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1. Kristineberg bridge, Sara Sandkvist 2. Nature Mapping, 2020 3. Light model, Amy, Sara, Ossian, Jeff 4. Window construction drawing 5. Light collage

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Teachers: Carmen Izquierdo, Jesús Azpeitia, Peter Lynch

To practice well the architect must understand a remarkably broad range of concerns, from spirit and atmosphere to waterproofing and flashing. We help you develop a productive and enjoyable design method that circulates freely between objective and subjective criteria, fact and intuition, in a consequential and productive way. We approach comprehensive architectural design tasks via three sister disciplines: landscape architecture, urban design, and structural design. We encourage you to deepen your understanding of these fields.

We emphasize line drawing, hand sketching, physical modeling, and physical prototyping. Since early 2020 we emphasize digital rendering as an in-process design tool—capable of testing subtle qualities of light and mood. We collaborate with KTH Byggvetenskap department. For environmental and pedagogical reasons, we focus on contemporary timber-hybrid construction methods and materials. Students present their work in a public exhibition at year’s end. Participation in the show—design, installation, de-installation—is a required part of the course.

Since 2017 many of the studio’s projects have been sited in Norrköping, a former industrial city on the Motala River, southwest of Stockholm. Through urban, architectural, landscape, and structural design projects, we have studied the city systematically– focusing on the historical center and industrial quarter, then moving outwards to major boulevard nodes, the Motala river corridor, and the immediate periphery. This term we end our investigation with a territorial perspective Project 1 The Göta canal (1806-1832) remains Sweden’s most important infrastructure project. With Trollhätte Canal it forms an inland waterway between east and west coasts. It was built before steam power and dynamite: the channel was dug by hand. We focus on the stretch south and west of Norrköping, between Vättern and the Baltic. Identify important architectural and landscape elements in your study area and represent them in a digital parallel projection line drawing. Projection type, technique, and scale should be chosen to represent all key elements – large and small – with an equal hand. Don’t focus on the canal alone, but on significant elements and features that the canal strings together: roads, allées, estates, churches, embankments, locks, bollards... Your drawing is a diachronic story of the character and history of the region.

Part 2: Working alone, make a design intervention in your study area that clarifies or enriches the character of the place. The proposal can be at any scale and can involve changes or additions to any type of element: landscape, architectural, infrastructural. The project draws upon ideas and strategies of Barcelona architect-urbanist Manuel de Sola Morales (1939-2012).

Project 2 Movable Timber-Hybrid Bridge over Göta Canal Working in small groups, make a proposal for a new movable bridge over the canal at one of three locations. Investigate contemporary timber construction methods/materials. Resolve all aspects of the project, from site planning to construction detailing. Key collaborators: structural engineer Roberto Crocetti and materials scientist Magnus Wålinder (KTH Byggvetenskap), Norrköpings kommun.

!!! Please note: Fragmentation and Coherence Stuidio is given the last time during the autumn of 2020. The Urbanism and Landscape Studio is offered in the spring .

Peter Lynch PL is a KTH Guest Professor, has run his own office since 1991. Building Culture PLA focuses on applied research in architecture, urbanism, and building technology. Stuckeman Visiting Professor, Penn State, 2015. Cranbrook Architecture Head 1996- 05. Has taught at Harvard GSD, Columbia, RISD, and Parsons. Carmen Izquierdo CI is an architect COAM, SAR-MSA, runs her own firm Esencial AB. CI is passionate about a visionary architecture that brings poetry to our everyday lives, that unites art and technology. Her work has been awarded with the Kasper Salin Prize. She has taught at the School of Architecture at KTH in both undergraduate and master's programs. Jesús Azpeitia JA is creative director at Tengbom. He has taught at KTH since 2006. In 2012 he was named KTH teacher of the year. His practice is focused on sustainable development and design; creative processes that lead to highquality architecture; and on gender equality and diversity. His pedagogy emphasizes innovation, aesthetics, and tectonics.

