RE/02

RE/02

RE/02 RE-DIPLOMA 2020

Edited by Thordis Arrhenius and Mikael Bergquist

KTH Royal Institute of Technology — School of Architecture Stockholm

COLOPHON RE-Master Studio is an advanced architectural

Thank you to our Diploma students:

course run at KTH Royal Institute of Technology School of Architecture in Stockholm.

Emelie Ahlqvist Louise Björkander

It is taught by Thordis Arrhenius

Oliver Cassidy

and Mikael Bergquist

Ludvig Ekman Pär Falkenäng

Publication Design

Jeanette Hoff

Matthew Ashton

Love Lagercrantz Felicia Narumi Liang

About the type

Dan Lindau

Univers is used throughout this publication. The

Anna Molodij

typeface was designed by the Swiss typographer

Silja Siiki

Adrian Frutiger and released by Deberny &

Jofrid Sandgren Østenstad

Peignot in 1957 — the same year as Helvetica.

Thank you to our invited guests during Diploma © For all texts, drawings and images the

Days, May 2020:

respective authors, unless otherwise stated.

Jury Nina Lundvall (Caruso St John Architects), All rights reserved. No part of this publication

Philip Christou (Prof. CASS),

may be reproduced in any manner without

Liza Fior (MUF architecture/art),

permission from the authors and the publisher.

Marianne Müller (Prof. Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design),

ISBN 978-91-519-2348-2

Elena Carlini (Arch.), Fabian Blücher (General Architecture)

CONTENTS 06 Thordis Arrhenius and Mikael Bergquist

Re-Diploma

08 Emelie Ahlqvist

Commemorating the A(s)telier

12 Louise Björkander

Fleeting Spectacle — a Seasonal Event

16 Oliver Cassidy

Common Rooms

20 Ludvig Ekman

Civic Manufactory

24 Pär Falkenäng

Collecting a Site

28 Jeanette Hoff

Tailored to Fit

32 Love Lagercrantz

Lifting a Monument

36 Felicia Narumi Liang

Preserving Postmoderism — a Swedish Case

40 Dan Lindau

Building Perceptions

44 Anna Molodij

City Scoop

48 Silja Siiki

The Public Interior

52 Jofrid Sandgren Østenstad

Høvik Church Hill

RE-DIPLOMA RE-Master studio addresses the notion of change, permeance and resilience through the means of re-storation, re-use and re-pair. The overall methodological and pedagogical strategy is to explore the already present, the already built, the already thought and imagined.

One central driving objective of the studio is to critically re-engage with the representational and documentary tools used in architecture - drawing, models, digital and photographic documentation as well as the latest representational technology of scanning. Particular attention is payed to scale as an architectural and methodological tool with a specific focus on exploring how digitalization has affected the architectural representation. The digital manipulation of analogue scale models and photographical images have been cexplored in the studio.

The diploma project at the School of Architecture KTH is an individual project concluding the master, and diploma students are free to formulate their own individual thesis projects. At the same time the students are still a vital part of the studio—both physically seated in our studio space, as well as through pin ups, lectures and participation in formulating the studios agenda. In some case the diploma students thesis have more directly related to the master studio’s theme of reuse and repair, in others not. All through however the notion of economy of means has been steering design decisions and program. How we in the present situation of earth pay attention to the common resources, material as well spatial, social as well as aesthetic.

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Emelie Ahlqvist—Commemorating the A(s)telier and Oliver Cassidy— Common Rooms, both addresses the themes of the shared and the common in new buildings. Louise Björkander—Fleeting Spectacle and Pär Falkenäng—Building Upon Layers work with public programs and look at the decorative and ornamental in different ways communicate with the public. Jeanette Hoff—Tailored to Fit combines working and living inside a remodelled Townhouse in Stockholm. Love Lagercrantz— Lifting a Monument makes a new base for Asplund’s Public Library in Stockholm. Ludvig Ekman—Civic Manufactory, Anna Molodij—City Scoop and Silja Siiki—The Public Interior all work with interventions in the urban fabric as well as the interiors of existing and new structures.

Felicia Narumi Liang—Preserving Postmodernism is a speculative investigation on how to relate and preserve Swedish Postmodernism.

