Diploma Days 2019 Autumn KTH School of Architecture

Diploma Projects Spring 2019 Presented 27.05–29.05 School of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Diploma Projects Spring 2019

KTH Royal Institute of Technology School of Architecture Osquars backe 5, Stockholm, Sweden Printed in May 2019, Stockholm

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Malin Ă…berg-Wennerholm & Katja Grillner Hej dĂĽ! 4

Diploma Projects 5

Supervisors 380

Diploma Jury 381

Students 382

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Hej då!

It’s so dark outside. One must be able to see even when light is lacking. We aim for our students to become critical learners by default in our educational space. If, at this school, we might not talk about visions so much, ​our explicit goal is always to create, with our students, knowledge that is relevant for society today. It is crucial that we all, students and teachers, engage in social and technological changes, and explore, through design, their consequences for the architectural field. Students and teachers – you have indeed, during the recent five years of study, shaped the conditions of the future of the built environment together! Diploma students – thank you for your curiosity, your stubbornness and your enthusiasm for learning! Standing on the very threshold to professional life, we are now very proud to welcome you, our students, into the profession. We all know the impact of architecture. We know for sure that architecture makes a big difference in society, and to everyday life! Congratulations!

Malin Åberg-Wennerholm Head of Education

Katja Grillner Head of Department

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Passage Compositions Sandra Al-Neyazi

The field between Stockholm University Frescati campus and the student housing area of Lappkärrsberget is today used as a passage – otherwise it is completely empty. This passage is a naturally created shortcut by thousands of students living there, because it is simply a faster way home than the constructed pathway beside it.

This proposal is about adding a structure along a passage, an open ground level available for everyone passing by. What geometries are formed from the angle of this specific one? What about the evident lack of student housing in Stockholm today?

Can architectural representation be used to develop these design decisions? Drawings, models or even composed techniques are all important ways of explaining spatial atmospheres and logics, especially as architecture students, because these are usually the only physical elements that bring our projects to life.

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Örum Therese Antman

I have located my project at Landsort, in the south part of Stockholm archipelago, close to Nynäshamn. This part of the archipelago has a close connection to main land, and also takes you out fast to open sea. On Landsort I have created something I call Örum.

Something essential in this project is to highlight the spirit of the archipelago. My project is creating spaces where you can experience the calm, the ruff, the warm and the cold. The sea can give such a variety of conditions. It changes with the seasons but it also changes with the weather and can quickly go from still breeze to full storm.

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The Wading bunker

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Next Stop: Nature Elin Andersson

Green areas in cities are often ruled out in favour of big housing projects, this was the case with large parts of J채rvaf채ltet, which was transformed during the Milllion Programme in the 1960-1970s. There were plans to develop Kymlinge as well, also part of J채rvaf채ltet. When the blue subway line was built in the 1970s a station was placed here, but the plans were stopped and thestation was never finalised. Today the half-complete station stands in the middle of the greenery, the trains pass by but never stops. The purpose of my thesis is to study the specific site of Kymlinge and contribute with an idea of how to improve the area. I have worked with three parts: the station (which I finalise and open up), the green area and new buildings connected to outdoor activities.

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Site plan: 1. Station 2. Changing rooms 3. Equipment center 4. Club houses 5. Outdoor sport area 6. Entrances to Nature Reserve 7. Naturum 8. CafĂŠ

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Peripheral Tales – 6 Houses Awaiting a Visit Daniel Backlund

I have placed 6 houses alongside a country road in Värmland. By building new I have wanted to investigate the production of certain spatial moments; moments I have discerned from the presence of places, as the road passes them through this peripheral area. Their differences aside each house derives from a found sense of hospitality, as well a proud mentality of showing the very best of sides to a visitor.

Programmatically the houses portray one tale each - about an encounter and that of being a host and invite a guest inside.

That being said the host could very well be the house in itself. I have asked myself: what if a visitor passed by, what would take place? - And what would the building express in waiting for that to happen?

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House of a representative facade – facade facing the road

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House of a representative facade - facade of the private entry, facing east/west

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The Qualities of Place Luis Barri

With increasing age, the need for help and support increases even though many want to cope with themselves as long as possible. Later stages in life provide many obstacles. Movement and accessibility become crucial as well as housing conditions. Energy and mobility also become limited which makes each threshold, distance, and step to become a significant obstacle. Often with isolation as a result. This project does not solely seek to explore the qualities that can be created within elderly care as a separate part but in how its location, program, and structure may allow for interaction, therefore, creating qualities beyond that of itself.

Qualities that often arise from its specific location and history.

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A Bridge Between Past and Present Andrea Bast

The Old Lidingรถ Bridge is a steel truss bridge with riveted joints, connecting mainland Stockholm to the island of Lidingรถ.

It was inaugurated in May 1925 and quickly became the lifeline for people living on the island. It is very important for the identity of everyone living around it and it is an important symbol for Lidingรถ.

In recent years, the bridge became neglected and the municipality decided to demolish and replace it.

With my thesis I want to show an alternative to a demolition, including the preservation of the structure and a transformation into pedestrian space. The human scale is brought back into focus and implementations of different sizes are made.

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The 140m long arc and the openable bascule leaf are the most iconic parts of the bridge, photos: Lidingรถ stadsarkiv

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Currently, you find the bridge and its ends in a neglected state. In order to allow people to experience it again, different problems have to be solved.

The most important change is to remove the train from the told bridge and to place it underneath the concrete car bridge instead. By that, problems of lacking space, noise and vibration are solved and it gives the possibility to lead the train through the centre of LidingĂś.

In Ropsten, a new train station is planned underneath the car bridge. A new square opens up the space between transport systems and serves as a hub for people to travel into different directions as well as to stay and enjoy the view over the bridges, the water or the park adjacent to it. On the bridge itself, the connection to the human scale is brought back into

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focus. The asphalt pavement and the inner railing are removed and the remaining old wooden pavement is complemented by new boards. Additional lighting makes it more pedestrian friendly in the dark. The famous waiting pavilion by Ivar Tengbom is renovated, reopened and brought back into its old state. The walkway on LidingĂś is complemented by new wooden decks and green areas and new pathways invite the visitors to stay and enjoy the beauty of the area between the two cities. An elevator and a staircase give the opportunity to reach MillesgĂĽrden by foot, which becomes the final point of the new path.

The bridge can be experienced as a place itself in all its beauty again. It has the potential to remain a reminder of our present and past.

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Social-Ecological Project Josefine Berg Bring

Even though we have created a society with an enormous potential to thrive in a free, healthy life, we are still living like our ancestors, as slaves of time. Back then, the law of the cyclical nature time, different seasons, day and night, controlled how they had to live to survive. Now (and since the time of industrialization) we live in a pseudo-cyclical time, where the rules are created from the laws of production, consumption and material things. Weekdays, weekends, holidays.

This makes us sick. Two of the most common health problems in our society is related to stress and overweight, and the nature is getting sick as well. In Sweden we live as if we had four planet earths to use, the environment crises is a fact and I wonder, where is the balance?

The goal with this project is to create good conditions for the health of people, nature and countryside together. It is an investigation of the connections between social and natural systems and how to create synergies between them through an architectural project.

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COMMUNITY – interpretation of a tree

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Npili Girl’s School Isa Bergh Lopes da Costa

This project takes place in Guinea Bissau in the west coast of Africa. It is a place I feel for and where part of my family descends from. As part of my reaserch I have spent two months in Guinea Bissau where I have investigated participatory design processes in local communities.The first month I exploared participatory tools together with Architects Without Borders and UNICEF. The second month I worked with the local organization ATENA and the community of Ensalma where a school for girls will be constructed. The physical proposal of this thesis is the design of this school.

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“many of us are employed in the brick factory and we where part of the construction of the vaults and domes a few years ago. It is a skill in within the community.�

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Participatory process. Jon explains the brick factory and the vaults.

Section through the courtyard of the primary school

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The spine of the country. Photo: Bissau Bonito

Process: material and construction

Due to the situation we are in, where climate change and rapid urbanization creates new challenges for all of us, especially for poor communities- this project is striving for a holstic approach and incorporates sustainable construction techniques, solar energy, rain water harvesting and composting latrines into the design. One hectare of the site is reserved for a garden to make possible a self sufficient food production.

The goal with the design is to decrease dependency on donors.

In Guinea Bissau, girls are the ones that least benefit from the education system and has the highest rate of illitracy. ATENA Fondation therefore decided the school will focus on girls. The project will be built in three phases and I am focusing on phase one consisting of the kindergarten and the primary school.

For one month I worked close with the community of Ensalma, they are the ones that will construct the school physically and also be the ones working there. Next to the site lies a brick factory made up of domes and vaults where people from the area are employed. They were also part of the vault and dome construction of the factory, it is now a “know how� on site. Hot sun or heavy rainfall composes the climate of Guinea-Bissau. Traditional buildings are featuring corrugated thin metal roofs which in the dry season makes the interiors terribly hot. Clay bricks in vaulted ceilings and crossventilatilating openings is one way to keep the inside of the buildings cool without artificial or mechanic climate control.

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Varvet – a Concert Venue on Södermalm Ingrid Bernerstedt

This project proposes a new building for a concert venue on Södermalm in Stockholm. An area especially affected by the current trend that venues for experiencing contemporary music live are being shut down and driven away from the inner city, due to everything from complaining neighbours to making room for more profitable businesses. The idea for the project sprung out of the sudden closing of the venue Debaser Medis, whose facilities was removed when the building it was situated in was to undergo major renovations. The project also includes the repurposing of an existing building to facilitate a café/bar as well as functions supporting the daily business of the venue.

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The space between old and new

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The Metaphysics of the Drawing Malin Bjärkstedt

In writings addressing the essential role of the drawing to the architect’s profession the drawing is mainly treated as a tool for communication, and the act of drawing as a method, stating the drawing’s vital potency of expressing the intelligible Form of the building. Even though the intelligible creation of the drawing is in some sense implied in the writings it is still vaguely explained, appearing self-evident. And yet, if the architectural drawing is of such great importance to the idea of the architect’s role and the making of architecture, shouldn’t we try to understand the drawing just as well as we try to understand architecture? Just like the physical building is preceded by the intelligible Form of the building the physical drawing is preceded by the Form of the drawing.

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Architects do not [primarily] make buildings and places. Architects create ideas of buildings and places.

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assembly of primary shapes

Third draft of a five-point perspective of the everchanging lock system where each vanishing point is simultaneously zenit, nadir and a vanishing point on the horizon line, by Malin Bjärkstedt, 2019.

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An Anthropocene Garden Andrea Bodelsson

My project ”An anthropocene garden” shows a vision of how the spaces in a swedish city have been reshaped and restructured, perhaps as a consequence of societal decisions, perhaps through local initiatives – perhaps both.

The map shows how all the golf courses in Malmö have been appropriated and become small paradises. The metaphor of Paradise is not seriously meant, neither is it ironic. The Anthropocene garden is neither a utopia nor a dystopia. The project is simply about how the future may necessarily come to look like, and about how the city can plan to meet future needs.

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Around each garden, there is a wall made of earth that protects the cultivation from noise and exhaust from the motorway and the wind. The wall becomes a significant figure in the cityscape that frames and protects the cultivation.

All the gardens have a central axis where the water is conducted and next to it there are the cultivations, framed by the walls which heat up the soil. The structure is strengthened by rows of greenhouses along the earth walls.

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Woodcut of the wall. Every half meter there is a layer of lime trass the prevents erosion.

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Stockholm Rejects Axel Burvall TerĂĄn

An investigation into unbuilt projects in Stockholm – rejected competition entries, halted projects or funding failures.

I have identified certain key moments in the development of the modern Stockholm and investigated what alternative routes could have been taken. The result of the research is presented in the form of a parallel narrative for the development of the city, culminating in an alternative version of Stockholm set in present time. A fictional story about the city that never was, as well as a platform for discussing and exhibiting unbuilt projects in a more fruitful way.

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Heating Plant – a Youth Center of Culture Jonas Bäck

The theme of the project is social sustainability, for which the housing segregation is a crucial factor that has the tendency to host different groups hostile to each other. My project will counteract this tendency, much by allowing children and youngsters from different environments to meet. The Cultural Center is intended to fulfill three goals: let children and youngsters meet, stimulate to creative activities and offer the opportunity to express one´s own experiences. Architecturally, the cultural center is a conversion of a heating plant, which consists of three different buildings. To these three buildings an extension is added, which is placed on the roof of the lowest situated.

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Skanstullsbron Library Jialu Cai

When I think about the picture in my mind on library, It is a place where one can detach from one’s everyday life and attach to things that happened hundreds of years ago, happen in the fantasy world, happen in the spiritual space, happen in the charming cosmos ...

With this impression, I would refer library to a spiritual architecture rather than a functional building.

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Varanger Sauna Alexander Carlsen

The detailing of many important and essential aspects of a building are initially neglected and thought of as a last step before the completion of a project, starting with the large scale working down to the small scale. They’re usually treated secondary and the general scheme is prioritized. It’s the idea of the assembled rather than how it’s assembled. Superficial rather than detailed.

This creates a dilemma when necessary elements of a building begin to be considered how to be built and are treated as a problem, when it should be considered as an opportunity. More often than not, the product of a detail is a solution to a problem that was created. Not meaning the problem could’ve been avoided, the problem still needed to be solved regardless, but it was solved out of necessity and not as an asset to the project.

