Architectural Assistant Arkitektlaget AB | Helsingborg, Sweden
2019 - 2021
2015 - 2018
Education
Masters in architecture
California College of the Arts | San Francisco, USA
Bachelor in architecture
University of Westminster | London, United Kingdom
2019-2021
2011 - Present 2012
Additional experience
Teaching Assistant
California College of the Arts | San Francisco, USA
Developer Renovation Projects | Various Locations
Intern Gadelius | Tokyo, Japan
1 -Exterior render of north facade with new lobby on the left, new entrance in the center and the Lake Louise addition on the right housing a cafe and open air public space
2 -Exterior render of east facade with new black box theatre on the left
3 -Ground floor plan
San Francisco Symphony Hall
Davies Symphony Hall opened in 1980 and, as it approaches 50, the Symphony is exploring ways to make the building more publicly accessible, transparent, and operationally efficient.
Rethinking how the symphony hall and orchestra can connect and communicate with San Francisco Symphony’s local community, audiences, and musicians became a driving design factor to create a more unique and captivating experience that reach a broader audience.
The design looks to add an expanded street level lobby, a new performance park, a new 400-seat recital hall, and new musician support spaces and will include an additional 34,000 square feet of outdoor open-space.
Artist Housing
1687 Market Street was inspired by the ongoing exodus of artists priced out of San Francisco as rents have skyrocketed and spaces closed around the city’s downtown neighborhoods.
The resulting design is a 17-story mixed use tower with 100 affordable apartments for artists and a 99-seat theater on top of the existing McCroskey building, which houses studio space, practice rooms, a community center and a café / adaptive performance space at street level.
Planning utilized Assembly Bill 2011 for the approval process for affordable housing on commercial zoned land and a State Density Bonus offering an additional 50% housing, as well as complying with Article 10 of the Demolition Code for historic buildings.
1 -Exterior render of rendition 2 facing street corner
2 -3D printed physical model of rendition 3 showing new tower in white and existing building in grey
3 -Exterior render of east facade
4 -Sectional render behind east facade
US Embassy Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
As one of 16 firms out of 136 candidates, MCA was selected by The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO) to provide designs for U.S. diplomatic buildings across the globe.
I was part of the design team for the new embassy in Trinidad and Tobago, from initially being 3 people at its conception until having grown to 10 people by my departure. During this period I oversaw the initial concept planning phase, executed facade studies, was responsible for producing physical models and worked with a team of more than 15 consultants, ranging from general coordination of structure and HVAC to project specific issues like blast resistance and diplomatic security. For this reason I’m unfortunately not allowed to share any material from the project.
Independent Projects
Alongside working on various design teams at MCA I was assigned independent projects working directly for Mark Cavagnero himself, as well as developing the office.
Design work included Marks personal projects such as a guest house and a car port at his estate, as well as an expansion of The Torrington History Education Center offering additional storage, programs, exhibits, and a fully accessible research library.
Having provided homemade models made with my personal 3D printer, I was tasked with setting up the firms model making room, which included ordering and setting up a CNC router, 3D printer, machine park, ventilation, building workbenches and instructing coworkers in digital fabrication and model making.
1 -Exterior Render of Torrington Historical Center with extension on the left, connected by a glass bridge and separated by a central courtyard
2 -Modelmaking room at MCA made from a former old storage and fully equipped with new machines
3 -Car port designed for Marks private estate
01_Arête
Year: 2020
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With a name deriving from bouldering terminology, Arête Tower interprets the art of climbing through its structural and circulative elements.
The diagonal mass timber members provides a winding framework and a regular pattern inviting irregularity within the structure itself by the application of interior elements such as staircases and mezzanine floors.
The syntactic approach to the design highlights the threaded stair as the centerpiece of the structure, breaking the vertical repetition while conforming to the diagonal grid that is the essence of Arête.
Tall Timber
02_Jordbruket
Year: 2019
Type of project: University
Typeology: Co-living
Location: East Palo Alto
Jordbruket noun Eng. The Agricultural / Earth Mill
The science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food and other products.
Scales of sharing
Tailor made for precarious tech workers actively engaged in maintaining and promoting a sustainable lifestyle, Jordbruket builds on the power in numbers, by adding these up to a sum larger than its parts.
