Studio Themes 2020–21

Studio Catalogue

2020–2021 School of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Course codes for studio projects YR 4: A42A13 + A42B13 + A42C14 + A42D14 YR 5: A52A13 + A52B13

Studios 2020/2021

Architecture and Daylight ............ 2 Fragmentation and Coherence ............ 4 Housing ............ 6 Making ..........10 Northern Grounds ..........12 Out of Practice ..........14 Peripheral Futures ..........16 Public Service ..........18 RE- ..........20 Searching for Ma ..........22 Urbanism and Landscape Studio ..........24

Architecture and Daylight Teachers: Foteini Kyriakidou, Per Franson, Rodrigo Muro, Ute Besenecker

Studio Theme

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Given the intimate correlation of light and architecture, their

Daylight observations & (re)interpretations

dependency and influence on human perception and experience, the

Through experience, analysis and reflection students will be able to

Studio focuses on a strong interdisciplinary approach of Light,

grasp terminology, concepts and qualities of light & space.

Architecture, Art & Engineering. By orchestrating the visible and the

Observation, analysis, sketching and model making are the main

invisible throughout the design process will allow human centred and

tools. Moving between lectures and theory of light and human

empathic spaces. These poetic dimensions as well as the tectonic

perception through hands-on exercises using both analogue and

properties of architecture are enhanced and conveyed by using light

digital tools.

and darkness as materials.

From language based mental models, following on interpretations

The aim is to create a synergy between Light & Architecture through

and verbal descriptions, to an immersive experience of Vernacular

an interdisciplinary platform. Architecture will be observed, analyzed,

architecture. Dynamics of daylight and its complexity is to be

discussed and interpreted by means of a design based approach

translated into scale spatial configurations emerged from

where light is the common thread. Modelling and experiencing light at

experimentation, iteration and re-interpretation.

different scales, from working models to immersive large scale models will be a fundamental part of this journey.

Project 2 Daylight exploration and experience

Studio Methodology

The focus is on Openings in Architecture through a collaboration with

Theory and practice support each other in parallel by applying

KTH Civil Engineers and Construction Management students. The

theoretical knowledge to experiments and projects. The method is to

task involves design, construction and energy calculations for an

learn through observation, site analysis and practical testing; first-

apartment in a site-specific location. The result consists of a

hand experience.

functional scale window design, its daylight intake character and

As daylight is diverse and varies, the studio method is site specific

technical properties.

in the Nordic context. Gained knowledge, methodology and practical exercises are transferable and contextualize to any desired

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geographical point.

Material, spatial and daylight implementation

P1: contemplates individual projects of research, interpretation, schemes and daylight layouts.

Working with the pre-existing environmental conditions, village infrastructure and collaboration with a mix of locals, tourists and

P2: group and individual work to solve and propose a site-specific Daylight Project.

researchers at Kristinebergs Marine Center we will explore the possibility of a new blue industry and economy.

P3 & 4: a two stages architectural project on a real location and site-specific conditions.

With aims on a site-specific daylight habitable installation, Studio will document and interpret the environmental conditions of Skaftรถ Island, specifically the location of Kristineberg and its proximity to Gullmarsfjorden and the ocean.

Project 4 Addition to Kristineberg Marine Center Moving from P3 reviews and interdisciplinary tutorials with experts in structure, sustainable and climate design, the project development process gains an eco-tectonic focus around daylight design and architectural sustainability with the progressive program of an intervention to the Marine center.

Foteini Kyriakidou

Per Franson

Rodrigo Muro

Architect with master in Architectural

Head of the Architectural Lighting

Professionally experienced architect &

Lighting. Internationally experienced architect

Department with 15 years of experience of

lighting designer is the Program Director at

and Lighting Designer.

own practice, keen on bringing practice and

KTH for the masters in Architectural Lighting

education closer together.

Design.

Ute Besenecker Associate Professor in Architectural Lighting, researcher and designer with 20 years of architectural and lighting design experience.

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1. Kristineberg bridge, Sara Sandkvist 2. Nature Mapping, 2020 3. Light model, Amy, Sara, Ossian, Jeff 4. Window construction drawing 5. Light collage

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Fragmentation and Coherence Teachers: Carmen Izquierdo, Jesús Azpeitia, Peter Lynch

To practice well the architect must understand a remarkably broad

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range of concerns, from spirit and atmosphere to waterproofing and

The Göta canal (1806-1832) remains Sweden’s most important

flashing. We help you develop a productive and enjoyable design

infrastructure project. With Trollhätte Canal it forms an inland

method that circulates freely between objective and subjective

waterway between east and west coasts. It was built before steam

criteria, fact and intuition, in a consequential and productive way. We

power and dynamite: the channel was dug by hand. We focus on the

approach comprehensive architectural design tasks via three sister

stretch south and west of Norrköping, between Vättern and the

disciplines: landscape architecture, urban design, and structural

Baltic. Identify important architectural and landscape elements in your

design. We encourage you to deepen your understanding of these

study area and represent them in a digital parallel projection line

fields.

drawing. Projection type, technique, and scale should be chosen to

We emphasize line drawing, hand sketching, physical modeling,

represent all key elements – large and small – with an equal hand.

and physical prototyping. Since early 2020 we emphasize digital

Don’t focus on the canal alone, but on significant elements and

rendering as an in-process design tool—capable of testing subtle

features that the canal strings together: roads, allées, estates,

qualities of light and mood. We collaborate with KTH Byggvetenskap

churches, embankments, locks, bollards... Your drawing is a

department. For environmental and pedagogical reasons, we focus

diachronic story of the character and history of the region.

on contemporary timber-hybrid construction methods and materials.

