Daniel Rea Kragskov Portfolio (English)

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Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETH Grant given by Dreyers Foundation (Exchange Semester, Architecture of Territory)

2014-2017

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, KADK (Institute of Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape)

2011-2014

Higher Technical Examination, HTX Hillerød (Mathematics, Physics, IT, Construction)

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Blogger at StudArk.dk about exchange to ETH

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Design and construction of Play Pavilion for FDFs National Camp with 12.000 participants (Team leader of a voluntary architect team where we fundraised 40.000 kr. granted by DUFs Initiativstøtte)

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Model experiments prior to exhibition by Hiroshi Sambuichi in Cisternerne, Copenhagen (Metal builder)

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Carpineto Mountain Refuge, Italy (Competition entry, finalist)

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Pavilion Den Grønne Ambassade, Denmark (Competition entry, second round)

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Danish Society of Engineers, IDA (Technical Assistant responsible for webinars)

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Responsible for 3D-print workshop operation and maintenance at KADK Institute of Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape

2012-2014

Føtex Birkerød (Cashier, Service Employee)

2011

KHR Arkitekter (1-week internship)

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Danish English German Adobe Package Sketchup Rhino Grasshopper AutoCAD 3DS Max Vray Blender 3D HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, MaxScript

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Study trips to Japan (Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kanazawa, Kyoto), Mozambique (Maputo), Germany (Duisburg, Cologne, Essen, Düsseldorf), France (Paris), Italy (Venice Biennale), Switzerland (Lake Geneva) Voluntary leader in the scout organization FDF (Organizing camps for children and young people) Voluntary music instructor, band member, and manuscript writer on the musical project FDF Performance (Yearly musical and events for young people)

Welding Woodworking Laser cutting 3D-printing

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Daniel Rea Kragskov Rigensgade 21 v. 208, 1316 Copenhagen, Denmark + 45 25 79 56 43 danielkragskov@gmail.com

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A workspace for artisans processing wood, creating furniture, windows, sheds, etc. The site is situated on Amager, an island connected to Copenhagen. The area has been home to many automobile shops, small companies, and apartment blocks. It marks the end of the city and the start of the suburbs.

Building a working environment means numerous considerations on lighting conditions, functionality, access for heavy equipment, clearances, safety, noise, dust, proper storage, headroom, climate, etc. By studying a sawmill and a working wood workshop, the challenges were analysed and included in the process.

Placing a building always pose some conflicts of interest between the public and the owners. Especially the need to close off, and shield off the site to passers, is against the public’s need of an open city with a fluid network of connections. By elevating parts of the structure up in the air, the public can walk under it, while the expensive saws and planers are in safety in the above structure. Furthermore, this provides fantastic views over Kløvermarken, a sports playing field, over the Copenhagen skyline for the workers to enjoy while eating their lunch.

3rd semester | Anne Mette Frandsen | Kristine Mogensen

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BUILDING

IN THE TERRAIN VAGUE

The building is placed on a site, now acting as a bus depot. A large road with heavy traffic to the airport and to Prøvestenen oil handling facility provides a chaotic backdrop, leaving the site vulnerable on one side. The other side faces a quiet area of light industrial buildings, some abandoned, some used for small companies. The workshop is used to shield off the road, while still allowing passage under it and acting as a first impression of the area. On the other side the more perforated side lets the outside and inside areas diffuse.

Copenhagen center

Kløvermarken

Prøvestenen and airport

Canteen Office

Workshop

Depot Storage

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C O N S T R U C T I N G

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Building with wood is obvious, when the building houses a wood workshop, as it can act as a source of inspiration.

The expression of the building was derived from a study model of wooden beams. The way of constructing space with wood, renders a space of lattices with long horizontal connections. The long beams can be rotated at small angles in between the supporting beams. This is utilized to follow the lines of the site, and to create spaces with special views and areas.

The supporting structure is made up of posts with horizontal beams, supporting the horizontal forces. The joinery of the wood is simple as the structural principles allows for simple wooden nails - the wood never meets end to end or end to side, but always side to side. Wood used in the workshop is stacked underneath parts of the raised floors or placed up against the structure in the semi-open storage hall, blurring the difference between structure and raw wood.

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Office WC

Machine shop

Detail workshop

Depot and ramp

Storage hall

Yard

Plan cut out of the storage hall

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P H E N O M E N O L O G I C A L

Q U A L I T I E S

Space experienced is the most powerful tool of the architectural palette. Drawings, models, texts, and pictures only show parts of reality - but they all point to it. Being aware of this enables us to focus on different aspects of the final constructed reality. For instance, the way light will hit the floor. Which phenomena will appear here, and how will it affect the space?

The floor of the woodshop is polished concrete, but with a grain to it. The wooden mullions of the windows will soften the light due to the woods soft structure and curved imperfections. The grain and the polish produce s a diffuse glossiness, some places damped by the sawdust on the floor. This creates a soft light, ideal for working conditions, but more importantly, an atmosphere of softness symptomatic with the way wood is treated in the workshop.

