Portfolio Jan Trinh 2025

PORTFOLIO JAN TRINH

ABOUT ME

PROJECT LIST

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MASTER’S THESIS

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QUEERING OF SPACES (2022)

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DESIGN PROPOSAL

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ARTMANIA HOTEL (2021)

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RESEARCH

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THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE (2021)

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DESIGN PROPOSAL

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DESIGN PROPOSAL

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Individual

TERRACED HOUSES (2018)

Individual

Photo: Frøy E. Hamstad

JAN TRINH

THE 09. HOUSE (2019)

PAVILLION

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COMPETITION

THE ACCELERATOR (2021)

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EMERGENCY CENTER (2020)

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SELECTED ARTWORKS

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PERSONALIA EMAIL jan.trinh.1309@gmail.com PHONE +47 400 69 536 INSTAGRAM @j.a.trinh LANGUAGES English (Professional) Norwegian (Professional) Spanish (Basic) Vietnamese (Basic)

SKILLS AND SOFTWARES Draftsmanship Photography Model Building Adobe Creative Cloud AutoCAD, Autodesk ArchiCAD, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Twinmotion Rhinoceros 3D Sketch Up PRO QGIS Hannover Vectorworks

REFERENCES Please contact for references; listed in CV

INSTALLATION

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DESIGN PROPOSAL

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DISSIDENT PUBLICS (2023)

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THE CITY PARLOUR (2019)

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DRAWING, PHOTOS, MODELS, AND MORE

Individual

C.V. TIMELINE OVERVIEW 2013

*MORE DETAILS IN CV

ARTISTRY EDUCATION Private Works

2014

Elvebakken High School Art, Design, Architecture Specialization 2013 - 2016

VOLUNTEER Galleri-E Student Curator 2014 - 2016

2015 2016 Masters in Architecture NTNU 2016 - 2022

Broderskabet: Tidskriftet A Magazine Illustrator 2016 - 2019

2017 2018 2019

Best Illustration 2018

Broderskabet: Architecture Revue Support Group 2017 - 2018

Best Spread Design 2019

Broderskabet: Brewing Group Event Manager 2018 - 2019

Studentersamfundet Edgar Café Barista and Bartender 2017 - 2019

TEACHING NTNU, Teaching Assistant Architecture I, 2017 Architecture II, 2018 Architecture III, 2018

Self Portrait (2019)

Best Co-Worker 2019

BUILDING IDENTITY THROUGH ARCHITECTURE

3HOUSES 2019

2020

Private Works

Elvebakken High School Substitute Teacher, Arts and Design, 2020

WORK Vigsnæs+Kosberg++ Architectural Intern 2020

2021 2022

Frisk Melk Prints 2021 - 2023

The Social Landscape 2021 Artmania Hotel 2021

Urban Triggers Agency Summer Internship 2021

NTNU Architecture Master’s Thesis 2022

National Museum, Counsellor Queer Culture Year 2022

Finalist: Aspelin Ramm Award 2022

2023 Pride Art Exhibition 2023

2024

Nomination: Mies van der Rohe Young Talents Architecture Award 2023

Galleri ROM Dissident Publics Queer Arts and Architecture 2022 - 2023

Karmaklubb Kunstnernes Hus Talk on Queer Spaces and Architecture 2024

Larvik 350 Jubilee Student Project Lead 2021

ACTIVISM Oslo Queer Arts and Culture Center (SKOKS) Counselor 2022 - Currently

NTNU, Teaching Assistant Form and Colour I, 2021 NTNU, Teaching Assistant Urban Triggers, 2021

Elvebakken High School Special Educations for Arts and Design 2022 - 2023 100% Temp Teacher for Arts and Design, 2023 - 2024

This portfolio is a collection of works from my studies at NTNU, such as my master’s thesis, and my work as an interdisciplinary artist. It features three individual projects and six group projects ranging from physical 1:1 spatial installations and gardens, to large scale urbanism and urban mapping tools. And of course traditional architectural projects in the scales inbetween—ranging from houses to hotels. At the end, I will feature some of my artistic works as a draftsman, a photographer, a sculptor, and a fine arts illustrator.

