In the Making: Design Sensibility in the Making of Urban Places 2017

12TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCE, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LTH, LUND UNIVERSITY

DESIGN SENSIBILITY IN THE MAKING OF URBAN PLACES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LUND UNIVERSITY, 18.09.2017

12TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCE, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LTH, LUND UNIVERSITY

DESIGN SENSIBILITY IN THE MAKING OF URBAN PLACES SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LUND UNIVERSITY, 18.09.2017

12th Annual International Urban Design Conference School of Architecture, LTH, Lund September 18th, 2017 Sustainable Urban Design Master’s Programme School of Architecture Lunds Tekniska Högskola Lund, Sweden

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About

The annual international multidisciplinary conference happens once a year at Lund University. Each year new questions are posed with regards to sustainable urban design issues.

Professionals and students of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design fields from all around the world gather to discuss and gain knowledge from inspiring lectures and discussions.

The annual SUDes conference, sponsored by the Ax:son Johnson Foundation, allows participants and audience to exchange ideas and experiences in a flurry of lectures and discussions. The program for Sustainable Urban Design in the School of Architecture at Lund University intends to channel these creative energies into projects that address changing urban conditions and create enduring, livable communities.

The annual SUDes Conference is held at the School of Architecture every autumn and hosted by the School of Architecture, Sustainable Urban Design Master’s Program, and Ax:son Johnson Institute for Sustainable Urban Design.

This year’s conference, being already 12th in a row, with the title “in the making - Design Sensibility in the Making of Urban Places”, touched the topics of the creative processes, processes that are usually hidden behind the scenes, and unfolded the visions and challenges that have trumendous influence on the final design.

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Foreword by Harrison Fraker

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The Conference 18

Camilla Hedegaard Møller The Construction of a Park in Copenhagen

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Martin Laursen Design Sensibility in the Making of Urban Places

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Kristian Kreiner What Architectural Competitions Teach Us About Design Processes ​ Ashwin Karjatkar Journies: Design Explorations in the Making of Place

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Jan Albrechtsen Vandkunsten 2017 ​ Sybille De Cussy Think with Your Hands: Representation in the Design Process ​ Mattias Kärrholm Local Publics in the Making: How the City is Planned without the Planner

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Jonas Elding Elding Oscarson

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Walter Hood Hybrid Landscapes

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Jenny B. Osuldsen in the making: Design Sensibility in the Making of Urban Places

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Seed 01 Competition

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Afterword by Harrison Fraker

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The List of Makers 7

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Foreword

by Harrison Fraker “A heightened awareness of the complexity in the design, from idea to implementation, will bring a greater understanding of the different processes in the making of urban places. No longer is a single image able to capture the layered complexity of a city’s many dynamics and their operation in time. It is time to examine the role of processes, both design processes and the processes of the city itself, in the making of more livable and sustainable places.”

The idea of ‘material performance’ is complex and operates on many levels. It starts with the thing itself – its physical properties: its weight/mass, its density, its transparency, its color, its hardness/ softness, its roughness/smoothness, its strength (tensile and compressive), its elasticity, its heat transfer qualities, etc., another words, all the measurable properties that have been developed over 3000 years of material testing.

All building materials come from some process of extraction, production and fabrication. These ‘hidden’ processes can be understood as an essential part of a material’s performance, because they are part of what transforms the materials from a raw state to useful form. In some cases the material process of fabrication is visible and apparent in its application; in others, it is suppressed, even hidden for other effects.

Nonetheless, the process of fabrication and its deployment remain potential contributors to how we understand material performance because it is embedded in its use.

And yet, these abstract measured properties and qualities are understood through everyday experience – what they look like, how they feel to the touch, what sounds they help reflect, even the taste and smell of their presence. This full kinesthetic experience creates deep memories of places, ones that can be powerfully awakened when the sensory qualities of materials are part of design thinking and the making of places.

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Our personal experience is mediated further through our cultural history and knowledge, both trial-and-error and scientific, that has enabled us to employ materials to perform a wide range of functions – from structural support, to physical enclosure, to visual effects, to thermal and acoustical effects, etc. Over time, through our cultural experience, materials acquire conventional meanings and understandings. We expect specific materials to be used in certain ways and within certain understandings of their properties and limitations. Innovation occurs when new properties, new materials, new construction or fabrication techniques are discovered that open up new forms and disrupt our expectations. Material performance, in all these dimensions, can be seen as one of the fundamental ways in which we understand the built environment. As such, it can be argued that urban design along with its social, economic and environmental responsibilities is fundamentally a material art.