Part 2: Working alone, make a design intervention in your study

Students present their work in a public exhibition at year’s end.

area that clarifies or enriches the character of the place. The proposal

Participation in the show—design, installation, de-installation—is a

can be at any scale and can involve changes or additions to any type

required part of the course.

of element: landscape, architectural, infrastructural. The project

Since 2017 many of the studio’s projects have been sited in Norrköping, a former industrial city on the Motala River, southwest of

draws upon ideas and strategies of Barcelona architect-urbanist Manuel de Sola Morales (1939-2012).

Stockholm. Through urban, architectural, landscape, and structural design projects, we have studied the city systematically– focusing on

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the historical center and industrial quarter, then moving outwards to

Movable Timber-Hybrid Bridge over Göta Canal

major boulevard nodes, the Motala river corridor, and the immediate

Working in small groups, make a proposal for a new movable bridge

periphery. This term we end our investigation with a territorial

over the canal at one of three locations. Investigate contemporary

perspective

timber construction methods/materials. Resolve all aspects of the project, from site planning to construction detailing. Key collaborators: structural engineer Roberto Crocetti and materials scientist Magnus Wålinder (KTH Byggvetenskap), Norrköpings kommun.

!!! Please note: Fragmentation and Coherence Stuidio is given the last time during the autumn of 2020. The Urbanism and Landscape Studio is offered in the spring .

Peter Lynch

Carmen Izquierdo

Jesús Azpeitia

PL is a KTH Guest Professor, has run his

CI is an architect COAM, SAR-MSA, runs

JA is creative director at Tengbom. He has

own office since 1991. Building Culture PLA

her own firm Esencial AB. CI is passionate

taught at KTH since 2006. In 2012 he was

focuses on applied research in architecture,

about a visionary architecture that brings

named KTH teacher of the year. His practice

urbanism, and building technology.

poetry to our everyday lives, that unites art

is focused on sustainable development and

Stuckeman Visiting Professor, Penn State,

and technology. Her work has been awarded

design; creative processes that lead to high-

2015. Cranbrook Architecture Head 1996-

with the Kasper Salin Prize. She has taught

quality architecture; and on gender equality

05. Has taught at Harvard GSD, Columbia,

at the School of Architecture at KTH in both

and diversity. His pedagogy emphasizes

RISD, and Parsons.

undergraduate and master's programs.

innovation, aesthetics, and tectonics.

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1. Proposal for timber-hybrid pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Motala River, Norrköping.

View of large-scale model at final presentation. Boyd Hellier Knox, Julius Puttkammer, and Josef Vild.

2. Proposal for timber-hybrid pedestrian and cycle bridge over the Motala River, Norrköping.

Photomontage. Victor Johansson and Anton Valek, HT 2019 studio project.

3. “Timescape Garden”: detail of landscape design proposal for Fåfängen and Danviksbergen, Södermalm, Stockholm. Julia Thiem, HT 2019 studio project.

4. Study of Økern cultural landscape, Oslo. Detail of reconstructed industrial landscape in 1938. Emma Moberg, VT 2020 Diploma Project..

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Housing Studio Teachers: Erik Stenberg, Frida Rosenberg

Muddy and Motley Mass Housing for Millions of Homes

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The Housing Studio will explore and design mass housing solutions

Prototyping Mass Housing

from several perspectives, such as prefabrication, material

Studies of prototypes in mass housing, indicating a testing of

technology, tectonics and sustainability as well as portraying

materials, structural systems, apartment conditions and the urban

historical circumstances and exploring living conditions. One focus

setting. We will locate, map and analyze Swedish and international

will be on the implications of the Welfare State housing production.

examples in East and West Europe, as well as North and South

While we believe there are many lessons to be learned from this

America of mass housing prototypes. An important aspect will be the

particular point in time in Sweden, we also argue for a broader

documentation and communication of your research. These do not

understanding of the vast network of mass housing developments

necessary mean cataloguing in an ordinary sense, but more as ways

across the globe. In addition, building in the face of climate change

of exploring representation in drawings and model making in order to

urges us to seriously (re-)consider how to build with systems and

communicate research. Our ambition is to exhibit the material.

materials. By mapping, analyzing, and recreating a catalogue of housing environments, their structural similarities as well as

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contextual differences may give vital clues to some of the

The Collective Prototype

unanswered questions of emergent and contemporary housing

Ideal living formats and revisions, recreations and reconstructions of

issues. Why does the automated production of housing still remain

existing mass housing to produce shared space. How do we dwell?

aesthetically similar? How much of the social challenge of Post War

In what ways is it possible to explore and use unconventional

mass housing environments rests in their architecture? When will the

solutions in mass housing, if these might be technical inventions or

Housing Question be answered?

social experiments or adapt to current forms of living? An important aspect of the project is to understand the possibilities in the

Studio Methodology

construction systems of mass housing as well as questioning space

The studio proposes a process of designing mass housing as it

related to function, outdated norms and family constellations.