By designing an architecture around the habits of resource management, Jordbruket aims to provide it’s residents with a platform that fits their lifestyle while allowing for social interaction to take place in the process. The scheme is organised around scales of sharing, where different resources allows for interactions through different constituents.
The individual units generate a dense fabric, broken up by spacious common areas where interior and exterior overlap, allowing the full extent of the site to act as a platform for the inhabitants labour, needs and course of life.
Designed for multiple uses, the adaptable spaces enables leisure and labour to coexist, eliminating the physical border between the two and promoting social interaction through agriculture and resource management.
1 -Garden render showing bedrooms, hub and crops
2 -Cortyard render showing housing, pond and greenhouse
3 -Unit coreography diagram
4 -Sightline diagram
5 -Sharing axis diagram
6 -Peephole render of public greenhouse and deployable market
03_Sco-Op
Year: 2020
Type of project: University
Typeology: Co-Operative
Location: West Oakland
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1 -Street render along 7th Street corridor
2 -Undercroft render of prefabricated concrete ‘umbrellas’
3 -Sitemap of West Oakland
4 -Sitemap highlighting BART
5 -Parcel map
6 -Acquisition plan
7 -Parcel A, plan and elevation
8 -Parcel C1+D2, plan and elevation
9 -Parcel C2, plan and elevation
10 -Interior atrium render of parcel C1/D2
11 -3D printed physical model with cast base scale 1/64”=1’-0”
Reclaiming property
The historic cultural hotspot that is the 7th street corridor today draws the southern outline of a rapidly gentrifying West Oakland.
In the empty lots occupied by tarmac as a result of historically negligient urban planning, two housing developments are already approved registering a rent above the current average for the neighbourhood.
Sco-Op looks to strengthen the local collectives by disrupting the commercial ground floor with an open community space while providing an innovative housing model that reclaims ownership with the locals.
04_Toren Markthal
Year: 2018
Type of project: Tender
Typeology: Landmark tower
Location: Amsterdam
Employer: Office Winhov
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Reinventing context in time
“All aimless details - which are based on appearance - are often only applied to distract the designer’s incompetence, insensitivity and often also the ignorance. A building can be good without ornament and only by the right proportions can it look balanced. “
Nico Lansdorp
Inaugural lecture, Delft University, 1932.
Having been knocked down in the 80’s, a commision was called to reconstruct a new landmark in the place of the old tower of the Amsterdam Markthal, as part of a larger restoration of the building. Visualisations are presented in manually colored archive photos from the 30s and 60s to demonstrate the proposal as a reinvention of the context in time.
1 -Colorised photo with proposal
2 -Original photo
3 -Physical model 3D printed with metallic composite and handmade wood base scale 1:50
4 -Structural segments
5 -Original photo 1939
6 -Colorised photo from 1939 with proposal
7 -Night view
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05_Replica
Year: 2017
Type of project: University
Typeology: Museum
Location: London
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Reinterpreting the Royal Barge Gloriana
The Royal Barge Gloriana serves to glorify and commemorate the monarchy and the historic office of the Lord Mayor of the City of London. As a contemporary expansion of the Lord Mayor’s Show, the Royal Barge Gloriana will be used for an additional segment where it will be exhibited in Holborn.
To display the vessel to the public, it will itself be de-constructed and replicated in order to be exhibited at this annual resting place that will serve as a museum and archive of the individuated elements, displayed in a taxonomic collection (ribs, hull planking, keel, rowlocks, moorings, mouldings, cabin etc.) with the built environment mimicking the qualities of the space represented.
1 -Cortyard entrance giving illusion of refraction
2 -Component taxonomy diagram
3 -Route diagram
4 -Hull space giving the illusion of a bilge
5 -Courtyard walkway
drum providing auditory illusion of waves
06_Bauprobe
Year: 2018
Type of project: University
Typeology: Theatre production facility
Location: London
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Factory for festivity
Bauprobe (German) - A rehearsal on the stage where a show is to be performed, with a basic set laid out, so the director and designer can work on any staging issues to do with the size of the scenery, before it is built.
Bauprobe is an adaptive centerpoint for festivity, planned around the combination of public and restricted spaces working together within and around one building. Combining festivity, a public gathering of celebration or commemoration with the practical needs and requirements of theatre production in the shape of a factory calls for a distinct programmatic approach that clearly addresses where these spaces overlap, merges and differ from each other.
