ABSTRACT Our cities are complex systems in perpetual motion. They are the very reflection of our current and past societies. They are the physical manifestation of layers of time. Where past civilizations stood with their temples and other religious structures as embodiments of their time, we stand with our skyscrapers, airports, highways and other infrastructural […]
ALL IN! Designing Inclusive Meeting Spaces Research Question: Which are the processes and design criteria necessary for developing inclusive meeting spaces in an urban neighbourhood? The current urban development in Gothenburg prioritises the needs and aesthetics of middle- and upper-class inhabitants (Thörn & Holgersson 2016, p.670, 681). This choice creates a city that excludes a […]
PLANTING GREEN TO THE SKY KEY WORDS Gothenburg Vertical greenery design Residential building facade upgrading Plant maintenance & irrigation Recycled materials Detail solutions
INTO THE WOODS – a vertical wooden village “If the skyscraper were nothing more than equal spaces sliced up vertically (as universal spaces), it would be totally boring.” – Akira Suzuki The modern manmade high-rise seems to be unrelated to the organic and self-creating essence of nature. Moreover, in contemporary structures engineered wood is often […]
Student: Ayoub Chkairi Supervisor & Co-Supervisor: Jonas Lundberg & Jonas Runberger Examiner: Kengo Skorick Introduction Every minute 574.500 pictures are shared, 4.000.000 videos streamed, 16.000.000 text messages sent by more than 3.7 billion internet users which creates daily more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. Indeed, more than 90 per cent of the world’s data […]
Rural Microarcologies – a vision of resilient future architecture A proposal for re-purposing wind turbine pylons into microarcologies* as a strategy for ruralisation *Microarcology = micro + architecture + ecology = a building that contains multiple functionalities, and facilitates a symbiotic relationship between 50-100 inhabitants and the surrounding ecology through the use of different technical […]
“Architecture is a physical manifestation of the power relationships in our world. It reveals the political, economic, and cultural priorities of those who have the privilege to build.” – Michael Murphy, Alan Ricks (2017) exploring co.creation for citizen participation and influence on public space pages 1. introduction2. theoretical framework3. case study: Gothenburg City4. co.creation process […]
Desire for democracy: or an exploration of the city hall, acting as a catalyst for democracy and active citizenship. Cities are central in the current world, a chain of systems for functions in modern life, and the principal platform for the creation and reformation of politics, as well as the main public informer of it. […]
Introduction – By 2021, the 400-year jubilee of Gothenburg marks the start for many projects around the city – such as the development of Älvstaden, which will provide housing for 150 000 new residents by the year of 2035 (City of Gothenburg, 2019). Gothenburg is facing big changes ahead. This will have an immense impact […]