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Wood storage along the north facade with a view of the Varangerfjord

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Plan of the smoke sauna

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The Stadium, Somewhere Along Road D9 Simon CaudĂŠran

This rehabilitation project is only a fragment of the bigger story which deals with the future of buildings that are abandoned, mistreated and looked down on. They are no rarity in our contemporary society and the reflexion of this thesis is more global as I would like to make people pay attention to those places that have, for many of them, a lot of remaining qualities. Destroying and building again from scratch is the easy way to go, especially when the only engine is to make profit, as fast as possible.

In one sentence, the incredible architectural heritage that we have accumulated throughout centuries is the playground of the architects of today.

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On the 24th of November 1994 was the Stadium of Vitrolles inaugurated. This bizarre concrete box measuring 60x60m and about 25m high made stong impressions. Whereas IAM, a French rap band, brought the whole of the northern ghettos of Marseille, a smaller group of architects among the officials was gauging the Stadium. The building was critically acclaimed and the Mayor of Vitrolles thanked Rudy Ricciotti for his stubbornness against criticism.

However, what sounded promising at first became a true nightmare. 1996: French extreme right party "Front National" wins the municipal elections. As a result, financial subventions to the Stadium suffered from large cuts in the budget. 1998: the munic-

ipality organises an ideological concert. A leftwinger dynamites the electrical system a few hours before the concert. No human lives were taken but the Stadium was declared dead. It has been laying alone in the odd landscape of Marseille’s hills for 20 years now and nothing seems to happen.

How can we deal with such a ruin? Its architecture is remarkable, its concrete structure still intact: it only suffers from vandalism. My thesis project is about bringing life to the Stadium of Vitrolles, through a new programme, through a new eye but with a lot of respect to the original building.

My goal was to create a very flexible and pluridisciplinary school where students and young artists could experiment without

Photo of the Stadium, September 2018

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Modern Translation of Guazhong Narrow Courtyard House Yijian Chen

Guanzhong narrow courtyard is a traditional architecture form of family house in Guanzhong area in China. This project will be dedicated to my grandmother. She used to live in such house for decades. Although she has moved to city long ago, she is still missing the life in such narrow courtyard house. Unfortunately the old house has been teared down just like most of them in Guanzhong area. So I would like to design a new house for her and explore a way to translate the traditional architecture form into a modern building.

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Photo of a Typical Guanzhong Narrow Courtyard House

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My goals for the project are that it should not only capture the essential spatial feeling of the traditional building but also give a response to the new environment such as urbanism, changing of population structure in the village and so on. In order to approach the goals, I did research on study of a typical Guanzhong narrow courtyard house, site

analyzes and several case studies of family houses.

After all the research I came up with the living concept that the house will have a core for my grandma and her family together with some flexible renting out rooms. In the meanwhile apply the courtyard feeing in the house.

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A Redesign of a Pedestrian Passage in Skärholmen Centrum – Variation on Modernism’s Theory of Functional Color Marta Dydek

The Original project of Skärholmen was focusing on spatial hierarchy and used the public spaces system. Over the years these spaces became disconnected and chaotic, thus hierarchy was lost. The street between the shopping buildings was incorporated into the shopping mall. The new design of Storholmsgatan can restore this connection with some program alternations that involve non-shopping activities. A design focuses on producing order and emphasizing more the social character of the street.

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How A Project that works with existing buildings has spatial limitations. Street proportions as well as floor levels remain unchanged.

The area of work is within the corridor plan, the elevations and the roof. Two places where the volumes of a music club and restaurant enter buildings are the exception to this rule. A series of spaces for social encounters are also part of this plan. In big scale design, the street is divided into 3 parts. Each has a different theme and focus point (music club, restaurant, playground) with the main principal their relation to the street.

There are limited possibilities of adding new volumes in narrow proportions and a need of leaving free walking space, which requires alternative solutions in defining space. The reference to modernism with using functional color is the answer

for defining space and its new character. In the middle scale the project is working with the articulation of elevations. Space is treated like an inverted building (has walls, floor and roof), therefore it is important to define openings that provide a connection with the environment behind walls.

In this case - shops and offices as well as focus points. Furthermore, a new roof solution delivers better light distribution.

The small scale of design is addressing reflections, alternative advertisement and the signing of entrances. Essentially, the project is aiming to produce order in a chaotic environment as well as minimise visual noises that characterize the existing street. Future users will be welcomed by a new atmosphere, with Storholmsgatan as an everyday walk path to metro station.

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Revisit Kymlinge Dora Edvinsson Kovacs

Re-visit Kymlinge is an experimental proposal aiming to impact the future of the Kymlinge area by introducing a new type of industry extended with commercial and public functions in order to battle the social issues long since present in the area. This project brings employment and community activities into the Kymlinge forest, exploiting its green qualities to attract visitors from local communities and the inner city.

To make the project accessible to all Stockholmers, the abandoned subway station of Kymlinge is opened providing the proposal with inner city connections, as well as a location for the project itself.

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The Kymlinge Site Kymlinge is a region in northern Stockholm largely occupied by the Igelbäck Nature Reserve, which is a part of the crucial ecological corridor called the Järva link.

Although the city had intentions to develop this area, all plans were discarded for the sake of environmental preservation. The only reminder of the city’s former ambitions is an abandoned subway station at the northern limits of the Igelbäck Reserve. Today people come here to hike, bike or ride horses and enjoy the vast lush forests and meadows around the Igelbäck brook. The local woodland is highly protected, with trees over 200 years old. The only strip of land free from protections and valuable trees is the subway station. This proposal aims to exploit this already disrupted strip of land without taking any further space from the forest.

The fast expanding inner city of Stockholm is expected to reach the northern region of the city by 2030. The city has big plans for urban renewal here, integrating the districts into a more cohesive, climate-smart urban network with generous public spaces.

Kymlinge is one of these northern regions, surrounded by a variation of settlements, such as the villa suburbs of Ursvik and Helenelund; The “Miljonprogram” settlements of Rinkeby and Hallonbergen; the newly developed Järva staden and Stora Ursvik; and the district of Kista, the so called science centre of Stockholm. Although very different in character, these neighbours share a number of social issues. Lack of public spaces, high ratio of unemployment and a general sense of segregation are common factor in the area.

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Program To respond to the issue of unemployment, I have imagined a commercial and industrial enterprise to emerge here. To provide public spaces and battle segregation, this enterprise would extend its functions to invite locals as well as city dwellers from all across Stockholm to enjoy the lush green of Kymlinge in their leisure time. As for the enterprise itself, the aspect of environmental preservation at the site demands that any human activity here will be done with great respect to nature. Since in Sweden over 75% of our food is imported, the increasingly coveted industry of local sustainable food production seemed like a reasonable choice for this project.

By applying the method of controlled environment cultivation, crops and plants can be grown indoors without the use of soil or harmful chemicals, and free from the limitations of local climate.

As the available building area is a thin strip of land, a vertical expansion came as reasonable solution, forming this proposal into a high-rise, emerging from the activated subway station. The tower itself provides space for production and research while the base of the building, incorporating the subway station will provide commercial and public spaces. The building thus takes an Lshape, stretching to its limits both vertically and horizontally. Public and commercial functions are in direct connection with the main enterprise of the building, promoting the method of controlled environment cultivation by local retail and educational showrooms. By applying these functions, this project aims to Re-visit the topic of Kymlinges urban development, promoting an environmentally and socially sustainable future for the Kymlinge area.

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Stensudret Agnes Eidem

The lime- and sandstone factory in southern Gotland is a very special place. It is partially abandoned yet harbours great potential. The factory remains active and will shortly be relocating from its current spot in Burgsvik. This means that the area will become available for other activities and pursuits.

This is the starting point for the project. What do you make of the soon to be abandoned factory’s plot of land? How can the site be “re-activated� and become part of a positive development for the local community?

How can one work with values of continuity in different ways?

Lime- and sandstone have been quarried and worked with for hundreds of years on southern Gotland. How can this tradition be kept alive despite a change of the local surroundings?

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Theatre of Agrell Tove Ekstrรถm

To tell stories and to listen to the stories of others are at the heart of what it means to be human. But there is a question of who gets to tell their stories. Some storytellers are allowed to become history and part of our culture forever. Some are silenced.

I want to design a theatre. I also want the building to have a sense of identity. Therefore I will use one of these silenced writers, called Alfhild Agrell, a brilliant writer and huge star of her time; the Modern Breakthrough. Instead of beginning the design process with a blank sheet of paper I began with this silenced writer and three of her plays.

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I have investigated common themes in Agrell’s work, put them together and identified a common development. At the beginning of the story there are secrets, a luxurious facade, things are hidden below the surface. After a while this surface starts to fall apart, revealing a brutal truth underneath. I have made this dramatic curve first into images and then into spaces. What I want to achieve is a dramatic curve in the building, emphasizing the different atmospheres in Agrell’s work.

I transformed this development into three different phases in the building, giving the visitor a dramatic experience performed by the building itself and setting the atmosphere for the coming storytelling to take place.

My project is about inspiration and the relationship between literature and architecture.

It investigates what the architecture can do for a writer and what a writer can do for the architecture.

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Death in Waiting Leni Ellburg

This project is a hospice by the lake Magelungen in Farsta. I have chosen to work with a hospice because I wanted to explore how architecture can help set the stage for dying. This project has been an exploration of dying and architecture for care from the bedroom and out. Through analysis and reworking of seven existing bedrooms I have created seven new different bedroom types and these have served as the basis for my project. These rooms represent different ways of inhabiting space, different ways of living and I have used them to create different spaces for living out your life the last time before dying.

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Vengsøya – Shifting Tides Frida Engström

Vengsøya, an island at the end of the fjords with the Arctic Sea as the closest neighbour. An old fishing community facing the problems with the currents of urbanisation. A movement that gets even more obvious when it takes place on a remote island where everything is dependent on the fragile system of functions existing today, each of them entangled with the others. If one of them falls, they all will. This thesis investigates how, and if, architecture can help strengthen the community by adding new additions and programs to the existing environment. Shifting the tides surrounding it.

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Chasing Swans Frithiof Engzell WaldĂŠn

The last few years have seen an increasingly infected public debate about the appearance of contemporary buildings. Regardless of where one personally stands, this ought to be cause for architects to examine their own understanding of aesthetics. This project is an exercise in articulating and examining questions of architectural form. To what degree are aesthetic judgments valid?

What does it mean for a design to be aesthetically successful?

Through which concepts can one understand the aesthetic experience of a building? How can one make design decisions that purposefully strive toward aesthetic goals? And how is a brutalist church altered by the presence of a 19 SEK Ikea clock?

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The project is divided into three parts. The first aims to establish a broad overview of the theoretical discourse surrounding the subject, as well as formulate a position within it. This part very briefly discusses questions such as the subjectivity or objectivity of aesthetic truths and how our societal attitude toward them have shifted over time; what sets the aesthetics of architecture apart from those of other media; the role and importance of appearance compared to other concerns; and some ways in which aesthetic issues are approached in contemporary architectural discourse.

The second part is an observation of aesthetic experiences in practice. In it, three existing works of architecture are broken down into component formal properties, and the experiences these evoke are put into words. These observations are then juxtaposed with other people’s independent descriptions of the same buildings, for the sake of contrast and comparison.

The final part is an exercise in articulating the reasoning behind aesthetic design decisions.

A small self-imposed design task serves as a catalyst for a sequence of aesthetic design choices. These choices and the intentions behind them are put into words and documented, including any later regarded as missteps or failures. Together, they describe a chain of explicitaesthetic reasoning from inception to final drawings, where the consequences of each choice can be evaluated in relation to the process and to the finished design.

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Women’s Voices Sofia Enqvist & Anna Larsson

“In Kenya, women are caught right on the fault line between old traditions and the modern world.” In the rural village Umoja one can witness a reaction to this unequal society; the women opposed the deep-rooted cultural habits and created their own dream space, a place designed through the eyes of a woman. In Nairobi’s informal settlements the situation is completely different, but the dream about an equal space is the same.

We believe that the public space should be equal. Traditionally the public sphere has been considered a masculine place, limiting the feminine space to the home. Through a series of spatial interventions, this thesis is investigating how architecture can question this norm, by understanding the street as a public area and analysing how it is used and can be used in the future.

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Umoja - Swahili for unity

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“spaces where activities that are done home today, can be performed together”

“change”

“meeting space for women’s groups”

“a space for laundry, both for private use and for businesses” “a safe place where women can meet and discuss”

“zebra-crossing and proper pedestrian walk”

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The Voices “I would not feel as insecure walking around if I were a man. There is a difference, a separation. Women are more insecure, they fear a lot. Imagine that you are a girl, out interacting with people – what do you think will happen to that girl? The earlier the better it’s good to be home. It’s like in old times: girls were told to stay in the house”

Mary Ann, 21, Korogocho

Through interviews and discussions with women in the informal settlement Korogocho in Nairobi, the topic stayed the same – the biggest challenge is the issue about isolation.

“I avoid company, meeting people. If I don’t have anything else to do, I just stay at home.

I do a lot of thinking. It is usually not healthy.

In this situation it is very hard to be alone”

It is in this discussion we are positioning our project, focusing on the dreams of the women we met. How could the public be claimed? How can it become a space for everyone? And how can architecture create these dream spaces?

