PORTFOLIO Mats H책kansson Behrbohm
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, DK [M.Arch.] 2010-12 School of Architecture, LTH, Lund, SE [B.Arch.] 2006-10
PROJECTS Master’s Thesis Project | 10th semester | Cook School
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9th semester | New Amsterdam
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8th semester | Eco Activism
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Master’s Thesis Project | 10th semester | Cook School
Physical Model, fragment collage, original scale 1:100
Project description When we meet food-products today we meet a package, and we are, close to never exposed for the production laying behind these products. Historically, these processes has been based in the town centers. This has been a rational way of minimiing transport and have access to fresh goods. -Why transport meat to the market-square when the cow can walk there itself? But since the industrial revolution, these productions has been located outside the cities, thus making them “invisible” for the public. In these problematics the Cook School production, both as a student and as a public visitor.
production unit and an academic institution. Here the focus is on exposing the cycle of food, to gain a greater understanding and respect for the origin of the things we eat. The main issue adressed in this project is the general lack of knowledge regarding food production and the origin of the raw product. A sharp critisism against this un-sustainable and naive way of living has been the point of deparure when going into the design. The educational focal point is not on the inbound academical institution as an isolated event, but on the publics experience of the work that takes place inside. The production of food is exposed and daramatized by the buildings expressive body. An expressivness inpired by the history of the site, where a shipyard used to lay. An industrial landscape crowded by machines and components soon to be assembled. This geographical context peninsula called Western-harbour. One of the system the Cook School interact with is Malmö University, whose academic buildings lies like a ribbon between the two historical entities. An other contextual system on the site is Enercon Windtower Production’s dering facade to the Cook School, where it roots itself between the industrial backyard and the canal. In the Cook School a number of food-production units are set to play, along with consumption and waste-recycling to obtain and examine a small-scale, closed cycle. The
and production. As components in the greater machinery, they make up the cornerstones of the building. Morphologically the building has been assembled by strategically distributing the production machines according to contextual features. Between these a one-storey plinth is sunken into the landscape, meeting the canal. The plinth houses the school while with evocative visions, scents and interactions.
processes exposed in the Cook School
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The Meat machine is a container for hang-tendering whole animals before butchering. It acts as vertical infrastructure for this product. Big wheels rotates and dramatizes the on-going process
waste
The Waste machine is in the same family as the three food machines but it acts in an other way. It has no moving exterior parts, instead it spreads its tubes throughout the building, where it ties the
big wheel on top of the machine wind in a rope hoisting up the baskets
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The Vegetable machine contains crops grown in suspended bags. They are rotating in a vertical greenhouse, both to give the greens a maximum sun-exposure and to create a viual marker in the
Sketches and models exploring the food-cycle as a system of events. In these explorations each event is made up by one or a set of component, which together develops into a diagrammatic concept of the building.
These models and sketches are done with focus on examinating how the production-units tie to contextual features, as well as giving the system a preliminary zoning through notaion and symbolic.
units, high-lighting certain events as physical zones.
sketchings on top of model snapshot to add information, going back and forth between model and drawing, bluring the boundries keeping the two media apart
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9th semester | New Amsterdam
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the new mega structure roots itself in the canals as it is hoisted up. Where ever it connects bridges and sends away its boats who weaves the grid together.
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Project description
This project is escaping reality’s constraints and every-day conventions, looking at the built object as a conglomeration of metaphors, discussing the representation of the abstract with technical line drawing as the primary tool. This type of tool for representation creates a challenging paradox, where the more suggestive render or collage would have been convention. A mechanical system is occupying the airspace over Amsterdam, questioning the built structures traditional relationship to the ground. From up there, one can observe the everlasting spectacle in the picturesque coulisse-city, which lies down there as a commercially polluted cultural relic. The new structure becomes an obvious part of the city but it requires a certain kind of independence since it takes a step away from much of what is Amsterdam today. A virtual border between the cities is set. New Amsterdam is popping up like islands out of the many canals that slice through the old city. This border is giving the mega-structure a symbolic autonomy.
moored at the new berths. Paddling in under the structure it hoists you and the canoe 30 feet straight up, before leveling out at New Amsterdam’s food market. Continuing to the next level trellises are dancing in an undulating choreography adjacent to the platforms.
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New Amsterdam standards Power All wind Leisure garden All play Living All dynamic Cultivation All work Market All food Transportation All canoeing
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and crops. On the outside of these streets residential buildings are clinging. The strong maritime culture in old Amsterdam has inspired to these new homes with features and characteristics of boats. The dwellings are generally tightly moored along the new streets, but when the new locals need more privacy or a daily variation they un-moor and let their house slide out over the old city. Housing units in New Amsterdam are not pre-designed, but are here represented as an empty frame, where the content will change as new needs or desires are created, according to the metabolist movement’s strategies. The new locals build their home within this frame, creating an endless variety of expression. The frame has no predetermined internal functions but it has several external features and transformative functions: Screens and surfaces can be unfolded, parts of the frame can be detached thus create boundaries or connections (virtual as well as physical) to the old (and new) Amsterdam. For example there are possibilities to connect two or more frames and share facilities, as well as to shield off with physical barriers. Any of these positions are reversible and continuous transformation encouraged.
