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UMA1 focuses on introducing the architectural practice, its knowledge, language and instruments. It is a continuous process that initiates the students on a guided path to explore basic concepts, notions and tools related to space, form and material. The studio is defined both as a platform and a methodology, with artistic and technical approaches. Through a series of interconnected projects, we encourage conceptual, material and phenomenological research, where thinking with the hand translates into learning by making.

Conceptual dualities such as mass/void, inside/outside and static/ dynamic are explored as part of the pedagogical structure in order to better engage with the complexities embedded in architectural projects. The studio encourages the exploration of space, from the body to the landscape. These spatial explorations based on movement, observation and perception are developed through a process of abstraction and composition, which act as design methodology to develop conceptual and spatial thinking.

Carla Collevecchio

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The body is the locus of perception; it is the centre of consciousness, senses and memory. Space is perceived and experienced by the body with its multisensory system. Through a tactile, visual and corporeal action the body feels, inhabits and moves through space.

Bodies translate into geometries; geometries transform into spaces; spaces expand into landscapes; landscapes become narratives; narratives evoke senses; senses trigger actions; actions are embedded within the body.

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The body is neither a standardized figure nor a self-contained static object; it can be described as a ruler and act as a medium to explore the fundamental aspects of space in architecture. As the body moves through space it gains spatial knowledge and memory of its surroundings. The use of the body as a tool to compose space defines an approach into the practice beginning from an experiential understanding of space, time and movement. Through a series of movements and choreographies the body acts as a tool to both measure and experience spatial relations at multiple scales.

Movement can be represented in frames, as still moments of a continuous sequence that makes the invisible visible. Frames, outlines and traces are linear elements that reveal the hidden relationship between the body and space. The space created by the body becomes a three-dimensional abstract geometry, a virtual boundary that transforms while it moves. This dynamic relation of the internal and external limits of the body with its surroundings identifies temporary relations and defines multiple ways of occupation. This exploration reveals different ways to understand and represent the body, moving from two-dimensional compositions into three-dimensional geometries, translating the body into abstract space.

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TOP: MARCUS ALDEFELT LEFT: FANNY CHAIYARACH RIGHT: FREDRIK OLAUSSON

The body is a tool to measure, analyze, read and experience space.

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EMELIE BERGLUND

The body in movement is a tool that relates us to space.

Geometry is an abstract tool to compose and represent space.

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TOP LEFT TO RIGHT BOTTOM: BENJAMIN ROOBOL, OSCAR MAGNOSSON, ANTON SANDIN, OSCAR MAGNOSSON

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ELSA BRYNJE

The abstraction of the movement of the body into a system of lines reveals a virtual envelope that becomes a spatial composition.

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SILJE ILDGRUBEN PHOTO: LUCY LANDETA

How can a geometry be composed to reveal the invisible extensions and the space of a body in motion?

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TOP LEFT TO BOTTOM RIGHT: ANNA ÖSTLUND, ELSA BRYNJE, ANNA ÖSTLUND, MIMI GRAFFMAN, ERICA GRUNDSTRÖM, BEATRICE MALMBERG, DORNA FARRAHI, MEIMEI MONTAN, ARVID LÖFGREN, EMMA LINDBLOM DONAHUE, LINNEA JÖNSSON, MARCUS ALDEFELT, ARVID LÖFGREN, FREDRIK OLAUSSON, KLARA ÖSTERBERG, ALICIA OPLAND, ARVIDGREN, PIA JONSSON, VIKTOR NORDLING, OLIVIA SKÖLD, LIZA ÅSTRÖM, ELIN WERME OSCARSSON, ELIN WERME OSCARSSON, LINN APPELGREN, VIKTOR NORDLING

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The proposed methodology explores the body as a central topic, as an object to be analyzed and re-imagined, in order to investigate notions as space, scale and shelter.

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The body as a tool provides a platform to tackle spatial variables in architectural design.

