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PORTFOLIO by Louise Sevelsted Viborg January 2014 Unit D 5. semester Aarhus School of Architecture

NAME BIRTH ADRESS CONTACT

Louise Sevelsted Viborg 02 | 06 | 1991 Vestergade 35b, 2. sal th 8000 Aarhus, Denmark louise.sevelsted@gmail.com +4551884455

EDUCATION

JOB EXPERIENCE

PERSONAL HELPER | RĂ¸dding, Denmark 2010 - currant | Helper for a disabled person HUSET OLLIE | Esbjerg, Denmark 2007 - 2010 | Piccoline

LANGUAGES

SKILLS

DANISH ENGLISH GERMAN

Native Fluent Good

InDesign Photoshop Illustrator Office Package Rhino Premiere Pro Simlab composer (rendering) V-ray Autocad

Advanced Advanced Advanced Advanced Good Good Good Beginner Beginner

TABLE OF CONTENTS 3. SEMESTER

Recently separated Window expander Event script Academic optic Reflection sheet

06 08 11 12 14

4. SEMESTER

Vehicles for event Experiment R Reflection sheet

16 23 24

5. SEMESTER

Semester work Reflection sheet

26 34

Moments

PHOTOS

RECENTLY SEPARATED Case study | Casa Poli Mauricio Pezo | Sofía von Ellrichshausen Group work of six An analysis of “OPENINGS”. An opening is a beginning. The start or end of something new, of something unseen…captured…hidden. It is by this logic our focus was drawn to the top window and opening on Casa Poli’s Western elevation. The openings are located either side of a narrow corridor/staircase leading to the top floor of the building. The opening on the exterior façade doesn’t contain any glass, leaving the passage open to the elements. Drawing the environment in. The stairwell, the narrow passage is an entirely circulatory space. The openings uncover and redefine the boundaries of function. From circulation to occupation. The user is invited to stop and experience the space. Alternatively, the space is further altered from one of circulation to observation, offered by the interior window. The window opens into the 3-storey void, which occupies the western corner of the design. It is here the user becomes the voyeur, deconstructing the boundaries between public and private, between summerhouse and cultural centre. Model section

Plan, section and axo

WINDOW EXPANDER 3rd semester project | Openings Indevidual work Our own window was to be investigated in light of contextual qualities.The window was re-developed as a perceptual apparatus. The spatial exploration was taken into consideration in the existing spatial condition, and we had to act upon this to reinforce or change the inherent environment. We had to experiment within the different operations, protocols and mechanisms according to the defined program and the relation to the investigated phenomena. In the end the project had to presented in a wooden box that reflected the prototype.

Plan and section of the prototype

Prototype ideas

Window in a Valise - the manual for the box

EVENT SCRIPT Mapping Aarhus harbor

Pictures exploring the different rythems in the landscape

ACADEMIC OPTIC Tutors: Ruben Borup| Karl Christiansen Group work with: Pernille Marie Wedell-Wedellsborg Vicki Buhl Lausen The project was about optimizing a beam of any shape in order to understand the forces and how we as architects can optimize material use in further projects. This was done by topology optimized geometry that was turned into ruled surfaces. By using Inspire to optimize the beam the geometry was afterwords processed in T-spline for Rhino and turned into a smooth model. This model was sliced to peaces and by using Rhinonest spread out so it could be cut out by a lasercutter in 1:1. The messing supports had to be made so they were independent from the model. Therefore when lifting the model the supports would fall down.

