All projects shown are by Adam Roigart, solo or in collaboration with others.
2017-2024
Adam Roigart is Landscape Architect, Artist and Placemaker based in Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden. In his work he typically explores the link between site, material and person, believing that it is through the participation with our environments that we truly inhabit them. Adam’s work typically takes the form of built elements and small works of landscape architecture, sometimes accompanied by an event.
Adam is a co-founder of BY RUM SKOLE, a studio specializing in the participation of children and young people in the making of their surroundings and Byhumle, probably the first urban hop farm in the world.
CV & kontakt
ADAM ROIGART
Landscape Achitect, mdl.
E-mail: adam@byrumskole.dk
Phone: 0045 2698 9536
Date of Birth: 1983-01-17
ORGANISATIONAL BACKGROUND
• 2019- By Rum Skole, Co Founder - Copenhagen - www.byrumskole.dk
• 2015-19 Out of Office Architecture, Co Founder - Copenhagen
• 2013/14 - Exchange at Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles - Landscape Architecture
• 2007/12 - BSc programme: Landscape Architecture, Swedish University of Life Science SLU, Ultuna, Sweden
• 2005 - Industrial Design, Lund Technical University, Lund, Sweden
ARTISTIC REIDENCIES AND EXHIBITIONS
AADK, Blanca de Murcia, Spain, 2018
Territory of Living - Collaborative 5 week recidency with Lindsay Hopkins. An exploration of place and materiality with a final presentation. Installation art using built pieces, video and live performance.
Playa Summerlake, Oregon, USA 2019
Terra Playa - Solo piece as a result of a 3 week long residency. The creation of Terra Preta through use of local materials during an arts research process.
Tiny Park Festival, Stockholm, Sweden 2024
Presenting 3 pieces of participatory work as part of the final exhibition of the Post Master Program “Of Public Interest”.
BETTER SPACES FOR DTU
The Danish Technical University have been in the process of rethinking many of their outdoor areas and as a part of the process we were invited to rethink one of the campus squares. The goal was to make it more habitable by bringing in more human scale and by making the space greener, countering the heat effect that a large use of stone had led to. We decided to construct three “oases” based on previous plantations of platanes on site. We put in place large L-shaped planters filled with an ambitious but botanically sound mix of perennials. We also installed a system of wires accommodating hop plants that the local student home brewer club can use in future brews.
Themes
Human
DTU Lyngby, Denmark
DTU
Adam Roigart and Martin Hedevang Andersen (Out of Office Architecture)
BIRD WATCHING
At Amager Fælled, the Municipality of Copenhagen are establishing a new urban forrest as a part of an initiative to increase the amount of urban trees substantially. Simultaneously, the area is known as one of the best places for birdwatching in Copenhagen. To us it felt obvious to establish a tower for birdwatching as one of the first structures on site. It allows visitors to get a good vantage point for observing the landscape and the wildlife but is also a point of reference in the vast landscape.
The tower is clad in surplus wood from hard-wood floor manufacturer Junckers Trægulve. The boards have been given an angular cut and have been treated with pigmented linseed oil.
To help us with the painting and the mounting of the boards we partnered up with a bunch of 3rd graders from a local school.
Adam Roigart and Martin Hedevang Andersen (Out of Office Architecture)
TVÆRHØJGAARD CITIZENS´ CAFÉ
At Tværhøjgård the developer IKANO Bolig are building 230 new homes that will all be associated to a coming community building. The Tværhøjgård Citizens’ Café functions as a prototype while waiting for the community building to be ready. The goal of the process was to make the idea of the future development visible and to try out ideas of activities before the final structure is in place, thereby creating a community around the idea. To facilitate these trials we proposed a physical structure to anchor these activities and to provide some basic infrastructure for ideas such as a café and shared tools.
Towards the end of our building process curious citizens were invited to help with the construction of a small kitchen garden adjacent to the café. We are following the project organizing workshops and making small adjustments as new information is gathered.