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The workshop for detail works adjacent to the ramp and depot

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Due to the migration from land to city, the housing shortage in Copenhagen is a growing problem. Some years ago, the former Mayor promised 5000 new low-income apartments. Few of these were built, continuing the shortage.

My project seeks to create a massive amount of apartments just next to the centre, on a strip linking Copenhagen with Refshaleøen, a post-industrial shipyard peninsula, now in a state of hibernation, as the owners await the right time to sell their land.

On these grounds, huge structures still stand as physical monuments of an industrial period long gone. The city of Copenhagen, with its mostly 5-storey houses, highlights these larger buildings - church spires, towers, concert halls, and lately the combined incineration plant and ski slope stand out.

The monument is static in its nature. It freezes time, the memories of people and places. The project seeks to create a new kind of monument, one that act as a framework for the lives inside - a monument encompassing lives. If the monument has to have any resemblance in our society today, it must use its static nature, to frame dynamic lives, people, and situations enabling them to find a foothold on the swiftly shifting grounds of society.

4th semester | Anne-Mette Frandsen | Rikke Møller

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Structure and height HØJHUS

Squares and pathways

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RÆKKEHUS

Connection to the water

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Apartment structure

Mass and expandation of land

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Creating a home for people with low income provides challenges, due to the different nature of this group.

Students, elderly people, small families, social assistance recipients, and newly divorced people, all have different needs. Making the inhabitants aware of each other’s Row house structure BYEN I BYEN needs and wishes, is important in establishing a functioning community. Therefore, the spaces are clearly divided into a private space and a shared space, spanning two floors, in the apartment structure - a large room for play, Shared Shared Space Space gatherings, hobbies, etc. and small apartments for privacy Living and silence.

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Library Library Culture

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Infrastructure ERHVERV

KULTUR

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Cheap housing can be achieved by adhering to certain construction principles. I chose to use a fixed library of concrete elements spread out on a grid, to reduce building material and construction costs. The apartments, row houses and shared spaces consist of 4259 units (approx.

35.000 m2).

Building to a grid inflicts compromises. In many buildings, this changes the habitability of each apartment spaces formed by standard concrete elements instead of the human body. The large scale of the project enables elements to be fabricated from custom measurements.

An experimentation of different grid sizes considering furnishing, movement, and layout, led to an optimal grid size of 3,4m x 2,4m. Considering the thickness of the walls, a bed can fit into short side of the unit etc.

4m x 4m

3m x 3m

2m x 2m

2m x 3m

3,5m x 2,5m

2,5m x 2,5m

Using these building blocks, the structure is created. Utilizing its potential by adding and removing units, adds light and air to the structure upheld by an outer framework, resembling the scaffolding used in the shipyard.

Stairs spiral their way to the top of the structures, enabling the public to visit and use them as common spaces in the city.

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Small apartment

Row house

The outer scaffolding structure

Relation between private and shared space

The shared space

The facadĂŠ painted in colors mirroring brown, red and yellow brick colors of Copenhagen

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Creating a home is something different from the creation of a workshop. Joining the two together calls for attention to the demands of each. A home and workshop for a craftswoman doing works in metal in one building, provides a challenge. Working in metal is rough, dirty and somewhat dangerous, while sleeping, relaxing, and living requires another scale, another materiality.

Mapping the demands of the workshop and the home, and using intuitive modelling and drawing techniques as a way of seeking the compromise in a 2D and 3D space, provided the solutions, which led to the combined plan.

Derived from these models were three different views, acting as primary spatial focus points.

The site is on the island of Amager to the south of Copenhagen situated on an empty plot of land surrounded by highways, water, and Amager FĂŚlled, a large protected natural area.

2nd semester | Nikoline Dyrup Carlsen | Kristine Mogensen

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VIEWS

MODELS

PROGRAM TERRAIN

Without knowing the program, the process started with different types of brainstorming sessions. The spatial croquis exercises enhanced our perception of rooms as shapes - the charcoal rendering different attentions. The terrain drawings, discovering qualities of the landscape, made it possible to utilize the terrain to hide the yard and keep the height down, by lowering the first floor down towards the little grove. The MDF model was built out of small pieces and then combined to create space within a construction. The difference in the scale of the building blocks (small to the left and large to the right) translated into a wooden construction and a concrete construction also reflecting the program mindmapped below.

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Cleanliness Library

Spatial croquis drawings

Detail model of the stairs

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Machines Metal

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Sketch model Exhibition Customers Podium

Crane

Storage Homogeneity

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Intuitive drawing emphasizing important sightlines, movements, and terrain

Welding

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Guests

Intuitive modelling in MDF as a way of discovering spatial qualities

Scrap metal Variance

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The workshop in the terrain

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Private room

2nd floor

Kitchen

Gallery Entrance

Workshop WC

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Yard

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When building, certain rules apply. Using these rules as positive design tools is important in a successful architecture.

The program was to envision a house for a meteorologist and together with a group of fellow students, who had other similar programs, to combine it into a small settlement consisting of four distinct houses. Even though the design of each seperate house was individual, a collaboration effort to decide sightlines, light, outdoor space, and entrances was necessary - learning that architecture is seldom a single man’s work.

