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jaja architects ApS · Heimdalsgade 35, baghuset 3.sal · 2200 Copenhagen N · Denmark info@ja–ja.dk · www.ja–ja.dk · +45 33 33 07 13
København, d. 10.11.2015
Letter of recommendation for Nathalie Stachnik Nathalie is currently completing her 6 month internship with us at JAJA Architects. Since August 2015, she has seamlessly asserted herself into the rhythm of the office, where she up to now has contributed and taken responsibility for two projects: Sofieskolen – invited competition for housing for children with Autism in Hareskoven, DK Viking Age Museum – open competition for the extension of the Viking Museum in Oslo, NO
Both projects have entailed special attention to program, scale, context and process. Nathalie contributed from the concept phase through to the finished design, producing volumetric studies, visualizations and plan drawings all used during discussions to further the project and examine new ideas. She was responsible in all phases of the process, from the development of the formal architecture expression to designing and detailing the integrated furniture elements. Nathalie is working very systematic and precise. This makes her a team mate one can always rely on – also in busy and hectic times. Nathalie became well versed in switching between different media and she actively participates in the project development process. She quickly understands the challenges and potentials of a given project brief and contributes enthusiastically with her ideas and opinions. Nathalie´s positive attitude and spirit greatly contributes to a good working atmosphere. For everyone at the office it is been a pleasure to work with Nathalie. I warmly recommend Nathalie for future working possibilities and wish her all the best with her future career.
Kathrin Gimmel Arkitekt / Partner
jaja architects ApS · Heimdalsgade 35, baghuset 3.sal · 2200 Copenhagen N · Denmark info@ja–ja.dk · www.ja–ja.dk · +45 33 33 07 13
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COMPETITIONS
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C_1 VIKING MUSEUM The Viking ship Museum is one of Norway’s most important cultural heritages. The museum’s extension preserves and accentuates the existing features and qualities by expanding into the landscape. The striking Viking ship Museum, by Arnstein Arne therefore remains Bygdøy’s visual landmark as we propose a partially buried museum extension that merges the building with its surrounding landscape. The three Viking ships are the heart of the significant collection. In order to create a better experience, we exhibit the three ships in the new expansion where large spaces ensure that they can be seen from all angles and in full length. The new building includes exhibition spaces, an auditorium and workshops. A central courtyard ensures good access and functionality between new and old. The roof landscape is modelled as soft hills to create an additional height for the ship’s mast. Cut-outs in the roof landscape provide daylight to the workshops and exhibition.
Siteplan 1:2000
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THE VIKING AGE AGAIN
The Viking ship Museum’s four wings are converted into the museum’s vestibule. A large staircase in the north wing connects the lobby with the activity room, auditorium (level -1) and with the exhibition spaces (level -2). The Oseberg ship is located in the extension of the staircase and will imposingly appear as one moves down the stairs. The West, South and East wing, which used to accommodate the centrally positioned ships, are spatially preserved as we place three large wooden elements; a gift shop in the east wing, a cafeteria in the west wing and a seating area in the south wing. The ships are placed under large cut-outs in the mezzanine floor, which soft forms frame the ships elegant silhouette. The rest of the exhibition space can be arranged flexibly with the help of suspended, mobile exhibition walls. From the mezzanine floor, the ships can be seen from a distance or close up. The audience can take part in sword fighting, boat building and other Viking Age activities in the museum’s courtyard, providing a meeting space and outdoor area.
Paths lead the visitors around the museum’s outdoor space hoping to create an overall museum experience at Bygdøy.
Today’s situation
New space for the ships
Expansion in terrain
Burial mounds
The arrival area gives space to landscape elements that guide and provide seating for the many visitors from all over the world. Benches invite to take a break after an intense experience of the Viking Age.
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The green field is today an undulating landscape with varied vegetation, ressembling burial mounds in which are hidden Viking treasures.
A path made out of larger stones in the terrazzo, guides the visitors around the museum’s exhibition.
Vestibule
Exhibition
Mezzanine
Workshops
The building’s main entrance retains its function as a ticket office. A wooden furniture element, interpreting the Viking ship, serves as a waiting bench for large or small groups. The museum’s gift shop is moved to the east wing. The café is located in the west wing with a possible outdoor extension. Wardrobes are established in the north wing between the existing columns and around the new staircase leading down to the exhibition.
