Maria Holst Portfolio

PORTFOLIO Selected works from 2012-2016

Maria Holst, BA. Arch.

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture

INDEX

INFO AND RESUME

BUILDING PROJECTS Serpentine Pavillon 2016 // Internship at BIG

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December 2015 - March 2016 Site: London, United Kingdom

An Architecture for Funeral Ceremonies and Urban Contemplation // Bachelor Project

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6th semester - Spring 2015 Site: Copenhagen, Denmark

Suburban Street Life // Housing Project

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4th semester - Spring 2014 Site: Lyngby, Denmark

Tranquility in the City // Yoga Center

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3rd semester - Fall 2013 Site: Copenhagen, Denmark

Connections // Workspace for Artists and Scientists

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1st semester - Fall 2012 Site: Fictive

A Spatial Cairn // Shelter

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1st semester - Fall 2012 Site: Hardangervidda, Norway

SCALE 1:1 AND MATERIALS The Perception of Context // Column and Logbook

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5th semester - Fall 2014

Daylight Kinetics // Daylight Installation

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3rd semester - Fall 2013

Reflections // Glass Experiments

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3rd semester - Fall 2013

MUSIC AND SPACE STĂ…HEJ // Series of Concerts

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Involvement oustide studies - 2014

RECOMMENDATIONS Maria Sole Bravo, Iannis Kandyliaris and Manon OttoSenior Project Leaders at BIG Claus Pryds, MAA Architect and teacher at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Jan Samuelsen, Project Manager and founder of cultural production studio, Indgreb

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INFO AND RESUME

Personal Data Name: Maria Holst Age: 1991/10/26

Nationality: Danish

Residence: Copnehagen Phone: + 45 21 44 34 43 E-mail: maria.e.holst@gmail.com

Education B.Arch. at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Institute of Architecture and Culture Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Fall 2012 - Spring 2015 Vallekilde Folk High School Performance Design Spring 2011 Aurehøj Gymnasium STX-diploma Grade point average: A

Language Danish - first language English - fluent written and spoken French - moderate German - little, motivated for improvement

Study Trips 2014: Japan, Venice - Italy, Karlskrona -Sweden 2013: Portugal, Spain

Computer Programs Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign Rhino 3D Google SketchUp 3D Studio Max/V-Ray AutoCad Autodesk Revit Grasshopper

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INFO AND RESUME

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

OTHER INVOLVEMENTS

NORRØN Architects

The New Framework of Live Music

Architecture Studio Design Assistant

Panellist on behalf of Ståhej February 2015

August 2016 - January 2017

Graphic Design - Scientific Report

BIG Architects NYC

The Drug Related Death in Denmark Study University of Oslo

Architecture Studio Design Assistant

October 2014

August 2015 - June 2016

City Link Conference Hamburg

HOW Planning

Exchange of culture and urban life between cities September 2014

Architecture Studio Visualizations

Freelance since December 2014

Installation at Copenhell

STÅHEJ

June 2014

Design and construction

Concerts at urban, unorthodox sites Co-founder and project leader

Music Videos for Bottled in England and Gabriel

January 2014 - December 2014

Assistant producer and scenography January 2012 and November 2013

Indgreb Various cultural productions Project manager

March 2012 - December 2014

Music From Around - WOMEX International World Music festival Production assistant, event- and tour management January 2014 - December 2014

Management and booking assistant for Niels Lan Doky Doky is a well acclaimed jazzpianist

National and international booking and management December 2010 - September 2011

Venue Management Venues: Rust, Stengade & Jazzhus Montmartre Concert productions

May 2010 - September 2011

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BUILDING PROJECTS

The wall unzips and creates a diverse interior and exterior space - valley, hill and cavity

Serpentine Pavilion 2016 // Internship at BIG December 2015 - March 2016

The pavillon is a manipulation of the most elementary architectonic element; the brick wall. The wall that traditionally seperate spaces and define boundaries is unzipped and thereby creates an internal

space and gateway to The Serpentine Gallery. As you move around and inside the pavillon, it will appear very different. From being an almost transparent rigurous grid structure, it transform into an opaque organic sculpture, and thereby creates a changing and dynamic border between exterior and interior. The pavillon unites multiple aspects often seen as opposites: presence becomes absence, orthogonal becomes curvilinear, the grid becomes free-form. The very simple geometry facilitates an almost sacral interor space and invites a more playful interaction on the exterior hills.