REFLECTION SHEET 3RD SEMESTER To get a structured and readable reflection sheet I have chosen to point out the assignments that had the most impact on me. Where I have discovered my weaknesses, strengths, learned the most, had the biggest challenges and realising what I need to work with in the next semester. I will try to answer the three given questions in each assignment. 3rd semester project In our 3rd semester project we worked with different things for over a long period. The general assignment was to observe, map, build, change and explore our own window in our own apartment. This way I got a big inside in the quality in my window and how it has a big impact on the room. I started out using my body exploring the window. Inspired from the previous assignment where the body’s relation to the window was in focus. So I formed my body and mapped the space within the window. It was a challenging task because of the endless opportunities. I was also first introduced to mapping. It was a good thing to be introduced to because it forced me to think more abstract. A lot of times I lock my selves in a “box” so I like having methods to think out of this box. Mapping is about registration in its purest form. Just not having a filter but then on the same time starting to give you boundaries. To be open to whatever situation you are given. I think I first really got the aspect of mapping at the architecture theory course Event Script. When we had to make our room in Rhino so we could use it for measures, sections and plans. It was nice that we were forced to do it in Rhino because it is a media I have not worked with. So I used a lot of time learning the program and I was pleased with the end result for a first time Rhino model. I am looking forward to improve my skills in this program. We used the measures from Rhino to build a 1:20 model in MDF. I like result when you work in different medias. I made several analyses of the room to discover the window. I used the Rhino files in illustrator to make the illustrations. This was my first time on my one working in illustrator. This gave me a lot of experience in the program, which I can use further on. Looking back I would have liked to focus more on light analyses. I didn’t go there which looking back is a shame because of the potential. It was more how I related to the window. I made small investigations witch all ended out in prototypes for a new device in the window. I was very fascinated by the folding mechanism. I wanted to make a device that had different stages of unfolding. Land Peel by Shin Yamashita inspired me. It is a floor or carped that can shape into different forms in order to what needs a person might have. So I ended out with a device that folds in the window and at daytime folds out compared to your needs. Following the cyclise of the day. Unfortunately I did not have the time, or planed it wrong. So I never got to place the probe in the context and test it in the window to see how it would respond with the light. This was very crucial for the task. But looking back I just have to learn from it, and I have done that. Box in a Valise was the last assignment in the semester project. We had to make a port-folio box in MDF with a given size. It should represent the red line throughout my project. The thought of my box was to make an unfolding device that by interaction with is would show the path through out my project. My probe inspired the box, which also was an unfolding device. Making the box took a lot more time that I had estimated and I was already behind schedule due to bad planning. So the original thought that it would spread out over a large surface like the probe was to time consuming. Looking back I really wish that I had done it differently and planed my time. If I had did so I think I would have liked the end result instead of the half done probe I came out with. I need to improve on that area. To be able to see what is important to focus on to get a good end result. In general I have a bad habit in doing everything else than the hard task, postponing it. This results in a bad time plan and in the end a half project because I postponed it so much that I didn’t make it. I need to improve my plan and not taking shortcuts. I hope I can do it by being better at making time schedules and sticking too them. This will also prevent me from spending all my spare time trying to get my project finished. So instead of spending a lot of time at the end, spend more time each week. This will also reduce my stress level. But I have really loved being at an international unit. I am challenged by it but at the same time I have improved my English a lot and I am not finding it so difficult to read an English texts anymore. My vocabulary is also expanding a lot – also in Danish.

Window Safari This was the opening task where we had to investigate the windows in Århus. By walking around in the city I became aware of the many basement windows and how they just where placed there for a practical use. I think this was interesting because it’s a shame not thinking about that certain window. So I captured frames of the completely neglected window vs. the more thought through. Then we were asked at the end of the semester to do the assignment again. This time in a different city: New York. Here we were told to consider what we had learned throughout the semester. I choose to take pictures of windows with curtains or bars in front of it. I learned during the semester project that a window could be neglected in many different ways and these windows perhaps are more neglected that the others. At last that it also can be a functional reason. Recently separated For this task we was given a known building. We had to reconstruct it in models. Point out a spacial relation to get the essence and character out of the building. Focusing on the façade. This was the first assignment working in groups with mixed 2nd and 3rd year students. At first it was pretty difficult having a proper working process because of the obvious difference in skills. But quickly it chanced to the better. Instead of focusing on the lack of skills we turned it around and based the different tasks on the most qualified. I became very aware of my skills and lack of them. Like my lack of computer skills in Illustrator but just by observing it gave me the tools to start using it. It became a very learning and challenging working process. I learned by experimenting with models, plan, section and 1:1 scale model that going from a small model to a 1:1 model can teach you a lot. The size surprised me a lot when we had the final 1:1 window. This gives a greater understanding about the scale in relation to the human body. How “deceiving” a model can be in a smaller scale. Specialist course - Tectonic Optimizing was the key word in this task. Working with computer programs and real scale models. We learned about forces and how a beam will react to pressure. The basic of this task was to construct a beam and then optimize, transform and shape it into a figure we then had to cut out to a real scale model using the laser cutter. Then creating legs out of messing that individual wouldn’t be able to stand. We worked in groups of three. This was a very difficult task because we worked with computer programs that were brand new and not explored by a lot of people before. Therefore the goal was also to explore these programs. This took a very long time but it was nice we were given time to do it. I also spend a lot of time at home learning these programs. It really caught my interest working more with the computer. I began to see the possibilities in spending more time learning these skills. This was because is gave such a benefit in the end of the optic. Because we spent a long time learning the program and had a deadline the assignment solution ended out with a result not very thought through. It was very much just the best result at the first stage we just went on with. Then later we discovered it weaknesses. I would have loved to have given the model more spacial room. It turned out quite flat with a little room in the end. (See picture) I learned a lot in general from this assignment. I like working with models and I want to improve my computer skills because I really found an interest in this field. I also learned from the process in having a model in a computer to getting it out in 1:1. I hope to improve my ability to work just as focused as I did in this task. Again I think I need to improve my time plan. Be better at getting through the harder task with working just as hard as when it is going well. Event script At first we were handed a lot of texts dealing with different kinds of mapping and had some lectures. We were then giving a specific area down at the harbour and told to go down and map the area. Just anything, no limits as long as we had in mind to try to work with different medias such as light, pictures, sound, video and drawings. It was a big challenge just to go down and be open-minded to anything. Because of the size of the area and you not knowing where to start. Therefore all the text that we had read helped out a lot. They gave a massive inspiration and a good platform to start out from. I really want to get in to more architectural based text upon an assignment. I think it would give me a good platform to begin a project, or get new angels when stuck. I learned a new media – video. What qualities this can bring to analyses. Because this introduces another thing: sound. I am very keen to use this newfound skill in the future and to explore furthermore its possibilities. My overall experience with group work is very good. I function really well in a group because I then have a responsibility to the group. This is one of the times where I always have my stuff done on time compared to when I am working alone as mentioned before. In general this assignment gave me a lot to reflect on and to take with me further on in any other assignments. 15