I am drawn towards the notions of identity, urbanity, density, and connections.

Throughout my studies and creative work, identity is always the central theme explored; that people’s needs are intrinsically connected to the multiplicity of people’s identities, their positions in the stratifications of society, and how they orientate and navigate the rhizome. One’s needs are shared amongst their communities within the spaces they inhabit. Thus, the physical spaces for that shared experience, and how to make them, become central to my practice.

Queering of spaces Queer Urbanism and Cultural Productions Made by: Jan Trinh Supervisor: Stuart McLeod Salway Dickson Semester: Master’s Thesis; January – May, 2022

BEING, PLACE, PRESENCE — THE INTERFACE OF QUEERNESS AND PUBLICNESS

The thesis is a deepdive into planning radical institutions of culture as a critique of supermodern cultural planning, focusing on building authentic cultural interfaces and combat cultural exploitation of creative workers through a normcritical community network across minority demographics. For this thesis, the Case studies a Queer Culture Center as a node within the normcritical network, and centers the connection between the global and the local actors through the Queer Art Space and how their needs can be given form by transforming existing building mass into a conglomeration of spaces that fit the wide spectrum of Queer cultural productions. The inevitable cross-pollination within this radical institution will become the forefront of norm-creative innovations and grants authorship and agency to the queer community of their own cultural work with a public platform to connect global to local actors.

HOW CAN ARCHITECTURE QUEER SPACE? “[...] What characterizes Globalized Architecture is in the control that such architecture imposes, focusing on tabula rasa starting points, excerting total control, and neglecting social public spaces. Through this, globalized architecture consumes urban ammenities and strips away the layers of public functions in the urban fabric. The essence of Queer Architecture, as assembled, are antithetical to the introversion of globalized architecture, embracing the spontaneity of creative collectives to build layers of culture on what already exists, searching for nuance a opposed to seeking a homogenized perspective, and lets go of that control and monopoly. It becomes clear that Queerness through architecture is related to a transformation of spaces, as an evolving cultural assemblage of spatial praxes and co-inhabitation. But for the architecture to enable and facilitate this form of institutional use, it needs to relate its cultural programs toward the public spaces, be integrated into existing structures, and reprogram neglected buildings [...]”

-Excerpt from Visual Essay (Trinh 2022)

MAPPING A QUEER OSLO

Queer places

Queer-friendly places

The Diffuse Queer “Institution”

Knowledge Institutions

Cultural Institutions

Distinguished Queer Establishments in Oslo

Establishments hosting Queer Actors prior to Covid

The existing network of Queer locations

Libraries, Higher Education

Theatres, Museums, Event Venues, Cinema

Commercial Institutions

The Contours of a Cultural Landscape

Commercial Axes

City Monuments

Old Culture Institutions

Shopping Malls

Overlaying the maps to contextualize Queer Places

Commercial Axes in context of the Cultural Landscape

Important Artefacts in Oslo

The three National Museums and the Munch Museum

Move of Cultural Institutions

Consolidation of Fjord City

A Counterculture Axis

Site Proposal

A New Queer Infrastructure

New locations for the moved institutions

The move consolidates the Fjord City development

The Cultural Landscape suggest a Counterculture Axis

Proposal to consolidate the Counterculture Axis instead

The Proposal anchors and empowers the Queer Network

1: 20 000 / SCHWARZPLAN OF EXISTING STRUCTURES

1: 20 000 / AGENTS ALONG THE CULTURAL AXIS

Cultural Production Axis

Commercial Axis – Grünerløkka

Queer Places

Queer-Friendly Places

CONCEPT MODEL OF SPATIAL ORGANIZATION

artist spaces

visitor spaces

CONCEPT MODEL OF NEW AND OLD

OLD (WOOD)

NEW (PLEXI)