During my internship at BIG I had the pleasure of working on the Serpentine Pavilion 2016, where I took part in developing the design and producing the final presentation material such as the model, diagrams and drawings. Through my internship I had the oportunity to work on various projects in different context, scale and program - from Serpentine Pavillon to utopian masterplans in the jungle the size of Central Park. However I am not able to present other projects in my portfolio because of my confidentiality agreement with BIG. For further description I refer to letters of recommendation from Iannis Kandyliaris, Manon Otto and Maria Sole Bravo.

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BUILDING PROJECTS

The balance between opaque and transparency is changing as you move around the pavillon.

The model is made from thin acrylic sheets.

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BUILDING PROJECTS

Ceremony Berth

Gathering

Site plan showing the house for ceremonies, the house for gatherings and the small quay

An Architecture for Funeral Ceremonies and Urban Contemplation // Bachelor Project 6th semester - Spring 2015

Through all time and across cultures man has used special and import spaces for ceremonies that mark life’s big events. Meaningful spaces that provides a significant frame the ceremonies and rituals

that marks the transition between life stages. This project focus on the transition between life and death that takes place at a funeral, and how this ceremony creates a link between the past, present and future. In an increasing multicultural and secular society we need an alternative to the church and other religious spaces whereby this project aims to create a meaningful setting for the last goodbye regardless of faith or beliefs - religious or non-religious.

The project is placed in a post-industrial area in Copenhagen harbour and contains three pavillons each focusing on a different phase of the parting and sorrow; a house for the funeral ceremony, a house for the social interactions accompanying a funeral and finally a berth from where you sail out and scatter the ashes in the ocean. Finally the project contains an establishment of a green pocket in the post-industrial area that creates contemplative urban space near Copenhagen Harbour, where people can return to commemorate their deceased or simply find peace in the hectic city without necessary connection to the deceased or any ceremonies.

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The long perspective to the open sea

The green axis towards the old citadel

The urban view and where the harbour starts to narrow

Understanding the site’s diversity trough distant context

Arrival at the site with “The House for Ceremonies” in the front and “The House for Gatherings” in the background

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House for Ceremonies creates a peaceful and solemn space for people to show their respect at the funeral. The circular ceremony room creates a democratic connection between the deceased and the mourners.

The House for Gaterings has a more extroverted appearance and opens towards square from where you see the city and the towers of Copenhagen.

The small berth is placed on the corner of the site oriented towards the larger sea, where a corten steel shelter creates a protected and private outdoor space from where you sail out and scatter the ashes.

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Model photos of House for Ceremonies

Model photos of House for Gatherings and the berth 9

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Vizualisation of the Ceremony Room showing the indirect, diffuse daylight

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West elevation of House for Ceremonies

Detail section and elevation showing how the corten steel detaches from the insulated concrete

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Suburban Street Life // Housing Project 4th semester - Spring 2014

Over the past few decades the constitution of family has changed, bringing with it new family patterns: from single parents and weekend children to step-parents and siblings forming the modern family unit. The idea of a family as a rather static and closed institution has gradually changed into a more flexible organism, where the number of residents in a family home expands and diminishes on a weekly basis. The aim of the project is to develop the architectural framework for the family patterns of today, where the physical surroundings can easily adjust to the current family status. Whether you are few or many, the house should never appear to be empty. The residents, however, should always maintain the option to participate or withdraw from the social context in the house or within the surrounding neighborhood.

Each house faces a social pedestrian street, while opening up in the back to a more natural and open space. The porch on the front of all the houses supports the idea of a social environment in the street, a place where you can sit and meet your neighbors on their way to work or school. The ground floor of the house continues this social aspect with the kitchen in connection to the street. The first floor holds smaller rooms and niches for a more private and contemplative space, although these too can be transformed into one open space.

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BUILDING PROJECTS

Elevation from the street

Section through the site

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The contrast between the social ground floor and more contemplative first floor

Section through street

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Plan - Ground floor

Plan - First floor

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Tranquility in the City // Yoga Center 3rd semester - Fall 2013

As the complexity of everyday life grows the need to compensate with an hour of zen and harmony becomes more necessary. The tension between the hectic city and the personal rest, which should take place in a yoga center, is the basis for this project. The yoga center appears as a solitary object, detached from the packed typical Copenhagen block, with planted walls as a green backdrop. The building is situated at the far end of the site, away from the street, supporting the existing void.