relates to structural and material methods intimately tied with a historical perspective. We think that design through knowledge in

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material and architectural technology implicates the understanding of

Industrialized Wood Systems

tectonics and space. Our ambition is to give students a thorough

Deconstruction of cutting-edge prefabricated wood systems. What

knowledge of the processes and mechanics of housing in order to

can we learn from current Swedish and international development of

upgrade and improve the architects’ role in current building

mass housing solutions in wood? We will pick apart, analyze and

production. The studio will foster an empathetic attitude for the

reconstruct an array of wood system solutions offered by and to

complementary roles of the architect and engineer. Our primary tools

architects today and compare these with international systems on the

will be surveying/cataloguing and drawings of both new and

market. The studio will methodologically plot and record wood

historical precedents as part of our mapping phase. Each semester

construction in mass housing through interviews, visits to

will include a phase of identifying and researching existing examples

construction sites and architecture offices.

as well as a design phase proposing reconstructions of existing and/or new mass housing. Our teaching methodology proactively

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engages with contemporary practices by extensively making use of

Collective Living in Wood

case studies and site visits.

Designing contemporary mass housing in a globalized world. We will design a new mass housing solution with focus on the collective aspects. Given a specific site and context, a new housing typology, a new series of homes, a new structural system, and/or a new urban condition will be explored and designed. A text reflecting on the design will also be written.

Erik Stenberg

Frida Rosenberg

ES is an Associate Professor in Architecture

FR is a lecturer in Architecture teaching both

with 20 years of teaching experience also

design and history/theory courses. She has a

engaged in housing research. He has a

PhD in Architecture history with a focus on

special affinity for the Swedish Million

architectural technology, which analyzed the

Program Era and is currently pursuing

introduction of steel construction in post war

solutions to the contemporary Housing

Sweden in relation to the collaborative

Question in the face of climate change.

aspect of making architecture.

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1. Ralph Erskine and Skånska Cementgjuteriet, Växjö 1955 from Vi Cementgjutare nr 2: 1955.

2. Student exhibit at Stadsarkivet Liljeholmskajen, published in Arkitekten November 2019.

3. Students Niklas Dierks and Leo Friedmann, analysis of Ralph Erskine's 1955 Växjö project 2019.

4. Student Hongyou Wan, intervention in Ohlsson & Skarne and HSB's 1968 Brf Päronet in Tensta 2019.

5. Fourth year students, Folkhem and Martinsson pages from a catalogue of contemporary structural systems 2020

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Making Teachers: Fredrik Stenberg, Nina Taghavi

Studio Theme

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We work in scale 1:1 and we explore the realization. We studied the

Formgiving: Ideology, conviction, pathos

built in details with details. We talk about what we can see, touch

We start with a manifest, or a letter of intent as a starting point. With

and feel with our senses and the body’s influence in the build. We

conscious choices we make structures. We move towards letting the

look closely at the materials and study how the materials build

intention of the designer being the active agent.

spaces. We do not study 2D renderings, but rather 3Dstructures

A manifesto is a published declaration of the intentions, motives, or

through engineering. We do not talk about scenarios and

views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or

hypotheses, but rather learning by MAKING and the reMAKING. We

government [Wikipedia]

sketch 3D and we stay (or reside) in the productive zone by MAKING. It's a practical merit.

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"The ability to build assumes the knowledge of all architecture

The architect takes a step back and leans against the process. The

and construction forms, as well as their development. To build

goal is not to design the ultimate form or shape but rather to find it

means to advance this process, to investigate, and to make. The

with the help of different processes. We’ll make design by letting the

development of buildings began over ten thousand years ago

process be the active agent

and has reached an extremely high level, but is in no way a closed process. There are still an infinite number of open

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possibilities, infinite discoveries to make."

Ornament – Representation

(A Conversation with Frei Otto, Juan María Songel 2004)

Perhaps you have during your studies so far stumbled across the architect word: tectonics? Gottfried Semper talks about tectonics

Studio Methodology

being the result of two principles in architecture. First you have the

Designing and making is key to the design process here in order to

structure of the space/building what he calls the core-form. What is

gain new insights and knowledge. The process as well as the

needed to hold it up, to build to make it stand. The second principle

outcomes are essential parts of the discourse, the evidence. The

is the ornament called the art-form. When the art-form is masking the

results are communicated through design work as well as placed in a

core-form we talk about ornament and when you can't distinguish the

field of references and understanding. The design begins at the

art-form from the core-form we talk about tectonics. We will make

outset. It is not about design as an adjective, it's about design as a

structures by letting the art-form be the active agent.

noun. It's not about consuming or referring to design, it's about making it. Throughout the year we will approach the design process

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in different ways by letting different agents be the active force within

Material – Tectonics

the framework of the projects. The agent being the carrier, the

There is a tradition within architecture of going to the material and

responsible to whom you lean towards. We will work, the agent will

asking it what I can do. Implying that there is an underlying tectonical

operate.

logic in every material. We will build structures having the tectonics

We will work transdisciplinary through workshops with artists, set

being the active agent.

designers, curators, carpenters and engineers. 50% of the time we will be out in the field and the rest at the school. The nature of the building project demands 80% of an 40 h week during daytime. We will not do a study trip outside Stockholm or perhaps no more than a small daily excursion. We relate to sustainability through using re- and upcycled materials and by relating ourselves economically to material, time and money by examining materials' diverse aspects.