VEHICLES FOR EVENTS 4th semester project | Openings Group work with: Jenny Tran The project of this semester was a hybrid building sited at the Keap Street/ South 4th Street in Williamsburg- a neighborhood with an extraordinary place of a multifaceted reality. A study trip to New York was the foundation for the first mappings of the site. The building was to consist of 50 % housing were individual units for a created character. Fore the last 50 % each team proposed a program related to the previous findings.

Delivering boards 4th semester

Top view of the proposed hybrid building

floorplan 15 m

floorplan 10 m

floorplan 5 m

Sections

Plan and section of the individual unit

EXPERIMENT R Tutors: AsbjĂ¸rn SĂ¸ndergaard | Ruben Borup Pavilion | 1:1 Teamwork The project was to create a pavilion. Each team was given 1 out of 6 section. This piece had to be turned into HYPARNINP geometry. This was done by topology optimized geometry that was turned into ruled surfaces. So by turning the T-spline model into a cage mesh the creation of a HYPARNINP geometry was made in Rhino and Grasshopper. HIPARNINP geometry is a abbreviation for Hyperbolic Paraboliod from N-sided, Irregular, Non-parallel Polygons. Which is a further development of the classic hyperbolic paraboloids that is drawn from circles or ellipses. (That was used by Mark Burry in Sagrada Familia for constructing the geometry to the churchs roof and pillars.) The HYPARNINP geometry could be cut out by a robot hotwire. In this project I worked on the Rhino model and also with the robot. I was shown how to operate with the robot in order to cut out the casting mould for the 1:1 pavilion. The pavilion is planed to be placed at Tangkroen in Aarhus in 2014

REFLECTION SHEET 4TH SEMESTER This semester I have worked with 3 different tasks. The first one is my 4. semester project and then The Academic optic and final the IT course Experiment R. During these tasks I have learned a great deal and achieved new skills that hopefully will work as a foundation for a furthermore progress in the next semesters to come. I have rediscovered my new weaknesses, strengths, learned a lot, had some big challenges and as well realizing what I need to work with in the next semesters. 4. semester project During the 4. semester project I have been working with Jenny on a design that took place at Williamsburg NY. We were giving a site during our study trip to New York. During this time in NY we collected and mapped the area to get more information about the area. Looking back on my own project and others has giving me insight to how to investigate a site and the different ways of you can map a place. We started with creating this concept of flow we wanted to run through the building. This was based on to characters we invented in the giving task. These we tried to combine through this flow. It gave us a design that was very conceptional. We worked in conceptional models and working models a lot in the beginning as a working tool. This helped us getting the ideas out and created a great base for discussions and communication. I discovered the advantages of communicating through out models because it gives you a better understanding of what the other person is trying to communicate and a better way for you to respond to this. We ended up with this very complex structure so to fully develop and extract the potential shape we started to design in 3D. In this process I learned a lot from Jenny, which is better at working in 3D programs. We took turns working on the computer model so that I also would benefit from this process. From the model we extracted sections and plans that we processed through Illustrator. I learned to use and understand Illustrator during the process of trimming and adding material to the drawings. Line weights and general rules became knowledge for me. The German way of working is different that the Danish way. But I think it was a very good match for me because of my lack of discipline in the previous semester. I have learned form her and plan to take this knowledge with me into my next assignment. In general I think our project is weakest when it comes to the inside. Due to our big focus on the outside the time did that the inside potential was a bit neglected. It would have been good to develop that further according to the shape of the building and wherever that would have chanced anything. We also learned the great value of a presentational model. I am sad that we never made a better model that fully would have discovered the potentials of the building. We should had chanced to final models a bit before so that we also might would had time to chance the design of the elevator towers which did not go with the overall design. But in general I became very found of our project and I am very proud of it. It has been a hard process but I have learned more than imagined. It has been fun to work with an exchange student and I think that has pushed me in the right direction in the sense of working mentality.

