuctions, while the blue are the dwellings for both the teenagers and the elderly living there.
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Shared Housing for Young Criminals / The Space Between Liberty and Safety
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The shared functions during the day; classroom, workshop, office for the elderly working people and private room for dialogue.
4th semester
The shared functions in the youth’s spare time; kitchen and dining area, librairy, TV-room.
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4th semester
Shared Housing for Young Criminals / The Space Between Liberty and Safety
Today there is an old barn left on the empty site. The wooden construction and dimentions of the building, became the starting point for the further structure of the dwellings and functions at site. The buildings are situated under the construction of the roof, making the space accessible from different sides, with the idea of make a more dynamic movement through the site.
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Elevation of the building with common fuctions (1) and the one with dwellings (2) Section of the building with dwellings.
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4th semester
Shared Housing for Young Criminals / The Space Between Liberty and Safety
The buildings interact with eachother, and their composition makes space for a private garden for the residents. The building with dwellings on the left side, and the building with common area on the right.
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Axonometry of the barn construction in relation with the volumes.
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Shared Housing for Young Criminals / The Space Between Liberty and Safety
4th SEMESTER
House for the elderly
House for the young residents
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Sketch of diagram which shows directions and relations between the units. Making a space for community, yet protect the privacy.
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Shared Housing for Young Criminals / The Space Between Liberty and Safety
4th semester
The construction explores what a movement through a flow of private and semiprivate areas does for the togetherness. The youth and the elderly are situated under the same roof, and live side by side by eachother. The elderly people in a small apartment in each of the corner of the building, while the young people in a volume of two rooms with a shared bathroom. The room between the volumes is a sheltered room and can be accessed from both sides of the building. This is the youth’s private common area, where they have to go through to enter their rooms. The elderly can only enter from the outside. The idea is that the youth are given more freedom and trust, and have to interact. 60
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4th semester
Shared Housing for Young Criminals / The Space Between Liberty and Safety
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Priincip model of the building with dwellings. Relation between the volumes and the roof.
Photographies of the model with light. The roof has tiles of brick and some with glass. The light draws small forms in the space throughout the day.
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BIOPSY OF A PLINTH 1:1
3rd semester, spring 2020
Maison Latapie / Lacaton Vassal Group project with Alice Lindström and Emma Rasmussen
photos: Joakim Heltne
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A study of Maison Latapie. The purpose was about getting more in touch with materials, proportions and the tectonics of a building. 1:1 ”biopsy” of the plinth.
Pencil on paper. Elevation and plan of the biopsi. A catalogue of the different components and materials.
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KÅRK MAGAZINE
Other work
KÅRK is a collaborative bi-annual magazine by architecture students from Aarhus School of Architecture and The Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture. Each issue explores a different theme. I have been a part of the editorial team for the last two years where we’ve made four issues. I’ve been in charge of the layout and graphic design for the past two issues, and this year I will have my first year as editor-in-chief.
KÅRK, issue #36 - Post Human Role: editorial team
KÅRK, issue #38 - Failure Role: editorial team + in charge of layout/graphic design
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KÅRK, issue #37 - Gender Role: editorial team
Read the magazine on: www.issuu.com/kaark @kaark_magasin
KÅRK, issue #39 - Dreamscape Role: editorial team + in charge of layout/graphic design
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