Fredrik Stenberg

Nina Taghavi

FS is an architect based in Stockholm. He

NT has been an architect in Stockholm since

has worked as a lecturer at KTH since 2016.

2008 (hons) and a teacher/lecturer at KTH

He is one of the founding members in the

school of Architecture since 2014. Between

collective Uglycute and participated in the

the years 2010–14 she worked in an

Art and Architecture Biennale (2003 and

architecture firm in Paris. Today she runs her

2010) in Venice, and are represented in the

firm next to teaching and draw housing

collections of Moderna museet.

projects, interiors or make scenography.

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1. The Manhattan transcripts, Bernard Tschumi 1976.

2. Victor Papanek, Design for the real world (1971).

3. Supergraphics by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon in the Moonraker Athletic Center, Sea Ranch California, 1966.

4. Bella Rune: XYZ at Galleri Magnus Karlsson, 2019.

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Northern Grounds Teachers: Cecilia Lundbäck, Ulrika Karlsson

Studio Theme

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The studio will continue its focus on architecture and its

Collecting Points

representations by starting a 3-year theme looking towards the north

The first project will engage in a design research through capturing,

– the larger area in and around northern Scandinavia where diverse

recording, translating and storing of information that will form the

cultures, ecologies and interests reside across national boundaries.

point of departure for the design of a new a train station, including a

The area holds important recourses of raw materials (iron, wood, oil

pick up point, a delivery station, a small market, a square and a

and energy stored in highly located waters) and industries for their

meeting point in the Norrbotten region of the North. Through critical

processing. The right to the use of land and water is also a heated

and explorative use of 3D scanning techniques, the studio will push

and greatly debated question. The studio will engage a series of sites

the idea of architectural representations and the storage of

of the north - natural, museal, fictive as well as places in the

information engaging with the collection of millions of points and

electronic weave.

moving images. These processes both preserve, repair and construct

This year the studio will have a specific architectural focus on the

sites as well as affect architecture’s relationship to crafted aesthetic

illusory and instable concepts of grounds, interiors and their coming

tendencies that emerge when translating between various mediums.

together as interior grounds. The levelling, construction and elevation of ground marks the difference between the interior and the urban or

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rural rougher surroundings of a possible outside, a process of

Interior Grounds

domesticating land, engaging both aspects of communal effort and

The collected points, representational techniques and design

community’s control as described by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino

methods developed in the first part of the semester will be further

Tattara. Another account of the architectural aspect of the ground

developed for the design of this new train station or junction. These

can be found in the mound being one of four elements of architecture

alterations may critically engage the architectural disassembly and

of Gottfried Semper.

reassembly of grounds, interior grounds, ground as infrastructure, interior infrastructures.

Teaching Methodology How we work affects what we produce. We focus on design

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research through making and encourage a curious exploration of the

Recollection – Hågkomst

aesthetic implications of machinic processes for representation and

During the second semester the studio will look into the design of a

production. This will entail deploying tools and techniques of

larger and more complex architectural project of an archive in the

mediation for acquiring, representing, cataloguing and designing -

north. Archives of the north forms systems and practices of

from machine learning and AI to robotic manufacturing and image

recollection; through archiving and displaying, storing and keeping

processing. The entwined relationships between physical and digital,

safe. The architecture, construction and materiality of the archive will

real and virtual, human and machine, continue to produce sensibilities

be considered in parallel to the archive as data set, as collection of

where our understanding of notions of place, image and architecture

information. To add to the repertoire of techniques for collection and

may be challenged. Contrary to a linear approach where

mediation we will use AI - artificial intelligences to process

technological processes are applied for optimization, this studio

information, images and other sets of data.

adopts a bi-directional approach where they are instead drivers for design development. We aim to offer and discuss different takes on

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how architectural history, theory, practice and culture informs the

Archives of the North

work. Through design, the students’ collaborative and individual work

During the end of the semester the archives of the north will go

will contribute to architectural discourse and its dialog with

through a design development phase, where students get an

contemporary society, art, popular culture and aesthetics.

opportunity to experiment and develop a set of representations and presentations of their projects. We will return to issues around the role of architectural representations including moving images in architecture and the concept of the super image and super model.

Cecilia Lundbäck

Ulrika Karlsson

is an architect and partner of the architectural

UK is an architect and landscape architect,

practice Brrum. She is a lecturer at KTH

partner of the architectural practice Brrum as

School of Architecture and has taught since

well as of Servo Stockholm. She is a

2015. At KTH she is also engaged in artistic

Professor in Architecture at the KTH School

research within the field of architecture

of Architecture and currently a Guest

funded by VR. She has previously worked at

Professor at Städelschule, Frankfurt. At KTH

SandellSandberg and has a background in

she is engaged in artistic research within the

furniture design and making.

field of architecture funded by VR.

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1. Ralph Erskine, 1958.