Karo, 28, Korogocho

It is clear that there is a lack of secure, public and inclusive spaces in the area, where women can gather and become a part of a greater social network - a context that is not limited to the private home.

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Part of the Entrance Node, giving everyone a chance to get their voice heard

The Dreams The dreams of the women we met became our vision for the project and we formulated a strategy on how to design these spaces. Our suggestions includes a network, with multiply nodes, where every node is constructed for female coded activities. The nodes are to be read as examples of what is possible to do using our design principles, and how they are relating to the existing.

The design principles are based on the thought of permanence and safety. To define the boundary and secure the open space, the nodes are always constructed on a platform, referring to the thought of UN Habitat – that public spaces are the stages where city life is played out.

To answer the dream about a meeting space, and to work against the isolation,

a hall, a stage and seating is placed at the entrance node, creating spots for interaction.

Talking walls are communicating different messages. The dream about a kitchen will put an unnecessary private, female coded activity in the public, bringing women out of isolation. By making the kitchen public and visible, appreciation is given to the activity.

The third dream space is a clean laundry facility, with connected playgrounds. Children are traditionally the responsibility of the women and where you find women you will find children.

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Livet Mellan Raderna Helena Eriksson

Many Swedish cities are growing, hence the need for housing aswell. At the same time, we are facing a climate crisis and architects need to take responsibility to contribute to sustainable and resilient architecture. Sundsvall is one of the cities estimated to grow the following years and there is a plan for a new city district, ‘Katrinehill’, which is the place for this project. It presents a schematic proposal for how the area can be built, based on the current ‘planprogram’ and other information from the municipality.

However, the main focus of the project is two blocks in the area, with two types of rowhouse, studio apartments, common facilities and common yards. Ten sustainability strategies have been developed and implemented in the suggestion.

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Our Place Tommy Eriksson

An assumption: let’s assume that there is a problem with democracy. Let’s assume that the problem lies with a lack of discussion between people with conflicting opinions. Isolation. That we are more likely to find an echo chamber than challenge our views.

Maybe due to harsh climates online, living in a post-truth era, or just a general polarisation in society, maybe we are just searching for group affiliation?

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I delved into research on democracy, and what impact architecture have had, or what tools we could bring to the table when refurbishing this 100 year old structure of democracy.

There is a preconceived notion of what democratic architecture should entail. This has historically been the square, the agora, the pynx the public space. Often this is done with a very loose program so that it is up to the citizen to find its use, a place for everyone. I think that without a clear intention it might end up being a space for no one. This project however, still includes the verbal arena, some flexibility but addresses democracy in a highly programmed space. It seems there is longer a will to talk about the issues, not enough to provide the atmosphere, we must find a practical reason for people to be here.

What if we could set this up pragmatically?

Build something that engages and attracts people of all ages and backgrounds, people with totally different ideas and beliefs, create a building that tries to find relevance to as many people as possible? create a common ground? Writing such a program would be difficult without having a picture of what concerns the citizen have. Once defined, try to meet these concerns in a not already provided way. What would draw people of different backgrounds, of all ages, regardless of political views, to this building?

Maybe we could use democracy to filter out the concerns the citizens have, use the main issues that impacts our elections to find a cross section of the concerns of the population and see how these issues are met and try to provide an alternative, practical approach, to the existing methods?

Use these alternative approaches to the concerns as a instrument in bringing opposing views and sentiments to engage in the

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same space? The most important aspect is not to provide these facilities in the city, but to provide them in a way that offers the friction programatically, creating a moment of surprise, maybe a different experience, maybe not noticed at all. These approaches could by carefully using the main tools of democracy, education, solidarity, equality, also add a layer that might impact the democratic debate. If done right, you might not even be aware of this agenda.

How might such a building look? materially and structurally? Could it be planed to draw further benefits from friction off functions? and what architectural tools could be used to further this agenda?

I know, It is a naive idea and it might even be impossible to achieve this underlaying goal of communication. But if nothing els, we would meet the concerns of the citizens, and that in it self makes this building relevant in the end to the public. That is, even if you don’t agree with my assumption.

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The Body is the Prison of the Soul Mica Eriksson

The majority of inmates tend to relapse in crime after they have been incarcerated in Swedish prisons. There are endless theories why the expected positive outcome of prison do not occur. In my quest to understand why, I studied the theories and met the users of Hall, a maximum-security prison located outside SÜdertälje.

Currently, contact with society is extremely limited at Hall, even though this contact plays a significant role in the rehabilitation of the inmates. What roll can architecture play in strengthening this connection? This thesis project suggest a building for semi-permissions, a semi-free space where you as an inmate can spend time with your family as a way to reconnect with society.

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The Incubator Martin Forsberg

In our efforts to turn the city into an attractive environment for the growing urban population, we have also driven dedicated spaces for production further away from its central parts. Productive areas disappear to the outskirts of the city or to low-wage countries where we can’t see them. The city is turning into a place of consumption, without production, which may be problematic.

We could in fact be losing much of what makes our cities interesting and special, and also what makes them work. Studying a part of the Ulvsunda industrial area, north-west of the Stockholm city centre, this project looks at how we can create spaces for production in the city and subsequently protect them from losing their function - even with the looming pressure of residential developments at its doorstep.

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Map of context around site showing the expansion of the city and restrictions to development posed by the airport.

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In Limbo Between City and Airport By constantly pushing our productive spaces further and further away from the city, we risk creating a constant loop of increased transports, spatial mismatch between work and residence, increased dependence of an “outside” and in turn create a less resilient city. Also, we are not only moving the physical production, but also the connection between products, design and innovation.

Separating production from design may, for certain industries, be very short-sighted.

Innovation is more than just brain power; entrepreneurs must have access to a host of resources to generate and bring new ideas: investment, business support, skilled employees and skilled subcontractors – production included. The ability to rapidly develop, prototype and produce create a climate that is supportive of innovation.

The thesis aims to explore how to cultivate the relationship between industry, production and city. Studying a part of the Ulvsunda industrial area, north-west of the Stockholm city centre, it looks at how we can create spaces for production in the city and subsequently protect them from losing their function - even with the looming pressure of residential developments on its doorstep. At the moment the area is protected from this since the Bromma Airport next-door poses severe restrictions for housing projects. But the future of the airport is unsure and it faces a potential closure when its lease ends in 2038. This makes the area unique in a city planning context; an ‘’island’’ partly protected from market forces for at least two decades.

By using the unique features of the site, the project wants to create a transitory space that can bridge the opposing worlds of city and industrial area and create an exchange between them. Targeting smaller businesses and start-ups that are in need

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of space, but might not afford all they want or need right away. Re-using existing structures and also adding new ones, the idea is to provide a sort of mini-campus for product developers and manufacturers where they can share a larger pool of resources, such as workshops, machinery, exhibition space and meeting rooms, but without having to own this by themselves.

Here, ideas can be tested and allowed to grow in a more forgiving environment - a sort of incubator for business and industrial ideas. By also providing the industrial area with complimentary services and spaces to expose their business and products in, and spaces where the city can be invited to, this could become a hub of knowledge and goods exchange between the areas. By extension this could also help assert the place of production in our cities and show another way of how we may use our industrial areas in the future.

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Captivating Architecture Carolin Frögren

The project concerns the subject of prisons. I wondered how architects should handle buildings and spaces that no one really wants to enter? My questions were never-ending, and therefore I had to define my project by developing two main research questions: ”What is the purpose of a prison?” and ”How can the architecture aid the purpose of a prison?” During my research I’ve found that prisons are generally known to have four major purposes: Retribution, Prevention, Deterrance and Rehabilitation. These four major purposes have not been stressed equally through the years. Generally, rehabilitation - which refers to changing criminals into law abiding citizens - seems to have been prioritized the least.

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I have focused on how the architecture can aid the purpose of rehabilitation, and explored how this can be achieved while considering the balance of control and security, and freedom and liberties. I designed a system that offers the inmates something to strive for and gives them the opportunity to change their own circumstances for the better, within the prison. The way it works in swedish prisons today is that you will get your sentence, and you’ll get shipped off to a prison with one of 3 different levels of security. If a prisoner needs to change to a different security-level, it means moving them to a different prison.

This is a security risk and it entails a lot of logistics, time and possibly moving the inmates further away from their families.

My prison instead consists of 4 different

levels of security within the same prison, and they are all organised around what I call a “central park of opportunities”. It is a strategy based on a combination of the current prison system in Sweden and the notion of free will. You will get your sentence, you’ll get shipped off to a prison, but once there you will get access to opportunities and liberties if you honor your responsibilities.

The park offers different places of work, education, variations in the landscape and so on - a small scale society that is meant to work as a gateway to the outside world.

In this prison, your stay, and your level of freedom, is dependent on your own choices.

These four levels are connected to the park in different ways to emphasise the gradual release back to society.

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Strandparkens Kallbadhus Linda Garpheden

Every summer we frequently bicycled through the dense pine forest to the beach down by the marina, going swimming in the often fairly cold but crystal clear water of lake Vättern. I wanted the project to contribute to my hometown Jönköping, where this large lake has a significantrole as creating the identity of the city, hence the concept of makinga proposal for a new bath house for cold baths felt suitable to celebratethe chilly waters of Vättern, but also relating to the history of the place. There used to be two bath houses for cold baths in the past, situated on the shore of the natural sand beach stretching along the water’s edge. Ever since the old bath houses were lost due to the winter ice, there has been a growing interest in rebuilding one.

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The Bath House Walking a 150 meters long bridge, guided by the longitudal direction of the planks up to the vaulted entrance portal, allows for one to contemplate while enjoying the recreational effects of the sound and smell of fresh water. The white painted plank facade rises up from the lake as an iceberg in the distance, giving a faint reminder of how the winter ice had demolished both earlier bath houses some hundred years ago. The curved shape of the roof continues around the bathing deck as two protective arms, providing a refuge for the naked body while being exposed to the elements of sun, wind and water. The inner facade of the plank walls around the bathing basin has a calm and natural color palette of heat treated pine that will eventually turn gray since left untreated, while the deck boards are heat treated and then finished with

linseed to keep the softly brown tone to the wood. Already when opening the front door one get a glimpse of the water at the very end of the building, which opens up towards the view with a glazed facade to provide prospect and all the proven benefits of an undisturbed view of the horizon. The dressing area functions as a communication node and links the secluded bathing deck with the shared relax and lounge area. The midsection could be booked separately for groups and closed off from the rest of the bath house occasionally to host conferences or private events. Materials for the interior are mainly vertical wooden panels, painted white in the midsection and heat treated pine in the changing rooms. In the shower section the walls and floor are covered with local limestone, also used as floor in the dressing room and hallway.

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Vart är vi pü väg?

Anna Grundmark

In the middle of the 19th century, the train came to Sweden. It has been just over 150 years and a lot has happened. With the train and its station came more then just a means of transportation, it turned Sweden from a developing country into one of the most modern. In the small Swedish cities and on the countryside, the stations became a central node, a meeting point and a place to gather. The train passed through previously isolated areas where the stations became not only just that but also a window towards the rest of the world. This project is a study of the Swedish train station and a humble proposal on how to treat them, what to do with them and when to do it (now).

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The second part of the project is a series of three study trips throughout Sweden. An inventory of the train stations and their current status. 36 stations with different size, history, function and presumptions where visited.

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history, their current situation and potential future, small or big additions and alterations are made specific to their needs and conditions. At the end of the day, the stations with all their similarities, are still unique buildings in unique situations, and should be treated accordingly. With the time, effort and dignity they deserve.

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Malongen – a Mimic of a Rock Anna Harlin

Malongen consist of 2 volumes containing; housing, gallery, and a restaurant. The design language of the base comes from a 3D scan of the rock 30 meters north of the plot. The buildings works to explore the tension between the historical rock cut and an design interaction. By a digital imitation of the rock are the buildings mimic the surrounding area. The rock, that is the historical imprint of the place, is now translated into buildingelements, with the result of my manipulation of a file. This project has investigated how we can create a contemporary building that refer to a historical site and keep telling a story about time.

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The Children’s City Maja Hedvall

My first memories are rooms. Light and room sequences. I sketched and wrote down my memories of the rooms from my preschool and then compared with pictures from the same place.

I found many similarities. As an adult, it is easy to forget how big influence the environment had on us when we were children.

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Concrete pattern from students work whit clay.

The project started with three architectural lessons for children with the age of 12.

They had to make suggestions on places in their surroundings that could be developed.

Through the children’s models and texts I got a base to work with in phase two where I wanted to link the material to an exising place in Stockholm.

I chose the site to link two areas with different economic, political and cultural aspects. Fisksätra and Saltsjöbaden are situated just outside Stockholm city. Despite their big differences, it is only 25 minutes walk between them. In order to create a natural loop in a park environment, I extend the existing promenade with the help of a bridge over Saltsjöbadsleden.

Contact with nature reduces stress and anxiety and facilitates concentration.

This is something I think needs to be taken very seriously and stands in contrast to the digital world. Green areas disappear and the city sometimes seems to be planned for cars instead of people. Children are getting more limited to their homes, places become isolated and we loose our connection to the city and the neighborhood.

The park area becomes an central place in my project. It is linked by a wooden deck based on existing paths on the site.

In the spaces between, surrounded by the forest, the visitor can exploar pavilions that are inspired by the student´s models and thoughts.