Professor Fraker is recognized as a pioneer in passive solar, day lighting and sustainable design research and teaching. He has pursued a career bridging architecture and urban design education and teaches design studio at Berkeley University. In 2014 was awarded by AIA/ACSA with Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education. http://ced.berkeley.edu

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At this moment new materials, new scientific knowledge at the nano scale, new digital fabrication techniques and the innovative application of old, everyday or recycled materials are enabling architects, landscape architects, urban designers and artists to create powerful and arresting new experiences of site, place and the city. These strategies are inspiring new sensibilities and demanding we rethink every surface and material process of the city. This conference seeks answers to the question of how materials can, not only create a more livable, enriched and meaningful everyday experience, but also how their performance can create a more sustainable future.

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The Conference in the making: Design Sensibility in the Making of Urban Places Camilla Hedegaard Møller Architect maa, mdl, PhD, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Construction of a Park in Copenhagen Martin Laursen

Architect maa, Founding Partner at ADEPT, Copenhagen, Denmark

Design Sensibility in the Making of Urban Places Kristian Kreiner

Professor Emeritus, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark

What Architectural Competitions Teach Us About Design Processes ​ Ashwin Karjatkar Urban Designer, Planning Architect at City Planning Office, Gothenburg, Sweden

Journies: Design Explorations in the Making of Place Jan Albrechtsen

Architect, Partner at Vandkunsten, Copenhagen, Denmark; Teaching Assistant at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Vandkunsten 2017 ​ Sybille De Cussy

Landscape Architect, Urban Designer, SUDes Alumni; Landscape Architect at Gillespies, London, United Kingdom

Think with Your Hands: Representation in the Design Process ​ Mattias Kärrholm

Professor of Architectural Theory, School of Architecture, LTH, Sweden

Local Publics in the Making: How the City is Planned without the Planner Jonas Elding Architect SAR/MSA, Founder and Partner at Elding Oscarson, Stockholm, Sweden

Elding Oscarson Walter Hood

Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planing and Urban Design, UC Berkeley, USA; Creative Director at Hood Studio, Oakland, CA

Hybrid Landscapes Jenny B. Osuldsen

Partner at Snøhetta, Oslo, Norway; MLArch, Professor in Landscape Architecture at Ås Agricultural University, AxJohnson Guest Professor, Lund

in the making: Design Sensibility in the Making of Urban Places

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Camilla Hedegaard Møller The Construction of a Park in Copenhagen “What occurs before the architects enter the process and then afterwards?”

Camilla is an architect and researcher at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. In 2017, she has obtained her PhD. title at School of Architecture, Design and Conservation for her PhD. research in the actor network theory, that inspired a study of engaging processes in the transformation of Nørrebroparken in Copenhagen. Camilla is also an active member of Danish Landscape Architectural Association, member of Kunstnersamfundet and Academic Architectural Association.

http://kdak.dk

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In Camilla’s lecture, “With the Nørrebro Park we should remember, that urban places are constructed through collective processes. The many co-designers cannot be mapped in their entirety in advance. They will show themselves along the way. We rarely start from zero. And the urban space lives on without us.”

Martin Laursen Design Sensibility in the Making of Urban Places “We love the city!�

In his presentation, Martin reveals the design approach and creative process of his office ADEPT that he co-founded in 2006.

Martin Laursen is educated as architect at Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. In 2006, together with Anders Lonka and Martin Krogh, he founded the studio ADEPT that performs architecture, planning and landscape design. In recent years ADEPT has won several national and international architectural, landscape and urban planning competitions.

http://www.adept.dk

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Kristian Kreiner What Architectural Competitions Teach Us About Design Processes “Make sure that you want to implement the project, should you be lucky to win the competition.”

Kristian is a professor at Copenhagen Business School and researcher in various areas. He is interested in organization, order, efficiency, collaboration, coordination, choice as variegated effects of historical, social processes and in what people learn from experience, and what might rationally be learnt. “What cannot be learnt, but which is often falsely learnt, is how to manage organization, how to make the right decisions, etc. It is all the reasons why it is difficult to manage organizations, to make the right decisions, etc. that can be learnt.”

https://www.cbs.dk/

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When talking about the architectural competitions, we often think of the final results, stunning images and press releases. In Kristian’s presentation, the hidden processes and discussions of such competitions are revealed by the example of the “highly successfull, illegal competition” for M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark in Helsingor, Denmark.