The café is built in a used shipping container and is divided into kitchen- and tool section. Both these ideas came from the nearby residents that wanted possibilities to arrange shared meals and to have a shared tool library.
Design Construction Citizen involvement Co-creation
Greve, Denmark
Ikano Bolig 2019
Adam Roigart and Martin Hedevang Andersen (Out of Office Architecture) Themes
COMMON SPACE FOLEHAVEN
As a part of a larger study to find out what one of the main public spaces in the neighborhood Folehaven was to become, we were invited to do some prototyping. Our client had already done a great deal of citizen involvement and we were mainly asked to react to a given brief. People in the neighborhood seemed to agree that more spaces to meet were needed and that greenery that could be interacted with, such as planters would be nice. Shelter from the notorious bad weather of wintertime Copenhagen was also asked for.
We decided to go very traditional on this one, because the larger part of the space had been turned into one big playground, literally, and most of it in hard materials. We wanted to bring in more textures - wood, gravel and natural stone as a contrast to the ever prevailing asphalt. Generous amounts of comfortable seating spaces were added as well as a pavillion (we were not allowed to install a roof) to give a sense of protection and intimacy.
FACTS
Themes
Site
Client Year
Team
Prototyping Re-use
Commoning
Folehaven, Copenhagen
The Integrated Urban Renewal Folehaven 2019
Adam Roigart and Martin Hedevang Andersen (Out of Office Architecture)
TERRA PLAYA
Terra Playa was my Eco-Art project for a 3 week rescidency at the Playa Summer Lake site in the Oregon Dessert. By using local materials - the salty clay from the summer lake and charcoal produced from wildfires - I made my own local ”terra preta”. This type of soil mix was used in the amazonas rain forrest to create an extremely fertile environment for agriculture and is even to this day not fully understood. The basic elements of this ancient technology are however failry universal - burnt clay, activated charcoal and compost.
As a presentation of my work I chose to create packaging for the ”real piece” by working with lino cut print choosing scenes from my work to put on the bags of soil mix. Whoever came to the exhibition was free to bring home some of the work.
Interdisciplinary
PLAYA Summer Lake, Oregon, USA
Self initiated. 3 weeks of rescidency on site
Solo project
FLOKKEN PÅ DOKKEN
We were creating three outdoor spaces in the harbour of Sæby together with kids from the Sæbygård School and from Tranås School. The participants have been working with the whole process: Design, Model making, Construction and Planting. Special attention has been paid to the metalic elements that were designed for the project and produced by a local (ship) blacksmith.
The design fits into the harbour - both the new and the old parts - and creates human centered places for gatherings and relaxation.
FACTS
Site
Client
Year
Team
Sæby, Frederikshavn Kommune, Denmark
Frederikshavn Kommune, Villum Foundation
2023-24
Adam Roigart with BY RUM SKOLE
AESTHETIC POTENTIALS OF BUILDING WASTE IN URBAN SPACES
Through a series of experiments and prototypes we have looked at what fractions of waste from the building industry and from industrial production in general could be upcycled into new products for use in the landscape. After an initial screening of roughly 40 materials 6 were chosen for prototyping. The work resulted in the following prototypes: Wooden components for use in furniture or fences from used high quality pallets
- Paving stones cut from concrete elements
- Fence post caps from ventilation ducts
- Tactile paving elements from copper pipes
- Gravel surfaces from crushed bricks
- Facade cladding from wood industry surplus
Our work on this topic has led to an ongoing collaboration with the Danish Technical institute aimed at further prototyping.
Upcycling Prototyping Design
Communication
Danish Fund for the Arts Boligfonden Kuben
Self initiated
Adam Roigart and Martin Hedevang Andersen (Out of Office Architecture)
TERRITORY OF LIVING
TOT was a collaboration between myself and movement artist and facilitator Lindsay Hopkins. Our aim was to work with site specific materials - bot physical and emotional - to explore what living on the territory in question meant.