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1. Proposal for timber-hybrid pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Motala River, Norrköping. View of large-scale model at final presentation. Boyd Hellier Knox, Julius Puttkammer, and Josef Vild. 2. Proposal for timber-hybrid pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Motala River, Norrköping. Photomontage. Victor Johansson and Anton Valek, HT 2019 studio project. 3. “Timescape Garden”: detail of landscape design proposal for Fåfängen and Danviksbergen, Södermalm, Stockholm. Julia Thiem, HT 2019 studio project. 4. Study of Økern cultural landscape, Oslo. Detail of reconstructed industrial landscape in 1938. Emma Moberg, VT 2020 Diploma Project..

Teachers: Erik Stenberg, Frida Rosenberg

Muddy and Motley Mass Housing for Millions of Homes The Housing Studio will explore and design mass housing solutions from several perspectives, such as prefabrication, material technology, tectonics and sustainability as well as portraying historical circumstances and exploring living conditions. One focus will be on the implications of the Welfare State housing production. While we believe there are many lessons to be learned from this particular point in time in Sweden, we also argue for a broader understanding of the vast network of mass housing developments across the globe. In addition, building in the face of climate change urges us to seriously (re-)consider how to build with systems and materials. By mapping, analyzing, and recreating a catalogue of aspect of the project is to understand the possibilities in the

housing environments, their structural similarities as well as contextual differences may give vital clues to some of the unanswered questions of emergent and contemporary housing issues. Why does the automated production of housing still remain aesthetically similar? How much of the social challenge of Post War mass housing environments rests in their architecture? When will the Housing Question be answered?

Studio Methodology The studio proposes a process of designing mass housing as it relates to structural and material methods intimately tied with a historical perspective. We think that design through knowledge in material and architectural technology implicates the understanding of tectonics and space. Our ambition is to give students a thorough knowledge of the processes and mechanics of housing in order to upgrade and improve the architects’ role in current building production. The studio will foster an empathetic attitude for the complementary roles of the architect and engineer. Our primary tools will be surveying/cataloguing and drawings of both new and historical precedents as part of our mapping phase. Each semester will include a phase of identifying and researching existing examples and/or new mass housing. Our teaching methodology proactively engages with contemporary practices by extensively making use of case studies and site visits. Project 1 Prototyping Mass Housing Studies of prototypes in mass housing, indicating a testing of materials, structural systems, apartment conditions and the urban setting. We will locate, map and analyze Swedish and international examples in East and West Europe, as well as North and South America of mass housing prototypes. An important aspect will be the documentation and communication of your research. These do not necessary mean cataloguing in an ordinary sense, but more as ways of exploring representation in drawings and model making in order to communicate research. Our ambition is to exhibit the material.

Project 2 The Collective Prototype Ideal living formats and revisions, recreations and reconstructions of existing mass housing to produce shared space. How do we dwell? In what ways is it possible to explore and use unconventional solutions in mass housing, if these might be technical inventions or social experiments or adapt to current forms of living? An important as well as a design phase proposing reconstructions of existing

construction systems of mass housing as well as questioning space related to function, outdated norms and family constellations.

Project 3 Industrialized Wood Systems Deconstruction of cutting-edge prefabricated wood systems. What can we learn from current Swedish and international development of mass housing solutions in wood? We will pick apart, analyze and reconstruct an array of wood system solutions offered by and to architects today and compare these with international systems on the market. The studio will methodologically plot and record wood construction in mass housing through interviews, visits to construction sites and architecture offices.

Project 4 Collective Living in Wood Designing contemporary mass housing in a globalized world. We will design a new mass housing solution with focus on the collective aspects. Given a specific site and context, a new housing typology, a new series of homes, a new structural system, and/or a new urban condition will be explored and designed. A text reflecting on the design will also be written.

Erik Stenberg ES is an Associate Professor in Architecture with 20 years of teaching experience also engaged in housing research. He has a special affinity for the Swedish Million Program Era and is currently pursuing solutions to the contemporary Housing Question in the face of climate change. Frida Rosenberg FR is a lecturer in Architecture teaching both design and history/theory courses. She has a PhD in Architecture history with a focus on architectural technology, which analyzed the introduction of steel construction in post war Sweden in relation to the collaborative aspect of making architecture.