Fall 2024. YR 4/5
School of Architecture KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Please note: Next studio selection will be in the spring term’s first week, January 2025.
Course codes for the Studio projects fall 2024:
YR 4: Autumn A42A13 + A42B13 (Spring A42C14 + A42D14)
YR 5: Autumn and Spring A52A13 + A52B13
This Mk1 of the Catalogue, published 22 August 2024.
Teachers: Mats Fahlander, Tobias Nissen
Studio theme
Architecture distinguishes itself from other art forms in that the discipline is affected to a higher degree by limitations which the architect cannot control: Besides the simple fact that a building cannot be realized without a client/investor there are social conventions, topographic, functional and technical factors we must take into account. One of the skills necessary to succeed as an architect is thus the ability to react to a given framework in a creative and intelligent manner. Instead of perceiving limitations as unwelcome obstacles we would like to welcome them as a kind of resistance which can release creative forces.
The tasks we will work on are characterized by clearly defined contexts. By making the project briefs quite simple we want to free the students from time consuming analytical work and engage them instead to dive into the design process from the start, using the design process itself as an analytical tool.
Studio methodology
The path leading up to an architectural project is most often more chaotic and less linear than one would like it to be from an academic point of view. At the same time every student is supposed to develop his/her own working method. Hence we do not consider It to be the teacher’s task to teach a working method. We would rather see ourselves as interlocutors confronting the students with insights resulting from our own experience and encourage them to make their own choices – in agreement with the teacher or by rebutting the teacher’s point of view. The starting point or the generating idea for a project can be highly personal and can in general not be judged as right or wrong. An idea is in that sense not discussable within the framework of architectural education. Our discussions will instead revolve around the process of translating an idea into architecture with the architect’s tools, i.e. sketches, models, horizontal and vertical projections.
Refurbishment of the ground floor of the KTH-ENTRÉ building
Design of a restaurant or café, including the organizational measures required to keep the new space open outside KTH opening hours.
The small scale and relatively simple brief of the project is seen as an opportunity to define a space in all its architectural and atmospheric aspects down to the smallest details of the furniture.
Architectural themes: Relating to a given esthetic and organizational context, designing atmosphere
Range of representation scales: 1:100 –1:1
Project 2
Villa in the Stockholm suburb of Bromma
Proposal for a single-family house within an existing, homogeneous residential area. In addition to taking a stand on a clear cultural and architectural context, the project is an exercise in handling and interpreting a legal framework in the form of tight zoning regulations.
Architectural themes: Relating to a given cultural and legal context, relationship between construction and architectural expression
Range of representation scales: 1:400 –1:20
Mats Fahlander
MF studied architecture at KTH and HDK in Berlin. His office, Fahlander Arkitekter is located in Stockholm. Besides his architectural practice he has been working as a teacher in different terms at KKH and KTH. www.matsfahlander.com
Tobias Nissen
TN earned his master’s degree at the ETH Lausanne. He has been working on and off as a teacher in the undergraduate and graduate programs at KTH since 2000.
TN is a co-founder of the Stockholm based office Vera Arkitekter.
www.vera.se
INTERIOR IMAGE - ONE OF THE ROOMS FACADE EXPLANATORY AXONOMETRIC - 1:15
FACADE EXPLANATORY AXONOMETRIC - 1:15 ZOOM-IN - 1:5
- ONE OF THE ROOMS
Last spring a Studio migratet to an abandoned building on Campus, Drottning Kristinas Väg 67. The situation of being located in an abandoned building will inform both themes and methods. What kind of expressions are produced when the existing building and materials at hand become the starting point? In the near future architects will (hopefully) to a larger extent work with existing buildings and materials. Being located in such a building, the new Studio DKV will continue to try to understand what this can mean for architecture and the everyday work as architects. Today adaptive reuse is discussed as a new way of producing architecture, but the reuse of materials and spaces is nothing new - the Romans for example reused parts of buildings when creating new ones in quite an unsentimental way. This creates new possibilities, patterns of matter out of place, and strips for example a column of its representational connotations. Closer at hand is the nomadic sami tradition where buildings are dismantled and reassembled over and over again. The joinery and how things are put together becomes the main interest rather than the parts themselves. This tradition lives on today in a kind of arctic adoration of the joint in the shape of duct tape, cable ties or whatever is at hand. An economy of effect.
