Portfolio Malin Bergman
Selected Work 2013-2020
Malin Bergman
Residual Care Stories from an Extractive Landscape Location: The Boliden Area, Sweden Project: Thesis Project Year: Studio Making, Year 5 Spring 2020 ”Because care emphasises processes and relationships that extend back and forward through time...”1 Told through a story, the thesis explores the complexities of care and mining in relation to residual architecture, the leftovers of the mining industry. It approaches our world in a humble manner and aims to decentralise the human through proposing spaces of care for human and non-human alike. The story travels through the Boliden Area, a mining district in Västerbotten, situated in the North of Sweden. Each of the story’s three chapters focuses on an existing situation in the area; a contaminated waste rock heap, an abandoned ore ropeway and a mining village in decline. In the narrative different modes of care are explored and expressed through architectural interventions, such as the Sanctuary for Troubled Rocks, the Field Hospital for Ropeway Columns and the Workshop for Residual Care. Together, these structures intertwine and care for the residual sites of the Boliden Area. To me, narrative is a mode of proposing an alternative reality to challenge existing paradigms of capitalism, anthropocentrism and power in order to find alternative ways of living, caring and practicing architecture. I believe that telling the story of something silent or neglected, such as many tales of the North of Sweden, is in its own way an act care. 1.Fitz, Angelika, Elke Krasny, and Architektur Zentrum Wien. 2019. Critical Care : Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 28.
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Thesis Project
The Village of Residual Care - Through entangling the residual architecture of the Boliden Area, the decaying village of Kristineberg is restored with the caring support of mining waste rocks and an abandoned ore ropeway.
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The Sanctuary for Troubled Rocks 1. South West Facade 2. Section of waste rocks being placed in Sulphate Reducing Bath
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Detail of Table for Rock Relief and Sulphate Reducing Bath
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Dirty Tectonics Location: KTH Campus, Stockholm Project: Collaboration with Marie Le Rouzic Year: Studio Making, Year 5 Fall 2019
The concept of tectonics was approached with a messy and dirty attitude. Interested in the confrontation between the unpredictable and the disciplined, the accidental and the composed, we wanted to focus our attention on a design that would bring together crafts and industrial techniques. An assemblage of different elements, materials anad working methods allowed us to create a unique entity, a whole that can only exist thanks to its network of links and bonds. We carried our exploration of tectonics through the creation of our own contemporary version of a small scale Greek temple. A dirtier and messier version using a combination of unpredictable and unconventional materials linked with precise industrial processing techniques. Therefore expanding foam was used to create the links between our designed elements. Typically used for insulation within the layers of the walls in a building, we took advantage of the formal freedom allowed by the foam to create bubbly, messy, dripping connections to hold our design. Thanks to the foam we piled and combined elements together in “dirty complexities”. (Reisinger, 2018)
Reisinger, K. (2018). “Abandoned architectures” in Architecture and Feminisms, Ecologies, Economies, Technologies. Edited by Frichot, H., Gabrielsson, C., Runting, H.
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Postgraduate Work
Dirty Tectonics - A study of the origin of tectonics through a dirty translation of the Greek temple
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An Infrastructural Performance Location: Barkarby Airfield, Stockholm Project: Infrastructural Love is Blue Year: Studio 8 - Infrastructural Love, Year 4 Spring 2019
The disused Barkarby Airfield is turned into a field of earth maintenance through an infrastructural performance which renders visible and supports the hidden labour and metabolistic flows of urban development. The project deals with the politics of visibility and care. It proposes a system of seven moveable productive follies which transforms Barkarby Airfield into a field of phytoremediation where vegetation is planted to with its roots relieve the earth from its contaminants. The system stages the labour of remediation and excavation of a new metro tunnel. It moves around the airfield to the pace of the excavation and remediation. Each structure tends to a certain aspect of these to processes and supports and cares for the worker as well as the landscape.
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Postgraduate Work
Staging the Labour - View of Laboratory, Water Tower & Crop Storage
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Irrational Section - 1:100 (650 x 2200 mm)
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Postgraduate Work
The Laboratory - Model - 1:40 - Plaster, Cardboard, Foam, Flowers
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Hidden Space Location: Practice: Year:
Bärby, Uppsala Codesign Research Studio September 2017 - September 2018
A participatory design project investigating the relationship between the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child and architecture. It aims to give agency to neglected groups of children and explores the concept of care through architecture at SiS Bärby, a government owned youth care institution in Uppsala, Sweden. Hidden Space consists of a collaboration with youths and staff at SiS Bärby. It questions the definition of a space for care for this group of youths through inviting them to share their stories and dreams in a workshop series which developed into a refurbishment proposal, The Red Cottage, responding to the emotional needs of the youths. The project was finalised in June 2018 during a collaborative construction week. Hidden Space was also a part of the Venice Biennale 2018, an intervention highlighting child rights, architecture and spaces for care.
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Professional Work
The Stream - Social, playful, adaptable.
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The Stream - Social, playful, adaptable.
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Professional Work
Detail - Bespoke shelving system
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JM Rosenborgsgatan Location: Practice: Year:
Solna, Stockholm Codesign February - August 2018
In collaboration with the housing developer JM, Codesign designed their new head office in Solna with the ambition to create a workspace just as welcoming as a home as a constant reminder of JM’s core purpose, to create enjoyable and sustainable housing. The office is activity based with a range of flexible spaces that in a contemporary way draws on traditional typologies of a Swedish home. As a part of the team of JM’s new head office I worked on various stages of the process throughout spring, 2018. My main task were design drafts and production of tender packages for bespoke carpentry, in dialogue with the carpenters. I also helped with selecting as well as specifying materials and furniture. Throughout the entire process, I produced graphic material for client presentations. Participating in this project provided me with experience on the different stages of a commercial project as well as communication skills, both with the team and producers. Through this project I was also given the opportunity to learn BIM-software, specifically Archicad.
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Professional Work
Verandan - Touchdown workspace and lunchroom
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Entrance installation in Open meeting space, 45:cc 6-01
Sveavägen 56E 111 34 Stockholm
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4. Mounting plate in clear laquered mdf 25 mm for montage of monitor 42’’ 1000x580mm. Monitor is mounted 1300 mm from floor to bottom edge of monitor.
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Silvio Moro Caceres
5. Lamellas extend to front edge of baseplate and milled to fit mounting plate.
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Professional Work
Entrance Partitioning
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Sandvik - Self-Build Summerhouse Location: Practice: Year:
Åland Islands, Finland Private / self-build June 2019 - August 2020
Sandvik is a recently completed self-build summerhouse (125 m2), resting by the Baltic Sea on the Åland Islands. Put in dialogue with an existing 1950s cottage, it honours the architectural heritage of the site by mimicking the traditional characteristics, footprint and facade of its predecessor through a modern take. Its prefabricated wooden construction produced in a small scale factory on the island pays tribute to its local and contemporary craftsmanship. The site and its houses has been the family’s companion through three generations and the new addition aims to give room for life to grow through a open and spacious floor plan. Generous openings facing the Baltic Sea visually invites the nature which dominates its surroundings. I’ve participated in the development of Sandvik from early stages to completion where my main responsibility has been the design of both interior and exterior of the building with technical support from the contractors. I also participated in planning a self-sustained sewage system in its challenging rocky context, which sustains both dwellings on site.
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Self-build Work
Sandvik - from construction to completion
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