2. Architect Osvald Almqvist.

3. Stora Sjรถfallet., Point cloud study,.

4. Superdrawing, Rikke Winther and Sindri Sigurdsson, studio project, 2018.

5. Machine Architecture, Max Spett, studio diploma project, 2018.

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Out of Practice Teachers: Anders Berensson, Malin Heyman

Studio Theme

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What are the elements that constitute architectural practice today,

Taking Measures / Site Survey

and how do we practice becoming practitioners? Out of Practice

After revisiting processes for how land is surveyed, we will propose

sets out to take a few close looks at an entangled contemporary

priorities for what and how to measure through the production of

architectural practice by isolating selected aspects for study in order

drawings to scale and 1:1 drawing on site.

to discern their potentials and pitfalls. Out of Practice argues first, that the tools and methods used in architectural practice have

Room for Whom / Project Description

significant effects on the resulting architectures as well as on the

We reflect on speculative project descriptions by composing our own

consequences of their production, and second, that past and present

science fiction manuscripts to be acted out on site in 1:1 using

structures of power are embedded within these tools and methods.

bodies and props.

By attentively and playfully using, discussing and attempting to challenge them, we hope to slowly start untangling our

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understanding of what agency we have as practitioners. By working

Shoot, the Picture! / Collage

an embodied perspective into all experiments as well as working out

Architecture imagines futures. In this project we imagine through

our imagination, we will practice making ourselves aware of our own

collaging images and visualizing in detail 1:1.

points of view and exercise our empathy.

Stock Check / Room Specifications Teaching Methodology

The contemporary production of buildings is to a significant degree a

Projects will be short and focused over the course of the academic

matter of combining readymade products. We will study the architect

year. By isolating one fundamental aspect/method of practice at a

as shopper and use room specifications as our tool.

time and providing frameworks for how our work oscillates between production and reflection, we aim to improve our command over each

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method as well as deepen our understanding of histories and effects

What’s the Matter? / Building System

that may otherwise be overlooked. On the topic of each method, we

Through work in groups constructing a (very) small building, we study

will learn both from a representative from within architectural/building

a common building system in all its parts and functions by first

practice and a guest from another field where the same method is

building according to standard and then reconstruct.

applied. As both deliverables and manner of working will vary significantly between projects, we intend for different abilities,

Reviewing the Reference / Architectural Review

inclinations and previous experience within the student group to

Considering what aspects of architecture are habitually reviewed as

come to light at different points of the year.

well as used as reference, we look for variety in perspective through the production of written reviews on existing architectures.

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Hold Your Own / Your Choice Students individually make their own choice for an aspect of architectural practice to study, as well as decide on format for output.

Anders Berensson

Malin Heyman

AB is an architect educated at Chalmers

MH is an architect educated at KTH, the

University of technology and KTH. AB has

Cooper Union in New York and the Royal

worked at OMA, co-founded visionsdivision

Institute of Art in Stockholm. After ten years

and is currently director of Anders Berensson

of working as an architect at Petra Gipp

Architects. AB is a lecturer at KTH School of

arkitektur, MH co-founded the practice AT -

Architecture and has previously taught KTH

HH. MH is a lecturer at KTH School of

Master Studio, Full Scale Studio.

Architecture and has previously taught first year and master level design studios.

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1. Arnold Pumping Iron, Los Angeles Times Archives.

2. Assembly line robots, www.bigmarketresearch.com 3. Roxanne Williamson, Career Connections of Major American Architects, from American Architects and the Mechaniscs of Fame, 1991.

4. The secret history of woman in coding, New Yorks Times 5. The functions of the architect mural by Ruth Ellis for the Building Centre's New Bond Street exhibitions 6. World War II airplane production, www.history.com.

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Peripheral Futures Teachers: Ori Merom, Rumi Kubokawa

“To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it

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really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in

Home

a moment of danger.”

The notion of home has different implications, informed by our

Walter Benjamin

memories, experiences, culture and aspirations, yet all of us seek to feel at home. Reflecting on the experience of the current crisis, its open ended nature and a sense that from now on we cannot go back

The studio will work with the periphery as a project, and examine

to business as usual, we will attempt to define the home of the post-

ways in which architecture can work with models and methods that

crisis; this project will examine the dynamics of conflicts surrounding

respond to the possibility of re-thinking the occupation of such

the home as places, working with concepts of imperfection and

territories. Exploring architecture from the notion of being in the

tolerance to reveal a process grounded on acute observation and

periphery, things happening at the margins, seeing the world from a

precision.

peripheral place.

We will incorporate an awareness of change brought by an unusual

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set of circumstances: the sudden possibility of halting economic

The Context of Home

progress, with lives under expanded control, when no stability

To design is to define a context and to re-shape the given.

(political, economical or social) is assured. We will explore our

Considering the context of home, we will reassess the essential

preparedness and necessity to live with uncertainties and impart

structures necessary to support this new life – from ecologies to

qualities found in this new condition. Not in a distant utopia but a

infrastructures; attempting to find freedom in the limitations imposed

closer alternative to a world more and more encapsulated in rules

by the curtailment of our social lives, examining the social

and regulations. We will consider the fragility of life but not create

relationships afforded by the disruption of the conventional image of

buildings as a protection from the strangeness of the world.

the built environment as a stable entity and challenging the orthodoxies of progress and growth.