Studio DKV will try to work as a lab where different approaches will be tested and evaluated - a bootcamp for the imagination and a testbed for new aesthetics.
We will work with architecture hands on. 1:1 test, redo, demolish, try again. Projects will vary in thematics and methods, but share one thing: scale 1:1. We will explore what working in scale 1:1 can do for the architectural project and process. During the semester we will also study and examine a number of terms and concepts through seminars and lectures. In the spirit of the Studio DKV - learning by doing - students will in groups create and hold small lectures for the studio.
Studio DKV will always create fullscale architecture for public display where other stakeholders are involved. Students will get a hands on experience in not only designing, and making architecture but also help it reach a wide audience.
Studio DKV wants to be a space where we all learn and explore together.
Pre Design, Design and Design Development
We will start the semester with a visit to Småland and its vast knowledge of producing architecture and furniture. After a couple of woodworkshops at DKV we will start sketching ideas for a large installation at Tegelbacken to be part of the Nobel Weeks Light Festival in December. Trough workshops, lectures and sitevisits we will come up with one collective design with individual fragments as part of the whole.
Drawings, Construction, Installation, Documentation and Dismantel Construction and assembly of Collective Design will take place at DKV , dismantled, transported and installed at Tegelbacken, Inaugurated and Celebrated for a week and then dismantled and transported back to DKV.
A collaboration with KTH Lighting Lab and its Master students in lighting design will be part of the project.
Materials will be sponsored by Organowood, Essve
Fredrik Stenberg
FS is an architect based in Stockholm. He has worked as a lecturer at KTH since 2016. He is one of the founding members in the collective Uglycute and participated in the Art and Architecture Biennale (2003 and 2010) in Venice, and are represented in the collections of Moderna museet.
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Franson Architect, educator with over 20 years of experience of having his own architectural practice.
Teachers: Anders Berensson, Karin Matz
Studio theme
Autumn 2024 Fabulous Future Factory arrives at KTH and will immerse itself in ideas of a joyful sustainable future for us all –together. It is time to take the future back from individual self improvement, dystopia, austerity and misery. Studio FFF is hungry for information on technology, politics and creating desire through good design. Architect is one of few professions with the ability to envision, visualize and propose radical change. Let's use that power to try to improve the world. We need to look critically at what futures are presented by architects through their projects. There is power in projection which is something to take advantage of. Can we change how others (and ourselves) see and think about today and tomorrow? Can a sustainable world, from a small reuse project to a high tech mega project or redistribution of resources be that which makes people drool with desire? We shall find out!
In spring we travel to Rome.
Studio methodology
Taking on the mission of taking back the future, we will need architects with agency who are curious, brave, humble, confident, independent and not the least great designers...how can we assist you in this? Challenge accepted!
You will solve urgent societal questions, need to try out a multitude of architectural tools and processes, try both being the best and the worst student in the class, work very hands-on in a direct way, and more than before independently locate material, project ideas and people to talk to. All this and more. In helping you become proactive agents, we have to look at ourselves not as teachers but perhaps more as sports coaches. If you are up for daring, being curious and open minded while working hard on our fabulous future we would love to create it with you.
Find and make fabulous
The architecture school belongs to one of the world's leading technical universities, but do we really take advantage of it in our education? We will map KTH and circle in projects and people who we want to learn more from. The knowledge will be used as a catalyst for design proposals which will look at sustainability on a national level and resulting in both a public lecture and a book. In this project you will practice collecting vast amounts of information and boil it down to relevant architectural tasks for today and tomorrow. We will in the collection phase work with different methods of mapping and sorting material which will result in a well studied design proposal.