PUBLIC SPACE SEQUENCE

THE EXISTING SITUATION

DEMOLISH AND ESTABLISH SPINES CONNECTING ACROSS BUILDING MASS

EXCAVATE THE MASS INBETWEEN

EXTEND AND CONNECT SPACE TOWARDS THE STREETS

INFILL DEMOLISHED SPACES TO FRAME NEW URBAN SPACES

NEW STAIRCASES CONNECTING THE PLATEAUS

NEW VERTICALS INSIDE THE INSTITUTION

NEW URBAN FLOOR EXTENDING THROUGH THE INSTITUTION

INSTITUTION’S SPINES CONNECTING THE ROOMS

ENTRANCES INTO THE INSTITUTION FOR THE PUBLIC

ORIENTATION OF INTERIOR SPACE TOWARD URBAN SPACES ENABLE PROGRAMS TO EXTEND INTO THE URBAN FLOOR

CIRCULAR CIRCULATION CONNECT INSIDE AND OUTSIDE SPACES TO STRENGTHEN THE URBAN FLOOR

CONCEPTUAL SITE PLAN, SHOWING ALL ENTRANCES TO THE INSITUTION OVERLAYED

møllerveien

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library and artefacts

top reception foyer mezzanine, top floor book café terrace outside exhibition main floor foyer below

maridalsveien

main exhibition space open down

institution offices and artist studios

artist courtyard workshop second floor

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bre nne rive ien

top floor interior exhibition

open down; conference hall

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akerselva

workshop deliveries

fabric workshop

TOP FLOOR

CONCEPTUAL SECTION OF NEW LOGISTICAL SPINE

møllerveien

main floor white box

north reception wc

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main floor foyer

main floor exhibition mezzanine

mai n fl brid oor ge

main floor exhibition space dance hall wardrobes;

plaza plateau; main entrance

exhibit deliveries Backstage mezzanine

dance hall foyer

dance hall

brenneriveien plaza

artist workshop foyer; dance hall extension

workshop extension

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bre nne rive ien

maridalsveien

underneath urban staircase

conference hall foyer

main floor conference hall

wc workshop main floor akerselva workshop deliveries

MAIN FLOOR

CONCEPTUAL SECTION OF SPATIAL CONFIGURATION

møllerveien

bottom floor white box

bottom floor foyer

bottom floor river white box wc

bottom floor entrance bottom floor river foyer bottom floor black box

bottom floor river promenade

café stage

brenneriveien plaza wc

bre nne rive ien

maridalsveien

deliveries

bottom floor theatre foyer backstage

river café and white box

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river plaza

bottom floor theatre akerselva

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BOTTOM FLOOR

Social Landscape Distributions Mapping of Trondheim Made by: Jan Trinh, Andrea Wolstad Supervisor: Jørgen Hallas Skatland, Urban Triggers Agency Semester: Self-Made Independant Design Course, Spring 2021 (5 months)

MAPPING TRONDHEIM THROUGH THREE LENSES

Using three lenses–Democracy, Culture and Health–to view and map the city, we mapped every non-housing program in Trondheim to see their distribution and the urban archipelagos they formed within the city. Together with mappings of population densities, public transit networks, natural resources, and comforts such as sound/air pollution, we developed a tool that could organize these layers of information to inform any potential programmatic interventions and map the development of the city through a dynamically changing model. The topographic model represents the density of building program with its peaks and valleys interlinked with population densities, allowing us to not only understand but also tailor the urban fabric.

Contributions: mapping and research, gridsystem and quantitfication model, topographic model and mesh system, theoretical application, diagrams, illustrations, test models and communication.