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EMELIE BERGLUND PHOTO BY LUCY LANDAETA

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Architecture relies on the relation between space and material. The meaning of the space, its sensations, experiences and relation are revealed through its materiality, gravity, light and weight. The manipulation of material is fundamental to the translation of spatial ideas. Space and form in architecture can be explored through two material processes: tectonics, a constructive process of individual components to create space; and stereotomics, a process where space is explored through the relation of mass and void.

The surface represents a boundary that encloses, separates and filters between inside and outside, it defines a relation between form and space that the body can occupy.

The oppositional interplay between mass-void reveals the dual nature of the boundary. While each element has a defined boundary, the shared border of the two parts shapes each other, defining an interlocked composition. Within the inseparable relation between positive-negative, the void becomes a design tool to describe form and space, to shape its anatomy, to define its physical properties, materiality and ways of inhabitation.

All architectural elements have specific properties, limitations, textures, sizes and thickness related to their composition and materiality. The surface is not a line, it is not a flat element; it has thickness, mass and volume.

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The surface defines a boundary that encloses and articulates between inside and outside, it defines specific spatial conditions. Through variation in density and permeability it articulates the relation between light and shadow suggesting potential dynamics of occupation.

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LEFT TO RIGHT: EMMA LINDBLOM DONAHUE ERIK DELVÉUS ELSA BRYNJE KLARA SANGIL ÖSTERBERG

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ARVID LĂ–FGREN ANNA Ă–STLUND

The spatial qualities of the void relates to the material qualities of the surface, its thickness, form, solidness, variation and permeability.

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WILLIAM THOLL FANNY CHAIYARACH

The void is defined by the absence of mass, yet it is contained and shaped by the mass.

Space emerges from the confrontation between mass and void.

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FROM TOP: VIKTOR NORDLING, ANTON SANDIN, LINN APPELGREN, JULIA OLSTRÖM, ARVID LÖFGREN, ARVID LÖFGREN, ADELE VALTERSSON, OLIVIA SKÖLD, BEATRICE MALMBERG, ARVID LÖFGREN, BEATRICE MALMBERG, DORNA FARRAHI, KAJSA GRUNDSTRÖM, JULIA OLSTRÖM, BENJAMIN ROOBOL, ELIN WERME, LINN APPELGREN, ELINA LEJERBÄCK, MEIMEI MONTAN, IDA BACKVID

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Solid and void complement each other; one exists because of the other; the void is formed by the subtraction or excavation of the solid.

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TOP: EMMA LINDBLOM DONAHUE, BOTTOM: VIKTOR NORDLING

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A narrative text is simultaneously an expression and an interpretation of events.

While in literature the narrative is constructed as a timeline of events, in architecture it is constructed as a set of spatial relationships explored through the action of the body. The architectural narrative represents a tool to reveal and shape intentions throughout the design process. It reveals a way to navigate, to move, to inhabit, to perceive, to observe and to imagine.

Narratives can contain memories, experiences, stories, traces and meanings that can be interpreted and experienced in multiple ways over time. The architectural narrative explores sequence, as a system of thresholds between spaces of activity: to connect, relate and articulate inside and outside, open and close, core and transition, object and landscape.

This imaginative exploration of space focuses on the interactions of the body in movement: from individual occupation to collective inhabitation, from form into space, from space into matter, from narrative into experience.

A spatial narrative represents an intention, it is an element to structure and guide a process.

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VIKTOR NORDLING

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JULIA OLSTRÖM

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MIKAELA ERIKSSON

SILJE ILDGRUVEN

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TOP FROM LEFT: PIA JONSSON, ADELE VALTERSSON, JULIA OLSTRÖM BOTTOM FROM LEFT: BEATRICE MALMBERG, NELLY AXELSSON, BEATRICE MALMBERG

The void and mass extend in order to create a landscape; the landscape emerges from within becoming a space to explore the threshold, a space of transition.

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The spatial narrative requires the definition of a sequence that organizes spatial relationships and engages sensorial and phenomenological qualities.

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TOP LEFT TO BOTTOM RIGHT: LINNEA JÖNSSON, LIZA ÅSTRÖM, OSKAR HÄGGSTRÖM GERMANN, MEIMEI MONTAN

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FELICIA RAUNÅS

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ELIN WERME

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what experience does the atmosphere of the space suggest, contemplation, transition, connection, isolation, communal?