De- & ReMake Fabulous
P2 is all about redistribution, moving things and resources around. This will be tested in 4 smaller design projects, all working with different architectural tools. Projects will explore the result of de & remaking things - ONE rule on a planning level, ONE shift in redistribution of resources, ONE physical building part, and finally in 1:1 joining ONE and ONE material. All in order for you to practice quickly trying out ideas, testing new tools and practicing designing. The course will result in 4 small design projects all discussing a type of redistribution - of De&ReMake.
Anders Berensson
AB is an architect educated at Chalmers University of technology and KTH. AB has worked at OMA, co-founded visiondivision and is currently director of Anders Berensson Architects. AB is a lecturer at KTH School of architecture with a long experience in teaching both Bachelor and Master studios.
Karin Matz
KM studied architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Queensland, and KTH (MSc. Arch). She has worked at Vera Arkitekter, co-founded SECRETARY architecture and is currently running Karin Matz Arkitekt. KM is a lecturer at KTH with a long experience in teaching both Bachelor and Master studios.
Teachers: Carolina Wikström, Leif Brodersen
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 into 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 beaddressed specifically. In Project 1 (Autumn 2024) – geometrical and irregular forms and patterns as generators for architectural space will initially be analyzed in selected architectural masterpieces, which will later be altered. In Project 2 (Autumn 2024) – space and daylight in an urban context will be researched in order to design a small art space for contemporary sculpture in Stockholm.
This studio investigates different experiences of architecture and conceptions of space in relation to the synthesizingdesign process. Basic architectural concepts are explored through a methodology wherein students andteachers 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 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.
ReinterpretingSymmetries and
Through deeper studies of emblematic buildings and their specific beauty and qualities, the studio will develop an understanding of symmetrical and irregular composition, geometrical or random form as generators for architectural space. We will first document, represent, and analyze existing architectural masterpieces (specifically art spaces). In the second part of the project, we will develop individual architectural projects by making alterations to the studied buildings. The project definition is optional: deconstruction, studies of mannerism, reinterpretation, paraphrase, additions, alterations,etc.
By re-defininginterpretationsand 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 context (Smedsudden) and how it can be reshaped to create a fictiveparallelexperience will be ofgreatfocus. Studies will be made of cultural urban landscapes and sustainable ecological initiatives.
Leif Brodersen
LB started teaching at KTH School of Architecture in 1996 andhas beenan Associate Professor since 2004. Heserved as Head of the Schoolfrom2005-2012. He is also a foundingpartnerat 2BK Arkitekter, established in 1999.
Carolina Wikström
CW has been teaching regularly at KTH School of Architecture since 2017. She is a founder of the architecture practice Asante Architecture & Design and is Secretary General at Europan Sweden, an international architecture and urban design competition.
Teachers: Michela Barone Lumaga, Mikael Bergquist
The focus of the studio is the critical and experimental study of domestic space, spanning from the single dwelling to groupings of low-rise buildings. The ambition is to investigate the conventions and codes of the home and its basic architectural elements - both programmatic and tectonic.The studio will examine what is the most familiar and yet difficult kind of architecture: the house. We will explore its potential as a contemporary model of living.
To many the house still symbolizes the most desirable form of living - more than half of Sweden’s population live in one or two-family dwelling buildings. Yet, its current model seems at odds with the environmental and financial challenges of today. The aim of this studio will be to reappraise the spatial, social and ecological contracts of the home. We shall explore alternative living models that go beyond dichotomies such as husband and wife, living and work, private and public, house and garden.
Methodology
Through the study of everyday elements and fundamental domestic programs such as cooking, working, bathing, resting, reading, gardening and playing, we will search for new domestic thresholds that can provide a space for both tradition and innovation.
Based in Stockholm, the studio will work on the outskirts of the city. We shall test the house within a site-specific context that is ordinary rather than exceptional. The aims are social, spatial and natural. Through modest means we will look at how architectural reinvention can turn the house into a regenerative social and environmental type, set somewhere between archetype and prototype.