The exhibition is located in a open space at -1 level. The ships are placed under large cut outs in the mezzanine floor and the rest of the space can be variably arranged with the help of flexible exhibition walls and multimedia rooms. These mobile walls can serve as room dividers and as graphical and instructing guides through the exhibition’s trail. This creates a desirable flexibility in the case of new themes and changes over time.
The mezzanine level serves as both an activity and workshop area, where ships can be studied from any point of view. From the mezzanine floor there is also direct outdoor access to the courtyard where boat building, sword fighting and storytelling can take place. The exhibition floor and mezzanine are well connected via two centrally located elevators as ascending staircases.
The offices, preservation rooms and workshops are all located on the same level and well connected. Glass walls create light and transparent division between the existing and new building. The workshops and preservation rooms in the new building have good access to both the devlivery and exhibition space thanks to a platform-elevator.
The courtyard is scene of boat building, sword fights and stories from ancient times.
There is a free flow between indoor and outdoor spaces. The conservation and preservation workshops can be seen through glass rooms by the visitors.
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Large wooden elements are located where the Viking ships used to stand and reinterprete this Viking craft tradition.
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The Osberg ship first appears as you walk down the stairs towards the exhibition area on level -2. On level -1 you can use the activity room to the left and auditorium to the right.
The mezzanine floor also oers spaces for a break and time for reflection. The facade openings captures the sky and landscape, creating an iconic interaction with the natural surroundings.
Suspended exhibition panels function as partition walls, display windows and guide through the exhibition’s trail.
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C_2 SOFIESKOLEN This residence was created to provide children with autism a place that they can call home. Creating this “homey” is a broad concept as everyone has different preferences, but we all share and crave a feeling of security, intimacy as well-adjusted spaces. This objective was achieved by breaking down the building into small and easily manageable units, avoiding a formal institutional appearance. These smaller units create a gradual transition from public areas to private rooms and respond well to the competitition’s complex program. The building adapts to the sharp terrain drop by forming two levels. The transition between both floors is characterized by a large patio, which draws light into the centre of the building. This way, nature, in the form of light and landscape is drawn into the public areas, living rooms and private rooms. From the main entrance to the common functions and living rooms, we work with large openings and skylights. The variation between the amount of light and the skylight-signals, create both specific spatial features and focal points of the project.
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Future residence for autistic children CONCEPT The proposal is based on the existing building with it’s two wings, shielding residential from the road and neighbors while opening towards the green surroundings and fantastic outdoor areas. These are the qualities we wanted to preserve and reinforce. We propose a building on two levels to maintain a scale level in terms of a well-integrated volume alon the residential street. The upper floor serves as main entrance and administration program. The lower floor consists mainly of residential units. This new extension is a more multidirectional building, maximizing facade openings towards the green surroundings and creating multiple transitions between inside and outside. The two levels are connected primarily by a main staircase as two secondary shortcuts.
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Existing situation
New extension volume
Homes along the garden
UPPER LEVEL The upper level consists of three zones: administration/sta, kitchen and housing development B. The main entrance is loacted between the kitchen and unit B, giving access to all parts of the building including the lower level. The kitchen is located close to the main entrance so that the curious can see what is for dinner when they come home from school. It also serves as a training kitchen for the children. The upper floor provides a generous view towards the outdoors and greenery. In order to creat a beautiful transition from the foreground to the background, we propose a roof covered with flowering sedum. The roof is generally not accessible for security reasons, but from the sta wing there is the possibility to access a small terrace.
Program distribution
Main circulation
Main and secondary staircases
Program distribution
Main circulation
Main and secondary staircases
LOWER LEVEL The lower level consists largely of residential units and common rooms, which can open easily and transition towards the outdoors. A centrally located courtyard serves as the building’s core and recreation area. Along both sides of the courtyard are further access into residential units.
