Sanna Englund Abstract of Portfolio

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Sanna Englund

englundsanna@gmail. com+46730320508

Sanna Englund e nglundsanna@ gmail.com + 46730320508 Swedish, born October 20th 1994

Education 2019 - 2020

Skills Chalmers University of Technology | Gothenburg,

Sweden Master in Architecture

3D modeling, 2D drafting & scripting

2019 - 2020 École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland

Exchange studies, Master in Architecture

Rhinoceros 5 & 6 with grasshopper Autodesk: Revit & AutoCAD SketchUp Visualization

2019 - 2020 Chalmers University of Technology | Gothenburg, Sweden

Bachelor in Architecture and Engineering

Internships 2018 - 2019

DinellJohansson | Stockholm, Sweden

Work on early proposals for large and small buildings, visualizing

with renders, handdrawings and physical models.

Preparing blueprints for all stages. Some interiors and furniture design.

Participating in and holding own client meetings.

2016 - 2017

Tyréns | Gothenburg, Sweden

Working as part of hospital design team and on own smaller projects.

Preparing floor plan drafts, reports in InDesign.

Participating in and holding own client meetings.

References Kalle Dinell Architect and CEO of DinellJohansson kalle@dinelljohansson.se +702664711

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Morten Lund Artistic Professor, thesis examiner morten.mose.lund@gmail.com +46705113913

Adobe CC: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator V-ray & Maxwell Handdrawing & watercolors Physical Modeling 3D printing, lasercutting, foam cutting Languages Swedish (Native) English (Fluent) French (Intermediate) Spanish (Intermediate)

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Academic Transcribing Sequences 04 Constructing the City 12 Rural Prototypologies 30

Professional Sigma centrum 18 Bathroom for Peter 24 Blackebergsbacken 26 Stockholmshusen 28

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Transcribing Sequences Master Thesis Spring 2020 Matter Space Structure Studio Chalmers University of Technology With Mikaela Andersson Tutor: Naima Callenberg Examiner: Morten Lund

The thesis develops a notation system for architecture that explains and deconstructs the experience of moving through a sequence of spaces. The notation system will serve as a tool for architects, complementary to traditional drawings and representations. The tools we use shape what we design, and by adding this method to the architect’s toolbox, new spatial qualities are discovered and existing qualities highlighted.

The notation system is created by transcribing four reference buildings, each bringing qualities into the system which is iterated to accommodate these qualities. The resulting notation system presents the expe-

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rience of a building along a single path. It divides the spatial sequence into a number of scenes, each scene represented with signs that display what is experienced in that particular moment along the path. The signs represent both physical things, their influence on the space around them and perceived connections between things.

The system and accompanying theories are tested with a design proposal for a public library in an existing building in central Gothenburg. The design is developed by making a translation from notations to a model that represents the experience in a sequence of 360 degree image montages.

One of eleven 360 degree spatial montages in the sequence model

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Part 1: Transcribe

The first part of the thesis mainly involves developing the notation system by visiting and transcribing four buildings in Gothenburg. During this part, the main focus is to establish the framework of the notation language. The system is developed and iterated to describe

the experience of walking along a chosen path through the reference buildings. In transcribing a sequence of spaces, individual “scenes� are seen as a base upon which an overall idea of the building can be understood.

Notation pads - tools developed to transcribe while walking through a building

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Masthuggskyrkan Victoriapassagen Gothenburg Market Hall

The NS is shaped by visits to four reference buildings. The choice of buildings and the order in which they have been visited have affected the resulting system.

Gothenburg Concert Hall

The notations can be done in layers of tracing paper to analyse how individual phenomena affect each other

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Par t 2: Design

The second part applies the notation system to a design proposal for a new public library in central Gothenburg.

This part reimagines the system in order to also work as a design tool. For this, the system is developed further to represent an overall intention for the spatial sequence, which then guides the design of the scenes.