Dan Lindau—Building Memories is a methodological and emotional investigation of the Swedish documentary photographer Sune Jonsson and the making of a local architecture. Jofrid Sandgren Østenstad— Høvik Church Hill sensitively explores ways of inserting new functions and structures into the already layered history of a church site in Oslo.

This booklet is a first collection of Diploma works from studio RE-. It is a selection of work from the extensive full material produced by the students.

Thordis Arrhenius, Mikael Bergquist Teachers Re Master Studio

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COMMEMORATING THE A(S)TELIER Emelie Ahlqvist This is a project on the topic of living and working and it consists of two parts. The first is a research thesis analyzing the development of the atelier typology. The second part is a proposal for a new architectural typology, the ‘super villa garage’, that combines spaces for dwelling with those of production and labor. The project is set in Stockholm.

Throughout the years studied the concept of the atelier as a multifaceted typology is lost. The place to produce in has gradually separated itself from both the space of dwelling and the place of consumption. My interest lies in speculating on bringing them together again. As a typology the atelier shifts the boundaries between the private, the communal, and the public and I believe that it has the potential to generate new ways of living and working, as well as give new possibilities for interaction and integration with local contexts.

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Line drawing of a ”Konstnärsbostad”, in Högdalen. A tower block from 1956 by Familjebostäder and Curt Strehlenert.

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1, The urban and the semi-public 2, The semi-public and the shared 3, The shared, the private and the landscape

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Paper-cut model. The super villa garage, a proposal for a new typology for living/working.

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FLEETING SPECTACLE – A SEASONAL EVENT Louise BjÜrkander My project is a floating stage for the summer. The stage uses the waters of Stockholm along with the different sceneries it offers and appropriates it as a backdrop. There is no fixed site. This is a project about the experienced site specificity and when architecture becomes scenography. I want to continue the historic tradition of building and staging fantasies. To draw the spectator in I use draperies and veils as ornaments. With the drapery and veil I want to hide and reveal, create anticipation and excitement. By layering architecture with scenography my hope is that the audience will be inclosed within a fantasy and that the line between scenography and reality blurs.

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Possible site, anchored at Riddarholmen

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Elevation

Section

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Model photograph, interiour

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COMMON ROOMS Oliver Cassidy 60% of people in Stockholm live alone, one of the highest figures in the world. If these people are to occupy standard apartments the spatial requirements per person rises.

Spaces such as kitchens, bathrooms and living rooms are required sepwarately for each resident; appliances such as fridges, washing machines and hobs are owned individually.

This is not just a spatial strain, but also an economic and environmental issue.

The project proposed is a residential hotel; a multitude of small, individual dwelling spaces are mixed with a wide range of shared facilities. The massiveness of the building creates economies of scale which allow for common luxuries.

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South Facade Detail

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Angled Elevation from the South East

Ground Floor Plan

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Model View of Common Area

Typical Plan Detail

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CIVIC MANUFACTORY Ludvig Ekman Along with market liberal values, maintenance of our possessions has been substituted with the possibility to easily replace the broken object with a new one, resulting in an economic shift and the separation of investment and ownership we experience today. The favors of placing the private matter of maintenance in the public sphere are obvious, the technology and space needed to attend the matter is shared, and expertise can be collected into a sort of library of skills where knowledge is passed on from person to person. Maintaining our belongings is an act, or a chore that is closely associated with the home, what kind of building could replace the home as labour space when the hardware needed is centralized and shared publicly? And what consequences does placing a private matter such as maintenance there result in?

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Model, 1:200, View from Medborgaplatsen

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Collage, Lillienhoffska palace

View of interior light repair rooms within the palace

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Medborgarplatsen, plan and elevations

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COLLECTING A SITE Pär Falkenäng Nothing can occur in a vacuum. Everything new relates to something already existing and in my project, the already existing determines the rules of the outcome. By collecting, dissecting and fragmenting the already existing or the already thought, I create a framework for new additions.

I take control of the framework by kneading, deforming and transforming it in a considerate, yet ruthless manner in order to speculate on additions or adaptations in a context characterized by change, development and continuity.

In this project I work with an addition to Kungsträdgården in central Stockholm which will provide the site with a new public program and relate closely to the history of the place.

I choose to see the changes that have taken place over the years linked to the site as a palimpsest where the various states of the now existing, the past and what could have been all together left traces that for me are free to use, reshape and recreate.