The focus of the project is a special support for the transition from the extroverted to the introverted state of mind. The overall architectural context is deliberately a very simple and clear design, as a counterweight to the overwhelming stimuli encountered in daily urban life. The simple design is further supported by the simplification of the visitor’s lookout, which opens into the two-dimensional surfaces in the form of the green wall and the sky. The viewer is deprived of depth and perspective to support focus within the mind and concentration on the inside.

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Plan - Ground floor

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Plan - First floor

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Plan - Second floor 17

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Connections // Workspace for Artists and Scientists 1st semester - Fall 2012

In an exercise in cooperation and composition, four individual projects have become one. The diagonal building facilitates a workspace for a performance artist, a photographer, a structural engineer and a meteorologist. When you move through the building you pass each artist or scientist within his or her universes with the purpose of creating a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment.

Each workspace has a very distinct spatial flow and way of elevating you from the ground. You begin below ground level and then rise in different ways up to the meteorologist, where your own movement is replaced with the movement of orange pennants in the wind. The sculptural building is intended to be built with concrete and located on a high plateau on an overgrown slope.

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BUILDING PROJECTS

The shelter by day

The shelter by night

A Spatial Cairn // Shelter 1st semester - Fall 2012

The shelter is located at a moor called Hardangervidda in Norway and is designed with a primary focus on the summer time, where you experience the midnight sun. In the daytime the temperatures are around 15 degrees, but at night it drops to freezing temperatures, so you to need a protective shelter. The project deals with the conflict between keeping the space warm at night and still maintaining access to the beautiful view by day, so by day you push out the red Plexiglas box

and by night you pull it back into the “stone� garage. The appearance of the shelter is inspired by the cairns, where man sets his mark on nature. The shelter should not try to be invisible or hide because it would never succeed in this, but should instead be a small landmark in the large moor.

When people are staying in the shelter you will either see the red box over the creek or a red light from inside of the cairn.

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SCALE 1:1 AND MATERIALS

Height 180 cm

The Perception of Context // Column and Logbook 5th semester - Fall 2014

The column is based on thematics from fieldtrips to the naval cities of Karlskrona in Sweden, Holmen in Copenhagen and Venice in Italy, all processed in a logbook through drawings, photos and writing. The column deals with how an object can support the more tranquil stories of its surroundings and identify its context’s inherent narrative.

The column consists of a welded steel wireframe shaped as a result by the context created by my four neighbor columns and their stories which I have subjectively distilled and intertwined into one frame. Selected areas of the column are accentuated by establishing surfaces made of sewing thread, inspired by a ship’s sail and how it is undeniably shaped by the wind, but still affected by a subject.

The column’s main material is absence defined by the steel wireframe and the surfaces of sewing thread.

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SCALE 1:1 AND MATERIALS

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SCALE 1:1 AND MATERIALS

Understanding Karlskrona through diagramtic sketches of the city structure in plan and section

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SCALE 1:1 AND MATERIALS

Pages from logbook

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SCALE 1:1 AND MATERIALS

Daylight Kinetics // Daylight Installation 3rd semester - Fall 2013

Our bodies are designed to live in the constantly changing daylight, something that is essential to our well being and shapes the world around us. The project is inspired by the diffuse, varying Scandinavian daylight and is working with softly moving triangular fractions of opposite reflectors. It softly filters the exterior illumination into the room, and provides the light of the changing skies in the interior space. As in nature, the soft moving filtration creates a setting that, in a sliding movement, changes character during the day.

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SCALE 1:1 AND MATERIALS

Reflections // Glass Experiments 3rd semester - Fall 2013

Through experiments with glass I studied the relation between the pre and post process of the glass, and how every state created a new layer to the object. Each state had it’s own character, from the form to the glass object and finally to the light reflections. Within the process you could plan and control very little, so the material applied its own qualities to the project and lived its own life.

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MUSIC AND SPACE

STÅHEJ // Series of Concerts Involvement oustide studies - 2014

STÅHEJ (meaning “fuss”) was originally launched as part of a municipal experiment to create a music scene, and potentially a venue, in Fredriksberg Copenhagen, an area of the city that had previously been devoid of any musical development. STÅHEJ has organized a series of musical events in unorthodox locations in 2014 to kick-start the debate of a potential venue and its format.