The project comprised of light studies, colour studies, landscape modelling, and the creation of space in relation to a program.

1st semester | Peter Henning Jørgensen | Kristine Mogensen

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The starting point of the project was a 7,5m x 7,5m x 7,5m cube. We were allowed two slices creating three blocks. Combined, these would make up the mould for the house. The building should be made in concrete and placed together with the three other houses on a square plot of land measuring 30m x 30m. Instead of breaking these ‘principles’, we were encouraged to examine them, thus discovering strengths and weaknesses, allowing us to dig deeper into the placement of the volumes, the position of windows, the thicknesses of walls, etc.

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A collage of light studies

Daylight study of the settlement done in the sun experimentation lab

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For the Danish scout group FDFs National Camp 2016 the aim was to give the opportunities for kids and young people to get together with the theme of ‘play’. Therefore, I was asked to develop a new take on the playground in the field between architecture and installation.

My task was to gather a design team of six people, design, and lead the project through all faces from concept to teardown.

The theme of our Play Installation was ‘the Cave’. A place of silence and dark - the known and the unknown.

A place for stories and mysteries. We wanted to create a place where kids would have to trust other senses than their sight, and thus used different material draping on the inside, to imitate a sense of discovery and adventure - bricks, a tree, turf, styrofoam, etc. The visitors ended up in the Golden Chamber where the contrast between dark and light was exaggerated by the use of golden foil. We decided to use the typical tipi typology of scout shelters as an inspiration for the structure with a quite complicated circulation to confuse the visitors.

We fundraised 40.000 kr. and ended up with a material budget of 60.000 kr. - voluntary craftsmen built it. Furthermore, the project is featured in the book ‘8 Innovative Legestationer’ (8 Innovative Play Stations) and in the report Skovbjerg, H. M. (2016) Legestationerne på FDFs Landslejr 2016 from Aalborg University.

FDF National Camp 2016 | Voluntary Project Architect

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Construction parts

LYSRØR

TRÆ

LAMINAT

NØDUDGANG

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RUTE FOR BESØGENDE

Section of path through the installation

Golden Chamber in the middle

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Maputo, Mozambique is sprawling outwards with great speed. This poses a severe challenge for the city administration, as it does not have the resources to plan the new developments, enforce building and zoning laws, or to build the most basic infrastructure. 80 % of the city’s population lives in these unplanned settlements with only limited access to water, sanitary facilities, electricity, roads, and medical facilities. The result is a population with a life expectancy of 55 years.

11 % of the population is HIV-positive posing a severe risk to the country as a whole. Other fatalaties consist of tuberculosis, due to the use of charcoal stoves, and malaria, especially during rainy season. The map to the right shows areas of risk in terms of flooding areas and disease vectors of HIV, following the route of truckers who are the main carriers of infection. A lack of basic education makes this problematic, as people are not aware of methods of prevention, symptoms or basic treatment.

Especially kids are vulnerable, as they need others to be aware of their condition. In a country with little to no means, MÊdicin Sans Frontières have started a program of cheap para-medic workers, that act in the local communities. They are educated to know basic healthcare and pass their knowledge on to others. To create a community base for these para-medics, to make a place for health education, and to create space for discussions on private and tabooed topics was therefore my goal.

Bachelor Thesis | Knud Kappel | Morten Meldgaard

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Office Office

Para-Medic

Classroom Classroom

Balcony

Meeting

Info

Pharmacy CafĂŠ

Theatre

Hall

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The project was developed during a study trip to Maputo, Mozambique. We conducted research in the informal settlement of Polana Caniço situated just outside of the city core. An area of 300x300 meter was investigated by 9 groups, and acted as site for the project.

The population lives in one-storey buildings with walls made up of locally fabricated concrete blocks and wood with corrugated iron roofs. The inhabitants prefer to live mostly in dark rooms to keep the climate cool. Most houses use an inner courtyard as the kitchen, wash area, workshop, shop, etc. - a very versatile space.

Due to the economic inflation, people buy building materials and build additions to secure their money. Together with the lack of regulation, the built structure is ever changing.

An area with a little lower density

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100x100 meter hand measured plan

5 families must be relocated

Walls created from the typology of existing walls

Sections of study house

Structures rise up according to program

Wood panels give shade and airflow

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The program challenges the way we see privacy as a big part of health education is talking openly about very private matters. This is especially important in a country where you might be excluded if you have HIV. My projects seeks to create spaces in which you can have open discussions in both intimate, semi-private, and public spaces. The wood shades act as a filter that lets in air but keeps privacy. Outdoor meeting spaces create informal places for discussion. The open central room works as a stage for educational theatre, public events, lectures, and exercises. The visitors meet no barrier when entering the house as the sand continues into the courtyard from the street.

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Front: Construction dissection of the roof part of the Langelinie Pavilion, a modernist era restaurant and banqueting hall. The task was to examine the material layers and analyse their potential from a technical as well as phenomenological perspective.

Back: Hand drawing of the facade of Eigtveds Pakhus, a baroque warehouse built in 1748. The ghosted area of the drawing shows a section torn down due to the need of a larger dock area, thus removing the symmetry of the building.