Kristian explains how the set requirements influence the quality of the proposals. Can the winner break the rules? Is fairness more than creativity? Many professional architects warn against letting architectural quality be compromised by legal and economic interests of individual architectural firms.

Ashwin Karjatkar Journies: Design Explorations in the Making of Place “Xy xy xy...�

Ashwin is educated as architect and urban designer and worked professionally on projects in Sweden, China, Philippines, Malaysia and India. He is focussing on sustainability encompassing active, passive and experiential strategies for a humanistic design outcome.

He has also been closely related to academics though teaching and assisting research. Currently, Ashwin works as planning architect at City Planning Office in Gothenburg on Frihamnen Project that was awarded Planpriset 2016.

https://goteborg.se/

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Jan Albrechtsen Vandkunsten 2017 “Xy xy xy…”

Jan Albrechtsen is educated as an architect and is a partner at Vandkunsten. Jan is responsible for planning and designing a wide range of complex constructions and tasks with particular emphasis on urban development, urban planning, institution and housing development.

In 2014, Jan received, together with Pernille Schyum Poulsen, Eckersberg Medaillen for their work with urban development.

http://vandkunsten.com/

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Sibylle de Cussy Think with Your Hands: Representation in the Design Process “Representation is interpretation.”

Sybille is educated as landscape architect at ENSNP (Blois, France, 2012). Being interested in multidisciplinary design, she also graduated from Sustainable Urban Design Master’s Programme at Lund University. Through

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The performative qualities of sketches, its capacity to .

Thus, she encourages the students and architects to work more creatively with it.

travelling, she finds the way to associate her passion for design and travels by work experiences, internships, workshops and studies around the globe. Currently, Sybille is based in London, UK.

https://www.gillespies.co.uk/

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Mattias Kärrholm Local Publics in the Making: How the City is Planned without the Planner “Xy xy xy...”

Mattias is a professor of architectural theory at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at LTH in Lund. His research deals with territoriality, the use of public space, urban design, materiality, society, space and everyday life. In 2014, Mattias participated in the 9th annual conference with his lecture “Trial by Space”.

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In his lecture, Mattias reminds us about the importance of social architecture and design that can empower lives of the inhabitants in the context of neighborhood Norra Falladen in Lund, Sweden.

Jonas Elding Elding Oscarson “Xy xy xy...”

Jonas’s presentation of photos of works of his studio Elding Oscarson with combination of timelapse videos of diverse sketches explores the theme of process and challenges in designing a place.

Elding Oscarson is the joint operation between Johan Oscarson and Jonas Elding. The young collaboration combines substantial experience from employments in Sweden and Japan, covering both local and international architecture, from large projects to the small ones. In 2014, the studio has won a competition for new addition to the Skissernas Museum in Lund, which opened in 2017.

http://www.eldingoscarson.com

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Walter Hood Hybrid Landscapes “Hybrid landscapes - we do not have a name for their conjunctive beauty.�

Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, CA. He is also a professor at the UC Berkeley and lectures on professional and theoretical projects nationally and internationally. Hood Studio is tripartite practice, working across art and fabrication, design and landscape, and research and urbanism. The resulting urban spaces and their objects act as public sculpture, creating new apertures through which to see the surrounding emergent beauty, strangeness, and idiosyncrasies.

www.hooddesignstudio.com/

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Jenny B. Osuldsen in the making: Design Sensibility in the Making of Urban Places “Believe in the making!”

Jenny is educated as landscape architect in Norway and in the USA. She has been working with Snøhetta since 1995 where she is one of the six partners. Landscape and architecture have developed at Snøhetta into a single idea creating a new and emerging spirit for architectural practices, worldwide. Jenny has been a member of the SUDes team as a guest professor since 2014.

https://snohetta.com

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1st prize: “the point zero” by Effrosyni Stamopoulou, Greece & Elva Nano, Greece

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SEED 01 Student Competition

“SEED 01 is a collaborative student competition that calls for projects of ideas that contribute to place making of the Sustainable LTH Campus of the 21st century in Lund, Sweden.”

SEED 01 is a collaborative student competition that calls for projects and ideas that contribute to the sustainable place making and the everyday urban life.