During the semester we will build a common archive. We will encourage iterative design, model-making and explorative modes of representation. Each project is expected to be rigorous in research and design, and realistically grounded within its context.
Archive – We will work with references and build an archive of models, drawings, texts, articles, and books. We use different tools of representation and working methods.
Concept – We will speculate on what the contemporary dwelling can be today. We will make architectural projects based in part on the findings in Archive. We will work on different scales: from the communal area with streets and gardens, to the single unit, and down to parts of the unit.
Revision – We will look at our concepts and develop them further from different angels. We work with the interior, movement, privateshared - communal. How the group of buildings relates to the topography and ecology of the site.
Presentation – We make coherent presentations of the projects from the overall to the detail. We work with precision of representation in models, drawings, text and images to present the full potential of our projects.
Michela Barone Lumaga
MBL is a partner at ALTA Architecture in Stockholm. Everyday poetics and materiality are among the core preoccupations of the firm, with a focus on how resources and building practices can support a more ecologicalbuilt environment.She holds degrees in Architecture and Urban planning from Politecnico di Milano and MIT.
Mikael Bergquist
MB is an architect and writer, educated at KTH and the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and with his own office in Stockholm. MB has written and curated numerous exhibitions and books. His latest published book is ”Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten” (Park Books 2019).
Konrad Krupinski, Martin Nässén, Niklas Lindelöw
Studio Theme
We started the studio last year by looking at stone as a resource and its potential application in contemporary construction, looking for an architecture connected to the land, aware of a material economy of finite resources. In this sense stone became a vehicle to understand the city and the landscape, and our current predicament in the Anthropocene. This year, and hopefully for several years to come, we will continue in this vein. The archipelago structure of Stockholm is unique both as a material and urban condition. So, as we refine and clarify our focus, we will work under a new banner: Island. The island is the building block of the archipelago but can also be understood as an autonomous territory – a world onto itself. We will interrogate the notion of the island both literally and metaphorically, and aim to define its specific urban logic, its atmosphere, its psychology. The island inevitably means isolation, but also freedom - a licence, perhaps, for otherness.
Studio Methodology
We will work collectively and individually to make an architecture rooted in observation rather than invention. By learning from what already exists – materially, urbanistically as well as culturally – and by engaging with construction and making we will aim for an economical architecture full of character and optimism. Work will be structured in a non-linear way where research, proposition, strategy and detail are of equal importance.
Stora Höggarn, Part I
This semester projects will be located on Stora Höggarn, an island within the inlet of Stockholm just east of Lidingö which has housed various human activities since the 17th century. Today perhaps mostly known as a major oil depot active until the 1990s, it has also been a place for agriculture, hospitality, the occasional rave, and now research into geothermal energy. We will begin by making a thorough survey of the island and from what we will find we will start to articulate a possible new future.
Stora Höggarn, Part II
During the second part of the semester, we will develop precise architectural proposals that elaborate on our findings during P1. Great emphasis will be placed on tectonic resolution. Largely off grid the island comes with an explicit set of constraints that will question received notions of comfort.
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.
Martin Nässén
Martin is a KTH graduate and is working as an associate at 6a architects in London where he is leading projects both in the UK and internationally. Prior to joining 6a he worked for Herzog & de Meuron and Tony Fretton Architects. Martin has previously taught architecture at London Metropolitan University.
Niklas Lindelöw
Niklas graduated from the Royal Danish Academy in 2017. He is a self-employed architect with five years of experience as a project managing architect at Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter in Copenhagen, and has been teaching, lecturing and critiquing at the architecture schools in Copenhagen and Aarhus.