Studio Methodology The challenge of architectural education arises from the teachers'

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dual role: they are asked to lead, yet play only a supportive role. The

Peripheral Stories

studio proposes a teaching towards the unknown, as a shared

Magical realism is defined as what happens when a highly detailed,

discovery. Students are taught to respond to and act on their own

realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe.

vision and creativity. This involves a pact of trust between teachers

This project will use text to explore in drawings the spatial

and students, the pact is about personal development. Success

relationship between people and buildings, the kinship between

means that students managed to form their own architectural identity,

architecture and human gestures and the world they describe. The

understand their strengths and weaknesses, exploit the former and

immediacy and the precision of drawings to figure something out, the

find ways to overcome the latter.

thinking drawing that asks questions and seeks to understand the

This framework involves a custom tailored education that supports

paradoxes of the world as a constructed entity.

the specific development of each student with a holistic program that inspires students to think broadly and in an interdisciplinary manner;

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amalgamate learning and research that supports the study of applied

Peripheral Communities

issues of sustainability and construction.

This project will take place in the north of Sweden. Reflecting on the current climate emergency and architecture’s lack of engagement with it, we will reconsider the outpost as a viable place of community.

Developing the ideas from peripheral stories, we will explore different concepts for community, new forms of social and cultural relationships constructing narratives of how we live together, and the implications of these in spatial practice.

Ori Merom

Rumi Kubokawa

OM i s an architect and teacher.

RK is an architect and teacher. Has practiced

www.meromarchitects.com

in the UK and taught at The University of

www.corsaroarchitetti.it/

East London.

www.hey5.xyz

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1. Paulina Aydin Home in Diaspora, Diploma Honours 2020

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Public Service Teachers: Karin Matz, Rutger Sjögrim

What constitutes an architecture in service of others? Places where

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we labour to care for others? Spaces where we work to build and

Over And Over And Over Again

sustain a life that is shared with others?

We have cleaning and exercise routines for our own bodies. But what

Understanding architectural space as intimately linked to the

is the cleaning routine for our built environment? What goes into

production of both biological life and the lives that we live and share,

keeping our cities in shape? We will spend the first half of the

and also thinking of public space as a place for discourse, friction,

autumn semester digging into the world of cleaning our everyday

conflict and negotiation; studio Public Service will interrogate and

environments; the invisible work which is being performed constantly

design architectures of shifting scales. We will move from the precise

in our cities. We will focus on the people who work with this invisible

contours and shapes interacting with the labouring body in acts of

everyday maintenance and the architecture they inhabit!

maintenance and care, to the spatial enclosures capable of sustaining and creating community and a shared public life, onwards

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to the architectural complexes of mass media production and

Our House

transmission in the service of a public life at the scale of population.

What is a public space? What are the material realities of public

Through a yearlong investigation we will interrogate the processes,

spaces and what constitutes a life that is public? A life that is not

environments and labour that builds and sustains our public, shared,

work and not domestic, not labour and not recuperation. A life that is

and mediated lives.

shared, where we construct ourselves as political subjects.

Studio methodology

will focus on the program (what will be in it?) and conceptual analysis

Our method rests on an openness to multiplicity (in interests,

(why?), designing archetypes for public buildings and then finding

perspectives, and disciplines); and equal amounts of criticality,

sites for them to infiltrate, challenge and inhabit.

The project will task you with the design of a public building. We

optimism, collaboration, joy and rigor. The schedule consists of weekly tutorials with teachers and a weekly lecture (in tools, the

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practice, or theory), seminar or group review.

Public Service – Broadcast

Through the year we will work with a sequence of projects that

Building on the experience from the first semester (the maintenance

move from small to large. Each project presents a certain toolset

of space and the production of public space), we now turn our focus

(techniques of representation as well as techniques of interrogation)

to the production and maintenance of a nationwide mediated public

that is carried on to the next project. For each project there is a shift

space through the design of a new headquarters for the Swedish

in scale, focus and distribution.

public broadcasting companies; SVT (television), SR (radio) and UR (educational media).

We will investigate both existing and future needs, the shifting landscapes of broadcast media as well as the political and cultural role of an independent public broadcasting organisation. The project will focus on program and conceptual design, site selection and urban scale massing, leading up to a level of completion comparable to a competition entry.

Project 4 Public Service – Building For the final project it is time to inhabit, develop, refine, and explore the design proposed in the previous project. As we investigate strategies and techniques for controlling large scale projects from the urban level down to details and atmosphere, your projects will be fully articulated and detailed into a material environment.

Karin Matz

Rutger Sjögrim

KM is an architect (Edinburgh College of Art,

RS is an architect (MSc. Arch, KTH), lecturer

the University of Queensland, and KTH

at the School of Architecture at KTH and a

(MSc. Arch)), lecturer at the School of

principal at the architecture office

Architecture at KTH and principal at the

SECRETARY.

architecture office SECRETARY.

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1. Edwin Östlund Stockman, Headquarters for a large corporation, year four project vt ‘20 2. Lisa Chen, Headquarters for a large corporation, year four project vt ‘20 3. Anders Johnsson, Movements and Space, diploma project vt ‘19 4. A worker cleaning the windows of an apartment block in Beijing's central business district.

5. BBC News studio 6. Erik Ahnborg and Sune Lindström, Radiohuset Stockholm

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RETeachers: Mikael Bergquist, Thordis Arrhenius

CHANGE

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A central effect of global capitalism is the pressure of change. Urban

Archive

patterns and building programs are increasingly becoming redundant,

Archive is divided into a series of speculative workshops that will

demanding change to accommodate new functions, identities and

explore Stockholm’s postmodern heritage in collaboration with

economies. At an accelerating speed, dominated by the logic of

ArkDes. The workshops will form the studios documentary archive

obsolescence, the built becomes outdated and turned into waste.

and working material.

