Fundamentals

from Studio Themes 2022–2023. Mk2

Architecture and Daylight

Teachers: Konrad Krupinski, Leif Brodersen

Studio Theme The studio will throughout the year explore different aspects of architectural experience. The focus will be on the fundamentals of architecture; light, movement, scale, proportion, mass/void, geometry, etc. Investigations will be made on the precise and sensitive use of these basic elements together with the organization of space and program. Environmental sustainability, with a special interest in wooden constructions, and social inclusion will be addressed specifically.

In project 1 (2022) geometrical and irregular forms and patterns as generators for architectural space will initially be analyzed in selected architectural masterpieces – that later will be altered. In project 2 (2022) space and daylight in an urban dense context, will be researched in order to design a small art space for contemporary sculpture in Stockholm.

In the spring the studio will study different artistic interdisciplinary tools and methods, first the relation to dance and choreography and later between filmmaking and architecture. In project 3 (2023) a dance school will be designed in the suburb Vårberg, while project 4 (2023) will learn from the Japanese context examining diversity, metabolism and other conceptions of space and time and result in a film studio residence in Tokyo.

Teaching Methodology This studio investigates different experiences of architecture and conceptions of space in relation to the synthesizing design process. Basic architectural concepts are explored through a methodology wherein students and teachers collaborate in a kind of research-bydesign structure. The students define and formulate their own projects from a given topic and self-program their projects to reflect on the problems and possibilities described in the analysis and definition of the context. The aim is to provide tools and methods in order to give the students an independent, innovative, artistic, professional, ethical and scientific identity. Every project is specific and independent, but also relates to the general theme. Project 1 Reinterpreting Symmetries and Form Through deeper studies of emblematic buildings and their specific beauty and qualities, the studio will develop an understanding for symmetrical and irregular composition, geometrical or random form as generators for architectural space. We will first document, rerepresent and analyze existing architectural masterpieces. In the second part of the project we will develop individual architectural projects by making alterations of the studied buildings. The project definition is optional; deconstruction, studies of mannerism, reinterpretation, paraphrase, additions, alterations etc.

Project 2 Art Space in Stockholm By re-defining interpretations and using methods from the first project, as well as studying the interplay between art, space and light, the studio will design an art space for contemporary sculpture in Stockholm. The program includes an exhibition space, workshop areas and a small library. The surrounding urban context and how it can be reshaped to create a fictive parallel experience will be of great focus. Studies will be made of cultural urban landscapes and sustainable ecological initiatives.

Project 3 Dance School in Vårberg In this project the studio will study different artistic tools and methods focusing on dance and choreography and develop individual architectural projects investigating the relationships between dance, movement, gravity, body and space. The brief is a small dance school for the local youth in the suburb of Vårberg, intending to use dance and school pedagogy as tools for social sustainability.

Project 4 Film Studio Residence in Tokyo In this project the studio will study Japanese traditional and contemporary culture and architecture, including important concepts such as ‘Ma’ and ‘Oku’. The brief has its starting point in the understanding of the diverse urban fabric of the Tokyo metropolitan area as well as in the concept of film-making (directing, editing, and producing) in relation to architecture and contemporary cultural movements. These studies will be applied in the design of a film studio residence in Tokyo.

Leif Brodersen LB started teaching at the KTH School of Architecture in 1996. and an Associate Professor since 2004 . He served as Head of the School 2005-2012. He is also a founding partner at the Stockholm-based practice 2BK Arkitekter, established 1999. Konrad Krupinski KK is a lecturer at KTH Architecture since 2015. He is also founding partner at the architecture practice Krupinski/Krupinska. He has prior professional experience from OMA in New York and SANAA in Tokyo as well as Tham & Videgård and Wingårdhs in Stockholm.

1. Kunio Maekawa House, 1942 2. Tokyo, Koenji urban fabric. 3. Carl Eldhs Ateljémuseum av Ragnar Östberg, 1919 4. Prada Transformer by OMA, 2007 5. Studio 24, Roy Andersson Film Production 6. F-Art House by Kazuyo Sejima, 2009 7. Laban Dance Centre by Herzog & de Meuron, 2003 3.

Teachers: Elena Carlini, Rutger Sjögrim

Studio Theme Welcome to Health and Wellness! We’re a studio interested in the architectures, forms, and systems dedicated to the lives that we live and share with others.