Teachers:
Sogol Baghban, Ulrika Karlsson
Studio Theme
With a focus on Shifting scale, Northern Grounds will continue its focus on architecture and its representations looking towards the North – the larger area in northern Scandinavia, also called Sapmi, of diverse cultures, ecologies, histories and agencies. With a modern and colonial history that has reshaped the grounds, these northern “critical zones” are again subject to infrastructural and climatic changes. The area holds a long tradition of reindeer herding and many strategic resources of raw materials (minerals, wood, oil and water) and infrastructure for their processing. The right to the use of land and water is a heated and greatly debated question. With a caring respect to situations, the studio will engage a series of sites of the north - natural, urban, rural, museal, fictive as well as places in the electronic weave. We will also continue exploring architectural methods for working with that which already exists – through modes of gleaning, reusing, recording, reassembling, conversations and architecturally making unexpected connections and proximities.
Teaching Methodology:
With a focus on research through making, the studio has an interest in the role of representation in architecture. This interest is inserted within contemporary approaches emphasising the entanglements of the physical with the virtual and their effects on how we imagine, understand, and make architecture. We encourage a curious, critical and experimental approach to technology and continually engage machinic processes in design work - such as LiDAR scanning, drone filming, photogrammetry, moving image, AI, 3d printing, CNC. Through collaborative and individual design investigations coupled with archival research, the studio aims to propose multiple ways of engaging with places, existing structures and material realities, specified through architectural questions. The studio includes workshops with invited guests and local established networks, recurring pin-ups, reading seminars and studio discussions to support students to contextualise their work and engage in contemporary architectural discourse.
Shifting Scales: Recording Sensibilities
This semester, Northern Grounds will take a closer look at Svappavaara (Vaskivuori/Veaikévarri). We will focus on, investigate, and closely study Ralph Erskine’s utopian visions for arctic towns from 1963, whose plans for Svappavaara were never fully completed and now are partly demolished. The architecture of Svappavaara will be explored in relation to local culture, migration and history. In relation to the grounds and their ecologies, transformed under the processes of extraction.
Challenging traditional views of architectural drawing and imaging as objective reflections of reality, the studio will on site explore how techniques for engaging with, drawing, recording, and sensing can make visible entangled relations and multiple aspects of place, understanding the town and its architecture as material structures but also as the lived in reality informed by stories of the everyday.
The architectural focus will be to explore compositional, spatial, and structural qualities of shifting scales, as well as shifting scales linking landscape, buildings, and people. The outcome of project 1 will be highly detailed physical models together with a series of images, drawings, and architectural questions to be furthered in project 2.
Project 2
Shifting Scales: Reimagined Reassemblies
The second part of the semester till focus on architecturally detailing our studies and questions regarding Svappavaara's past, present, and future through film. Highly detailed physical models of architectural reimagined reassemblies will be coupled with a series of images, moving images and drawings (sensitively drawn, generated, informed, and curated).
Sogol Baghban
SB is an architect educated at KTH in Stockholm and ETH in Zürich. She has worked as an architect in Switzerland and in Stockholm at General Architecture. She is currently running her own practice where she is interested in topics of reuse and the life of the built fabric.
Ulrika Karlsson
UK is an architect and landscape architect, founding partner of the architecture practice Brrum as well as of servo stockholm. She is a Professor in Architecture at the KTH School of Architecture. She recently served as a Guest Professor at Frankfurt and Tokyo University. At KTH she is engaged in artistic research within the field of architecture.
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Oases (n. plural) – a master studio focusing on civic architecture with respect for the past, care for the present and visions for the future. An oasis presents a condition different from its surroundings – a distinct space, clearly defined, where life different from the usual can take place.
In the city – interwoven in a fabric of apartment blocks and workspaces – generous interiors were built to accommodate cinemas. In the 1940s, there were 110 cinemas in Stockholm to meet the substantial demand for entertainment. As one of the first mass media cultures, cinema was made for the people. Unlike opera houses and royal theaters – whose majestic architecture often consists of solitary buildings integrated into monumental urban plans of the ruling powers –the architecture of cinemas often adapted to existing urban conditions. Their relatively small but conspicuous facades served as interfaces, mediating the transition from the narrow streets to the large, decorated spaces of the cinemas. In its conception, the cinema functioned as a collective living room of the people, an alternative space, distinct from that of production and reproduction. The ornate interiors were always conceived with great attention to detail, celebrating the festive event of the screening. However, with the rise of television in the 1950s and the boom of video streaming services today, its function no longer holds the same cultural importance. As a consequence, the cinemas are losing their place in collective memory, leaving behind traces of a bygone era. In the coming semester, we will explore the underlying potential of these urban, discrete, and generous interior spaces.