Responding to the ongoing discussions about the sustainable future of the LTH Campus (Lunds Tekniska Högskola) in Lund and the implementation of the new tram line in the city, the student competition seeks ideas on one of the most crucial places in the LTH Campus - area surrounding the Students’ House Kårhuset, including the future tram stop Universitetsplatån.

The Universitetsplatån is located in the heart of the campus around the Students’ House Kårhuset and will become an important entry point for the whole area when the new tram line is implemented and the tram station is developed. The synergic effects of the new public transportation link with the campus bring a great opportunity for rethinking the whole area and igniting the sustainable transformation of the campus through the urban design.

SEED 01 is a student competition organised

by SUDes (Sustainable Urban Design Master’s Program at the School of Architecture, LTH, Lund University) in collaboration with Lund University, Akademiska Hus and Lund Municipality, to bring together new ideas from students of architecture and urban design from all over the world and contribute to the ongoing discussions about the sustainable future of our cities The three entries that were awarded during the 12th Annual International Conference are projects that add a great value and have a big potential in the further development of the Campus area. The proposals have different components that the jury chose to highlight.

Neither of the projects has ALL the necessary answers but together they become a palette of ideas to pick from in the upcoming discussions. The inputs from these proposals are highly relevant because they say something about how the students see the design site in the future - a sustainable and an attractive place and vibrant generator in the core of the LTH campus that you want to be a part of and be proud of.

The jury awarded these projects: 1st prize: “the point zero” by Effrosyni Stamopoulou, Greece & Elva Nano, Greece 2nd prize: “pulsating vision” by Parvaty Balagopal, India & Jakob Norén, Sweden 3rd prize: “LTH 2.0” by Yaroslava Korchagina, Russia For more information visit the competition website: www.seedstudentcompetition.com.

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Afterword

by Harrison Fraker “Materials have the kinesthetic capacity to create deep memories, enrich social communication and communities, while contributing to a holistic strategy of sustainability.�

As with all the SUDes International Conferences, the purpose is to call attention to an issue or theme that can transform how we think about and design sustainable places. This year the focus is on the ways in which material performance can contribute to the process of both design and making.

As the presentations explore, from their touch and smell to their means of production; from their local sourcing to their efficient use and deployment; from their symbolic content to their associational references, materials have the kinesthetic capacity to create deep memories, enrich social communication and communities, while contributing to a holistic strategy of sustainability.

Too often the materials that shape and form our environments are taken for granted. If the many dimensions of material performance are considered and integrated in the design and production processes, they can enrich and bring new meanings to the experience of place. This conference opens the door to such an ongoing exploration.

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List Of Makers

Publishing director Book editors

Kateřina Vondrová Cyril Pavlů

Organization team

Cyril Pavlů Peter Siöström Kateřina Vondrová

SUDes team

Photographer Cover Illustration Conference participants

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Peter Siöström

Louise Lövenstierne Andreas Olsson Per Tibbelin Jonas Brasjö Albin Viktor Wallström Felipe Alfonso Grallert Camilla Hedegaard Møller Martin Laursen Kristian Kreiner Ashwin Karjatkar Jan Albrechtsen Sybille De Cussy Mattias Kärrholm Jonas Elding Walter Hood Jenny B. Osuldsen

Special thanks to

Ax:son Johnson Institute for Sustainable Urban Design Lund University Jenny B. Osuldsen Partner at Snøhetta, Oslo, Norway; MLArch, Professor in Landscape Architecture at Ås Agricultural University, Norway Ax:son Johnson Guest Professor, Lund, Sweden Harrison Fraker, FAIA Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Department of Architecture, UC Berkeley, USA William Wurster Dean Emeritus, College of Environmental Design Chair, Energy Resources Group, UC Berkeley, USA Ax:son Johnson Guest Professor, SUDes, School of Architecture, Lund University, Sweden AIA/ACSA 2014 Topaz Medallion Recipient

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Ax:son Johnson Institute for Sustainable Urban Design Lund University

Sustainable Urban Design Master’s Program School of Architecture Lunds Tekniska HÜgskola www.stadsbyggnad.lth.se

Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation

Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation Stockholm, Sweden www.axsonjohnsonfoundation.org

School of Architecture LTH, Lund University P.O. Box 117, 221 00 Lund, Sweden +46 46 222 00 00 www.lunduniversity.lu.se

Printed at Media-Tryck Lund, Sweden XXX, 2018

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