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Windmill #1 Pulling and releasing Creating waves on The leisure garden Powering the Circulation of The canoe-lift Windmill #2 Pumping water to The agriculture
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The Cultivation bags hanging over the Market form an agricultural carpet with different states of growth some active and some resting. CULTIVATION BAGS #1 compressed tightly, thus creating roof for market. -Active farming
CANOE HARBOUR
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CULTIVATION BAGS #2 less compressed, fragmenting roof for market. -Last crop
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The Vegetation bags in the hanging leisure gardens is meant to be occupied by leisurely New Amsterdamians.
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DYNAMIC FLOOR TILES organic waste-shafts (everywhere)
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The cut through the homes is showing the “living frame” and the lower folding bridges dynamic possibilities. This drawing is showing an example where these are clad with plain boards scattred, sometimes neatly and other times randomly, creating the desired flooring situation.
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The floor tiles on the Market place can all be lifted to reveal waste disposal shafts for organic waste from the food market. Underneath the shafts bags will be hung to transport the waste to a compost area
Physical model, scale 1:100
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BUILDING PROSTHESIS
CONNECTION TOWARDS UPPER GROUND LEVEL FRAME
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Diagrammatic drawing of the characteristics within a frame for the private homes
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ARTIFICIAL GROUND LEVEL When considered in a Cartesian coordinate system, urbanity is growing almost exclusively in the X-, Y-direction and negligible in the Z-direction. I would like to postulate an additional neutral value for Z, where a new two-dimensionality can take shape.
Superimposed sketch on physical model snapshot. The private is repetative while the public is amorphous
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Stair #1 Stair #2 Buoy Wooden trellis Cultivation bag Boards Ladder Windmill Long crane Short crane Water Cistern Plant showers Main Wheel Main wheel suspention Lattice girder Balancing wheels Balancing wheel suspention Lower water wheel Lower water wheel suspention Canoe with connection wire Light weight floors Street Sliding rail for house-frame Counter-balance beam
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8th semester | Eco Activism
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Final physical model during construction
Thesis When looking into municipal action regarding improvement of inner city air, one can’t really transportation, efforts in purifying fuels, and so on. Of course all of these things are great, but I think awareness needs to be raised in a more direct way. I have created a scheme that will affect both the public and the environment. I would like to call it an attractor, a node that pronounces itself through phenomenological impression with the public, in a way that everybody will be touched, attracted or maybe disgusted by. This is an experiment in trying to communicate a message through drawings and models combined with the art of narrative
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Plan, original drawing scale 1:200
55°36’10.39"N 13°0’20.00"E
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Sketching in models, various morphological states depending on sun movement
Southern Sweden, late 2011 All of a sudden there is a glow between the trees, she speeds up her steps on her evening walk along
surrealist trees are dancing to please their spectators. other. She hears someone asking what this “machine� is, and another; what it does. Some are amazed and some confused.
Early conceptual sections throug sails in various positions
reminds her of the familiar sounds in the laundry machine at home. A few meters away a group of kids has stacked their bikes in a pile and are competing about who dares to climb to the top of the spheres. The cluster of tubes, hanging out through the dense grid of valves on the side of the spheres, are within it. It is not much thicker than an arm, she thinks. Her eyes start to wander along the tubes and pipes as she unconsciously is trying to get a perception of the infrastructural organization and circulation of the system. There are two unlit pipes up there, running down to the canal and out into the water. She can see some kind of water pump working out there, but it is a bit too far to fully percept in the October dusk. Continuing her walk through the hi-tech pavilion that inhabits the public space, she sees six high poles neatly distributed over the pedestrian refuge in the big road leading over the Amirals Bridge. On the top of each pole there are some type of machine. She overhears a conversation by a man who is pointing up, towards the machines, telling his friend that, what he refers to as “the vacuum as “the algae tanks�. The man tells his friend to come back in the daytime when all the sails follow the movement of the sun in a synchronized choreography. As she crosses the street, she takes a few seconds pause at the pedestrian refuge, looking straight her shoulder, studying the installation from far, as its emerald green glow blends together with the orange leaves of its neighbors.
Investigational diagram of reactor movement
Experimenting with manipulation of photographies as a media of representation
Topological states in motion | Long exposure
Topological states in motion | Multiple frame collage
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Drawing on top of model photography, tracing the sail’s response to pivot-twist and arch movement in a manner free from rational constraint. These sketches of various topological states are not bound to be wieved as niether
Spatial studies in physical model, scale 1:100
Operational diagram of function and infrastructure within the closed loop photobioreactor
This project was submitted to the international algae competition 2011 Can be seen on their website: http://www.algaecompetition.com/x1167/
Competition boards, Original size: A1
These projects are all created in department 6 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, DK 2010-12 Special thanks to my teacher during these years; Gitte Juul
Mats H책kansson Behrbohm m.e.hakansson@gmail.com matslovesit.blogspot.com +46 735 331044