The pedagogy of the studio revolves around collective architectural discourse as a tool for learning; hence, tasks are to be done both individually and in groups. Through a dialectical method that presents differing perspectives on current problems, students will learn both the tools of the architect and develop a precise architectural intent. We will work extensively with model-making and drawings, as well as the perspectival view. Students are expected to critically engage with current building legislation and develop their proposals with an understanding of architectural construction.
The first section of the course will be dedicated to the architecture of the past and present. We will survey the lost architecture of the cinemas in Stockholm, map their urban impact, develop careful and concrete architectural proposals that take into consideration questions of care and feasibility both in terms of construction and current Swedish building conservation law.
In the second part of the course, we will expand our field of view, developing visionary architectural proposals that, rather than relying on nostalgia and reinstating old uses, seize the potential of the space to propose alternative uses that ensure the historic continuity of the collective atmosphere in urban interior spaces.
Marcelo Roviera Torres
MRT is a practicing architect and researcher specializing in the fields of architectural history and theory. He studied architecture at KTH, ETH and EPF. He runs an architecture firm in Stockholm. Recent publications include ‘Recovering the Historical Construction and Materials of Erik Gunnar Asplund’s Stockholm Public Library’ (Docomomo Journal, 2024).
Christin Svensson
CS is an architect and educator, with an extensive international experience in design, having held leading roles at OMA, XDGA, and BIG. She has taught architecture at KTH and the University of Syracuse in London, and has served as a critic at various institutions. Currently, she runs her own practice, which focuses on both architecture and public art.
Samuel lLndberg
SL studied architecture at KTH and UdK in Berlin. In 2010, he co-founded the office Hermansson Hiller Lundberg Arkitekter The office focuses on the expressive potential of contemporary construction. He has taught at KTH and TU Kaiserslautern, where he served as a Guest Professor in Design Methodology and as Acting Professor in Building Design.
Teacher: Thordis Arrhenius
The Re-Master studio at KTH addresses notions of change, permanence, and resilience through restoration, reuse, and repair. The overall methodological and pedagogical strategy explores the already present, the already built, the already thought and imagined.
A central effect of global capitalism is the pressure of change. Urban patterns and building programs are increasingly becoming redundant, demanding change to accommodate new economies, functions, and identities. In the urgent context of climate change, contemporary architectural culture needs to respond to the forces of change with new strategies and forms of stocktaking. Under this new condition, preservation has moved from the fringe of architectural practice into its core. Remaster Studio aims to probe this new condition for architecture and architectural practice, exploring new strategies and architectural thinking in experimental preservation, adaptive reuse, alteration, and repair.
The studio emphasizes explorative and research-orientated projects and is suitable for students in the last part of their master's studies. Working through an individually formulated project, there will be an opportunity to develop a strong thesis question for the diploma project. Equally, working with the already built, the studio pays specific attention to the architectural representation and how to display and curate an architectural project. Crucial for the work in the studio is to reflect, test, and, most importantly, advance architectural representational tools and technologies—to become aware of the function of the drawing, the model, and the image in architectural production. In the studio, we work intensively with the scale model, the drawing, and the image to argue for our architectural proposals. See previous studio publications for more information about the studio’s work. www.remasterstudio.com
In the post-war era, Sweden underwent a massive and impressive modernization of society that involved extensive investment in public buildings such as libraries, schools, hospitals, sports and cultural buildings, and public housing.