1 -View from south east alley
2 -Night view from west corner
3 -Ground floor plan
4 -South elevation
5 -Physical model in card and paper, scale 1:200
6 -View of public square and courtyard
07_Cross
Year: 2021
Type of project: University
Typeology: Structural timber product
Location: San Francisco
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Functions of elegant simplicity
Taking inspiration from the craft of Alvar Aalto and Mies van der Rohe, the research looks to utilise emerging technologies within construction and architecture to generate lightweight, elegant and rigid structural members.
Modern production technology for timber products offers new possibilities within this field, where the production process of glue laminated products such as LVL invites sculpting to be a part of the process.
Based on the mantra “Low Tech / High Craft”, an approach visible throughout Alvar and Mies work with component design, the subdivision of individual members are expressed, accommodating the crossing of members and installations.
1 -Calculation of moment of inertia
2 -Grasshopper nodetree
3 -Physical model with laminated flanges scale 1/4”=1’-0”
4 -Plan cut annotated with parameters
5 -Elevation annotated with parameters
08_Lavin
1 -Lavin emergency shelter erected at the site of an alpine camp struck by an avalange
2 -Map of globally affected regions
3 -Resource diagram of snow and ski equipment as structural components
Year: 2021
Type of project: University
Typeology: Emergency shelter
Location: Alpine regions
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Resourcing alpine emergencies
Lavin - Swedish for avalanche - is an emergency shelter solution making use of the existing resources available to alpine explorers to provide a temporary deployable structure in the aftermath of disasters.
Adding as few extra components as possible results in an emergency structure compressed to the size of a backpack, easy to transport while offering ample interior space when deployed.
Applications range all the way from civilian to military use, for lost individuals, to larger groups requiring a temporary base camp or any other deployable infrastructure.
4 -Idea sketches of spider and truss configuration
5 -Component diagram
6 -Configuration of truss with connection details
09_Badhytten
Year: 2015
Type of project: Commercial
Typeology: Café
Location: Falsterbo
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Adapting to volatile summers
Badhytten is a café located in Falsterbo, Sweden, next to the harbour on the white beaches of Skåne. It was ordered to be a provicional structure preceding a larger restaurant adjacent to the site, but has been retained due to its functionality.
Built to be a summer café, The structure needed to be able to absorb the sun and warm weather and open up to the beach as much as possible. Meanwhile, it’s location on the flat beaches next to the occasionally windy seashores also leaves it exposed to rough winds.
By applying a deployable structure the café becomes a diverse building that’s adaptable for most conditions. With a facade that can open up in smaller sections, the café can go from a sheltered interior like space to a fully open constellation that becomes an extension of the beach.
1 -Fully activated café during summer conditions
2 -Closed configuration during evening
3 -Configuration diagram subject to weather conditions
4 -Sitemap including harbour
5 -Still from Subaru advertisement featuring Badhytten
10_Modelmaking
1 Design proposal model
Metal composite 3D print, handmade base in oak scale 1:100
2 Concept model
Lasercut cardboard and folded paper scale 1:50
3 Iteration model
White PLA 3D print scale 1:20
4 Design proposal model Handmade in chipboard scale 1:100
5 Sectional model MDF, basswood and chipboard scale 1/4”=1’-0”
6 Design proposal model PLA 3D print, CNC cut maple base scale 1:500
Exploring different approaches
As maybe the most powerful tool to communicate a design, models is a big part in both my creative process as well as my final proposals. Materiality, scale and detail is a result of what I want to display and I strive to stay as diverse as possible in my methods, using various techniques such as 3D printing, CNC cutting, laser cutting and purely by hand.
7 Sectional redesign model Chipboard and basswood scale 1:50
8 Design Proposal model
Polystyrene foam scale 1:200
9 Component model
Laminated wood veneer scale 1:20
11 Concept model
Basswood strips, 3D printed connections, cast base scale 1/8”=1’-0”
12 Design proposal model
3D printed in various filaments, cast base scale 1/64”=1’-0”
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10 Daylight study model
Basswood, card and polycarbonate scale 1/2”=1’-0”
13 Design proposal model Greycard and folded paper scale 1:200