If we think of the public as an ever-changing and collectively negotiated “we” that is constantly being remade in complex webs of social relations, hierarchies of power, and systems of control, then we can think of public space as the territory where that negotiation takes place. This is where we assemble and where collective forms of subjectivity can emerge; it is also a place where that subjectivity can be contested and remade. It’s a place for friction, conflict, discord, and dissent, but also for kindness and intimacy. A place where subjectivities are able to exist in the plural, and to contradict, align with, and diverge from one another. This is a space that poses questions about what comes next, as much as about what is already right here, right now.

With the theme of Health and Wellness, we are interested in exploring architecture’s ability to sustain and maintain life: The life of bodies as well as the lives that we live and share. Using the typologies of the Gym, the Kitchen, and the Hospital as points of departure, we will spend a year investigating these systems at shifting scales, from the local to the territorial, and speculating about what a future architecture for a life together could be.

Teaching Methodology The studio relies on a method that encourages an openness to multiplicity (in interests, perspectives, and disciplines), wherein we employ equal measures of criticality, optimism, joy, and rigor in order to encourage you to develop your own methods of architectural research and design.

The courses all revolve around a set programmatic typology. Each brief will be clear and hands-on, but open-ended in nature and each project typically starts with each student researching the preconditions, defining the program, and setting the scope for their individual projects.

In parallel with the design project, each course is accompanied by a series of lectures and text seminars exploring theory, typology, method, and practice. Tutoring (individually and in groups) is held on Tuesdays. Lectures and seminars will typically be held on Fridays as will optional sessions for individual tutoring. Project 1 Fitness Fit for what!? On every street corner a gym, in every park a gym. Bodies in endless motion: warm and interlinked by speed, by breath, by vapor, and by choreography. Inhabiting a form of architectural mega-system that consists of discreet, stretched, and interconnected spaces that make and shape the bodies that occupy them. As a citywide system of distributed warm and wet spaces, we will use the Gym as a typological point of departure for speculations on what a future public infrastructure for wet, exhausted, and exhilarated togetherness could be. Your task will be to propose and design a new gym, a spatial intervention for the collective care of bodies, somewhere in connection to Stockholm’s existing gym infrastructure..

Project 2 Gut Feeling For the second project, we’ll turn to the spaces of lunchtime architecture. We will look at existing typologies like school cafeterias and cooperative kitchens and speculate about future public spaces organized around the preparation and sharing of food. Starting from the kitchen, you’ll define and design a public program, located somewhere in Stockholm..

Project 3-4 The Kingdom pt.1 and pt.2 Hospitals are architectural megaprojects, sometimes reaching the scale of small cities, and the spring semester will task you with designing a regional hospital, replacing one of the existing seven in Sweden. Referencing the hospital in Lars von Trier's 1990s tv show Riget (“The Kingdom”), this is a project that is as much about handling a complex spatial program as it is about understanding the very human processes and situations that emerge inside. Hospitals are sites for precise laser surgery just as they are subject to architectural beliefs about the healing properties of wooden veneer, the sound of leaves, and perhaps even in the presence of ghosts. In project 3, we will collectively research and detail a program; you will then choose a site and make an individual conceptual proposal for a new regional hospital. In project 4, you will refine, detail, and work on the presentation material for your hospitals.

Elena Carlini EC has an MA from IUAV and Columbia University, which she attended as a Fulbright Scholar. She has worked with Emilio Ambasz, Richard Meier in the USA and Studio Valle architetti in Italy; she runs an independent architecture practice and has taught at both Syracuse University and Ferrara University in Italy. Rutger Sjögrim RS is an architect who is based and educated in Stockholm. Rutger is a founding partner in the Stockholm-based architecture practice Secretary and a Lecturer in Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology.

1. Hugo Lindberg - Public Service - 2021 2. Soichiro Osaki - Infinite Leisure - 2022 3. Fisherspooner - 2001 4. Shudi Sun - Infinite Leisure - 2022 5. MAIO - Urban Kitchen - 2022 6. Andrés Jaque Office For Polotical Innovation - RunRunRun - 2019 7. Pella Holmberg - Infinite Leisure - 2021 8. Paulina Aydin - Megaprojects - 2019 9. Paulina Aydin - Megaprojects - 2019 2.