” We chose the place because it is a quiet place and you can relax for yourself. ” Lina & Idil

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Student Cohousing Emma HellstrĂśm

The project is a student cohousing located in Lappkärrsberget in the north of Stockholm. Cohousing has a long history and students are a group that largely live collectively, mainly through corridor accommodation. But today there is an increased interest among students for other forms of cohousing. Student housing it is a relevant topic since there is a shortage of student accommodation today.

The project is a investigation in to cohousing, private and shared spaces. The project asks the question what can be won and what can be gained if you change the hierarchy of private and common spaces. What happens if you minimize the private spaces for the benefit of the shared spaces?

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The Institute for Screen Care and Marinebiological Research Isak HellstrĂśm

The project is an investigation how screen addiction therapy and Marine biological research can be combined, and how they can support each other. This is an institution for both screen addicts and biological researchers on endangered water species of the Baltic Sea. There are no digital screens here. The screens of this institution are the aquariums, and the therapeutical idea is based on the care and nursing of a non-human environment – The endangered species of the Baltic Sea.

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Platform view showing reception area and atrium space

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Screen Addiction According to the Public Health Agency of Sweden (”Folkhälsomyndigheten”), those who spend more than four hours per day in front of screens are more likely to suffer from depressions. Today, what is generally referred to as ”Screen Addiction” is a growing concern both in Sweden and on a global level, even to the point that such addiction is classified as a disease in some parts of the world.

China was the first country to declare internet addiction a clinical disorder, with an estimate that approximately 23 million Chinese are ”internet addicts”. Many of these addicts are sent to ”boot camps” where they live isolated and receive a treatment of both exercises and electric shocks. Treatments for screen addiction in the United states and in Sweden focus more on the individual, providing treatment through Yoga exercises and personal coaching. But can such

treatment have a long-term effect when our society is so dominated by and dependent on screens? What are the consequences of screen addiction? What would a life outside the screens be like?

Our attention is capitalized and turned into labor via social media, online interaction, and consumption of images and affect. As a consequence of this we are less sensitive to small nuances. Subtle messages, or ideas between the lines get filtered away by our attention and dopamine addicted brains.

Perhaps the screen is only a symptom of a more fundamental problem in our society?

Our constantly connected lives has perhaps made us so occupied by our own desires that we have forgotten about the world around us? Have short term individual interests and lifestyle consumption blinded us to the surrounding environment?

Site This project is situated in Kymlinge, a site suspended between historical plans of the Welfare state and Vasakronan’s plans for future real estate exploitation. In the late 1960’s, the subway station of Kymlinge was built to support the plans for an “Institution city”. The site was planned as a clustering of research based institutions, placed together on an urban scale. Following the cancellation of such plans, the subway station was left disused. Since then the land has been left unexploited, mainly because of the rich eco-system in the surrounding forest, in par-

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The Institute for Screen care and Marine biological research is located on top of the Kymlinge metro station. You reach the Institute only by the blue line 11 of the Metro.

The station is situated just one stop from the IT-cluster Kista. Regular trains stop according to time table on their way between the city center and Akalla.

PLAN 7 Ventilation system Gym Workshop Running track Dressing room Basketball field Pumpsystem for aquarium

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The Void – Inbetween Past and Future Rikke Henriksen Winther

Today, more than half of the words population live in cities.

The modern way of constructing cities has resulted in an urban landscape driven by efficiency, economy and safety. I believe that emptiness and unproductive spaces, ‘Voids’, have great potential to provide ‘other’ spatial and social experiences , much needed in today’s urban environment and living. Experiences of silence, emptiness, ambiguity, uncontrolled natural growth and decay are all qualities of value as it gives room for reflection and interpretation. This project takes two empty spaces at the old industrial site of Lövholmen as a testing ground for how to conserve and build in relation to Void space.

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Stockholm AI & Computer Science Institute Peter HĂśgĂĽs

Artificial intelligence is one of the fastest growing research topics around the world. Its development will make a strong impression on the world as we see it today. Therefore, it is important that this research will be developed safely.

The goal of my investigation has been to create a building / institute where research, development and teachingwithin safe A.I. can be run effectively.

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Mnemonic Island Terese Jansson

Mnemonic Island is a project investigating a mnemonic technique in architectural form. The project starts with exploring the technique and exercises of ´the Loci Method´ and its relationship to our spatial memory and visual sense, the construction of a Loci and the design process of its six principles.

The following test of embodying of technique later takes place at the island Lovön where its history and present state is translated into five mnemonic structures that with function, form and expression aims to mediate a narrative through the islands history and present state.

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A Cultural Centre in Eskilstuna Axel Jogefalk

A monolith placed on the peninsula in the Eskilstuna river. An impressive red volume in the middle of the city. The material and shape relates to Eskilstunas industrial heritage.

To permanent a function that exists today, the stage have the possibility to open up during summertime when a concert is held.

Acting like it has always been there. It wishes to belong to the history, to its geography without becoming a flat translation.

To minimize the footprint, theatre, gallery, library and blackbox are stacked on top of each other. The theatre an intense red. A restaurant stretches out and opens up to the water.

The entrance is excavated. Creating a public square, sloping towards the opening.

Eskilstuna wants to build a cultural centre before 2025. This is my proposal.

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Movements Anders Johnsson

This thesis project explores the question of the death of architecture; the declaration of the lost abilities of architecture to achieve political influence and the architect as a social actor. As I have found myself in agreement with this Tafurian perspective on the subject, I wanted to use this thesis project to explore the question of architecture and its political potential, as well as breaking from the paralyzing condition of the incentives of architecture’s incapabilities. This, in suggesting that architecture can act as a catalyst for doing things differently. The project investigates, on the one hand, how a building can encourage political action and engagement, and, on the other, how ideological ideas and intentions can concretize spatially, materially and aesthetically.

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The proposal is an design exploration and an attempt to use architecture to fulfill the the aims and goals of an imagined organization, which has been defined in a manifesto.

Rather than working to replace the current system with a new one, the goal of this organization is to constantly challenge the current system, whatever it might be, in the post-marxist tradition of Chantal Mouffe. In my view, this creates a new form of political space, detached from the traditional political ideologies. Rather than generating a particular political opinion, it becomes a space to generate political awareness itself.

I have worked with the term movement both from a social/political – and a physical perspective. The ambition has been to conceive a space that functions as a bridging threshold that provides an interface between different groups that might not otherwise meet, and to provide an otherwise “unpolitical” group with the opportunity to approach

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a political space. Essentially, the project proposes a space supporting a triggering of the slumbering activist, suggesting that the activist exists within us all. The project joins the tradition of Tschumis’ Parc de la Villette, but where la Villette works to encourage conflict through an overlaying of contradicting systems, this project works to encourage the entry into, what can typically appear as an intimidating, or even aggressive program. It attempts to provide the visitors with different stages contact with a political program through the use of the threshold.

The threshold is interpreted as points of entry, as well as spaces that dissolve spatial dichotomies such as being “inside” or being “outside”; a play with the ambiguity of whether one is participating or not.

This project has not aimed to be utopian, but explore questions of what architecture and architects can do and how to approach questions with political potential.

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Adaptive Hotel – A Con/temporary Performance of the Home Robin Julin

It has been argued that in a modern condition change is essential and nothing can remain stable or fixed. Modern life also requires dwellers to change and adapt themselves much more frequently than ever before. The change in dwelling can be exemplified by the very broad migratory middle class that contains everything from executives and knowledge workers, to transient families, retirees and students. What they have in common is that they spend significant time away from home working, studying, training or relaxing. As this way of living becomes more common it generates a growing demand for spaces of temporary domesticity that can cater to a mobile demographic. By creating a hotel it is explored how this typology can be used to produce spaces that can answer to this condition of temporality without being permanent or transient, but somewhere in between.

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Concept The concept is based around the idea that rooms in buildings are in general not used at the same time or sometimes not even at all. Being inspired of Waldorf-Astoria’s “Skyscraper house” of the 1930s an extensive network of elevators are used so that private units can connect to other rooms vertically, which then can be shared between the residents. This creates new spatial relations where a resident can expand and condense the “home” without having to leave the private sphere. Because everyone’s rituals in everyday life may be different, this flexible approach lets people use the space they need at a specific time to make them feel like home. To quote the Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck: “A house must be like a small city if it’s to be a real home”.

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Reinterpreting Lรถvholmen Emil Kedbrant

I have designed a school in the post-industrial area of Lรถvholmen, located in the outer ring of Stockholm. The area is currently undergoing planning to be demolished and redeveloped in to majority housing. The school has been designed mainly by converting three existing buildings but also re-using existing infrastructure that intertwine and connects the buildings. In addition to the existing structures, two new buildings have been added consisting of an auditorium as well as a Sports hall. References collected throughout the entirety of Lรถvholmen have been abstracted in to diagrams, resulting in models, evolving in to objects. The objects have thereafter been inserted in different ways on to the additions, acting as generators.

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Diagram outlining the foundation of the 3 existing buildings which have been converted.

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Isometric drawing - auditorium

Overview Over time of constant developing and rearranging the site has come to constitute a patch-work of materials, construction-methods and topologies from different generations awarding the site with a diverse and unique character. On the site, in some of the remaining factory and warehouse buildings offices, ateliers and one art gallery have been established, resulting in a prosperous cultural node just outside the center of Stockholm. Along with creating a school the project recognizes and provides space for artists currently in housed within the existing buildings. The Art establishment should remain on site and complete a program were artists and students can meet and co-use facilities during different times of the day. In the void between existing and new buildings the school yard will stretch and circulate engaging with the entirety of the block.

Schematic-volumetric decisions have been made on how the residential units in the block should be positioned and shaped in order to favor the spaces in-between school and public/residential buildings

Summary The redevelopment of Lövholmen is a heavily debated topic in the area. Many are critical to the new proposal and afraid that the identity will be lost. Since there is a lot at stake, given that Lövholmen is a cultural node, but currently also houses many artists and smaller businesses – it is vital that upcoming plans wont erase that and its rich industrial history. The school will be an important engagement on site in order to demonstrate what once was and secure diversity to the coming redevelopment of Lövholmen.

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A Place to Heal Moa KengĂĽrden

Most people experience illnesses and hospital visits at some point in their lives, and most often there is a specific place to visit. On the contrary there is a group that are lost in the shuffle in today’s health care system and who doesn’t have a specific ward to visit. This group is the people living with dual diagnosis, which is when someone has mental illness in combination with a substance use disorder.

The aim of this project is to put the patient in focus and provide opportunities for accommodation and treatment even after the time in hospital or custodial care is over. Other than placing both diseases under the same roof, the center also functions as a stepping-stone to facilitate the transition from hospital care back to society.

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Private–Social Different stages of a disease have different needs. When a patient first comes to a clinic, the energy is often introverted and the need for isolation is often great, and with the time when the patient begins to feel better, the feeling of wanting to interact with others usually increases. With this as

a starting point and that it should be an open and transparent centre to feel safe, the clients at their own pace can choose how social or private they want to be dependent on where in the disease stage they are, and in that way facilitate their recovery.

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Lillkyrka Retreat – Searching for a Church’s Future Carl Kvanta

The project is an investigation of how Lillkyrka, a rarely used medieval church and its surrounding farmhouses, could be transformed into a place for retreat. A place that you visit a couple of days to find inner peace.

Inspired by the spatial composition of medieval cloister, the work was a process towards finding a harmonious composition of opposites. Old – new, interior – exterior, introvert – extrovert, joy – greif.

Within a the context of decreasing numbers of church visitors, the project can be seen as part of the discussion of how we can treat the cultural and spiritual heritage that the churches of Swe-

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Spacefulness Linnea Legefors

How can space create qualities that evoke spatial contemplation, exploration and sensory stimulation to create consciousness and spaces for healing and well being?

The fast paced lives, new technology and the constant connection today is leading to stress and anxiety and takes hold of one’s ability to remain present. It has been a change in the fundamentals of the human experience. Our use of technology is creating a two dimensional world, where we´re experiencing the world through the phone, tv or computer which has replaced the experience through the body and all of its senses.

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Program The program of the building is combining conventional healthcare practices with alternative complementary treatments to approach wellness in a holistic way. A place where people that are experiencing mental health issues, such as stress and anxiety, can heal and reconnect to the body and mind. As the percentage of the population dealing with mental health issues only grows, the number of treatments should be expanded and explored accordingly.

Stress narrows our attention and our connection to the present moment and personal encounters. How can space create consciousness so that we become aware and mindful in the present moment?

By emphasising the path to our destination the arrow becomes longer between point A and point B. This can be done by using different means to heighten the sensory experience acoustically, tactilely and visually.

Materials define space and are what we experience with our bodies. Materials are the surfaces we touch, they celebrate light and shadow, reflect the sounds we hear and they reveal the textures and perfumes we taste and smell. The walls and landscape dictate the experience of the occupant, encouraging a slow pace, a more deliberate experience, distinguished from the regularity and tempo of the urban environment.

By using natural and tactile materials such as stone, clay and wood it can provide interesting organic information at many different levels of scale that allow the gaze to follow the surface to stimulate the senses and make the space feel thick rather than thin.

Scalloped walls adapted to the human body starts to slow down the tempo and leads the way to the therapy rooms.