During 5 weeks of exploration and experimentation we learnt about the site - Blanca De Murcia - and it’s historical and contemporary customs. We found a territory deeply rooted in agriculture but struggeling to find what is next.
As my contribution to the project I produced several physical pieces. I worked with wheat, growing it not for the purpose of the seed but to harvest the shoots, known as wheat grass. These were later distributed by a local coop (ironically selling to Madrid). I also created a series of stools made from the debris of abandoned buildings buildings.
The final presentation consisted both of a showing of my growing room and the furniture but also of participatory movement and breathing excersices - all of it an attempt to process what the place is and might become.
Centro Negra, Blanca de Murcia, Spain
2017
Adam Roigart and Lindsay Hopkins
BLVD•A TEMPORARY PARK AT SJÆLØR BOULEVARD
We were asked to create a temporary park in Sydhavn, Copenhagen, to act as a new gathering place in the neighborhood. Between March and June 2017 we arranged a whole series of workshops and participatory construction days. Together with local forces we have co-constructed all the elements needed for the new development. We made a new pen for dogs, seating, perennial plantings and a new welcoming entrance. All citizens of Sydhavn were invited to come with there ideas but were also given the possibility to join in the actual construction. We worked in close collaboration with the Socio Economic Organization Sydhavnscompagniet that help people on the fringe of the job market.
The process was divided in four phases where each new element was discussed, designed and finally built. By running the same process four times we established a
familiar method as to how to create the place on layer at the time: we started off by inviting people to come with theirt input through physical activities on site. Next, we worked through what we learned from people and incorporated it in a design proposal which was communicated online as well as via flyers and meet ups. Finally we invited to open construction days building what had been decided on as a result of the input.
In addition to the construction process we have also arranged a series of other events on the site to put it to use in various situations to show unexpected potentials. By having a very high presence on site we have been able to keep an ear out throughout the project and have been able to follow in the public opinion - thereby listening to the fears and hopes of the affected citizens.
Citizen Involvement
Communication Co-construction
Sjællør Blvd., Sydhavn, Copenhagen
The Integrated Urban Renewal Sydhavn
Roigart and Martin Hedevang Andersen (Out of Office Architecture)
Adam
BYHUMLE
Byhumle is an urban hop farm run by volunteers selling produce primarily to local craft brewers. We started the project as a way of researching what the next step in urban agriculture could look like - what crops could be used and what markets could be tapped. We found the hop plant, with its small footprint and massive height, to be an almost perfect crop to explore in an urban context. We also found that the connection to the craft beer industry had an interesting potential. The entire hop farm is built for moving and has been occupying a new urban space every year.
Since the start in 2016 we have been collaborating with Brus (To Øl), Warpigs CPH (Mikkeller / Three Floyds), Crafted By (Carlsberg), Bicycle Brewing and Broaden and Build.
Urban Farming Community Building
Several in Copenhagen
Self Initiated
Sharing Copenhagen, Tuborg Foundation, Nordkranen
2016 - ongoing
Adam Roigart and Martin Hedevang Andersen (Out of Office Architecture)
My contribution to the final exhibition for the Post Matsre Program ”Of Public Interest” at the Rotal College of Arts, Stockholm. From the catalogue::
”Adam Roigart is developing a methodology for intervening in seemingly uncherished corners of urban space. For Tiny Park Festival, he invites participants to join in a performative hacking and collective hosting of three separate sites he has chosen in the area. Through innovative design of a combination of found and reworked materials and objects, Adam opens up for sharing his perspective on the potential affordances (use values) of spaces. The chosen sites, which could be considered nonplaces, also raise questions that Adam has continually concerned himself with, including maintenance, public access, hands-on design and offering the enjoyment of a shared task.”
FACTS
Place
Client Year
Team Gröndal, Stockholm, Sverige
OPI Lab, Tiny Park Festival - slutudstilling for OPI