This in turn raises a new urgency for contemporary architectural culture to start addressing the pressure of change in alternative

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modes.

RE-Public Thep project is the development of an individual project based on the

PRESERVATION

findings in the workshops. Focusing specifically on publicness and

With the fundamental shift in our contemporary understanding of

ornament the project should be developed from architectural detail to

spatial and material resources, the architect is no longer primarily

urban scale.

occupied with making the new from scratch, but with making the new out of the past. In this condition preservation has won a new

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relevance for architecture that goes far beyond saving its canon of

RE-Store

buildings. In the urgent context of climate change preservation is

The project is an individual design proposal for the restoration of a

moving from the fringe of architectural culture into its core.

public space in Stockholm. Based on a real case scenario, the project should be fully developed from site and program to building

Re Master at KTH School of Architecture is a new master studio that

scale.

started in the autumn of 2019, with the aim of addressing the notion of change, permeance and resilience through the means of

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restoration, reuse and repair. We explore the already built, the already

RE-Publication

thought and imagined, on paper or in concrete, in pasts and in the

RE-Piubliation is a collaborative publication of the studios material

now, with the overall objective to push preservation into the core of

that will be the 3rd iteration in an ongoing series.

architectural production today For more information please see publications RE/01 and RE/02: www.remasterstudio.com www.issuu.com/kth-arkitekturskolan

Mikael Bergquist

Thordis Arrhenius

MB is an architect living and working in

TA is an architect and researcher educated at

Stockholm. Educated at KTH and the

KTH, the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen

Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Started

and the AA. Her teaching and research is

his own office 1996. Editor and curator of

characterised by a dedication to

various books and exhibitions. The latest book

contemporary critical issues in heritage and

is ”Josef Frank: Villa Carlsten”, (Park Books,

urbanism. Her publications include:

2019) Participated in the Alternative Histories

”Experimental Preservation”, (Lars Müller

exhibition in London, Brussels 2019–20.

Publisher, 2016).

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1. Outtake from 3d scan of Stockholm Public Library. Student: Oliver Cassidy.

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Searching for Ma – Investigations of Space and Time Teachers: Leif Brodersen, Teres Selberg

Studio Theme

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Specificities in relation to artistic interdisciplinary production as

Reinterpreting Symmetries and Form

generators for ecological sustainability and social inclusion. Studies

Through deeper studies of emblematic buildings and their specific

of symmetry will be followed by complexity and contradictions.

beauty and qualities, we will develop an understanding for

Geometrical and irregular form and patterns as generators for

symmetrical and irregular composition, geometrical or random form

architectural space will be analyzed in selected architectural

as generators for architectural space. We will first document, re-

masterpieces - and we will propose design projects for alterations

represent and analyze existing architectural masterpieces. In the

and deconstructions. In the Fall, we will research natural and

second part of the project we will develop individual architectural

manmade landscapes in order to design a small Cultural Center in

projects by making alterations of the studied buildings. The project

memory of the artist Hilma af Klint at Munsö in Ekerö. In the Spring

definition is optional; deconstruction, studies of mannerism,

semester, we will learn from the Japanese context examining diversity,

reinterpretation, paraphrase, additions, alterations etc.

metabolism and other conceptions of space and time. We will also study different artistic interdisciplinary tools and methods, first the

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relation to dance and choreography and later between filmmaking

Hilma af Klint Center

and architecture. We will design a Dance House in the Million

By re-defining interpretations and using methods from the first

Programme context of Vårberg and a Film Studio Residence within

project, as well as studying the interplay between art and nature, we

the dense urban fabric of the megacity Tokyo.

will design an Cultural Center in memory of the artist Hilma af Klint at Munsö, Ekerö. The program includes an exhibition space, workshop

Teaching Methodology

areas and a small library. The surrounding landscape and how it can

This studio investigates different experiences of architecture and

be reshaped to create a fictive or spiritual parallel experience will be

conceptions of space in relation to the synthesizing design process.

of great focus. Studies of cultural landscapes, man made nature and

We explore basic architectural concepts such as gravity, emptiness,

sustainable ecological approaches.

speed, light, sound, color, tactility, etc. We have developed a methodology wherein students and teachers collaborate in a kind of

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research-by-design structure. The students define and formulate their

Dance House in Vårberg

own projects from a given topic and self-program their projects to

In this project we will study different artistic tools and methods

reflect on the problems and possibilities described in the analysis

focusing on dance and choreography and develop individual

and definition of the context. The aim is to provide tools and methods

architectural projects investigating the relationships between dance,

in order to give the students an independent, innovative, artistic,

movement, gravity, body and space. The brief is a small dance house

professional, ethical, and scientific identity. Every project is specific

for the local youth in the suburb of Vårberg, intending to use dance

and independent, but also relates to the general theme.

as social interaction and cultural production for social sustainability.

Project 4 Film Studio Residence Ii Tokyo In this project we will study Japanese traditional and contemporary culture and architecture, including important concepts such as ‘Ma’ and ‘Oku’. The brief has its starting point in the understanding of the diverse urban fabric of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area as well as in the concept of film-making (directing, editing, and producing) in relation to architecture and contemporary cultural movements. These studies will be applied in the design of a Film Studio Residence in Tokyo.