TOOL PROCESS TIMELINE

CULTURE

HEALTH

DEMOCRACY

Constellation (Mapping)

Consolidation (Density)

Combination (Define Value)

Configuration (Assemble Densities)

Conversion (Mesh Topography)

Democratic relation to Education Social relation for Youths, Families, and School Cultural relations between Families through Sport Health relation to Sports and Physical Activities

DEFINING A NODE’S VALUE COMBINATION FROM MAPPINGS Because a node can be interpreted, used and experienced from several social dimensions, a node fulfills several types of “Satellite Functions” or Soft Functions, in addition to their “Core Functions”, in other words Hard Functions. To quantify a node, we combined our mappings to assemble different social relations as the foundation for each nodes’ Core and Satellite Functions, and thus we could combine them as components. Ultimately, the value describes the “Wiggle Room”, “Marge de Manoeuvre”, or The Flexibility of Uses a node can be interpreted as through its assemblage of Soft Functions, and becomes a component in describing the Multifuctionality of the urban fabric.

The Social Landscape

Node Mapping

Sum

Contour Nodes

Population Densities

Layer Inventory

Midtbyen

Natural Resources Air Pollution

Munkholmen

Noise Pollution Population Density

CONFIGURING SECTIONS BY ASSEMBLING NODES AND THEIR VALUES Upon assembling the nodes into sections, the contours of the urban fabric begin to shape around and assemblage of the Nodes and in turn becomes an Assemblage of Assemblages.

The Configuration thus describes the Multi-functionality of the Urban Fabric in relation to the mapping inventory describing the circumstances of the assembled multi-functionalites. Thus, the section countour describes densities of functions and people in relation to the urban comforts in an abstraction of a landscape section.

NTNU Gløshaugen Hallset Sluppen

Ranheim

Transit Routes Vikåsen

Natural Resources

Noise Pollution

PROTOTYPE LANDSCAPE FROM SECTION CONFIGURATIONS Upon completing the Configurations of the Sections, the protoype landscape emerges, creating Archipelagos of Multi-functionalities as hot spots in the urban fabric. From this Assemblage of nodes into sections into topography, the Social Landscape emerges. This topographic abstraction of the Multi-fuctionalities of the Urban Fabric is a tool to understand the relationship of programmatic distributions in relation to urban comforts, transit and mobilities, and population densities as well as demographic distribution. As a diagnostical tool, it reveals programmatic needs and development trends to build urban planning strategies and allows us to see how adding, removing and transforming nodes change the dynamics of the urban fabric. Thus, this model is a prototype for a dynamic model to study Trondheim and quantify the city’s dynamic multiplicities.

Lade

Sorgenfri Heimdal

Air Pollution

artmania Hotel A Brutalist Arts and Culture Arena Made by: Jan Trinh, Andrea Wolstad, Ingvild Kvikne Supervisor: Stuart McLeod Salway Dickson, Geir Brendeland Semester: Large Buildings Master Course, Fall 2021 (3 months)

A CULTURAL DEFIBRILATOR TO A DYING HARBOUR DISTRICT

This is an alternative to the proposed hotel at Nyhavna in Trondheim, a district under development alongside the harbour of the town. Due to its history as a WW2 submarine bunker as well as a subcultural hub at the shift to the 21st century, the site conditions for Nyhavna set up a range of complex relations between the old, the new and the current.

Our answer is a brutalist hotel using the construction to roof an open urban floor that extends into a backyard plaza and continues into the bunker, extending the public space as the central core across the masterplan of Nyhavna. The new Megastructure encourages future development to occupy the existing large structures as concrete landscapes.

Contributions: Illustrations, Models, Urban plan, Site plan, Outdoor and Interior Concept, construction concept and Building form concept, Hotel Rooms, Facade design, 3D Model, Diagrams, Axonometric, Sections.

Library of culture and the arts

“This is KIT” Arts academy

SITE PLAN 1 : 10 000

SITE PLAN 1 : 1000

MODEL PHOTO OF SURROUNDING PARK OF THE CULTURE QUARTER

MODEL PHOTO OF THE CULTURE QUARTER

SITE MODEL OF THE CULTURE QUARTER 1 : 500

FLEXIBLE UNIT

SINGLE SMALL

SINGLE MEDIUM

SINGLE NEST

- Can be split into single units, double units, or used as a triple unit.