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Mussoorie Hills – Monastic Elementary School Afrodita Lindblom

Perched high in the foothills of the Himalayas, this school is home to some fifty boys and girls and the grown-ups who take care of them. A Tibetan Buddhist institution, it accepts mostly orphaned children, and raises them until they can take care of themselves.

In the process, they receive a full modern education, and initiation into the noble teachings of the Buddhas. My design based on the nature of the site itself. With such stunning views in all directions, I wanted to encourage people to move outside, between buildings. Due to practical realities, I wished to use cost-effective, sturdy, sustainable and locally available materials. Finally, I sought to use enough elements from traditional architecture to make the project feel historically grounded, but not weighted down. My thanks to the Swedish-Tibetan Society, whose help was invaluable, and the nuns of the Drikung Kagyu order, who received me quite hospitably.

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The daily life of Samtenling monks and nuns. From my visit in February 2019.

The location: the foothills of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand, India.

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Trä, Vind och Vatten Leif Lindell

Our population on earth continuously increases, most of us live in the cities that spread over larger areas and then consolidate.

There is lack of housing. There is a need for high rise buildings and they will probably be more of them in the future. The high rises of today are mostly built with materials like steel and concrete.

The amount of greenhous gases from concrete and steel is high.

Temperature on earth rise. The volume of polar ice that melts accelerate. This leads to dramatic weather, drafts and flooding.

Witch further leads to scarcity of food and clean water.

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In order not to increase the speed of heating even more, we can try to build more in wood, also the tall houses. Wood does not emit CO2 during its lifetime but instead binds, wood is thus a kind of carbon collector.

The accelerating heating on earth can slow down . A another future is possible.

The project investigates the possibilities to build high rise buildings in wood for housing,

and how we can handle wind that push and twist the building. Wood is more light weight then concrete . High rises in wood has to be built with the properties of wood in mind.

If we consider and relate to parameters like stiffness, shape , weight and balance, it’s possible to build high in wood.

In my building I combine multiple principles. One is “Tuned Liquid Dampening”.

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Fisherman’s Friend Philip Lindh

This is a reaction from the overuse of excavation of the flat rocks and creation of inhuman exposed spaces in the province Bohuslän. The project presents an architectural proposal with inspiration from the logics from the past. Trough analysis and mapping of the local vernacular architecture the building is an example of what the regional architecture in can be in a modern form and in the same time be more gentle to the landscape. The presented program is an answer to identified problems in the elderly care today. A space where healing comes in focus and where the local population can recognize them self in a newly built environment without the use of pastiche.

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A place for rehabilitation The current situation in the Swedish primary care lets people over 65 years of age in need for rehabilitation after a medical surgery or rest be placed in a ”Korttidsboende”.

This establishments are nothing else than a housing unit in a retirement home.

With the existing lack of supply in retirement homes, this is places where the inhabitants heath are getting worse since only the most ill gets the chance to use them. This is not good places for rehabilitation. In this project an extraction of the Korttidsboende to an independent unit is presented. Offering a space more suited for healing and the possibility to a faster comeback to the normal life in the own home.

The ordinary way of planning for elderly people in a nursing home is to keep the distances short, the logistics clear and offer everything for a normal life inside the living

unit. The result of this is an institutional facility facility many people experience with dread.

This general and very functional approach is questioned by the life ande experience allowed in this architectural proposal.

Architectural approach Trough analysis of spatiality, architecture and the social life, key foundings were established for the planning of the building.

–Cluster of space for interaction –From open to enclosed –Borderless ownership –Symbolism –Hierarchy –Ground rules –”The liars bench”

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Fritid Förstad Framtid Viktor Lindström

This thesis explores how architecture can help to improve the situation for youth in Vårberg. Today Stockholm is trubbeld by segregation and inequality and young people are a group that is extra vulnerable. I have investigated the area of Vårberg in southern Stockholm. Many new developments are being planned there right now but none of them are located in its central parts. This project consists of five architectural explorations. I have redrawn existing buildings in the center of Vårberg into youth activity centers The project aims to solve the current need of renovation at the same time as it improves the situation for local youth.

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Film + Extra insulation Cooking + Sanded floors Music + New Ventilation

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Architecture as Image Simon Lundberg

My project explores architectural imagery beyond the instrumental use of representation. It pursues the autonomy of the image but also architecture’s dependence on spectators and interpretations, myths and images. My project relates to the built environment but it is not meant as a proposal. In a series of drawings, I have tried to create a playful approach to the city and a site.

As motifs and motivation I have studied 3 areas in the Stockholm: Södra stationområdet, Skarpnäck, Starrängsringen I have tried through everyday architecture to detach the image from its productive role to create a larger perspective. The aim of the project is to discover a broader imagery beyond the concept of representation. It is a way to reflect upon the image’s potential to create narratives and autonomous imageries. It also opens up a perspective where built environment is a constant generator of images and stories, both fictive and non-fictive.

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What is the role of images in architecture?

Among architects, the term representation is perhaps more precisely used than image.

A representation can be a sketch, model, drawing or rendering. To architects the images as a rule is a medium to represent something that will be, or potentially could be. Not all representations are realised but they mostly have a close and specific relationship to an imagined future. For the architect, the 2-dimensional image is one of the representational tools that are used within the process of creating architecture.

But images are more than instructions.

Images can convey dreams, values and fantasies. They are as much a glance backwards as forwards. The image exists on its own, regardless of whether it represents something real or not. My intention is not documentary, as would be the case of an

site analysis. In studying these areas, I have tried to implement a personal perspective based on my own experience, knowledge and mostly my own impression. It is a proposal for a method to reflect upon the image’s potential to create narratives and autonomous imageries. It also opens up a perspective where built environment is a constant generator of images and stories, both fictive and non-fictive.

My method aims to extract details and aspects of the existing architecture and fitting it together. many times over, in order to inspire and produce imagery that are loaded with atmosphere and storytelling. In doing so trying to prove that images are never just instructional manuals in the hands of architects. And the potential that lies within this realization.

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Simple Volumes – Spatial Complexity Erik Lundqvist

In this thesis project, I have explored ways to reach spatial complexity through the use of a simple system of volumetric building elements. The ambition has been to draw an apartment building with emphasis on a variety in the apartment layouts as well as to let the functions of circulation become an integrated part of the architectural expression.

Having observed the poor design of the spaces for circulation in many apartment buildings today, I have identified the connection between a strict system of measurements and the limitation of interesting spatial sequences. Therefore, my aim has been to investigate a way to make both of these things work together through an apartment building with a spatial diversity made of a system of simple volumes.

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Living in the Grid Camilo Martinez Garcia

I had the objective to find unused space in the urban landscape and utilize it to propose cost effective and rational housing.

Housing that had the essential needs of a home, but with a simplicity that would make it more effective and faster to build. At the same time maintaining a high level of architectural qualities in the living space.

A place to sleep, eat, clean, live. Essential and fundamental parts of our lives. Yet so many young people in Stockholm today have difficulties finding a stable and affordable place to settle down. With this thesis I created a system of prefabricated elements that can be assembled on site, creating a variety of structures using a strict grid.

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Health Care Architecture – Cancer Care Center Aleksandra Mladenovic

Due to the industrial revolution and urbanization, architecture in the capital cities has largely become vertical. Long hallways, dark rooms without daylight, small and closed boxes become part of our everyday life. How to design a resilient flexible building beneficial for patients? The idea is to change the way of looking at health facilities and their typology. How can we create a natural healthy space designed for patients? It has been proven that a patient with a window looking at nature is healed 30% more efficient than the one who does not have a window or has a city view. The goal is to succeed and reduce the number of sick people and speed up the healing process through architectural design. Evidence-based design demands a holistic approach to the architecture of healt care centers. An architect needs to provide spaces that give a positive thinking and faster healing process, architecture that heals.

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CHEMOTHERAPY ROOMS WINDOW DETAIL OUTER WALL STRUCTURE - Facade panelling - Studwork - Insulation 200mm - CLT element 100mm - Air gap - Insulation - Wood board

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WINDOW DETAIL - Integrated sunscreen - Indoor windowsill in plywood

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Location: Hagaparken The site is located near the New Karolinska Solna University Hospital. It could be an extension of this huge complex.

Location was carefully chosen to be near the other medical institutions and on the other hand surrounded by nature (the forest on the North and a lake on the Eastern side). Moreover, it should be beneficial for students of Karolinska Medical University.

Design of ancient health care complexes was most often low-rising and horizontal, located in the forest or near the lake (essentially somewhere in the nature). Floor plan of the building had a circular or rectangular shape with a huge atrium garden in the center. Every patient unite was facing a central courtyard.

The rapid change in technology and typology demanded a fundamental change of the architect’s thinking. This huge step for

architecture had a lass pleasing side that is beginning of contextless design and putting nature apart from the build environment.

Research Questions: What means healthy architecture?

What kind of architecture do we need for health care centres to really be healthy?

Which kind of materials and typology do we need to use to help the patient to heal faster?

What is the design of a place that heals?

How can architecture be a transformative engine for change?

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Weaving the Urban Fabric through Architectural Degrowth Antonia Myleus

In Sweden, the average person buys 12 kg textiles/person/year and throw away 8kg. Only 0.02% of textiles are being re-used in Sweden. A shift in how we produce, build and consumed are called for. Searching for an architecture of alternatives, an architecture of degrowth, I propose factory in Årstafältet, Stockholm, where the raw material comes from public donation of textiles rather than extraction of natural resources, celebrating ‘trash’ as a resource. Various actors in the textile production chain are in proximity or work with each other, where functions of recycling, repairing, reusing, public, private, production and consumption are all interwoven both externally and internally in order to create a circular textile production line and economy.

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Design & Recycle

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The Sense of Water Sandra Myrnäs

The perception and interaction with the environment is important fordeveloping our senses, especially for a child. This project is about how you perceive the water through your vision, hearing and touch.I’ve worked with different ways of encounter water and its different characteristics in a built environment. How you can use and modify the space to enhance a sensory experience and how you can use temperature and water to create different climates.

The project also consists in examples of panels that could absorb noise while letting coloured light in creating different atmospheres depending on which type of senses you would like to enhance. I’ve applied my investigation in an addition to a typical swimming facility from the 60’s. This addition can complement and stand as a contrast to the competition-oriented swimming facility that we see today. The Family Spa is a place where everyone can participate and where everyone can feel equal regardless of conditions and past experiences.

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When the Crisis Comes Ebba Nyberg

I believe that the feeling of safety and comfort brings out the best and most empathic traits in people. That has been the purpose of this thesis, to enable a platform, that in turn can support one of the key pillars that support our society at its best. The platform aims at relieving and preventing millions of households in Stockholm from the panic, the stress, fights and discomfort that they would certainly face, if a 72-hour blackout would hit Stockholm today.

The platform will also continuously adapt it self to take into account the solutions and the risks we would face tomorrow.

The platform is called Civilrum. It is a public space for knowledge sharing and community building. With the aim to connect the platform on three different scales where the individual, the community and the state can interact.

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“The bedroom” - space for contemplation.

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The demo-project on site in-between the allotment gardens of Tantolunden, Stockholm. Model scale: 1: 500.

Model photo of “the living room�.

Civilrum being a symbol that amplifies the importance of this topic.

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Imprints Annika Olausson

How can modern architecture closely refer back to historical architecture without copying or making flat imitations? My thesis project idea is born out of the discussion on modernism versus traditionalism in architecture brought to the surface by the network Arkitekturupproret.

I have investigated this through the proposition of an art gallery building with a big red roof. The red roof acts as a screen where imprints of 3-dimensional fragments from different historical eras are projected. The building has an extroverted outside that echoes of the architectural history of the city of Sundsvall, and the big red roof hides an inside that is introverted and focused on exhibiting art.

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Texture - Imprint from the Church of Nacksta

Ornament - Imprint from the Open air Bath House at Kaptensudden

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New Life, New Roof Lucía Olavarri Casado

“New Roof, new life” is a project that aims to recover the use of rooftop terraces in housing blocks in the Eixample of Barcelona. The intervention aims to equip the rooftops according to the needs of the neighbours, the victims of gentrification and the real generators of life. The idea is based on generating a shared reproductive work system, making it accesible for everyone. This last aspect is one of the main points of the project, due to it is very important to build inclusive spaces to give new opportunities. The architectural response for this issue must be simple and affordable., that is why my proposal is based on a new structure supported by the existing one, that connects all the rooftops of a block and at the same time generates different spaces and uses.

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The new habits, the digital era and the new ways of living generate a need of rethinking the cities where we live and improve them with the qualities and the spaces they already have. This work wants to treat the rooftop terrace as a layer of the city, an existing but forgotten one, that can be part of the development of the city. The chosen block is located in the neighbourhood of Sant Antoni, which has a very strong community feeling and the neighbours are very active and participatory.

My goal is to develop a strategy that could be apply in other blocks of the city.

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The community

The programme involves from seating areas where people can develop cultural or physical activities, up to picnic areas or growing spots. The idea is that instead of having a small roof where you can barely will have much more than techincal facilities, you open it up to be able to access to other opportunities within the community gaining an enriched common ground. The access to each roof is from the staircases of the buildings. There are also two common lifts that make each floor accesible in case the building does not have an own lift.

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One part of each rooftop (20%-50%) is kept for private facilities for the neighbours of the building, as it could be sun dry the clothes, storage rooms or technical elements as solar panels. The structure generates a space itself, with a more defined limits and with a specific shape according to the use.