We aim to curate space and music to either support or challenge each other, creating a complete experience and an interesting narrative. The goals is to build up an entire universe around the artists that reaches beyond visual and sonic stimuli. It has since evolved into a debate over the established music venues in all of Copenhagen and the way in which we arrange and experience music concerts today in general. Furthermore, this turned into a new way of thinking of the venue, how it should be a merging of the qualities from festivals and events, where the space is redefined every time, and the continuity of a traditional venue.

Locations: an auto mechainc, an old ballroom, a monastery, an incinerator etc.

Press: VICE Magazine DK, Soundvenue, Politiken, Musikeren, Gaffa a.o.

Further information: www.facebook.com/staahej

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Photos from various StĂĽhej-concerts

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To whom it may concern

I am Maria Sole Bravo, senior designer at Bjarke Ingels Group, New York office. In December 2015, BIG got the commission of designing the Serpentine Pavilion 2016 (to be inaugurated on June 7th) project that I have been managing as a project leader.

Maria Holst joined the team in December and has been working throughout the concept design phase.

Her performance has been exceptional. She has proven great skills in design, concept development and building understanding. Her most outstanding contribution has been the construction of the presentation model of the Pavilion. She was the head of the model making team, developing the planning and strategy of the construction of the model, she coordinated and produced the necessary drawings and lead the assembly of the model. The Serpentine Pavilion model has been one of the most acclaimed models in the office.

Besides her talent and skills, Maria has also demonstrated a very good attitude towards collaboration.

She has a very good understanding of team work dynamics, she is good at sharing her ideas and contributing to the group.

It has been a pleasure to have Maria Holst in the team, seeing how much she enjoyed the job and making us all enjoy as well. She is a very positive and lively person whom I absolutely recommend to work with.

Yours sincerely,

Maria Sole Bravo London, May 12, 2016

RECOMMENDATION

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From: Claus Pryds , Architect MAA and teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation

Reference concerning Maria Holst I am writing this reference at the request of Maria Holst.

From the very first moment, it has been clear to me that Maria is a very gifted student. She is remarkably industrious and committed. Furthermore, she works hard and never loses focus on the final result. Her process is marked by inquisitiveness, creativity and overview. It is a distinguishing feature of her to continuously develop new procedures and tools, which she integrates into her methods.

Maria is able to combine artistic integrity, pronounced formal skills, a well-developed sense of form and space, strong aesthetic sense, and a clear awareness of the demands and restraints of reality.

Apart from her professional skills, Maria has a distinctively social side, and she is very much appreciated by his fellow students.

In conclusion, Maria Holst is an exceptionally good architectural student and I highly recommend you to approve her application.

Yours Sincerely,

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Claus H. Pryds, Architect maa and Teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, school of architecture

Tlf. +45 32 68 60 00 Fax +45 32 68 61 11 www.karch.dk

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To whom it may concern

I have had the great pleasure of working together with Maria Holst since 2011, where she has been a part of a long list of many projects.

At the latest, I have experienced a very positive collaboration in connection with Maria´s project leadingship of the initiative for concerts in urban spaces, ”Staahej”, and also in relation to the opening of the new institution for culture and movement, KU.BE. Maria always shows great creativity, responsibillity, productivity and autonomy which has led to many fine results.

In the last years, Maria has managed to incorporate an architectual approach and professionalism in the projects in a very succesfull manner.

Maria has a special ability to go from the first initial conceptual ideas and considerations to the final production, showing great determination and strength in the handling of the many and different elements throughout the whole process.

Very early in her career, Maria has managed logistically complex productions in connection with touring business, concert event, festivals culture, events which included communication and press relations, applications for funding, obtaining visas for musicians from developing countries etc.

With her great creativity, spontaneity and ability to keep focus and overview, Maria is an upcoming talent in the culture industry. Maria´s personality opens many doors, and her positive and open mind has a very positive impact on the entire workplace.

Therefore, I give Maria my very best recommendations !

Best regards,

Jan Samuelsen, Project Manager and Co-founder of Indgreb T: +45 22 25 17 12 M: jans@indgrab.dk