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Axonometric overview
Activity room and courtyard
Residential unit example
Room example
Room example
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C_3 CHILLOUT “To further enhance the site and construct a service building� The improvement of its visitor services facilities has been targeted by the Chillon Castle Foundation within the framework of its development strategy. This applies in particular to arrivals at the castle by assuring quality installations. This vision is also completely in line with the needs for the conservation and continuous development of our heritage site, as it aims to relieve the impact on the monument generated by tourist-linked activities. In order to achieve this objective, the Foundation organised a SIA 142 architecture and landscape architecture contest, on 16 October 2012. Open to all, the project includes further enhancement of the site and its landscaping, as well as the construction of a service building outside the castle. This new building will house a cafeteria and a new sales venue that will group the two existing shops, along with the necessary services. Available at: http://www.chillon.ch/fr/expositions-precedentes/concours-architecture1?fs=plus
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C_4 PLAYHOUSE Design a small playhouse of the following dimensions: 3,66 x 3,66 x 3,66 meters. This enclosure should create an environment suitable for both children and adults. The playhouse must provide: - a shelter where imagination becomes reality - a reading space to explore other worlds through books - an observatory to discover the clouds and stars - a place to meet, relax and dream - a feeling of proximity with nature, creating a sense of awarness of the passage of time The playhouse should be conceived as a waterproof object that is capable of being dismantled, transported and rebuilt elsewhere. Available at: http://dparq.upv.es/departamento/concurso-playhouse
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PROJECTS
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P_1 MAGIC BOX We live in times of change! Education helps us evolve, prepare and train the young people of this world for a better one. We, as architects, need to focus our attention into spaces meant for teaching, learning and thus creating spaces where people can reflect and share experiences. This themed project is based on the development of the “Educatorium” faculty at the University in Granada. The “magic box” is a place for everyone and everything; a versatile building where sports, public social events, workshops, theatrical performances or audiovisual shows can take place. The aim of this project was to learn how to organize, relate and inhabit large scale spaces while emphasizing on order, structure and most importantly on it’s program flexibility. Understanding that architecture is, in the end, a built idea !
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P_2 OUTDOOR WORKSHOP The project consists of the intervention and expansion of a property within its protected environmental context. The old thresher, in El Palmar, will be the starting point to which is added an outdoor classroom / workshop for educational purposes. Currently, parts of this nineteenth century building serve as a visitor reception center and historical gallery. Recovered artefacts are exhibited alongside displayed images showing the contrast between the historical and current environment of Albufera. The idea is to give a grander activity to the site with this new educational space dedicated to group activities (up to 40 students). Therefore, it was necessary to reflect on the functionalities of the learning space as the versatility of its use. Tree Canopy Projection - Junya Ishigami
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P_3 GLETSCH In this second proposal for the reanimated future of Gletsch, visitors may adventure themselves through a walking trail that guides them between ruins and wild landscape. The village’s inhabited center is defined by the hotel, stables, sauna and laundries. The aim of this project however focusses specifically on one of the infrastructures included in the scenario. An importent dilemma was to deviate the traďŹƒc passing through the village. Instead a quiet, mountainous road that embraces the existing topography was created. The new road either arises from the ground or extrudes the rock mass. A parking lot is created and nestles in the thickness of the mountainside, creating an observation point with a breathtaking panoramic view of Gletsch. Concrete model 1:50
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EXHIBITIONS E_1 GLETSCH Gletsch is an alpine centre located at a height of 1759m, next to the Glacier and birthplace of the RhĂ´ne river. The hotel-hamlet,strongly structured by belle-ĂŠpoque tourism, is today in a fragile condition and depends on its single summer passengers travelling in the direction of the Furka and Grimsel passes. Motivated by the kanton Wallis, thirty six students of the EPFL developped nineteen scenarios for a reanimated future of Gletsch. Available at : Gletsch!
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PREPARATORY P_4 FRAMING By creating spaces with different heights, widths and pronounced angles, visitors can experience a vast array of feelings throughout the pavilion. Certain spaces encountered along this architectural promenade, are designed to bring visitors in close proximity to one another. This provokes a social interaction, where they share and witness the same place in time. The structure has no defined boundaries and can be approached from all directions. One is never inside or outside but always “in between”. Although the pavilion was constructed without a surrounding context, it was imagined to coexist in a recreational and relaxing environment, such as a park. Light Screen made of plaster
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P_5 MATRIX The project consists of a two-family house, centrally divided into two halves by a wall. This dividing wall is the only load-bearing structure in the entire house, therefore attributing a certain dependence to it. In order to amplify this concept, the wall’s thickness is exagerated to create a visible hierarchy with the other structural elements. One of the major constraints of this project was its challenging location - the empty space of a gorge. Together, the inclinated facades and surrounding rock mass create a shelter. Consequently, the interior living spaces can be considered as “outdoors”. All the program’s facilities are included in the thickness of the supporting wall, optimizing space. The uncovered zones serve as private gardens. Studio’s Matrix
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