Architecture Porfolio - Sebastian Achinioti Jönsson

Professional Experience

Education

2016-present - Helsingborg (SWE)

Arkitektlaget AB

Architectural Assistant

During my studies I had continous employmentd at Arkitektlaget during the summer months (jun-aug) on different project, ranging from building permits, presentations , exhibitions for the company, competitions and sketching proposals. -

2013-2016 - Helsingborg (SWE)

Arkitektlaget AB

Construction planner / Drawing Assistant 2 years full time employment (after 1 year of internship) at Arkitektlaget. Mainly create presentation material for clients and producing sketch drawing for projects in autocad.

2020-2022 - Glasgow (GB)

Glasgow School of Art

Mackintosh School of Architecture

Diploma in Architecture

Fourth & fifth year of architecture.

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2019-2020 - Umeå (SWE)

Umeå University

Creative writing & litterature /1yr (60hp)

First year of the literature program at Umeå University writing program -

2016-2019 - Umeå (SWE)

Umeå school of architecture

Bachelor of architecture in fine arts

Three-year bachelor at UMA. The second year in studio: Social landscapes focusing on social platforms in the 1960’s urban area of Ålidhem. The third year in studio: Open Archipelago focusing on the small harbour community of Holmsund.

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2013 - Lund (SWE)

Lund University

Natural science program / 6mon (30hp)

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Course: ‘Fysik 1’, General physics studies

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2009-2012 - Helsingborg (SWE)

Cultura gymnasium (Secondary/College)

Degree in natural science

Studies of natural science with specialization in natural science; physics, chemistry, biology & math

Digital Tool Skills

References

Autocad

Revit

Sketchup

V-Ray

Enscape

Adobe suite (Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, etc.)

Lars Bourdette

Arkitektlaget AB lasse@arkitektlaget.se

+46 703 19 96 16

Contents

Professional

01.

Kiosken02.

Kulturhuset

Educational 03.

The Anderston Excavation04.

The Poetry Factory05.

Sequence Lane06.

Mountain Tongue

A Tall Heart In The City

Kiosken is an on-going mixed use-project on the main square in Trelleborg, Sweden. The ground floor consists of permeable brick arcades which opens up to the surrounding square and park with spaces for restaurants and shops. Offices are placed on a ‘Piano Nobile’, with extra floor height and great windows overlooking the park and square. Floors 2 to 9 are made up of residential apartments which overlook the whole city and the Baltic Sea in the south.

The square is framed by the main street, the old water tower, the city museum in a 60’s modern, and four-story residential buildings. The project is a continuation of a competition Arkitektlaget won existing of three residential buildings in red brick, directly to the east of the site along the same street.

The project(s) create a fond for the city park to the north of the project as well as gateways in and out of the park. The idea is to match the rising scale of the water tower and the square, without creating a looming building that takes over the site.

The two houses are built on a modular system grid of brick pillars of 2.4m x 2.4m which are broken down to 1.2m x 1.2m on the residential floors emphasizing the two bottom, public floors. The materials are red brick combined with white- and gold glazed brick that emphasize the simplicity of the modular system.

Ground Floor

Regular Floor

An extension to a modernist church

Kulturhuset is an extension and remodelling project in Trelleborg in the furthest southern Sweden. The client brief was to reinvigorate the old modernist church hall [used as a storage space/performance hall] into a proper space for performance and arts.

The history of the building starts as a church from the 1930’s which was sold in the 1970’s for its present purpose. Since it has become a bit run-down, and the client wishes to refurbish and extend with implementation of housing for young adults.

The performance hall is rotated 180 degrees, facing the ‘other’ direction with telescopic bleachers for flexible use. The roof of the performance hall is lowered from 3 to 2 floors, giving the space better acoustic proportions. The extension will house the new foyer, with ticket booths, a small bar, and technical facilities with a Nordic modern vernacular design using wood and organic shapes.

The iconographic idea for the building is to preserve the original facade - both the gable, front and back. The surrounding buildings are mid-century modern with a lot of yellow stone and copper/wood detailing. The idea for the extension is to keep the colour scheme by using yellow brick and green window details. The ‘top’extension has an extruded floor which separates the ‘old’ and ‘new’. The upper facade material is of green mosaics that alludes to materials used of the time and on sunny days reflects the sky.