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VIKTOR NORDLING

As the narrative moves along the path it relates inside and outside, articulating the object with the landscape through a sequence of thresholds

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FROM TOP: FANNY CHAIYARACH, KARL ZEBUHR, ELIN WERME

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FROM TOP: OSKAR HÄGGSTRÖM GERMANN, KAJSA GRUNDSTRÖM

Atmospheres can be read as the relation between physical elements and the experience they provide, as a phenomenological moment, explored through senses and perception

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The city is explored through the body and its senses: observation, perception, movement and interaction.

This discovery process is more than contemplation, it combines attention, curiosity, interests and desires. A place, a sensation or a memory can trigger an intention, an intention that evokes the view, the landscape or the experience. The intention frames the idea in architecture. Light, nature, gravity, material, scale, structure, space and scale intertwine and define the architecture.

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The role of architecture at the urban scale represents a possibility to activate new dynamics by creating and expanding new relations with its context and surroundings. In this sense architecture becomes more than a physical manifestation, it represents a social, urban and cultural action that is capable of transforming a place.

The architectural intervention seeks to emphasize and reveal the qualities of a place, related to the existing landscape, flows, movements and views.

The analysis of the existing is an active process embedded into the architectural process; it is oriented by and charged with intentions, it combines observation, measurement and documentation, to build a critical approach towards the site and its wider context as a whole. The serial vision becomes a tool and methodology to analyze the city or its fragments through observation, experience and perception of place. The relations between the physical, environmental and phenomenological aspects of the place are uncovered throughout the process. The place triggers the intention and the intention frames the architectural idea.

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TOP FROM LEFT: MEIMEI MONTAN, ELINA LEJERBÄCK, BOTTOM: PIA JONSSON

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FROM TOP: ANTON SANDIN, PIA JONSSON, EMMA LINDBLOM DONAHUE

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FROM TOP: ARVID LÖFGREN, EMMA LINDBLOM DONAHUE, MALENA HOLMSTRÖM

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TOP: FELICIA RAUNĂ…S, BOTTOM: FANNY CHAIYARACH

The process starts from the exploration of existing elements, components, systems and characteristics that define the complexity and uniqueness of the physical environment within the site.

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EMELIE BERGLUND

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LEFT PAGE: BEATRICE MALMBERG, RIGHT PAGE: PIA JONSSON

sequential narratives

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2 The city is neither a static system nor a fixed structure, but a complex sequence of spaces where an interplay of constantly transforming dynamics take place. The perception of the city is not continuous, it is partial, fragmented and intertwined. It relates to physical conditions, meanings, significance, history, function and other influences. The process of walking through and experiencing a place becomes a tool to examine the landscape and to transform space. Walking is more than simple navigation; it represents a journey, a ritual and creates a narrative related to the existing spatial and phenomenological conditions of a place.

The path is more than a line; a street is more than flow. It is an active trajectory that allows to discover space; it allows movement, navigation and interaction. It creates a sequential experience of the landscape and suggests new relations.

The path acts as a tool to analyze existing movements, spatial qualities and physical conditions and allows for the exploration of new possibilities of occupation and transformation embedded within the place.

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TOP: JULIA OLSTRÖM, BOTTOM: OSCAR MAGNUSSON

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TOP: PIA JONSSON, BOTTOM: ERICA GRUNDSTRÖM

The path can be understood as a minimal intervention that relates to a place, as a trace that appears and disappears over time

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TOP: VIKTOR NORDLING, BOTTOM: IDA BACKVID

The path is explored in multiple ways: as a temporary trace of movement, as a footprint embedded in the ground, as an infrastructural connector and as an architectural element that relates to the place transforming its dynamics and physical conditions

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SHAYAN GARME-SYRI

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Architecture is defined conceptually by ideas, physically by matter and phenomenologically by experiential narratives. The idea is neither a functional description nor a poetic intuition; the idea represents the core and essence of architecture; forms can be destroyed or change over time, but ideas remain timeless. The architectural project emerges from a combination of intentions, abstract thoughts and spatial strategies that are generated by a place, a view or an experience.