The construction of the steel structure for the private facilities creates a division of spaces at the same time the walkways and stairs for the circulation do.

The new common ground. The expanded rooftop.

The materials and the construction

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Room to Grow Freja Palerius

This project is focusing on learning environments. I have researched what a learning environment can be, what it can look like and how it can function in a slightly different way than they do today.

My project is an addition. It is a series of modules that can be assembled differently according to site and are meant to function as a support to existing school buildings in urban environments.

The school environment is, at it’s best, an inclusive space where it is possible to give children the tools they need to learn how to take care of themselves and their natural surroundings.

This project aims to create a different context for learning. A space that is designed to create balance using green spaces in urban environments as an educational tool. This can help children growing up in urban environments to develop on a personal and interpersonal level, remove indifference or fear of nature and contribute to a healthy emotional, cognitive and motor development within each child.

According to the U.N over 50 percent of the world’s population is urbanized. It is interesting to think about what that will do to us, what the effects are going to be and what we can to about it which is why I made this addition.

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A research of material, form and colour.

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In conversation with one garden educator at Rosendals garden and a teacher I made a set of 9 different modules with different content. The modules have access to water and restrooms. All of them are studio spaces that can be booked by teachers who want to conduct their class in a different context.

The modules can be assembled in different ways according to site It is a simple wood construction that is easy to put together leaving little or no mark on the ground.

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Exterior drawings of the modules assembled.

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West elevation 1:50 Modules 1 + 2 + 3 + 4

West elevation 1:50 Modules 1 + 2 + 3 + 4

West elevation 1:50 Modules 1 + 2 + 3 + 4

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East elevation 1:50 Modules 5 + 6

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North elevation 1:50 Module 8

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South elevation 1:50 Module 9

South elevation 1:50 Module 9

Elevations of the modules assembled.

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Everybody Wants to Live Together, Why Can’t We Live Together?

Agnes Paljak & David Vincent

For our thesis project, we have developed three proposals that in different ways deals with the idea of living collectively. Our aim has been to reach beyond the common view that living together could never become more than a utopian idea. We rather think that a shared living arrangement stand as a realistic respond to questions raised by changed household patterns and new ways of life in contemporary western society.

It is our belief that collective living could, or maybe even have to, become spatially richer than just consisting of cellular rooms along a corridor. Stepping away from the institutional-like, our project is an investigation into how one could introduce more typically domestic relationships in a shared living arrangement.

Could the recognizable in the way we live and have lived become a tool to explore new forms of living?

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After living in Zürich, we’ve had the chance to experience a current movement that has become a testing ground for new forms of living, especially in terms of collective living. We ourselves had the opportunity to live for a period in a newly produced large shared flat with room for up to 12 persons in Dübendorf outside of Zürich.

Inspired by this movement, we feel that when it comes to collective living, it is just as important to create good spaces for common use as to make possible the feeling of comfort in one’s private sphere.

Nevertheless, we do think that the privacy of one’s home and the spaces one shares with others can expand and overlap, depending on the conditions of and how one appropriates the boundaries or transitions between them. In our initial survey, we wanted to bring special attention to the different types of thresholds that has existed between private, semi-private and shared spaces throughout history. What makes us feel invited to cross a boundary, or comfortable enough to reside whilst something else is going on in the room next to us?

Our investigations has resulted in three buildings, with three different strategies on how to live together, all of them reflecting on common ideas of a home. One examines how to live together in one big house, with cluster apartments distributed around an interior open-gallery. Another deal with how to share an apartment, where a play of familiar thresholds creates microsituations that at the same time establish and dissolve the relationship between inside and outside, private and shared. Finally, the third explores the idea of making a corridor inhabitable and spatially richer.

Villa at Karlavägen-Floragatan (unbuilt), Helgo Zettervall, Stockholm 1877

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Composing Fragments Despina Pattichi & Alkinoos Efstathios Stathopoulos

Dimitris Pikionis in his text, Keimena, described the notion of cultural continuity. He believed that we can move forward only when our thought is “added� to the thought of the previous generations.

This thesis project deals with the integration of a cultural building into the historical settlement of Hermoupolis, the capital of Syros island, Greece. Only the spirit of tradition can be transferred in a contemporary proposal. Therefore there is no meaning in imitating but only in studying and understanding the architectural context.

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Program We propose a cultural facility which includes private accommodation for artists in residence as well as working, rehearsing, seminar and performing spaces open to the public. The program derived from the rich cultural context of Syros, as well as the urge to promote the cultural identity of the island.

Methodology In order to identify the character of the town and establish our local architectural precedents, we studied the surroundings in a fragmented way, in various scales.

By documenting the existing in photo-

graphs and drawings, we explored the characteristic urban situations, details, and materials. Secondly we modelled the immediate context of our site in an urban scale, in order to understand the impact the terrain has on the morphology and movement through the area. Through various massing studies, we incorporated found characteristics, and aimed to integrate the proposal as an extension of the neighbourhood.

Zooming into the scheme, we established relationships between functions, spaces, proportions, atmospheres, by working on images, physical models and sketch plans

Section through entrance and multipurpose space

Section through public terrace and amphitheatre

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View to the communal courtyard throught existing gate

Collage of existing gate

Entrance from the street

View from the street

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Mapping Desires August Persson

A desire is this one directional relationship where an urge for something, or someone, can make us obsessed to get it and sleepless over not having it. This project seeks to address situations emerging when desires are to be materialized as architecture. The project explores a methodology that starts with mapping out people’s desires in relation to a site, continues with the architect’s interaction with the mapped desires, and ends in a proposal for a small bathhouse. The project brings about questions on how the architect can mediate conflicting desires, how to deviate from preconceived ideas about the materialization of these, and what role digital tools can play in driving the process forward.

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Sauna with view over fields

Wall separating outside from dressing room

Glimpse of the farm from inside

Entrance Photogrammetric scan of mapped desires

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Gallery for Art Contemplation Yuqi Qin

The design of this small gallery is theoretically based on Arthur Schopenhauer's aesthetics. Located in a hilly area isolated from the city, it becomes the shelter both physically and spiritually.

Divided into four parts dedicated to painting, sculpture, poetry and music, which are the four major forms of art proposed in the book, the project is aimed to provide the space that contributes to aesthetic experience and also to look into how architecture participates in the process of seeking peace.

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In the 1819 published book The World as Will and Representation, the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer characterised the phenomenal world as a blind and insatiable metaphysical will. For Schopenhauer, human will would Inevitably end up in pain and suffering. As our life originates from need and deficiency. Satisfaction, when it is achieved, it affords a fleeting joy and yields fairly quickly to painful boredom, which is tantamount to a deficiency, and which starts the entire process anew. Therefore,

he claims as long as our consciousness is filled by the will, we never obtain lasting happiness or peace. However, there exists the kind of knowledge that helps man to escape from the torture of will, that is art. Art repeats the eternal Ideas, the adequate objectivity of the will, which are separated from reality without individuality or principle of the sufficient reason. Pure aesthetic contemplation raises man to a painless state and stops the wheel of time.

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inBETWEEN: The Bio-based Unknown Miguel Santos Carvalho

In the small Swedish city of Norrkรถping, industries have been shifting to bio-based resources rather than using fossil fuels. Can this shift allow us to rethink what industrial landscapes could be?

The inBETWEEN is an ambiguously fantastical testing ground for Architectural possibilities integrating industry, public and the natural environment. Developed as an expedition across working processes, promoting consumption of the industries production, as well as the industries relationship to the natural environment.

This experience could be frightening, it could be fun, but definitely ambiguously out of the ordinary.

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Paper Park

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Thermal Escape & Grow Grid

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Hässelby Plant Power Moa Sellerfors

A power plant in western Stockholm is about to be demolished. It stands by the lake side in Hässelby, one of Stockholm’s suburbs, and have done so since 1959. Now it’s too small and is being replaced with 1500 apartments. In this project the power plant remains and turns into Plant Power. Plant power is an investigation of how food production and food consumption can meet in a contemporary situation close to the people living in Hässelby. It is also about transforming an existing building to host a large and varied program. By opening up and taking care of both the power plant and its surroundings the goal is to extend the everyday life along the lake side.

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Background During the first half of the 20th century Hässelby was characterized by its many garden centers. At this time the population in Stockholm was rapidly growing and a lot of food was needed to be produced to feed everyone. After the second world war the competition from farmers in the south of Sweden and also from abroad was getting bigger and bigger. The gardens had to close,

Family Landberg, 1918

one by one. Today there are no gardens or greenhouses left but the need of locally produced food is greater that ever due to the global warming.

In the Plant Power crops are grown in vertical farming systems. The crops are then sold at the market, used in the kitchens or shipped further out in the city.

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Building on Place Sindri Sigurðsson

The project focuses on the current urban development of Reykjavík’s city centre. The site is located in the oldest part of town which also holds many of Reykjavík’s most important cultural phenomena and inhabited public spaces. Currently the city centre is seeing a demand for new development which raises questions of how the future of Reykjavík might look like, what kind of activities, experience, and life it may possess. In this project I explore the unique fabric of the city and the possibilities of densifying the city in a way that resonates with the existing fabric, as well as exploring how the yard space plays into a possible future of the everyday urban experience and the activities that lie on the threshold between the inner and outer spaces.

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Space Elevator Texas Sparring

With the Space Elevator as a tool, this project looks at how the depiction of the present view can shape and mould the future.

Something that today may be seen as a mad dream can be tomorrow’s reality.

Through research of previous examples of such instances in history, and through the lens of both a utopian future and the world we live in today are the basis for the tools i have used in this project.The space elevator a old idea: originating from 1895 that today, with the heightened exploitation of space, has resurfaced, and is on the precipice of going from fiction to facts. This is my contribution to the discussion of the Space elevator, and how imagining a future can make it a possibility

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Hiemal Baths Linn Stendahl

Cold baths is about the proximity to the elements. To be exposed to wind, water, rain, snow, warm, heat, the knowledge of the body and being present. It is an embodied experience. Today, the cold bath houses can be compared to modern temples, where people can meet without consuming and where relaxing and socializing is in focus.

To get the full experience of cold baths, searching for the atmospheric moments of a building has been the generator to get closer to it. The approach has been to find a narrative through selected reference projects and interpret them into a proposal for a cold bath house in Stockholm.

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Mis-Using Mixed Use Julia Stjerna

This thesis is investigating an alternative to the simplistic interpretation of Mixed Use in the contemporary discourse through the concept of a vertical city. The intention is to offer an alternative to how Mixed Use can be approached by (i) outlining a critique towards the contemporary use of the term, (ii) discussing the utopian potential and its significant before Mixed Use was hijacked by the development profession, (iii) introducing a proposal based on five key design ideas: (A) The site (B) The program and choice of activities (C) Connections between spaces (D) The size of spaces (E) Density

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Citified Hermitage Balu Suresh

My thesis tries to understand the notion of Human spirit’s well-being from a diverse urban society. Analyzing the potential advantages of deciphering peoples attitude towards “getting old” and “distress” into a positive trigger by making the community understand the values of natural resources. Proposing the thesis in close lines with the Viennese sensitivity towards the Viennese forest region as a get away destination. My research would be studying the spiritual and experiential character of space by examining movements and visual connections while commuting from vastness to minuteness or vice-versa.

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The design proposal is to test out an experimental space which by itself is a tribute to revive nature and also can evoke a spiritual charge without functioning itself as a religious space. The center should be able to provide a calm peaceful yet creative stimulating environment to its visitors. My thesis question tackles - how space engages the user in an exaltation reacting to all human senses by play of geometry, movements and visual balance. My test architecture module will study the physical relationship of man and nature by integrating:

The approach into space making is inspired by precedents dealing with the layering of various geometries creating/evoking human emotions. Works of Scarpa, Corbusier, and Ando is greatly inspired at many points in the project. Also, the geometries involved in the conceptualization of the built forms are inspired by various scales and standards.

Including theories about how measurements of human scale can be multiplied and how that can be related to a larger volume. My proposal thus suggests a composition of various volumes in realtion to human scales and questions how it is connected for generating various emotions.

1. A Community/Recreational space 2. Center for solitude 3. A Nature park.

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Visual study on approaching Solitude center The testing of movements within the geometries of the assigned spaces

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Kathmandu Valley of Brick Felicia Svensson & Amelie NorĂŠn

In 2015 Nepal suffered two severe earthquakes within three weeks and nearly 3 million people were left homeless.

Kathmandu Valley is located in the middle where the earthquakes hit which resulted in a lot of damage in the area. Now almost exactly four years later Nepal is still recovering.

In this project we have both looked at the negative effects of earthquakes but also been searching for positive outcomes of the recovering process. Asking ourselves where this potential progressions can take place and for whom it can lead to something valuable. This project is a Sida funded minor field study, which has given us the opportunity to go to Nepal to get a more comprehensive picture of the situation.

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Temporary Housing As the population of Nepal were in urgent need of the rebuilding of housing and without the money to afford to hire carpenters people started to build their own temporary homes. Often simple sheds or houses made out of corrugated steel sheets.

To address the demand for additional certified builders, different agencies and organisations started offering the public training in construction. This led to many

people in vulnerable positions entering the training.

In this project we have been working on two main aspects of the rebuilding process.