Ground Floor

First Floor

Regular Floor

The Anderston Excavation

Fifth Year Thesis Project

My thesis project explores the non-linear development of a post-industrial city with a building/program that inserts ‘historical continuity’ in a place in which communities and urban fabric were torn up and disassociated during the onslaught of modernist city planning. The site is beneath the m8 underpass in Anderston, Glasgow.

The programmatic response to the broken historical continuity is the ‘Glaswegian Museum Archive’, which combine scientific research and preservation with public accessibility and engagement.

The architectural response is an ‘excavation’ of the railway station and an integration of the institution into everyday life. The building[s] make up a node - a ‘cross’ which ties together the city centre and the west end. The underpass is integrated in the archive as a structure that suspends containers containing artefacts with a park going along it all the way down to the river, while the buildings surrounding the station contain shipping, preservation, educational and public programs.

ProposedFutureDev.

Sounding The Voices of Calton

The Poetry Factory is a public building for ‘oral’ arts and culture. Its role is to provide a platform for the voices of Calton, Glasgow, to encourage oral cultural expression –a place that is as much a mediator for culture coming into Calton, as a mediator for the communities in the area.

The project is organised around a structural stanza, which builds on the sapphic poetic stanza, that creates an urban monument, keeping a consistent scale around the perimeter of the factory while free forms reign within. The stanza creates a grid system for the loadbearing glu-lam beams and pillars that is visible through the whole project.

The programmes are distributed according to a narrative of 4 categories: Collect – Reflect – Create – Perform, where the people of Calton can arrive to the building and collect a contribution to the Calton voice project, passing the spaces of official- and un-official performances getting glimpses of the activities until reach inga place to reflect and think around gathered experiences.

Sequence Lane

Third Year Bachelor Project

Sequence lane is a narrative that is told by space on different scales. The project works to re-animate the old high street in the small town of Holmsund in rural northern Sweden. Holmsund used to be the end station for the logging industry along the Umeå river, where factories chopped up the wood which then was shipped of to Europe.

The ‘street’ has lost its role as a social space in many small towns and communities such as Holmsund. It has been taken over by the car and re-routed into the closest big city centre. Sequence Lane reintroduces the street as a place for meetings and homogenizes the social urban platform.

My street program is organised according to the characteristics and memories of the people that live [and lived] along ‘Gamla Storgatan’. A modular building type focusing on the work/life duality is used as a building block that responds to a vernacular architecture and urban language of free-standing wooden villas with permeable yards. The programmatic functions of the street are built on case studies of successful streets around Sweden with similar size. This study along with memories of people living & lived on the street forms the narrative of the street.

The street opens with a dense, shop focused part which opens up in a terraced market that continues into the lush public gardens, lined with cafés and services and ends on the top of the hill overlooking the Umeå river.

Ume River

Existing ‘Street Wall’

Proposed ‘Street Wall’

The Look-out [D - D]

The Gardens [C - C]

The Market Terrace [B - B]

The Town [A - A]

Mountain Tongue

A panoramic heat cabbin

Mountain tongue is a heat cabin levitating on top of the existing structures of Ombergets ski facility. It is facilitating a small ski slope in rural northern Sweden. The existing buildings hold the ski lift, a shop, ticket booth and a supply storage.

The heat cabin is placed on stilts so as to allow skier coming down to pass under it and to allow the hiking path to freely continue along the water bank.

The entrance to the building is integrated in to the old, un-used, supply building giving the new structure as close to no physical footprint as possible.

A staircase leads up to a wood clad landscape relating to the soft snowdrifts in the slope.

The construction is made out of glulam trusses which is a local resource that relates to Holmsund’s logging history. The skin is made of glass to keep visual contact with the children in the slope and give 360-degree view of the landscape.

Mountain Tongue activates a space, in active most of the year, all year round and celebrates the beauty of northern Sweden’s nature and love of the outdoors, both when it comes to winter and summer activities. The end of the building is facing the entrance to Holmsund where one can see the train and cars come and go in a similar fashion to what the logging workers used to do on the top of the mountain, in spring, when the boats came to the bay with new jobs.