Portfolio Kaja Dons Petrusson b.arch. 2022
Kaja Dons Petrusson 21-02-1997
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born in Oslo, based in Copenhagen
Education
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kaja.dp@hotmail.com +45 42716298
Experience Editor and graphic design, KÅRK architecture magazine
2019-2021
Curator, KBH Kunsthal, Skive
2016-2017
2019-2022
Summer school, EASA, European Architecture Student Association, Finland
2021
Furniture carpentry, 6 months basic course, Next Kbh
2018
Student assistant, Further and Continuing education, The Royal Danish Academy
2019-2021
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
Exchange UMPRUM School of Art, Architecture Department Prague, Czech Republic
2022
BA in architecture, The Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture
Fotografi Studioassistant, Whitelight Studios, Oslo (2 y)
2015-2016
Photoassistant, Martin Rustad Johansen (1 y) Event Host in creative workshops (linoleum, painting, croquis m.fl.) Folkehuset Absalon (culture house), Copenhagen
2016
2017-2021
Technical skills Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Autocad
Rhino SketchUp V-Ray SolidWorks
Interests Photography Graphic Design, layout Carpentry, big/small scale
Bookbinding Welding
b.arch june 2022
Index Meeting point on the top of Luossovaara Mountain
p. 4-11
The Ver tical House / A Meeting Point
p. 12-27
House for An Artist
p. 28-33
Biopsy of a Pinth 1:1
p. 34-35
Gadehavegård; a transformation of a social housing unit / A housing complex for co-living
p. 36-45
Shared Housing For Young Criminals / The Space Between Liber ty and Safety
p.46-59
KÅRK Magazine
p.60-61
MEETING POINT ON TOP OF LUOSSOVAARA MOUNTAIN BA-project in collaboration with Høgni Jákupsson and Synne Einevoll Heggernæs January 2021 Location: Luossovaara mountain, Kiruna, Sweden Far up in the northern part of Sweden, north-west for the small city Kiruna, there is a mountain called Luossovaara. This project is about the presence and conditions of the Arctic climate that offers great contrasts. It’s a project where we acknowledge the presence of the Sami culture in the area, and learn from their way to dwell and interact with the nature close to the body as well as their focus on ecology and sustainability. It’s an exploration between body and space. The mountain is an extension of the city’s landscape, and a crack in the middle of the mountain tells a story about the mining company LKAB’s early mining activity in the area. On the top of the mountain is a concrete skeleton, from a not so old past, whose fate is unclear and which today appears abandoned and unused.
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5th SEMESTER
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Cross section (south) From bottom up; sauna, shelter, room for gathering
Based on Kiruna’s population’s desire for a closer connection to nature, we have created a place for community and activity on top of the mountain Luossavaara.
We wanted to allow for longer stays at the top, during the day, in the evening as well as at night. By building between the existing structures, we created spaces fascilitated for this.
Our project therefore consists of a
Rather than creating physical barriers between nature and architecture, we want to create a symbiosis through flexible architecture that can be adapted to the different conditions.
room for gathering a sauna a shelter.
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5th SEMESTER
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Longitudinal s From bottom up; sauna,
The red symbolises textile tent and the wooden fo 8
5th SEMESTER
section (west) shelter, room for gathering
ootbridge works as a binding element on all floors. 9
Outside the sauna, you can take a rest on the wooden footbridge, which guides you in between the warm and cold.
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The shelters on second level. The textile works as a thin wall barrier betw
ween the nature and the visitor.
5th SEMESTER
At the very top is the room for gathering. Here is where you can eat together and sit close by the fire. During the colder times, an inner tent can be attached for a more warmer zone.
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The Vertical House / A Meeting Point 3rd semester, fall 2020
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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
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Study of form and directions at the site for further development of the building’s volume
3rd SEMESTER
TÅRN Ungdomsboliger
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
The shelf system seen from the hall towards the librairy at street level.
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Visualization of the entrance at street level. The librairy works as a luminous box in the evening.
3rd SEMESTER
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
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The facade’s design is a composition of slats overlapping eachother and moving vertically with the building’s direction.
3rd SEMESTER
CLT wood block plywood kryssfinér CLT
isolering insulation mot for akustikk acoustic
cement-based facade sementbasert board fasadeplate
isolering insulation
noise
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
nr.1
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.
3rd SEMESTER
T
r i hver
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
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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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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
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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.
Masterplan of the house in relation to an atelier on the left side.
SNITT A
Plan-section drawing.
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HOUSE FOR AN ARTIST Plan in process. Plan-section drawing of the model. The space in between.
Model in process; compositions, passages and lines in collage
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1st SEMESTER
Study of light in the model in process.
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HOUSE FOR AN ARTIST
Section A: view from north-west side. Bedroom, and overlap to bathroom.
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1st SEMESTER
Entrance and view through kitchen window through livingroom.
View from livingroom, looking over to the atelier building.
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BIOPSY OF A PLINTH 1:1 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.
3rd semester, spring 2020
Pencil on paper. Elevation and plan of the biopsi. A catalogue of the different components and materials.
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GADEHAVEGÅRD: TRANFORMATION OF A SOCIAL HOUSING BUILDING / A housing complex for co-living 2nd semester, spring 2020
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.
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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.
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
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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2nd SEMESTER
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GADEHAVEGÅRD: TRANFORMATION OF A SOCIAL HOUSING BUILDING
The current building
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Axonometric section, view into th side. One big on ground flo
he apartments from the south oor, two smaller on 2nd.
2nd SEMESTER
The transformation
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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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GADEHAVEGÅRD: TRANFORMATION OF A SOCIAL HOUSING BUILDING
plan section
Ground floor Apartment A
plan section
1st floor Apartment A
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2nd SEMESTER
plan section
2nd floor Apartment B
plan section
3rd floor Apartment B
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SHARED HOUSING FOR YOUNG CRIMINALS / THE SPACE BETWEEN LIBERTY AND SAFETY 4th semester, spring 2021
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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.
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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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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4th semester
Elevation of the building with common fuctions (1) and the one with dwellings (2) Section of the building with dwellings.
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Shared Housing for Young Criminals / The Space Between Liberty and Safety
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Axonometry of the barn construction in relation with the volumes.
4th semester
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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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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Shared Housing for Young Criminals / The Space Between Liberty and Safety
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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. 55
Shared Housing for Young Criminals / The Space Between Liberty and Safety
House for the elderly
House for the young residents
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4th SEMESTER
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
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Priincip model of the building with dwellings. Relation between the volumes and the roof.
4th semester
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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KÅRK MAGAZINE Editor-In-Chief Responsible for Graphic Design
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
KÅRK, issue #39 - Dreamscape Role: editorial team + in charge of layout/graphic design
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.
Read the magazine on: www.issuu.com/kaark @kaark_magasin
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