By relating in a speculative way to a place’s history and allowing me to circulate boundlessly between present, past, future and imagination, I can achieve an architecture that in a contradictory way has everything to do with a place while in the same time has nothing to do with it.

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Fragments / Digital casts

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A space for culture

A public platform

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TAILORED TO FIT Jeanette Hoff To live where you work or to work where you live. New ways of representation, and the combination of living and working at the same place. This will be an exploration to reuse and converting an existing townhouse building in Lärkstaden in Stockholm and work closely with the historical layers and create a fictional character and brand to inhabit the space.

How is the staging of a combined home and work life, and the blurred lines between what is a home, and what is a workspace as well what is public and private. The access to every part of a home that connects to the public social media stage and how fashion can be a driver for shaping a backdrop of a modern live/work.

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Main staircase and view to library, interior model 1:20

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Plan ground floor, showroom

Section illustration 1:50

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Bedroom, kitchen and showroom

The Story She said she wanted a bedroom and a studio facing east. Morning sun, with rays of warm golden light.

She telles me she is looking for a place in Stockholm, most likely on Östermalm, an office and workspace for her well established fashion brand, a place where she can have a showroom and a design studio combined with her family life.

A combined home and studio where the boundaries between the public and the private are blurred out and where the aim is to create a home where you can work or create a backdrop or a staged environment possible in every room of the house.

can do one large intervention that can have a huge effect in the building, but still be careful and adjust to what is already there.

There is this area that has an interesting work/live history that is called Lärkstaden on Östermalm, between Odengatan and Vallhallavägen, on a small hill, that was carefully design by city planner Per O. Hallman in 1907, inspired by the city planning of Camillo Sittes (Artistic Principles) with smaller scale of buildings, quiet streets, backgardens, small squares and an additional park. This would be a perfect place to look for a house to work with, that can tailor your needs.

She wants to work with and reuse an existing building that has the historical layers and well kept interior, where she

Collage of showroom

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LIFTING A MONUMENT Love Lagercrantz The Stockholm Public Library is a unique cultural heritage and probably Sweden’s most famous building abroad.

Making a new extension to such a monument instantly raises a host of questions. Which approaches are most appropriate in such a charged and world-unique environment?

The method has been based on sampling of the main building. The goal in designing the extension has been to submit to the main building without falling into the pastiche.

The thesis is that you can allow yourself quite a lot of freedom, as long as you identify and reuse the supporting motifs, materials, room organization, color schemes and the like from the main building. In this way, the goal is that the two buildings will harmonize and, hopefully, also lift each other.

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Model 1:20

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Samples of the main building

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Model 1:20

Longitudinal section

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PRESERVING POST-MODERNISM: A SWEDISH CASE Felicia Liang

Last fall I took a seminar course called “Restoration: Bringing History to Life”, where the objective was to get an overview of the historical and theoretical perspective of architectural restoration. Which then let me to wonder what’s to come in the preservation development since this was an initiative taken in the early 1990s. Naturally postmodernism is modernism´s offspring. This project also works as a manifesto titled DOCOPOMO(Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods of the Post-Modern Movement), in trying to anchor postmodernism to Swedish 20th century building history looking at some examples that needs to be identified for different reasons and with different approaches where a case study will follow.

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BUILDING PERCEPTIONS Dan Lindau

Working with images as a primary tool for analysis and design, the thesis explores how a photographic archive can help create architecture that relates to, and builds upon, precedence. The work of Swedish documentary photographer and writer Sune Jonsson has been a corner stone in this project. In his work from the 1950s and -60s, Jonsson documents rural northern Sweden. By dissecting the work of Sune Jonsson, I have tried to discern architectural qualities in the photos with the purpose of implementing them into new buildings. The site is in Djupsjönäs, about 50 km southwest of Umeå, where a collection of buildings is added that could house classes as well as permanent dwelling.

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Bottom: Johan Engman, Djupsjönäs 1957. Photo by Sune Jonsson. Top: Digital 3d model of the same space.

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The library

Method Analysing the photos taken by Sune Jonsson and then recreating them in digital 3d models has been a way to identify architectural qualities seen in the photos. The ambition was then to transfer these qualities into my own additions. Using a collection of old photos has been a way for me to relate to tradition in an opportunistic way, without being to dogmatic. In addition to working with plan and section drawings, I have relied heavily on the rendered image in my work. Not only as a means of representation but as a tool of thought. I have considered rooms and spaces through a virtual camera lens, allowing me to focus and frame things not necessarily visible in plan or section drawings.