The social aspects of a traditionally and culturally invested population with a constant challenge of inclusive growth together with what effects this and the extreme climate has on what building techniques and materials appropriate.

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New Building Techniques During our research we came into contact with a company, called Interlock Construction, who offered training in construction and brick production to the local population.

They are using a, to Nepal, rather new building technique with interlocking earth bricks that are reinforced with rebars and cement. As our project progressed we went into collaboration with this company, which resulted in us designing their new brick factory.

As the previous projects in architecture school had been rather theoretcal we felt an urge to take on a more hands-on project, bridging over to our professional life after our degree.

The design process, of the factory we will be presenting, have given us the opportunity to get a good view of the profession, as well as challenging our previous knowledge by experiencing the architects role in an other country in a completely different context.

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Latent Spaces Erik Swahn

Imagine all architectural drawings as points in a high-dimensional image space, the vast corpus of architectural precedents. What lies between those points? These are the latent spaces of architecture, the unseen and unthought-of.

In this project, I attempt to unearth them borrowing tools from machine learning in the form of neural forgers, so called generative adversarial networks. By means of translation and interpolation, let’s meet architecture’s doppelgangers – the undrawn.

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GAN-generated plan and its numeric representation as coordinates in a 512-dimensional space

Image-to-image translations with conditional GAN models of floor plans and neoclassical elevations

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Knowledge in the Making Mateusz Szpotowicz

How can I become a more skilled architect? To answer this question I decided to design a multi-purpose building in Norrkoping. Both strong character and rich history of the city as well as the variety of scenarios that program provides contributed to the process. I used an experience of going to the theatre as a basis to look at different parts of the design. It allowed me to give most attention to elements such as: the urban presence of the design; the spatial sequence of theatre-goer; the image of the piazza; the design of the facades; the design of the lobby; the design of the auditorium as well as general structural solutions.

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Why Does it Become as it Becomes?

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My working question was, why does the built environment become as it becomes? The starting point was a feeling that what we build in Sweden is quite uniform and even newly planned high profile projects like Norra Djurgรฅrdsstaden or Hammarby Sjรถstad have unexciting urban spaces. To answer my question I had to look into the history of housing politics, economy and city planning to understand why we are were we are today.

The building process and the political debate on housing is hard to grasp or make sense of but the housingshortage is a political failure. Housing construction has gone from state planned to market driven and none seems to be responsible for the outcome.

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Produktionskostnadsanpassad belåning. (1980) Om byggherrarna redovisade högre produktionskostnader fick de ett bättre pantvärde och större ränteavdrag.

(När byggherrarna räknade upp produktionskostnaderna så blev det ett överskott mellan de faktiska kostnaderna och storleken på det beviljade lånet. Byggherrren kunde ta ut detta överskott som vinst och i slutänden blev fick privatpersoner betala mer).

Med dessa grundförutsättningar så ökade produktionskostnaderna med 30% per år från mitten av 80-talet när efterfrågan på bostäder ökade.

Först var byggandet lågt under början av 90-talet i och med lågkonjunkturen men började ta fart på 2000-talet. Marknaden ville bygga i de bästa lägena där mest vinst kunde göras och riskerna var lägst.

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Trafikseparering, kvantitet och låga kostnader för byggandet.

Bostadsstandarden och rumsuppdelningen som etablerats under funktionalismen togs med in i miljonprogrammet. Planlösningarna blev mer rationella, ofta med en korridor som ledde till de olika rummen. Nischer, burspråk, öppen spis, höga fönster, etage, genomsiktlighet m.m. rationaliserades bort. Det som framför allt var drivande var kvantitet och låga kostnader i bostadsproduktionen. För att få ta del av de gynnsamma statliga lån som delades ut så fanns vissa krav: 1. Projektet skall vara planerat som en enhet. Produktionsplanen skall avse jämn, kontinuerlig produktion. Projektering, upphandling och byggande skall vara samordnat för hela projektet.

2. Projektet skall ha hög grad av enhetlighet. Sträng variantbegränsning skall iakttagas i fråga om byggnadsmått och byggdelar, trapphus, lägenheternas planlösning och utformning i övrigt samt installationer.

Antalet hustyper skall likaledes vara begränsat.

3. Arbetskraftsåtgången skall vara relativt sett ringa.

4. Produktionskostnaderna skall vara låga jämfört med kostnadsnivån på orten.”

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Som svar på finanskrisen 1990 genomfördes århundradets skattereform 1991. Då sänktes räntebidragen till 30% och räntegarantin togs bort. Skatterna på arbete sänktes och fastighetsskatten höjdes. Bostadsbyggandet blev främst marknadsdrivet.

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tighetsbolag vilket höjde produktionskostnaderna och bostadspriserna sköt i höjden.(ökade med 300% under en 5års period 1985-1990).

Med dessa grundförutsättningar så ökade produktionskostnaderna med 30% per år från mitten av 80-talet när efterfrågan på bostäder ökade.

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Some insights We are now facing a shift in the market as there is a shortage of buildable land in the vicinity of the inner city and the increase in housing prices has stopped. The capital-strong middle class demand have been satisfied. The big cities still have a large housing shortage and those who can not enter the market are capital-weak and low-income people who cannot demand expensive housing.

In new attractive areas, an overweight of condominiums is being built. They will be

areas for capital strong and those with high income. This is a great betrayal by the state leading to a huge social divide in society.

Also each housing project is supposed to balance itself financially which means that the municipality can invest alot of money in the urban spaces of the attractive areas but not use that money to build urban spaces in the less attractive areas that instead are in the risk of getting poor urban spaces and will be densified with type houses or standard houses that are cheap in construction.

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Building norms Except for the political situation we also have an urban planning norm estabished when the “millionprogram” was built in the 60-ties and 70-ties. This norm also affect how we build houses where the norm is that a house usually have one function.

The developer does not take responsibility for the surroundings and how the building meets the street is the same everywhere.

The result is poor urban spaces which is more forgiving in an area with high income residents but a huge problem in low income areas.

Reforms To create good urban spaces even in areas that are less attractive we must plan in a different way with general detail plans that allow for smaller building developers to enter the market and lokal interests to take part in the development. The district centers have to be regulated harder even though

they are privately owned since they are of such great general interest. We also need to make reforms to strengthen architecture and urban planning. Architecture doesn’t have to be expensive to be good.

Freedom and compromise Most people in Sweden want´s to own their house and over 50% lives in a singlefamily house. You could say that there is a certain freedom in that. But everyone can’t live this way in the city. People live closer together in larger apartment buildings and need to compromise more. You are not free to use the surroundings as you wish. Therefore when building cities, we must plan for many possibilities satisfying everyones needs.

This is a big challange of planning cities. In Sweden we have a tradition of standardizing the build environment trying to make the perfect city for everyone but instead making a city for none.

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Temple of Food Hans Tang

One third of the food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally throughout the whole supply chain. Food is taken for granted and has lost its value in Western countries. This proposal deals with how food industries can benefit from the built environment to make us conscious in our daily food routine.

An alternative foodscape, Temple of Food, is a living and breathing organism with a sustainable circular food system. Integrated in a public green space it serves the unfolding neighborhood of the SlakthusomrĂĽdet with locally produced food, recreation and an urban oasis. Like a temple it will act as a habitat for rituals that forms and fosters an active and conscious manner around what nurtures us.

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Om arkitektur och krig Cecilia Tarandi

This project is focusing on architecture in relation to war, mainly WWII. Through essays it discusses why architecture can be a target in war, why it hurts when architecture is destroyed and if what was built for the war should be preserved or not. To gain more understanding about the difficulties about working with remains of war a design proposal was made for bunkers at Utah Beach in Normandy. It is the site where the Allied invasion took place 6 of June 1944 which was the beginning of the end of the war. The bunkers are transformed into places for reading with a new library built close by. It becomes places of knowledge of what happened there, about WWII, human rights, international law, peace- and conflict research.​

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Walls, Fences and Borders; Spaces of Rupture ChloĂŠ Tiziani

As long as I remember, I always had a peculiar fascination with walls. The expression of prohibition and power they send back, the kind of sacred character they have. Indeed, who never dreamt about climbing a wall to see what is beyond? Who never fantasised about ripping off the tapestry of a wall or even destroy it with a hammer? All of these thoughts around walls demonstrate their power over our imagination and our very own desire to escape from them. This thesis aims to gather knowledge and use architect tools to illustrate the reality behind these architectural elements - that are the walls and the fences - at the borders and the conflicts they always imply. One way to escape from them is to understand them.

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In my diploma work I want to work between two scales and observe the spatial qualities between them. The two scales are external spaces, represented by streets and squares, and internal spaces, referring to apartments and commercial spaces inside the building facing the street. The facade stands between this relation and plays an important role in my project. The project starts in an investigation of spatial qualities of the urban space in detail, continues with a translation of that into a form and facade, to in the end define the interior.

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A gas station on Birger Jarlsgatan in Stockholm, lying in the corner of a housing block from the 1920s is torn down to complete the block with a new building with commercial functions on the ground floor and apartments on the upper floors.

Located at a crossing with different types of buildings and park situations around, different urban spaces and views are existent. The building takes opportunity of its presence and visibility on the site creating a square in front of it and by that also a form that opens up towards the crossing.

The design of the facade searches for timelessness and adaption to the block and its surroundings with a modern strangeness.

Strictness, repetitions and proportions create the grid for the design. The division of materials into granite stone on the ground floor and white plaster on the upper floors reflects the material change of the adjacent facades in the block. The strict line is disrupted by letting material change go further down to a human scale to the space of the square.

A repetition of vaults enhances the ground floor commercial function and gives the faรงade depth by different openings.

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Compression-only Based Structures Olga Voisnis

This master thesis is a research based project which explores compression-only based structures. It covers such topics as – discrete element assemblies, double curved surfaces, shell structures, mesh tessellation of symmetrical and asymmetrical geometry together with digital production used for testing structural behavior of masonry structures in physical models.

Individual research methodology was developed during this master thesis – starting from simple structures – arches and step by step adding variables for exploring the complex systems such as vaults, domes (both single and double curved) and finally – symmetry and asymmetry in free form vaults.

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plicated sample – asymmetrical free form vault helped to deepen an understanding of behavior in such structures while testing the impact of thickness, curvature degree and curvature type, tessellation pattern and joints between the discrete elements.

Project covers digital production and fast prototyping techniques – 3D modelling, parametric modelling and 3D printing together with all the challenges which can occur during translation of digital model into the physical one.

Conclusions of the research project and implementation into the architectural field are proposed as analysis of adaptation to flat and uneven terrain, together with the analysis of different possible combinations of shell structures into the one whole system called mereology – in philosophy and mathematical logic, mereology is the study of parts and the wholes they form.

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Learning from Miljonprogrammet Diana Wagner

A project for Tensta Centrum – miljonprogrammet was a national construction project resulting in one million dwellings, erected between 1965-1975 in Sweden. Since the beginning the project has been strongly criticized for its over-rational city planning.

However I believe there are modernistic qualities that can be further built upon. The current structure of services flow along well defined “bands� within car-free zones, from one point to another with the residential areas built on either side of these belts. Furthermore there is an inherent flexibility within these bands where land has been reserved for future development. This is where my project reinterprets the usage of these voids and acts as an added sequence of the existent archetype of the band.

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Planet Lem Jan Wanczyk

“Planet Lem – Centre for Literature and Language” is the subject of architectural competition for facility dedicated to a Polish writer of science fiction – Stanisław Lem. The city of Kraków provided a programme and a site which include a historic building. “Architecture fiction” refers to speculative projects in which architects use storytelling to express utopian ideas. This time it is the opposite – architecture is used as a tool to bring us closer to fiction.

This project’s focus lies in translating literature into architecture by extracting atmospheric qualities, as well as direct citations from Lem’s stories, and injecting them to spatial forms. It also raises the issues of working with historic building in a sensitive context and questioning competition rules.

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I divided Lem’s books into two categories, both depicting difficulties of facing alien worlds, space exploration, or future in general: 1) pessimistic, nostalgic, embedded in the laws of physics; 2) humorous stories, often in the form of tales, a bit detached from reality, yet more philosophical. I decided to combine two stories (one from each category) in order to create a narrative for Planet Lem. I used the world of “The Invincible” and main characters of “The Cyberiad” (a series of short stories).

The Invincible A powerful interstellar space ship called Invincible lands on the planet Regis, to investigate the loss of her sister ship, Condor.

During the investigation, the crew finds evidence of a quasi-life, born through evolution of autonomous, self-replicating machines, which apparently evolved after thousands of years from machines, that someone left

behind by accident a very long time ago.

The only surviving forms are tiny, insect-like micromachines, in the shape of a letter Y, which can assemble into huge clouds when threatened and incapacitate any intelligence by surges of electromagnetic interference.

It turns out that Condor’s crew suffered a complete memory loss as a consequence of attacks from these “black clouds”.

Planet Lem as a Machine But now the famous constructors Trurl & Klapaucius step in, and after years of experiments they manage to overcome those Y-shaped black things, and even to utilise them for their own needs. This time they use it to build a comprehensive machine with computational power huge enough to reveal the creator of their world. The result both surprised and disappointed them, as the machine keeps producing unintelligible information about a guy named Stanisław

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Conveying Landscape LinnĂŠa Westberg

Some buildings belong on the site as if they were a natural part of it. They understand and add to their surrounding. It is like their purpose is to direct attention to nature. Through the built structure, nature is perceived and strengthened.

