Post-Pandemic Living Housing Design for Possible New Residence Mode The outbreak of COVID-19 since January 2020 makes a tremendous shift on people’s life and behavior. With the rapid change due to the global disease, enormous attentions on the importance of domestic space are raised again since everyone is spending extremely much more time, or even […]
Naturally Connected We all agree that we need a shift towards a more sustainable way of living. We are confronted with societal challenges due to the overuse of earth’s resources and at the same time, we need to face the growing urbanization. The majority of all people worldwide live in cities and the number is […]
www.johanwall.com WOOD WORKS – An innovative system of wood connections, originating in state-of-the art circular design principles and traditional joinery craftsmanship, is developed for a structural system of engineered wood products. The joinery system is an architectural exploration aimed at demonstrating how timber structures could be assembled to facilitate easier deconstruction and increase the reuse […]
WOODEN IT BE NICE Challenges and opportunities in modern wooden construction The Swedish housing stock needs to be enlarged and simultaneously, with Agenda 2030 in mind, emissions need to be limited. Studies show that replacing steel and concrete with wood can reduce construction emissions. When researching opportunities in industrial wooden construction it emerges that an […]
THE POWER OF THE PLAN Why furnishability matters and how to implement it When you furnish a room, you notice pretty quickly if it will be hard or not. Some plans only have one functioning setup and some rooms don’t seem furnishable at all. This sparked questions and ideas regarding the importance to be able […]
THE IDEA Floor plan design is regarded as on of the major tasks within architecture and housing development. It is a challenge of creating appropriate shapes and locations of rooms, and the process normally requires parallel design steps across different scales. The task can often be complex and results in a time consuming process. ”Floor […]
Abstract For the past few decades, residential yards in the Swedish housing development have been the negative of the built volume, a space created as a result of something else, rarely something that has been in focus. It has been balancing on the edge between private and public, resulting in spaces with no true ownership […]
ABSTRACT In a multi-family housing, ground floor together with the surrounding space, which is called the ground floor zone, is the place where residents go through every day. This area works as a “buffer zone” between indoor and outdoor, private and public space. To some extent, there are various intersections happening within it, including different […]
A b s t r a c t Due to climate change, we are facing a future where the building industry will need to change and start striving for environmental sustainability. There are many ways we as architects can design buildings for the future. However, in the context of climate change, one way is to […]