LEIF BRODERSEN

TERES SELBERG

LB started teaching at the KTH School of

TS is an Adjunct Teacher at KTH

Architecture in 1996. and an Associate

Architecture. She runs her own artistic

Professor since 2004 . He served as Head of

practice connecting dance and architecture

the School 2005-2012. He is also a founding

and is a member of the organization

partner at the Stockholm-based practice

Dansbana! creating public places for dance.

2BK Arkitekter, established 1999.

2006 she co-founded Architects without frontiers in Sweden.

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1. Kunio Maekawa House, 1942 2. Cloudscapes by Tetsuo Kondo at the 12th Architecture Biennale in Venice, 2010 3. Tokyo, Koenji urban fabric.

4. Okurayama apartments by Kazuyo Seijima, 2008 5. Studio 24, Roy Andersson Film Production 6. Bodies in Urban Spaces by Willie Dorner, 2014 7. Hilma Af Klint - The Swan, No. 12, Group IX SUW, 1915

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Urbanism and Landscape Studio Teachers: Ania Öst, Hanna Erixon Aalto, Måns Tham

Artificial inhabited islands, growing reeves, or eiderdown farming?

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What will the future habitats and practices of Stockholmers be?

A communicative strategic general plan for the development of new

The Urbanism and Landscape Studio focuses on cities, landscapes

relationships between Stockholm and its water borders is developed.

and territories in the broader context of the environmental crisis.

The masses excavated for the subway is the main agent of change.

What can the role of designers be in addressing Agenda 2030,

Through the lens of art and architecture we will test and project

including urgent and interconnected problems such as rapid

scenarios for where and how new relations with water could develop.

urbanization, biodiversity loss, social inequity and severe global climate changes affecting our cities? Drawing on the nexus of ideas

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within landscape/ecological urbanism, resilience theory, and the

P4 is a stand-alone project. Each student will develop a proposal for

environmental humanities, the studio challenges the modernist idea

how a new habitat of Stockholm can develop in a resilient way.

of the city as a fixed, delimited territory contrasting the ‘natural’ world

Designing a habitat includes shaping physical structures and

around us. Instead, we explore landscape and ecology as organizers

environments for humans as well as other agents that are grown out

of urban space; as providers of catalytic urban strategies that can

of sustainable practices and cultures. Our aim is to compare vastly

embrace complexity, multi-functionality and change over time.

different outcomes and trajectories. P3 and P4 will include guest

Teaching methodology

lectures and seminars with renowned scholars such as Nina-Marie

We empower students to develop a critical and systematic outlook to the urban and global problems we face through the study of

Lister at Ryerson and Klaus Loenhart, at TU Graz, and the work will result in an exhibition.

hands-on. Urban design is an inclusive, reflective and, by necessity, transdisciplinary practice and we work closely with decision makers, activists, local organizations, and experts. Learning from history, we will study how forces of nature, culture and infrastructure have shaped city life. Through combining the critical and the suggestive; analysis and innovation, we develop bold scenarios that reframe the human-nature relationship. We see outcomes that reveal unexpected potentials ranging in scale from the territorial, the neighborhood, down to the detail of a home.

Mass and Water In the spring of 2021, the studio is part of an ongoing collaboration between the City of Stockholm, KTH and a studio of practitioners.

We investigate how millions of tons of stone generated during the expansion of Stockholm's subway can be the catalyst for new resilient urban environments. Historically, land rise and the conjunction of freshwater and saltwater is the raison d'être of Stockholm. Considering the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels and increased water flows—as well as the rapid growth of Stockholm—the studio sees the opportunity to take a holistic approach to the potential that 7 million tons of rock brings. The challenges are severe: The Baltic ecosystem is collapsing and by 2050, the sea level rise is estimated to exceed the land rise. In 2100 Lake Mälaren could once again become part of the Baltic Sea and the city would lose its drinking water supply. !!! Please note: This studio is just given in the spring of 2021 and is mainly available for those who’ve taken the Fragmentation and Coherence Studio.

Ania Öst

Hanna Erixon Aalto

Måns Tham

AÖ is a multidisciplinarian with a master in

HEA is an architect and urbanist, writer and

MT is an architect and urban strategist. He

architecture. AÖ combines practice with

lecturer. She holds a doctor in Philosophy

received his education at Lunds School of

research and has taught in higher education

with the thesis Projecting Urban Natures and

Architecture, UC Berkeley and Mejan-ARC in

since 2010 at KTH and at TU Graz, Austria.

has taught since 2005 at KTH. The core of

Stockholm. He has taught at KTH since

She is starting up the practice GAIA ark, with

her interest revolves around finding new

2014 and runs his own practice Måns Tham

like-minded, focusing on reconnecting human

ways of involving a multitude of actors in the

Arkitektkontor (manstham.com) that focuses

habitats with our living environment through

development of resilient future strategies for

on urban planning, proactive strategies and

innovation.

sustainable landscapes.

built architecture.

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2. Rethinking happiness, curated by Aldo Cibic at the Venice Architecture Biennale. 2010.

3. Agnes Denes, Wheatfield—A Confrontation. 1982. Photo by John McGrall.

4. LCLA Office, MEDELLIN.The river-that-is-not. Zona Norte, 2014.

5. Högdalstoppen, Svenska Dagbladet, Blomquist, Åke. 15 april 1957.

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