Dorm room

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Site & Program Djupsjönäs, is located near the village of Nyåker where Sune Jonsson grew up. On the specific site sits a house once occupied by one of Sune Jonssons subjects, Johan Engman. I am designing a collection of buildings on this site, that could house classes as well as permanent dwelling for 4 – 5 households.

The buildings include workshops, a gallery, a library, a common house with dorms, a sauna and some other practical facilities. Making a collection of smaller buildings ties in with the traditional way of grouping houses and has allowed me to try different designs in different buildings.

Site plan

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CITY SCOOP Anna MoĹ‚odij This project is speculation in search of possibilities and rethinking the potential of Gamla Stan, it is mainly a residential area, but also a “living, pedestrian-friendly museumâ€?. This is a place out of time and frozen in its form, a certain sensitivity is required when thinking about such a fragile context.

However, the urban structure is not a fixed entity, but a dynamic and evolving one. By gentle carving in the existing city fabric, the aim is to re-introduce a workshop space in a contemporary manner. The idea is tested on the block of Cassiopea, where its building components get interconnected to make a continuous interior.

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Nolli-like map of Stockholm

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Methodology The different components of the city block touch each other but are disconnected.The strategy for the interior is to connect the pieces to create a continuous interior made of interconnected rooms like in the bank of England, by following a strategy of American artist, Gordon Matta Clark that is known for his cuts in existing buildings, slicing into and opening them up and converting into walk-through sculptures.

The different buildings are joined together and interconnected by the carving out of the partition walls. Some of them are taken away to allow for bigger rooms, reworking the areas that were planned to be demolished in the 1940s.

The proposal is a speculation on the possible scenario, where the demolitions didn’t happen and the decision was made to repurpose the space for cultural use, so that the different buildings become one body to host a new program. Cutting out of Cassiopea block would make its inner part more porous, by creating connections between the different

Urban pocket in context

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building volumes a continuous interior is created. The workshop users can move freely between different spaces on every floor and the visitors can walk through the block and have an insight into the workshop on the way.

Today the island holds heavy restrictions regarding making changes and perhaps this is why gamla stan feels like a museum. Right now, it is mostly about consumerism, and this proposal introduces another activity, bringing a different reason for going there. The program deals with a very contemporary function, that molds into the existing fabric and within this framework the program informs how the space is reshaped, in contrast to what happened in the Klara district where the exiting was raised to fit the contemporary needs of the city. In this proposal an alternative approach showcases how the existing fabric can be toughed and changed, but in a sensitive manner while preserving the character of the place.

Carved out long view into the workshop

Carved out meeting of three buildings

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A PUBLIC INTERIOR Silja Siikki This thesis project refers to the overlooked resource of existing buildings and explores how to create something new in the existing building fabric. This is not a restoration project, but an attempt to create a new layer instead of erasing a building and starting over.

The discussion on preservation of buildings is often focused on the exterior and what is the value this adds to the city.

This thesis aims to expand this discussion beyond the facade into the interior qualities. Identifying the qualities of the plan, thresholds, materiality, color, history and how these can be used to inform the transformation of the building.

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A view of the interior

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Longitudinal section

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Plan

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HØVIK CHURCH HILL Jofrid Sandgren Østenstad The project is to develop the site around Høvik church, Norway, into a hub of local culture. The starting point has been improving the existing qualities of the site, and using these as inspiration for new elements.

There are three components. Firstly, the development of a park on the hill, creating a public green space to be enjoyed both by church goers and others. Secondly, renovating and improving the existing parish building (built 1971). Finally, a small addition, which connects to the park and the existing building, taking inspiration from and adding qualities to both.

Themes addressed are the church as a landmark and focal point for local identity, the connections to the history and develpment of the area, and the role of the church in the local society.

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South elevation; facade of parish house in front of the church

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Section through the addition

Plan, addition, 2nd floor

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Illustration: The parish house with addition viewed from southeast

Sketch: Vegetation

Sketch: Park life

Sketch: Connections

Sketch: park, style, inspiration

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