Today's urgent issue is how this stock of post-war public buildings from the welfare state is considered and valued in terms of building economy and cultural national heritage. Many are valued as obsolete and up from demolition; others are sold to private investors and part
Thordis Arrhenius
TA is an architect and architectural researcher. Her teaching and research are characterized by a strong dedication to contemporary critical issues in heritage and urbanism, where the historical perspective informs actions and strategies. Since 2018 she is a professor in Architecture, Theory, and Method at KTH School of Architecture.
of a speculative global real estate market. The 20th-century notion of a shared national heritage under the state's and civic society's protection, expressed in national preservation law and praxis, is today contested and under negotiation. The studio will take this question as a starting point to explore the legacy of modern architecture in Sweden.
Part 1: Focusing on the notion of the public, you will identify, document, and survey a building under pressure to change due to forces of obsolescence or shifted ownership. In this first part, we will collaborate with different archives collecting architecture, such as the newly reopened drawing archive of ArkDes and other building archives. This part will result in an in-depth analysis and survey of a public building using the representational tools of architecture: model, drawing, and image.
You will make an informed yet speculative proposal for repairing, altering, or adapting a public building that has served the public. After identifying the building's architectural qualities and values, you will propose how those qualities and values can be restored, new ones added, and existing ones reinforced and enhanced. This second part will result in a full architectural proposal drawn from an urban scale to detail.
Please note students that are preparing their thesis (ARKIT term 9/ TARKM term 3) are prioritized. Students from year 4 are welcome if there are places available. The total number of students is limited to 12.
Teachers: Elena Carlini, Francesca Savio
Theme
Studio Urban Waterlines explores Stockholm's industrial soul on the water with projects along urban and industrial edges, above or below the liquid surface. The city’s trend to expand by transforming industrial waterfronts into high-cost, homogeneous residential neighborhoods is scrutinized as we seek alternatives for these urban spaces, ensuring they serve multiple purposes beyond housing, including production and other vital programs for the needs of diverse populations in balance with the natural environment. We focus on designs that are socially inclusive, resilient to climate extremes, sensitive in their economical circularity and brilliant in their creative vision.
In November we will be at Färgfabriken’s Open Studio in Lövholmen part of the Architecture Triennale, conducting a special 4 week workshop with on-site research, dialogues with the public and other collaborative work.
Teaching methodology
Join us to reimagine Stockholm's future, where waterlines are not just boundaries but dynamic spaces of interaction, productivity, and sustainable living.
In this studio we foster a collaborative and open culture where we reflect on real-world challenges with an optimistic standpoint. Through future literacy, we equip students with methodologies and tools to deal with present and future challenges within the context of urban design and planning. By embedding ourselves in the city, we gain nuanced perspectives for our design proposals, ensuring they are relevant and forward-thinking. Our aim is to prepare students for independent diploma projects and a later sensible and responsible practice in design and research.
Stockholm Waterlines, Atlas, Anthropology box, and a Prototype During P1, we investigate the complexity of the sites through combining theory and analysis with artistic and bold explorations. We will develop a collective interpretative digital and hand-made Atlas of 13 waterlines and will assemble an Anthropology Box with carefully selected material. Later, students will develop a prototype for the sites following our investigation: how can we envision a future city where the relationship with the water is not only about leisure but also about production, living, transportation, and a generative landscape that is the basis for urban living and a healthy resilient nature within the city?
Project 2
New Urban Waterlines of Stockholm
Building on knowledge from P1, we will develop design proposals at the scale of the city or the neighborhood exploring urban programs surrounding production, density, concepts of communities and care, and the nature in our cities, designing public spaces and new or renewed built environment. A particular interest will be given to sustainable practices and cultures and how to design resilient neighborhoods for the future that can cope with climate change. Based at Färgfabriken’s Open Studio in Lövholmen taking part of the Architecture Triennale, with the goal of setting up an open studio with spaces for the students to work, build models, get the public involved in their projects and interact with guests and experts of the field.
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.
Francesca Savio
FS is an architect and urban designer. She has worked in the field of participative urban planning in Italy and Spain, urban design in Sweden, and has taught at KTH urban planning and design since 2017. Her work revolves around sustainable practices for urban design, the circular economy, and future-proofing urban environments.
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