ANTON SANDIN

The node is the manifestation of an idea upon the landscape, a spatial element that emerges from the path to provide a new narrative and relation to the place. The node emerges from the path and the path activates the node, creating an area of confluence, rupture, intersection, change or concentration. The intention is translated into space and matter; it transforms the node through architectural narratives. Ideas are translated into spaces and experiences.

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Structure emerges from the underlying geometry; the geometry determines the skeleton, the form and the space

TOP: FREDRIK OLAUSSON, BOTTOM: WILLIAM THOLL

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FROM TOP: ALICIA OPLAND, ANNA ÖSTLUND, FELICIA RAUNÅS

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FROM TOP: IRMA BRUCE, ANNA ÖSTLUND, OLIVIA SKÖLD

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The main constituents of architecture are architectural elements and architectural systems.

MARCUS ALDEFELT

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The place triggers the intention; the intention defines the architecture

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VICTOR NORDLING

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EMMA LINDBLOM DONAHUE

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FROM TOP: OSCAR MAGNUSSON, NELLY AXELSSON, ELIN WERME OSCARSSON

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LIS EJDEMO

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Structural and material intentions are embedded within the main intention, responding to site, space and dynamics

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ALEXANDRA BECH

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TOP: ADELE VALTERSSON, BOTTOM: CECILIA TANDBERG

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ARVID LĂ–FGREN

The spatial intention is translated into form and space by developing an architectural narrative; material and light complete the physical and phenomenological transformation.

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The manipulation of material can define the atmosphere of a space, translating the intention into architecture

LEFT PAGE: JULIA OLSTRÖM, RIGHT PAGE FROM TOP: ALVA STENLUND, VIKTOR DIEDERICHSEN, RICHARD LÖVBY, WILLIAM MARTHINSON

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FROM TOP: KARL ZEBÜHR, MAX SANDSTRÖM

Structural considerations are embedded within the design process; they can influence the composition beyond the physical, triggering dynamics and atmospheres.

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TOP: KLARA ÖSTERBERG, BOTTOM: MIKAELA ERIKSSON

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LINN APPELGREN

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“The body knows and remembers. Architectural meaning derives from archaic responses and reactions remembered by the body and the senses�

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UMA1 Collection 2018 – 2019 Teachers

Carla Collevecchio (coordinator) Richard Conway Luciano Landaeta Selected material: Adele Valtersson Alexandra Bech Alicia Opland Alva Stenlund Anna Östlund Anton Sandin Arvid Löfgren Beatrice Malmberg Benjamin Roobol Cecilia Tandberg Dorna Farrahi Elin Werme Oscarsson Elina Lejerbäck Elsa Brynje Elvira Nielsen Emelie Berglund Emma Lindblom Donahue Erica Grundström Erik Delvéus Fanny Chaiyarach Felicia Raunås Fredrik Olausson Ida Backvid Irma Bruce Julia Olström Kajsa Grundström Karl Zebühr Klara Österberg Linn Appelgren Linnea Jönsson Lis Ejdemo Liza Åstrom Malena Holmström Marcus Aldefelt Max Sandström Meimei Montan Mikaela Eriksson Mimi Graffman Nelly Axelsson Olivia Sköld Oscar Magnusson Oskar Häggström Germann Pia Jonsson Richard Lövby Shayan Garme-Syri Silje Ildgruben Tova Schönbeck Viktor Diederichsen Viktor Nordling William Marthinson William Tholl

Editorial team Editor: Carla Collevecchio Copy-editing: Carla Collevecchio Layout: Emelie Berglund, Emma Lindblom Donahue, Erica Grundström Print: Arkitektkopia Umeå - Sweden 201 9 ©CC_2019 This is an internal archive of work done by UMA1 2018/2019 All the texts in this publication are written by Carla Collevecchio

“When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that.

It’s not about paper, it’s not about forms. It’s about space and material” - Peter Zumthor