Academic optic The workshop was called Scaling Architecture. We were giving a sight at the harbor on the water where we had to construct a floating pram that would function as an office for the Searangers but also contain different other functions. Searangers, a marine biologist and one from the culture department came and told the things they wanted the building to contain. This was very giving because we had to deal with real costumers that had certain needs and then it was up to us to figure out a way of communicate these needs into a design. It takes your project to another level when you have to incorporate there needs and at the same time have material costs and technical functions in mind. In the second half of the workshop we could choose to work in a smaller scale, which I did. I teamed up with a girl from my pervious group to create a smaller project. We took a stand in one the other teams project to develop an element what would fit in their project and enrich their project. We developed a small pram that would hold up to 6 people and function as a sunbed/bench/residence. In the end I think the entire project gave me a taste of the real world and how much money way in wherever your project is constructible or not. Experiment R During this IT course that still is ongoing I have furthermore improved my Rhino skills and learned to work with the plug-in Grasshopper. I continued in building on top from the previous academic optic in my 3. semester. I am realizing more and more that designing in 3D and then constructing the design in 1:1 is where my interest lies. I am deeply fascinated of the qualities of the 3D tool and this is certainly a thing I will keep seeking in the future. To have your design constructed is an amazing feeling and I am very excited to see the outcome. Conclusion I have learned a lot this semester. And I am thankful fore what I have learned from Jenny and the German way of doing things and setting a structure. All in all I think I have improved a great deal through out the year. But there are still things to improve. These are some of the things I want to improve, develop and maintain in the future semesters: Keep working with InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop because I now have a very good foundation in all the programs and know the necessary tools. This I intend to keep improving but also keep using in projects to come because it can give your project a lot when knowing what to do. Using Rhino as a 3D tool but also a tool to create 2D. Improve my skills and keep incorporation it in my projects. I also intend to learn V-ray next semester now that my skills are at a level where I feel more comfortable in getting involved with a new challenge. Holding on to the workflow I have learned from working in a group. Keep improving my time priority and maintain to hold on to timelines that are set. Which I think have been easier to manage this semester because of for firm time frames giving for our teachers. Keep questioning my workâ&#x20AC;¨ and still try to keep a clear working processâ&#x20AC;¨ in an effort to give outsiders a better chance fore understanding my projects. Here I should keep using the people around me as a tool for better understanding my own projects strengths and weaknesses. Finally I still really love being at an international unit. I am challenged every day and I am still improving my English.

CONSTRUCTING MEMBRANES 5th semester project | Covering Group work with: Victor Linus Engels Phenomena : Sunshine | Frost This semester was a practice-based research semester. Structured by five consequent phases, the role of covering as a relational element was explored. There were made individual initial research about different weather phenomena. These parameters defined the delimitations of our teamÂ´s negotiation on which common structural principle for further investigations were based. In teams of 4 a case study was envastigated where the focused was on the investigation and analysis of existing typologies of covering in order to understand the membrane as mediator between the human body and the environment. Finally in teams of two we were asked to initiate a production of a series of probes testing potential materializations of particular relationships between human body><covering ><environment.

Case study - The Spanish Pavilion by Corrales y MolezĂşn in Brussels (1958) and Palazzo del Lavoro by Pier Luigi Nervi (1961)

Experimental set-up

679 m

620 03’72.61 N 90 28’58.59 E

53.50 JD

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FN MO AS MA JJ

Elevation and sun calculation

First experiments made with frost, heat and light

Diagram showing the membrane as a mediator between inside and out

1000 g of water that freezes will provide 334 kJ.

This amount of energy will keep a 100 w light bulb lit for approximately one hour.

To burn of 334 kJ for a human would mean 16 min slow jogging.

Tecnical drawing of one water element.