- These can be booked for family, large friend groups, bands, artist collectives, etc.

- The unit can fashion several bed layouts and shared spaces. 3 - 6 people – 3 WC and 3 Toilets.

- 3.5 x 7.0 m.

– Single unit with a workspace – 1 - 2 people

– 3.5 x 8.0 m.

– Medium Unit with balcony – 1 -2 people

- 3.5 x 7.0 m.

– Small unit with one large bed – Workplace to nest and work – 1 - 2 people.

VIEWS FROM 1:20 MODEL

the 09.house NTNU Cafeteria and Study Hall Made by: Jan Trinh Supervisor: Fredrik Lund Semester: Three Houses Master Course, Fall 2019 (3 weeks)

THREE HOUSES: THE SEPTEMBER HOUSE

For this semester, the Master Course were split into three intense short-form projects. The 09.House was a cafeteria and study hall on a northfacing plateau of NTNU Gløshaugen Campus in Trondheim. The valley north of this structure hosts volleyball courts and grassy fields, called the Death Valley (Dødens dal), where UKA Events are hosted. For this proposal, I placed a rectangular mass that separated the valley from an opposite sunken courtyard. The geometry of the building is entirely based on its staircase step as a module, extending into the geometry of the arches and ceiling heigths. This project integrates the landscape surface into the functions of catering and studying, shaping it into steps, seats, tables and different view points, and where the architectural experience is defined and framed by the floating CLT timber structure with semi-circular cuts. The views are framed depending on how one interacts with the landscape surface.

Terraced Houses Conceptual Row Houses Made by: Jan Trinh Supervisor: Olav Kristoffersen Semester: Housing, Spring 2018 (3 weeks)

ALIGNED WITH THE TERRAIN

The housing project is designed to align its footprint with the terrain contour, thus allowing the building masses to raise progressively for each unit along the street.

This allows the building to feature a single slit of light from the south-east, creating a streak of light to illuminate the space most of the day. The spaces are designed around this streak of light by shaping most of the interpersonal functions, as kitchen and living room, for this light to move uninhibited throughout the day. The spaces are separated in the middle by a vertical concrete wet core, dividing the quiet spaces from the active spaces. The active spaces are defined by differences in ceiling height, materiality, light, and zones in relation to the green house at the front facade.

Photo: Making is Thinking , Gro Rødne

TheandAccelerator the Pop-Up Royal Gardens Made by: Jan Trinh, Larvik Municipality, Making is Thinking Group Supervisor: Gro Rødne, August Schmidt, Nina Haarsaker Semester: Summer Building Praxis, Summer 2021 (4 months)

LARVIK’S 350-YEAR JUBILEE GARDENS AND PAVILLION

A temporary structure for the Larvik 350-year jubilee to explore the potential of The Royal Gardens in Larvik for future urban planning. The project is a scaffold structure referencing the old baroque view of the garden’s original planning together with a complimentary contemporary garden around its base. The concept was to subdivide the space into different zones using the colour of flowers and distribute the contributions of schools, youth prison, and elderly hobby gardeners, as well as the student contributions from the workshop. I was the assistant project lead for the garden project throughout the planning process in collaboration with the municipality’s landscape architects.

Contributions: Garden plan, planting plan and coordination, outdoor area and site concept, project lead of garden execution, concept development and plan concept, and coordination for reuse and recycling.

Structure and Gardens

Garden Views

Photo: Making is Thinking , Gro Rødne

Photo: Making is Thinking , Gro Rødne

Photo: Making is Thinking , Gro Rødne

Photo: Making is Thinking , Gro Rødne

Viewpoint Axis

emergency center Kaira Looro 2020 Competition, Sierra Leone Made by: Jan Trinh, Andrea Wolstad Competition: Kaira Looro 2020 Semester: Kaira Looro Competition, Spring 2020 (1 month)

KAIRA LOORO 2020; ARCHITECTURE FOR CRISIS

For Kaira Looro 2020 competition, our proposal for a Sierra Leone Emergency Center was based on sourcing local materials and low-tech building techniques to build a framework that could be later transformed into future public infrastructure, such as schools, community nodes, or clinics. Our concept took a deepdive into bamboo construction from their rising bamboo economy, as well as brick and adobe from the abundance of clay in this warm climate. Combining both, we chose to create a community house that could store water for low costs and anchor itself as a longstanding structure in the tropical landscape.