This Thesis is based around the architectural relation between the addition and the landscape in witch it is placed. A research in detail of site and building. How can the building strengthen the impression of the place? Can this be achieved by understanding the site and the landscape, analyze it, and carefully placing your addition in that sensitive balance of nature?

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A Buddhist Meditation Space in Östergötland Paola Westerberg

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The aim has been to develop a Dhamma Hall in a Swedish context. The “idéella förening”, Vipassana Centre Dhamma Sobana, located near Ödeshög is a Silent retreat. For 10 days participants are taught silent meditation according to S.N Goenka. The technique taught by S.N. Goenka goes back two and a half millennia to the Buddha. This technique focuses only on the breath and the bodys sensation. The retreat is silent. The participants meditate in silence 10 hours per day.

There are no Swedish Dhamma Halls.

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The method has been, through production of models and drawings reflect over and develop a space for 140 silent meditators on the plot of the Vipassana centre.

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Establishment Erik Wettervik

This project aims to position itself in the juxtaposition of architecture and interior architecure, could it allow the project to reach further?

What happens when you combine the two fields in the form of a restaurant and small library in relation to an 122 year old building that has been burned out?

How do you incorporate the existing structure, facade, the new load bearing structure and the new layers of material into one?

How can spaces enable encounters and create estrangement to put people slightly out of their comfort zone?

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Petersvik – En ny stadsdel vid havet Elise Wiklund & Eric Norin

Petersvik, just 4 km from the city of Sundsvall, Sweden is an area with great cultural and historic heritage. With a history beginning as early as the year 200 ad. and with some of the most elaborated buildings of the Swiss chalet style in the north of Sweden, Petersvik is truly unique. Despite the unquestionable value of the area, it now faces total destruction through the proposed construction of a logistics harbour terminal in its place. This would mean losing one of the citys last green waterfront locations to yet another industrial development.

This diploma project aims to create a serious alternative proposal to the logistics terminal. It instead seeks to propose development in harmony with Petersviks rich legacy through careful and balanced additions that will utilize Petersvik to its surroundings.

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Riddarbadet Johannes Wiktorsson

Not only a landmark, but a haven and in its own way a “modern temple�.

A place to distance oneself from the demanding city, whilst still being embedded by it.

Close but at a distance, visible but secluded, a place for body and soul, where health and pleasure merge.

A place for both worship and exposure of the natural elements, cherishing nudity and growing rites and territories.

In the bath we meet and reflect, relax and recharge, engage in conversations as well as complete silent.

Behind the planks are a communion and seclusion, a safe place where we are all equally exposed and vulnerable, a place where we can feel closeness and familiarity.

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Today it´s quite a privilege and a luxurious habit to visit any of the bathhouses in the city like centralbadet or sturebadet and not everyone have the time or possibility to go out in the archipelago on a regular basis. My thesis project aims to make it accessible for everyone, every day, all-year-around. There are not many cities in the world that offers the same kind of water quality as Stockholm and studies show that the health benefits of coldbaths are great and could have a big impact on the collective health of a city.

Maybe especially so now, in a time and place where the tempo is constantly increasing and people, in general, have a tough time to puzzle their time together.

Riddarholmen became the site for my project, for a number of reasons. First of all, because of its historical background. There used to be a harbor basin located on the wharf and after that another three

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Also its central location and non specific demographic made it a site accesible for everyone and not a certain “group of people”.

During the 20th century most activities disappeared from the island and with them so did the public life and is today kind of a forgotten and unused place.

The last bath on the site, Strömbadet, lied just North of my proposal and was mainly removed because of the poor water quality but other arguments being discussed, were the fact that it blocked the view of the city hall and the entire bay and by placing it where i do and not making it too high and out of porportion I want to avoid that. Also Strömbadet was meant to be a place for healthy living and a meeting point for the community, rich and poor, old and young, men and women.

That purpose and it´s significance to the city have together with parts of its surrounding architecture and history influenced this thesis alot. Especially the folllowing two buildings: The Wrangel palace is one of the most conspicuous building on Riddarholmen. The palace has historically had a basin in front of it and creating a new bathopportunity relating to it, both as a frame of the context but also its architecural qualities made sense to me.

The city hall is a brick building with a congenial geometry that on a plandrawings, with its courtyards and great interior halls, have the same scale and appearance as basins would. Its volume massing is centered away from the water. Towards the water it has an arcade walkway that creates a nice relation between the sea and the courtyard.

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Awakening Liming Village Junjie Wu

Liming Village is on the top of Ye mountain in Shaoxing, a typical Jiangnan Water Town in China. Because of no roads and lack of modernization, the village keeps the original appearance with basic infrastructure. Some problems have threatened the whole village. Main risks are the loss of population and old buildings.

The aim is to improve living condition for elders and meet additional demands of new guests through three phases that are transformations of ponds, huts and public facilities. The project focuses on Phase 1, transformation of six ponds and surrounding huts. With inspiration of view in motion and view in repose of Chinese garden, I regard the main walking path as a guideline to manage the sequence of view of ponds in motion. For renovation of each ponds, view in repose is predominant. According to reconstruction of huts, old and new elements meet in the new buildings.

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Phase 1: the aim is to reconstruct six ponds and surrounding huts in the affecting circle into a cosy gathering and resting place in the first year. (the main project)

Phase 2: Transformation of risky constructions will be covered all the villages gradually. It guarantees safety, but also improves efficiency of land using.

Phase 3: Old primary school, activity room and theatre stage will be reconstructed in the third and fourth year. The service circle of leisure function will cover all the village.

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Stigma of an Enigma Annika Wüthrich

The perception of the influence and effect that our built and non-built environment has on us ranges widely from one individual to another. One of the more intricate circumstances where the relevance and phenomenology of architecture is particularly addressed, is it’s effect on those whom are especially vulnerable and sensitive to incoming external stimuli, namely individuals with forms of (severe) mental illness. Historically being a subject dealt with great stigmatism due to psychology’s intricacy and it’s enigmatic perception by the general public, one of the most important intentions of this thesis is, from an architectural perspective, to provide clients with a dignified, humane and ultimately healing environment.

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Deployable Architecture Adah Yeung

Folding is a very basic technique to make an object stack on top of itself and make it appear smaller. As long as the material can hold creases, it can create new forms and structures when folded. The technique has been acknowledged as an artform, origami, but also as a tool to develop architecture.

My thesis is about to explore the principle and concept behind deployable structures and learn how a parametric folding system can be developed for rigid materials.

What is the limit for deployable architecture?

What kind of geometries and materials are suitable for constructing deployable architecture?

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With the help of Rhinoceros and Grasshopper, I’ve created a code that can generate skeletons for any panel in an origami pattern.

Joints are created where creases/edges meet. LEGO connector pegs are used to connect those joints together for easy prototyping - so the size of the skeleton/joints are all based on the size on the LEGO piece.

With a center piece in the core of each panel, balsa wood is used to link my custom designed LEGO joints together to the core - creating a cross shaped skeleton. With all the bits together, a custom designed surface can be attached to the skeleton, finishing the shape and the expression of the deployable structure.

Origami carries answers for many difficult questions within important fields, such as mathematics, engineering and astronomy. By utilizing the folding aspect, smart and light, folded-down structures could be created, which can be carried around easily and unfold whenever it is needed.

Even though folding is a very simple technique, it’s performance is limited to less rigid sheets of material, such as cloth and paper, thus why architects would prefer to create static origami-inspired designs instead.

When creating a deployable design for rigid materials, architects have to take material thickness into consideration and develop a folding system around it - it’s a concept that not many like to utilize due to the difficulty, which is why this thesis investigates the operable structure systems.

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Investigating a Possible New Housing Development in Enskede Gård Daniel Zetterberg

This project investigates the potential of the long narrow strip of land available when Enskede Gård’s metro station is redirected to Slakthusområdet in the coming years. The project propeses a plan for the development in an urban scale, and an example in closer study of an apartment building. It is an exploration of scale, sameness, repetition and rhythm.

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Otium Anna Ă–stberg

This thesis seeks to rediscover the concept of otium, an abstract latin term deeply connected with tranquility. In ancient Rome, otium was referred to as a state of mind and a type of public health, often associated with bathing. In a time when everything is going as fast as possible and the average human attention span is decreasing due to connectivity, an architecture engaging body and mind is more important than ever.

In order to elevate the notion of otium through architecture, a methodology based on my own memories of different baths was used. Images of the past reappear in a new kind of public bathhouse at a historical site at Bastugatan in Stockholm. A building drawn from the inside out, striving to create an awareness of sensory perceptions.

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Method The phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued in Phenomenology of Perception, “We know not through our intellect but through our experience”. This is why a memory of sitting in a cypress wood bathtub, walking barefoot on wet stones or lying down in a pool looking up towards a vaulted ceiling becomes crucial in this project. Making models intuitively of these places has been way of trying to understad how to design a bathhouse in pursuit of otium. A roman bathhouse ruin with incredible well preserved mosaics, a Japanese sento, a hammam and a Swedish cold bath to name a few. The memories forms a fragmentary composition of space, light, shadow, materials and sounds slowly coming together as one building. As manifested in The Unknown Craftsman by Soetsu Yanagi intuition is the essence in understanding beauty - ”One

may be able to turn intuition into knowlede, but one cannot produce intuition out of knowledge”.

The site at Bastugatan in Stockholm has a long history of public bathing. The street has got its name from sauna bathing dating back to the 17th century and in 1877 one of Stockholm’s largest public baths was built at Bastugatan 4 - Söderbadet. It offered different kinds of saunas, hot pools and herbal baths. Sadly, it was demolished in 1944 to make room for a new main road that never came to be used. Alongside with Söderbadet a l lot of other public baths from that time have been demolished and today we can only dream about how beautiful they were. The choice of site brings light to the emerging bath culture in Sweden during the 19th century that slowly is being forgotten.

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Studio 1 Ori Merom

Rumi Kubokawa Studio 2 Marianne Bork Aaro

Johan Mårtelius Studio 3 Karin Matz

Helen Runting

Rutger Sjögrim Studio 4 Mikael Bergquist

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Studio 7 Peter Lynch

Carmen Izquierdo

Roberto Crocetti Studio 8

Hélène Frichot Hannes Frykholm Sepideh Karami Adrià Carbonell

Studio 9 Pablo Miranda Carranza

Annie Lockie Sherer Studio 12 Rodrigo Muro Avendano

Per Franson Diploma Frida Rosenberg

Ori Merom

Thordis Arrhenius

Diploma Jury

Carlos Mínguez Carrasco Charlotte von Moos Christoph Grafe Daniel Johansson Henrietta Palmer Klas Ruin Louise Masreliez Malin Zimm Erik Gardell Noreile Breen Sigrún Birgisdóttir Sophia Psarra Teresa Stoppani Tor Lindstrand Yusuke Obuchi

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Diploma Students

Studio 1

Antonia Myleus Hans Tang Leif Lindell Lucia Olavarri Casado Miguel Santos Carvalho Rikke Henriksen Winther Tommy Eriksson

Studio 2

Daniel Backlund Andrea Bast Carl Kvanta Chloé Tiziani Elin Andersson Elise Wiklund Eric Norin Helena Eriksson Jialu Cai Linda Garpheden Malin Bjärkstedt Paola Westerberg

Studio 3

Anders Johnsson Diana Wagner Emil Kedbrant Erik Wettervik Jan Wańczyk Julia Stjerna Marta Dydek Philip Lindh Robin Julin Sandra Al-Neyazi

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Studio 4

Agnes Paljak Alkinoos Efstathios Stathopoulos Camilo Martinez Garcia David Vincent Despina Pattichi Ingrid Bernerstedt Johannes Wiktorsson Jonas Bäck Linn Stendahl Linnéa Westberg Moa Sellerfors Sindri Sigurdsson Sophie Trossbach

Studio 5

Anna Harlin Annika Olausson August Persson Erik Lundqvist

Studio 6

Afrodita Lindblom Agnes Eidem Anna Grundmark Annika Wüthrich Cecilia Tarandi Emma Hellström Frida Engström Isa Bergh Lopes da Costa Maja Hedvall Olle Söderström Tove Ekström Viktor Lindström

Studio 7

Studio 8

Alexander Carlsen Anna Östberg Ebba Nyberg Jacob Stening Junjie Wu Mateusz Szpotowicz Isak Hellström Leni Hillström Ellburg Martin Forsberg Simon Lundberg Texas Sparring

Chen Yijian Daniel Zetterberg Dora Edvinsson Kovacs Felicia Svensson Frithiof Engzell Waldén Linnea Legefors Moa Kengården Peter Högås Simon Cauderan Sofia Enqvist Terese Jansson Therese Antman Yuqi Qin

Studio 9 Adah Yeung

Erik Swahn

Olga Voisnis Studio 12 Freja Palerius

Josefine Berg Bring

Luis Barri

Mica Eriksson

Sandra Myrnäs Diploma

Aleksandra Mladenovic Amelie Norén Andrea Bodelsson Anna Larsson Axel Burvall Axel Jogefalk Balu Suresh Carolin Frögren

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About

This is a publication published on the occasion of the Diploma Days at the School of Architecture, KTH, in May 2019.

Editor: Claes Sรถrstedt, head of 4th and 5th year

Printed in May 2019 Mk1

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