problem statement The climate crisis demands us to change our way of living. We need to lower our ecological footprint drastically in the near future. Building industry contributes to almost a third of global CO2 emissions. What we build in the future need to adapt to new sustainability goals and have a lower environmental impact. […]
Category: Master´s Thesis 2020
TO COMBAT LONELINESS A search for urban togetherness “I remember the year eye contact stopped. It was not some big demographic shift. People just seemed to give up relating to each other. Now this town is one of the loneliest places on earth”. Loneliness is merely a human phenomenon that afflicts most of us at […]
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Lisa Weiss
GRÄNSLAND infrastructure for ecotourism in a northern landscape “How can a system of architectural installations in nature create a sense of identity for the chosen territory and make it more accessible for nature tourism?” Abstract Booklet Context + Process Proposal Compositions
WEATHER SPACE A search for an alternative implementation of the naturum concept with focus on the experience of nature The thesis is a comment on the contradiction of how a Naturum is a staffed building you enter to experience nature and how this limits the possibility to take part of the exhibitions. The aim is […]
Stress Meets Nature – a place to be alone, together with nature – Health problems related to stress is a significant problem for our society. Research shows that people in an urban context have a higher risk of developing mental problems related to stress. Stress makes us less aware and de-connects us from the present […]
What I Talk about When I Talk about Architecture Translation methodology between language and space Have you ever had such a discovery:Our oral cavity structure is basically the same, but the pronunciation of different languages are ever-changing? In this project, I try to find a translation methodology from language to architecture and create a new […]
TALES OF AN ISLE An approach for sustaining coastal identities in the flux of climate change [ abstract ] [ booklet ] In a vast ocean landscape, islands present a dual nature of both isolation and connectivity. Today, the islands are linked to each other and to the mainland of Gothenburg, forming an overall whole […]
Lasse Hejll
Abstract From growing up in the countryside, I have always felt fascination towards old barns and byres, located like singular figures in the open landscape. With their honest materiality, robust heterogeneity and careful response to setting, these structures represents an elemental architecture that seem to never pass from time. After reading Ur den svenska byggnadskonstens […]