Situation of building, slightly north of the Cathedral

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Plan of cleaned out exisiting building, with the chosen path marked FIlled in areas are ignored for the sequence

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Boundaries

Flow

Force vectors

Pull forces

Push forces

Focus points

Sequence sketches. Looking at the sequence, it is possible to design the path in its entirety.

A narrative is created by placing programmatic functions in relation to the sketched sequence focus points, flow etc.

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The sequence is joined together by the path

The model consists of eleven scenes, each with a number of frames or images depicting parts of the scene where the attention of the viewer is directed. In the center of each scene is a notation base, where the scene can be read as a whole.

Each scene is surrounded by two layers of images, symbolising the primary and secondary space.

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The picture frames are fastened using moveable acrylic clips

Interpretative notations are layered on top of the frames to aid the reading between the central notation and the images.

Scene 06 And behind the corner is a cafe!

You are in a large bright space, with a lot of activity and people. Curtains are restricting you from taking in the entire space at once though, saving some impressions for further down the path, as well as sectioning of the room.

Scene 05 On the right side of the path, there is a reception ahead and a staircase. The subspaces visible are the spaces created by the reception itself and the reception area. You are guided on by curiosity: a curved wall is leading you forward, as well as seeing the space open up.

You are hearing things going around the turn, enforcing this direction.

Scene 04 The first scene of the library is an intense one.

The narrative of a library is books and reading and therefore upon entering you are almost being hit by a rolling bookshelf in full speed, pushed by a librarian.

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Constructing the City Matter Space Structure Studio Fall 2019 Chalmers University of Technology Tutor: Naima Callenberg

During my exchange year in Switzerland, I had the opportunity to read about megastructures, such as they were envisioned by radical and metabolist architects.

The megastructures - enormous, conceptual structures for living - were designed to question the traditional city planning. The projects were mainly from the 60’s, and they were presented with dramatic hand drawings or photo montages that glued themselves to my mind.

For this project I wanted to design a megastructure on the river of Gothenburg, a structure that would act as a new city district

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but also a possible “Noah’s Ark” for the people and culture of Gothenburg to be saved from a potential water rise.

My angle to the subject was mainly image composition and how to tell the story about a megastructure, without planning every detail. Learning from the Russian constructivist movement I created a composition consisting of Gothenburg artefacts. The artefacts are there to give a sense of meaning and familiarity, and to lend credibility to my image. The resulting image is a composition and the story of Gothenburg as a megastructure.

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Kazimir Malevitj, Supremus no. 58, 1916 Lรกslo Moholy-Nagy, Konstruktionen, 1923 Willi Baumeister, Composition III, 1889

Study on composition. By translating constructivist artworks from two dimensions into three, I gained an understanding of their constitution.

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Iakov Chernikov, Kompozitsiia 49, 1933

Render of 3D representation (2D → 3D → 2D)

Iakov Chernikov, Kompozitsiia 74, 1933

New composition based on the “rules” from Chernikhovs composition

New composition based on the “rules” from Chernikhovs composition

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Canal

Bridge

Vaults

Designing something that in es-

have later been built on by

sence is unrealistic, demands overlooking exact solutions and instead focusing on conveying the core concepts. My reference projects from the 60’s are to a large extent unrealistic and none of them are built. These radical architects were using images to avoid discussing details while strongly expressing their ideas. These ideas

other architects and have been hugely influential to contemporary architecture.

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I am pleased that my composition, like my references, can speak for itself. With the dramatic composition and the help of Gothenburg symbolism it conveys a story without supporting text.

Final composition

Construction of composition: placement of volumes, camera and light source

Crane

Stack Studies of identified Gothenburg artefacts

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Sigma centrum Renovation and extension of shopping center Upplands Väsby Internship at DinellJohansson September 2018 - August 2019

For this project we were asked to sketch a renovation and some additions to an indoor shopping center from 1966. The original building was one of the first of its kind with an ambitious, brutalist esthetic.