Contributions: Construction Concept and Diagrams, Utility Diagrams, Plan organization, Plan Concept, Section Concept, Illustrations.

Photo: Bui Qui Son

dissident publics Future Artefacts of Queer Methodologies Made by: Jan Trinh, Bui Qui Son, Paul-Antoine Lucas, Maike Statz, Danja Buchard, Lexie Owens, Liene Pavlovska, Léa Brami, Mahé Cordier-Jouanne (1 year) Exhibited in: 13.may 2023 - 11. june 2023; Galleri ROM for art and architecture, Oslo

KNOWLEDGE SHARING SPACE THROUGH ART AND EVENT

This installation is a hacking of ROM as an institutional gallery into a queerable space, hosting groups and events that dare to imagine better alternative futures for marginalized people—a presence systematically suppressed in public spheres of influence when deviating from the Normative and its power structures. This has been a process of knowledge sharing through several workshops into a final build. The final installation consists of reinterpreted assemblies of found, used and reclaimed materials to blend the public and domestic realms into a space inviting to be further queered. As a toolbox, it hosts a library of queer and feminist theory, architecture and pedagogy, and invites to engage with queer knowledge and skill sharing as collective praxis towards better futures through events and workshops.

Contribution: Sewing and assembly, Bookcases, recycling coordination, event coordination, lighting, rigging, colour coordination, and concepts.

Photo: Bui Qui Son

library Photo: Bui Qui Son

Photo: Bui Qui Son

Photo: Bui Qui Son

Photo: ROM

tent

Photo: ROM

Photo: ROM

Photo: Bui Qui Son

TheA City Parlour Third Place as Social Interface Made by: Jan Trinh, Iben Rohde, Lan Truong Supervisor: Steffen Wellinger Semester: Large Buildings in Urban Context, Spring 2019 (5 weeks)

URBAN FLOOR FOR NTNU OPEN AND THE STUDENT SOCIETY

This proposal seeks to resolve the interface between the Student Society with NTNU in Trondheim. For this proposal, we created a space that can be used by each actor flexibly on an Shared Urban Floor. The ground floor and first floor act as a common ground for shared functions with two large black boxes adornning the top floor, as well as 3 smaller flexible blackboxed underground. For this concept, the facade uses cold green tile to compliment the grey Trondheim weather and the neighbouring red Student Society. The proposal creates several outdoor spaces with its envelope around the Urban Floor Concept.

Contributions: Illustrations, Elevations and Facade Design, Urban Floor Concept, Floor Plans, Sections, Diagrams, Site plan and Outdoor Spaces, Construction.

Event Space Foyer, Top Floor

Ground Floor Café

Ground Floor Gallery

Exhibition and Gallery

Library & Mezzanine

Common Grounds

Equipment Borrowing

Café & Meeting

Halogen Xanthosis Landscape (2022)

Selected artworks A Collection of Other Artistic Practices CHAPTERS: 1. Draftsmanship, 2. Photography, 3. Model Building, 4. Fine Art Prints Made by: Jan Trinh

A TOOLBOX OF CREATIVE INSTRUMENTS

This next chapter is a collection of my artistic works, such as Draftsmanship, Photography, Model Building, and Fine Art Prints. Within my process to visualize spatial qualities and concepts, I strongly employ my deep passion for art, for draftsmanship and the fundamentals of composition in my work to best communicate, and even narrate, the experiences of my projects. Thus, this section is dedicated to my other artistic practices that allow me to extend my knowledge of graphic design, anatomy, composition, colour theory, observational skill, post-processing, a passion for details and a cinematic vision into my architectural and design praxis. Together, all these skillsets amount to a large toolbox for creative outputs that inform and expand upon my architectural understanding and explorations.

