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Education Software

MArch / Lund University

September 2017 - February 2023

5-year architecture studies at Lund University, including bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

Adobe Creative Cloud Illustrator

InDesign

Photoshop

CAD-software

September 2021 - July 2022

Two semester exchange at the architecture master of Technische Universität Berlin.

Exchange year / TU Berlin Independent Courses

AutoCAD

ArchiCAD

Revit

3D and rendering software

I am an architect from Stockholm living in Berlin. I finished my masters’ studies at Lund University in 2023. Alongside my studies, I have gained professional experience as an intern at different architecture studios.

My personal interests involve art and architecture, as well as travelling and exploring new places. My passion lies in the process of design, and I highly value sustainability and care for material. I consider it to be of great importance to curiously and continuously explore architecture and its possibilities. Creative joy is very important to me.

In my portfolio I present some of the work I have done during my years as a student.

E: maria.bjurenhed@gmail.com

T: +46 709 12 83 50

Portfolio: issuu.com/mariabjurenhed

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mariabjurenhed

2013 - 2021

Lund-, Gothenburg and Stockholm University. Over 120 ECTS in psychology, philosophy, art and language studies.

Work Experience

Architecture Intern / JSa

August 2020 - March 2021

Mexico City. Internship involving design work for several different projects, within different project phases. The two main projects involved developing a large-scale educational project and a transformation of a town house.

Architecture Intern / Zeller y Moye

August 2019

Mexico City. Internship during university holiday. Tasks involving visualizations, drawings, and technical drawings.

Architecture Intern / Factotum

July 2019

Puerto Escondido. Internship during university holiday. Tasks involving visualizations and project research.

Recourse / IM Lund (Volunteer)

January 2017 - May 2017

Lund. Supporting newly arrvied refugees with school- and homework assignments.

Office Manager / Rewir

April 2015 - June 2016

Stockholm. Administration and service, including responsibility for office security economy assistance and purchase managing.

Rhinoceros

SketchUp

Corona Render Vray

About Me Languages Maria Bjurenhed

Swedish: Native English: Fluent

Spanish: Advanced German: B2.1

Flip Parkhaus

Work

Pages

Clouds

Pages 14-15.

ST. JACOBI ATELIERS

Pages

Fabriksbadet

Pages 22-29.

Inner Chapel

Pages 30-33.

LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.

PROGRAM: Hybrid housing, co-living and ateliers.

COURSE:

Degree project.

TEAM: Solo project.

Flip Parkhaus

Transformation of a car park into hybrid housing. Degree project, 2023.

Flip Parkhaus is a project developed to start a discussion about the current housing market. The project is based in Berlin, a city where the situation for those seeking housing has changed rapidly. People looking for a place to live must often search for a long time or pay an excessive rent, and those who are already housed often have to deal with unreasonable renting conditions.

Flip Parkhaus criticizes the housing market by proposing an alternative for those looking for accommodation. By organizing and initiating a transformation of an abandoned car park, new housing is created where previously there was only desolation. The transformed car park, Parkhaus 76, not only creates new housing, but also creates space for the public. There is room for creativity, play and space for discussion.

The parking garage is situated on Chausseestrasse 76 in Wedding, close to Berlin’s central areas. It is abandoned an unused since a couple of years and has a very favorable position on the site, making it suitable for a transformation project. With a school building to the east, a canal to the west and a schoolyard and football field to the south the site has a lot of potential for housing.

The original building is a typical parking garage in two levels. It is a deep, almost square, structure with pillars and beams carrying slabs at a low ceiling height. Today the only inhabitants are the city’s pigeons.

The transformation is carried out inside of the original building, keeping it mostly intact. Apartments and ateliers are created by adding sandwich plywood elements to create rooms within the structure.

The ground floors accommodate the entrance, ateliers and a café run by the residents.

The middle floors houses apartments as well as flexible common rooms shared between the residents.

On the roof, a playground, and apartments in the shape of townhouses are added, giving the whole building a new silhouette and a more human scale.

The shared nature of Parkhaus 76 is its strongest characteristic. Between the apartment units and the common rooms are completely public streets. These are open to everyone and becomes a meeting point between the public and the residents. The spaces next to the private apartments can be decorated however the residents like but because of the open nature of the interior streets, it is up to themselves to decide what type of furniture they feel comfortable placing here.

The typical apartments are 20 or 30 m² in size, with a small balcony of 0,6 m in width.

The apartments on the roof are 25 m² and 12,5 m² (for students). The student units have the same dimensions as a parking space. Students have access to a shared kitchen.

The apartments are Parkhaus 76 most private rooms. They are designed with plywood elements easy to match with different color, letting the inhabitants invest as much time and effort on their interior as they please.

When two smaller apartments lie next to each other, which happens in eight places of the project, there are possibilities for flexible solutions.

By removing one wall a larger apartment of 40 m² for three people is created.

LOCATION: Malmö, Sweden.

PROGRAM:

Scenography and urban installation.

COURSE: Basic course.

TEAM: Maria Bjurenhed & Amanda Angelhag.

Clouds

Scenography for an urban play. Third semester, 2018.

Clouds is a scenography for a famous Swedish play written by August Strindberg. A Dreams Play is based on the angel Agnes who comes down from the heavens to witness the troublesome life among humans.

The projects Clouds suggests a scenography controlled from the skies. The means are simple: to build a large clothesline-like structure above the square in Malmö that constitutes the stage and fill it with semitransparent plastic sheets. Clouds is a light and uncomplicated scenography that creates many possibilities.

The layering of the plastic sheets creates depth in the scenery, allowing the actors to move through the sheets between their scenes. The property of the play can also be created with the sheets, through ”objects” made of the same plastic, lowered down from the lines above. The color of the sky will determine the backdrop and by hanging the plastic in layers, a three-dimensional depth is created.

LOCATION: Berlin, Germany.

PROGRAM: Ateliers and a public courtyard.

COURSE: Studio Adreizehn: Form Follows Material.

TEAM: Maria Bjurenhed & Greta Altenburger.