BREAK A post-digital exploration of the cleaving of timber. The focus of this thesis lies on the exploration of cleaved timber as a material and the creation of a process of working between the physical and dig-ital. Different methodologies are explored and developed by working with both physical and digital representative models of cleaving. By […]
Jamming Structures: Aggregations of Construction and Demolition Waste Transforming over Time In 2012, construction and demolition (C&D) waste accounted for half of all the global waste that ended up in landfills. It is well-documented that materials used in the building process have a harmful impact on the environment. Most of the building waste ends up […]
TEMPORAL JUXTAPOSITIONS Views of an Alternate Timeline of Gamla Stan What would it be like to re-imagine lost structures from the architectural history of a place and project them into an alternate present? The premise of the thesis is to bring attention back onto lost forgotten architectural moments from history and re-imagine their attributes and […]
TALES OF MOVEMENT – The exploration of the correlation between human movement and the built environment through the development of a design methodology. ”Movement and change has always been part of our inheritance; static architecture has always been connected by kinetic passage a duality echoed by life itself.” Lawrence Halprin, Freeways, 1966, p.23 Abstract This […]
Nature functions as a closed loop circular system from growth to decay, created by the symbiotic relationship between the environment and the species. This contributes to vital ecosystem services within the natural systems creating a perfect balance, as a continuous cycle of growth and decay among the various lifeforms for their survival. But this balance […]
Resurrected spire at Notre Dame The idea of the new spire is an imaginary resurrection of the fallen elements – a visual image of God reaching down through the roof with his hand, collecting all fallen elements together and pulling them back towards the sky, maintaining the random, chaotic positions in which the elements were […]
RESISTANT HETEROTOPIA – A narrative-based study on a counter-factual virtual social movement in Hong Kong
PIXE[L]IBRARY Physical spatiality, that once was a key aspect of architecture, will become less relevant in the future. As the virtual working its way into the physical word, the novum that emerges in the interaction between the physical and virtual will forever change the built environment as we experience it today.This thesis explores this novum […]
INVENTING DRAWINGS Investigating architectural representation through artworks, theory and drawing experiments The drawing is both the tool and product of the architectural labour. Although they have different levels of detailing and finish, the sketch, the presentation drawing and the working drawing share many characteristics. The word design is both a noun and a verb. The […]
Constructing the poetic image The crematory as a study in existential architectural form A poetic experience is often understood as something subjective and intuitive, still many would find inherent poetic qualities in the vast sea, under immense alps and in the miniature world of the forest, without being able to define why. While the subjectivity […]