Yinmin Blue Horizon (2022)

Gypsum White Meridiem (2022)

Pencil Sketches, sketchbook excerpts (2019)

L’appel du Vide (The Void Between Our Homes Commands Me to Fly), Tidskriftet A #3 Catastrophe (2017). Awarded Gullblekka 2018 for Best Illustration.

DRAFTSMANSHIP

Assorted Portraits, (2019 - 2022)

MARKMAKING AS A THINKING TOOL I have drawn for almost two decades, honed my markmaking skills and my observant eye from classical art training. My draftsmanship extends from observational art to conceptual development, using sketches as an extension of my process in developing concepts, communicating ideas, and visualizing works with a high degree of finish. From my skillset in traditional mediums, I use pencil, ink and coal, as well

as other mediums like aquarelle, oils, acrylics and pastels, and printmaking tools like etching, linoprint, woodcutting, monotyping, and silkscreen. These skillsets have translated into my work as a digital artist and graphic designer. Here are a few select pencil sketches (1), a double spread illustration for the student magazine, Tidskriftet A, using Photoshop (2), and a selection of portraits in oil, Procreate and Photoshop (3).

La Corte Ducale, Milano, Italy (2022)

A Winter Waltz of Steam Devils (Oslo Fjord), Norway (2024)

PHOTOGRAPHY

Vittoriano, Rome, Italy (2017)

Ascension (Vida with Flower Crowns), Bergen, Norway (2018)

COMPOSING FROZEN MOVEMENTS AND RHYTHMS My photography is informed by my observational eye and knowledge of composition from many years of drawing and painting. While it is not my main tool of representation or visualization, I actively employ photography in my architectural process and work together with my modelbuilding and illustration. To me, photography require skills in patience, observation and timing to capture the perfect moment as seen through

the capturing of shadow, light, form, and movement. Even though it is still, the importance of photography is to capture the movement and rhythm and further express the scene through post-processing. For these works, taking in the moment and capturing the mood created by natural lighting, and bringing out the rhythm of the spatial elements through the colours of that moment.

Case Study: Paimio Sanatorium, Alvar Aalto (2021)

Sketch Model: Stone Chapel, Own Work (2019)

MODEL BUILDING

Case Study: Terra Cotta Studio, Tropical Space (2019)

Sketch Model: Study of Light and Form, Own Work (2017)

THREE DIMENSIONAL COLLAGES Building architectural models is my main strategy to exlore spaces and I use models as a tool for developing, representing, and presenting architectural and spatial concepts. Especially to understand structure, inhabitation, and form. With a background in sculpture, I have sculpted anatomical pieces, such as the scale figure featured in this section. I see model building as a spatial collage of materials

to explore the possibility and potential of spaces, concepts of structure and form, and light. Thus, I combine model making with photography and the fundamentals of composition learned through draftsmanship in order to produce the most suited models for the design. To me, combining the rigid abstractions of structure together with the texture of nature, brings out the strongest expression.

Alexander (2021)

Santana (Miami Bubblegum) (2021)

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FINE ART PRINTS

Cuoi (Moon Man) (2020)

Mea Culpa (2020)

CATHARSIS THROUGH QUEERING BEAUX ARTS My Fine Art prints reflect the whole of my technical skills with colour, form, anatomy, design, composition, and concept translated into Queerness. These prints were made using Photoshop with a tablet combining both graphic design elements together with traditional classical painting techniques in order to bring out the forms of the body. These works are an exploration of Queer identity and act as an interface between the masculinity

Mollymauk (2017)

as performance and masculinity as interpretation. In order to explore masculinity, the works tackle the body image in contrast with how we perceive it; the vulnerability of the queer identity against the masculine stereotype, merging the classical aesthetic with the queer grotesque from normative view. The works evoke the experience of interfacing with The Queer, normatively seen as a social grotesque, with classical dressing.

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