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THE BIG UNCONSCIOUS ORGANIZER Architecture Without Content/Logistic Center in le Bourget for prof. Kersten Geers, Academy of Architecture of Mendirsio “A great number of large buildings are pragmatic clothing for an undefined content. The ‘big box’ has become the motherboard for suburban non-residential colonization. It has made its debut as warehouse and is now the dominant encasing for everything from shopping malls to logistic centers. This architecture should position itself servant to the content it does not grasp while being fundamental enough to make sense in its own right. In the post-economic collapse climate, do gestures of exuberance, such
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as those built in China or Dubai, display any content that speaks to the society’s condition in its totality? May we instead consider it a form of elitist asceticism? If so, can an intelligent interpretation of the ‘big box’ provide a direction?” The proposal for a logistic center in the outskirts of Paris aims to give presence to a vast desolated place and by that bridging the gap between two separated suburban area.
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SHARING IS CARING Housing for Young Persons in Malmö Winning entry for “UngBo12” Idea Competition, in collaboration with Oskar Grundstöm Sharing is caring - and economically efficient. The main theme for the “UngBo12” fair and competition was how to improve the housing situation for young people in Malmö. As in most of the cities in Sweden, young people tend to buy or rent one-room apartments instead of living together in bigger apartments, mainly because of the shortage of bigger rental apartments on the market. Especially in newly produced houses, living alone in one apartment is not very space efficiently, which makes it quite expensive.
In our proposal we want to show how a low-cost solution based on the concept of sharing could work as a model for housing for young persons. The basic idea is that one rents 25sqm but gets access to 57sqm. Different levels of privacy would not just be necessary but also used as links to make the more public spaces, like the access balconies, more usable.
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PIAZZA OF BABEL Library Building in Tehran for prof. Valerio Olgiati, Academy of Architecture of Mendirsio Exchange of information can be dangerous. This proposal for a library building in Tehran allows visitors to meet and hang out on the vast indoor piazza, situated at the ground level of the library with a cafĂŠ, a restaurant and a bookshop. When one goes to find a book, one disappears down in underground structure that holds 5 000 000 books. By light shafts, one can localize oneself. The stairs forms spirals that lead up to the surface, but when one is down in the library, it is almost impossible to be found by others.
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In a state where something is censured one day - the other day not, this meeting point lets people hide when taking part of their desired information. Much like in Jorge Luis Borges’ short story The Library of Babel, the structure of the library also refers to the infinite amount of information, and amplifies the agony for the mind that wants to control it.
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AUTOTELIC ARCHITECTURE Diploma project* in collaboration with Oskar Grundström for prof. Leif Brodersen and Teres Selberg, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm The project is an investigation in the internal narratives of architecture, transmitted through plans of buildings. The 100 examined buildings and their narratives have been studied and described with the use of short texts and plans. All of the buildings have been built and come from any time and any place in the world. The buildings could represent an architecture that gets its meaning from architecture itself. In this sense they can be seen as autotelic.
All the floors in the building are comprised of the same elements: an entrance, private rooms to the facade, a common room with a bigger window and a structure in the middle with stairs and an eleva-
By proposing different sorts of categorizations of the buildings described, the intention is to reveal patterns and mechanisms of the narratives. The work is meant to be used mainly as a platform for discussion and reflection, and is planned to be published in the format of a book in late September 2015. * nominated to”Offecct’s Prize for Best Diploma Project”
tor. The disposition rotates 90 degrees with each changes to all the rooms in the building, even floor. This rotation makes the stairs face a new di- though they appear similar. This is amplified by rection in relation to the entrance, the elevator and the building not being completely square in plan. the big room for every storey. It also lends subtle
- An uncanny logic.
A long stair leads up to a platform. The platform is raised 48 meters up above the ground by a structure of huge wooden columns. A small, hut-like house sits on top of the platform and is
penetrated by the central column. The entrance into the house is placed asymmetrically, facing a wall that touches the central column. The monumentality of the structure is almost neutralized by
the deletion of centrality. Without the wall, the central column would have dominated the space. By correcting the hierarchy, the simplest wooden hut is raised to a superior level.
by a few big columns, giving room for outdoor spaces. The floors are defined and screened off by different gardens. The building appears to be five
gardens piled on top of each other.
- Praising of modesty.
The five storey building is situated on a dark and narrow plot and has a minimum of closed walls in order to let light in. The floor slabs are supported
- At ease, times five.
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Four different spatial hierarchies: a columnar hall, a connecting hallway, an inner court and four side rooms with openings symmetrically placed on each side around the court. The colonnade in the hall suggests a partition from the outer world. The
asymmetrically positioned hallway then disables a clear reading of the space, bringing confusion to the extent of appearing haphazard. Stepping out of the hallway, you have a clear view over the square court. Strong axes through the centre of the court
are created by the symmetrical openings. The strength of the axes degrade the connecting hallway and it appears as being a suppressed passage.
- Secrets of great significance.
The building consists of a wall with a garden inside and a pavilion by the main entrance. The conditioned pavilion with full height windows
opens up towards the garden. The central wall penetrates the structure. The garden, the wall and the pavilion together become one space.
- One meadow room.
The complementary building is attached to the back of the main building. It consists of four square rooms, all ten by ten meters. They form an enfilade of rooms. All the rooms have a specific programme defined by the objects inside: the first room is a patio with a ping-pong table, the second
a lush garden with a swimming pool, the third is a room for sleeping and cooking and the last is a garden with a lawn, trees and a bench. Even though the walls forcefully exclude the outside world and clearly delineates the inhabitable territory, the repetition makes them somehow disappear,
and all the attention is drawn to their framing. Despite the physical proximity to the main building, the weekend building becomes a remote and relaxing space, cut-off from the daily life in both a simple and a complex way.
- To go far, far away by means of repetition.
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ABCX Urban development plan for Bergs in Nacka, Sweden Competition entry for Europan 13 (Honorable Mention), with Oskar Grundstöm and Linda Högberg Andersson ABCX is a proposal for the area of Bergs within the context of the age of communication. The city, as both a place and a network, s no longer defined by just physical borders and accesses but today also by GPS, delivery services and hits on google.com. Distances and accesablitity are in this context not just depending on street networks and infrastructural hubs, but also by the ability to formulate a subject and producing reasons to be. The municipality of Nacka is planning for an expansion of the city with the tools of urbanization. It is based on an efficient structure of communication with the urban grid as one of its main characters, which allows trade and fluxes to take place and develop over time. However, if we look on the structure of Nacka today we clearly see that the urban structure is not based on te flexible grid, but on enclaves mainly connected by the high way. The enclaves are poorly connected to each other due to the linear logic of the high way and the separation of the enclaves of housing and of commercial activity. There is a lack of focal points, i.e. places for
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exchange of information. A variety and richness of focal points is one of the most important factors for the economic and social sustainability of a city. It would be counterproductive to apply an urban structure on the whole of Nacka that would work against the prevailing situation without first understanding the mechanisms of today’s age of communication. Bergs, which is not so close to the high way and the planned metro station, would with an expansion of the urban grid still be far from a centralizing focal point physically. ABCX proposes an urban structure that would give Bergs an internal organization which allows for local sharing of information, as was the idea behind the ABC-cities back in the 60’s, but still have an adaptable program, which is one of the urban grid’s main qualities. This blend gives Bergs both an internal and an external identity - a possibility to support a multitude of events in whatever direction they take, but still keep a firm ground.
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