At the moment the shopping center is too small to be lucrative but we believed with a new concept it could serve as a meeting place and a local service area for people living in the area.

The proposal aims to clean up the existing building which has been renovated and added onto many times and to bring forward the

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ideas of the original architecture. A housing for seniors is also added in direct connection to the existing shopping center to add some economy to the project. Some landscaping was designed together with a landscape architect and parking spaces and a garage were replanned.

For this project I was doing most of the drawings, images and sketches, supervised by one of the office partners. It was a great learning opportunity as I got to design on many different scales as well as both new and existing buildings.

Exterior render of shopping center and senior housing in the background

inte stort. men litet. Ďƒ (sigma), väsbys lilla centrum.

Graphic profile and concept as developed together with graphic designer

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Areas for socializing are introduced to increase the feeling of safety

A new wooden cladding of the ceiling gives a warmth and softness to the originally brutalist building

A stairwell is opened up to the lower level, increasing the flow to an existing bowling venue

New senior housing - 74 apartments - social room - terrass + dance pavilion - loading dock and parking over-decked

Renovation of landscape - clarify flows and spaces - more greenery and seatings - new lighting for increased safety

Renovation of center - new shopfronts - new signs and lighting - new program: cinema and culture stage

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Section, 1:1800

8m

9,7m

Street level, 1:800

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Senior housing type plan, 1:400 ,

The loading dock of the shopping center and a tight plot gives the elderly housing tight boundary conditions. The aim was to do one, two and three room apartments and to do them with as few types as possible.

The modules are based on the

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parking garage underneath the buildings, giving 7 meter deep apartments. Glazed balconies allow the senior residents to be outside longer and together with the planters along the facade they give a safe and green environment on the decked yard.

2 room apartment 1:50

1 room apartment 1:50

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Bathroom for Peter

Private bathroom Internship at DinellJohansson September 2018 - August 2019 The client wanted a “Parisian”, black and white style to his bathroom, as well as walnut furniture.

This project I did mostly myself. I took measurements and drew a new plan for the bathroom according to the client’s wishes and tried out different tilings, marble and colors. I also ordered all appliances and fixtures and designed the furniture in collaboration with a carpenter.

Render of bathroom vision

The project was a great opportunity to learn more about the smallest details of buildings, as well as meeting with the client, handymen and the carpenter.

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Drawings and initial sketch of the bathroom mirror with shelf, 1:30

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Drawings of the bathroom washstand, made to fit over a washing machine, 1:30

Drawings of the cabinet, 1:30

Finished cabinet

Finished washstand

Detail of washstand

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Blackebergsbacken

Residential housing Internship at DinellJohansson September 2018 - August 2019 Three high-rise apartment buildings in Blackeberg, north east of Stockholm. As the plot is very steep, a lot of planning went into handling the height differences.

For this project I had an assisting role, helping where was needed and had an understanding of most parts of the project. I assisted at meetings and attended them alone when the main architect was indisposed.

I assisted with drawings for permits, did facade studies, drew the garage and did some landscape planning. I also did visualizations: renders, hand drawings and solar studies.

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Facades 1:500

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Stockholmshusen

Residential Housing Internship at DinellJohansson September 2018 - August 2019 Stockholmshusen is a design program developed to simplify the process to get a building permit for public housing in Stockholm. The program has a set of design principles and requires a maximum square footage of 70 sq. meters per apartment.

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This is one of several sketch proposals I did, aiming to offer functional flexibility: with simple means the apartments can be adjusted from one bedroom to multiple. In this way housing is designed to work long term: the tenant does not have to change their accommodation when life changes and people with different economical conditions can live in similar apartments next to each other.

For small apartments such these the acoustic context crucial. Proposed building therefore designed to work sound levels between 60 and dB.

as is is at 65

70 kvm

70 kvm

70 kvm

70 kvm

Standard floor plan, 1:200

Sektion A-A, 1:200

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