PRETTY BORING An exploration in a leftover space Every city has them. The in-between boring places. They are not defined and usually unappealing. When in correlation with a defined space, such as a transportation hub, that also happens to be unappealing, you get a mix of boredom and stress. But what defines boring architecture? It is […]
RENEWAL MONUMENT From the circular strategies to heritage renovation Circular economy It is inevitable to judge the growth economy from two sides. On the one hand, it boosts economic growth, but on the other hand, the wealth gap, material exhaustion, and waste pollution have been even more severe than the surface prosperity. The linear economy […]
LOST POTENTIAL This project is an eploration of how a rooftop can be retrofitted with focus on biodiversity in the urban environment When we are urbanizing and densifying the city we push away nature and the important role it has. At the same time around 40 – 50 % of the impermeable area in the […]
MOVE ON WITH WIND -Exploring a new living mode in the public space from the perspective of urban scale ventilation design under the pandemic situation. The master thesis revolves around urban public space in the post-epidemic. The sudden pandemic has undoubtedly changed the original life track of everyone. In the more than one year since […]
More kids will live in the cities in the future. The composition of our cities determine how well they are integrated. Our public spaces are spaces where we can meet people that are different from ourselves. To be able to meet people that have other values than we do. It becomes a space in our […]
LIVING CANOPY – Integrating Greenery into Urban Public Space with Canopy Structures. Today large number of people leave in urban areas and it is estimated that over 68 percent of people in the world will be living in cities ten years to come. Increasing population in urban areas tends to reduce the amount of green […]
Healing in The Third Place Exploring A Life-Enhancing Method from Spatial and Social Aspects for People Stressed in Daily Life The main question is about “how to reduce social stress of humans from spatial and social aspects by the life-enhancing third place under Göteborg’s transformation context.” Nowadays, people always suffer from social stress, which leads […]
Why not Strangers? SPACES OF INTERRUPTED URBAN CIRCULATIONS AND NARRATIVES In this project, I focused on the psychology and behavior of strangers in public space by exploring spatial possibilities of interrupting urban circulations and narratives. Introduction As Kio Stark said,“Cities are machines for interactions among strangers. ”. Most of us stay close to our acquaintance, […]
DOWN TO EARTH. Circular Material Flows // Resource Salvation – Exploring the use of excavated earth material from Västlänken, focusing on Rammed Earth techniques in a Nordic urban context.
THERE WILL BE FLOOD Resilient architecture for sea level rise