REFLECTION SHEET 5TH SEMESTER This semester I have been working with 3 different tasks. The first one is Instant Aarhus and then my 5. Semester project and finally the academic optic. During this semester I have been giving a lot of new tools and developed my skills in architecture. I feel that I have a great foundation for moving into my last semester on my bachelor. Hopefully I will learn a great deal more and build upon my previous knowledge in order to create a final project. Semester project At the first phase a phenomena had to be chosen. These phenomena were the foundation of the project and the qualities were uncovered. My choice was “sunshine”, a very standard thing to deal with when creating architecture. I wanted to explore and dive deeper into the qualities to see if there were potentials yet to uncover. The overall analysis was based on the relationship between the phenomena – human body – covering. How sunshine reacts, effects and relates to covering. I learned from this phase the impotency of a strong project base. How phenomenon can guide you, narrow the project down and create a coherency through out your project. Then we were given a case study where we had to uncover two architectural references. One given and of our own choosing had had similar qualities structural wise. It was in teamwork of four students and our references were: The Spanish Pavilion by Corrales y Molezún in Brussels (1958) and Palazzo del Lavoro by Pier Luigi Nervi (1961) We had an engineer out to give a lecture on forces and structures in order to better understand our structures. An analysis was made to compare the two structures and models to be able to compare scale. The group work of four worked really well and I think it is a good number when exploring and diving into a task. Group dynamic becomes an important factor and in general I think it is important to keep evolving your abilities to work as a team. From the case studies two students with different phenomena was asked to team up and pick a case study to form a foundation or inspiration for the overall project. I teamed up with Victor that had “frost” as phenomena. Our inspiration was the modular system in Buckminster Fullers geodesic dome. The idea was to create a membrane that responded to both phenomena. Halfway into the project we had an interesting pinup with an external architect that inspired us in the direction of energy. To investigate the great possibilities of green energy and sustainability when dealing with frost and sunshine. This was a turning point in our project and “energy” became the great focus in the construction. Working with Victor turned out to be a success. We as a team worked really well and were very structured in our work. It was nice to see the project evolve and that basic investigations slowly formed the project providing a strong foundation. Looking back it would have been an advantage to dive deeper into modeling. This could have given us another way of investigating and I will definitely work more with that in the next semester. In general I have loved working on my project this semester and has become very happy about the result. The experimental approach has been good to experience and I am looking forward to what next semester bring. Hopefully Victor and I will have the chance of working together again because it has been one of the most constructive teamwork I have had.

Instant Aarhus The first two weeks we worked with inflatable materials. We started out in Aarhus where we were given lectures and tools to see the great spatial potentials of plastic. This was later on used at a trip to Mols where we at a given site created fragments or modules that was combined into an inhabitable city. We worked in groups both weeks. The first week in a small group which work out quite well but based on previous experiences group work of more that six people is not productive enough. The debate takes too much time compared to the actual doing and I find some people getting too lazy. In general it was a great experience to work with a new material and making a project in 1:1. I also approve of the idea of having a two-week course in the beginning of the year because it makes the units work across each other and gives great opportunity to learn about and work with the new 2nd year student and exchange students. Academic optic The workshop I choose was co-design and co-creation. We worked with the school platform called platform Reform. In the course we became familiar with processes, tools and methods of co-design by exploring and experiencing the role as both trained designers and as amateurs in a design domain. We worked with the theme “Active Citizenship” where we as students had to act as trained designers seeking to understand the design problem. We went in a field trip to Samsø where we learned about how to reach citizens in different ways. From this we developed a task where we reached out to people on different dorms in order to investigate how your housing affect your social life and how we in this way could improve the social life. We were given different tools such as Sensitizing tools and Cultural Probes. We choose to send out packages where the people at the dorms could start processing this idea about social activity. Afterword we had group sessions. In general is gave a lot of inspiration to how to communicate with people and how to reach out and involve the user. These tools will become of great use later on in other assignments that is based on users but also in order to draw in the user in the designing face. In general I have become aware of another aspect in architecture and design. Conclusion This semester has been a very intense learning experience. Working with Victor has been really great and we have learned a great deal from each other. We have pushed each other forward into new areas and limits. It has been great for me to see that I have been keeping up the structure everyday that I learned on 4th semester. It gives you a lot more confidence to have a positive workflow and a strict time priority. But there is still more to learn. Going deeper into details and choosing something to dive into but without compromising with the task. Just being selective in the workflow. Picking an area and explore it more detailed and daring to do this. The goals for next semester will also be to keep progressing and follow the process that has been going on the last semesters. For this to happen it will take a lot of work and time. Also being well structured and still manages the time schedule as it was done in the 5. Semester. Comply with the given deadlines. Structuring each week’s work.

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY Moments

THANK YOU Louise Sevelsted Viborg Vestergade 35b, 2. sal th 8000 Aarhus, Denmark louise.sevelsted@gmail.com +4551884455