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t h e b i l l b o a r d h o u s e A school assignment from a field trip to New York. Based on an interview with a resident. We were to talk about the home, what the importance of their home was and then design a compact living unit for them. This is my re-design of a traditional billboard, to live in.

(above) View from the kitchen toward the livingr oomand bathroom. The bahtroom door and wall are semi trans-parent to make the room seem longer. The angled walls offer the residents a view of the river and Manhattan with-out people being able to see into their home from the road.

(left) A view towards the kitchen. The walls in the apartment are reflec-tive to make the room, only 14 square meters, feel more spacious and light.

The Billboard house uses a traditional landmark of American Highway culture and adds an extra quality to it.

(right) Facades from different angels.The walls can still hold the commercial posters on it and from the road you can’t see that the facade is broken.

(left) A volume/area study conducted in full scale. Even though it is a very small apartment it does not necessarily feel like one.

w o r k / s h o p / l i v e During 2012 a competition named Ungbo12 took place in Malmö. The municipality along with local builders are looking for ideas and sites in Malmö to build new and innovative housing for young people. This is my contribution in the competition area Fosie. A redesigned warehouse with a combined housing and workshop for the young people who live there.

(left) The path from the entrance of the warehouse out through to the garden behind it. The variation in the facades tilt create an exciting room for the young people who live there and their visitors.

Each apartment holds room for two people and commune kitch-en, bathroom and living room.

The workshop and the old offices in the warehouse gives the young people an opportunity to work and show their work by holding exibitions in the house.

l a n d a h ä r During 2012 a competition named Ungbo12 took place in Malmö. The municipality along with local builders are looking for ideas and sites in Malmö to build new and innovative housing for young people. This is my contribution in the competition area Oxie, new building. It is a barn with four appartment located near the city but still on the countryside, it is context based so that it doesn’t disturb the enviroment. This contribution was awarded 1st prize.

The classic Skåne barn served as an inspiration for this project. The loft and the generous ceiling height reminds me of the summers on the hay loft as a kid. Instead of cattle this barn holds four apartments. It minimizes the energy use because of the very small windows facing northeast and generous windows facing southwest. This along with a combination of well insulated concrete walls and windows with low u-value creates a energy efficient small apartment with a country house feel. The use of standardised apartment modules keeps the building cost low.

Experiencing the calm, the landscape and the shifting of seasons throughout the year is something everyone appreciates, young as well as old. My proposal allows young people to live in a cost effectve smaller apartment near the city but on the countryside. The residents also have the possibility to grow their own crops.

The apartment consists of two stories and a loft. The full height in one part of the apartment creates a light and spacious room. The lower floor holds the kitchen area and bathroom, storage space in the hallway. The second floor is a livingroom with book shelves, a sofa and additional closets. The loft is a prvivate area with a bed and personal storage space. The apartment foot print is just 25 m2 but offers many posibilities and lots of daylight.

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view from entrance

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k u b i o During 2012 a competition named Ungbo12 took place in Malmö. The municipality along with local builders are looking for ideas and sites in Malmö to build new and innovative housing for young people. This is a proposal for a combined greenhouse and housing unit in Hyllie. An efficient, ecologic almost self-sufficient form of housing. This contribution was awarded second prize in the “new building” part of the competition.

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The placement of apartment units inside a recycled industrial greenhouses minimizes the energy use and enables the residents to grow their own crops and produce food, even during the winter.

The gardens and their greenery creates a scenic enviroment and the greenhouse forms a building envelope that protects the garden houses from wind, precipitation and cold. The heat loss from the living unit helps heating the greenhouse during winter. The greenhouse holds great ventilation and airing possi-bilities. This makes it possible to sit “outside” and enjoy the garden even during a cool summer night or a sunny winter day.

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The basic measurements 5x5x5 meters provide a spacious and efficient module. The first floor contains all facilities: shower, wc and kitchen. The second floor is placed on adjustable beams prepared along the walls. This makes it possible to add extra floors at any height desired. It could be a loft with a bed, an extra loft for storage or a small library. The window placement is individual to each unit to maximize the light in each apartment according to it’s placement in the greenhouse.

The living unit, 5x5x5m

e p i p h Y t e During 2012 a competition named Ungbo12 took place in Malmö. The municipality along with local builders are looking for ideas and sites in Malmö to build new and innovative housing for young people. This is a proposal that picks up the forgotten qualities of the water tower in Hylliea and creates an spiphyte structure holding cohousings. This contribution was awarded second place in the “rebuilding” part of the competition.

In Hyllie there is a water tower with unique qualities. A forgotten 1970’s architectural icon for a now booming city district. The tower offers both a city view and a seaview and the top floor today holds an unused room, that used to be a resaturant with an amazing view. The concept of adding a cohousing unit to the structure is meant to offer more people to get a share of these qualities. The housing units will climb up the skinny legs of the tower clinging like and epiphyte plant. The now abandoned restau-rant will become semi-public, during the weeks only used by the residents but during weekends and special occassions also to the public. This would create a grat lively atmosphere to the area where the tower is located. The apartments are each designed differently and vary in size, between 3-8 rooms with shared bathrooms, kitchen and livingroom.

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When re-designing the brutalistic archive it felt necessary for me to uphold its rythm and initial sturctures. I placed each apartment unit in between the old walls of the shelf units. I kept one of the original corridor floors and created the entrance to the apartments there. The roof is broken and lets in sunlight and the beams in the ceiling creates the same light rythm as in the old archives. Each apartment contains two bedrooms a kitchen, toilet, shower and living room. The two stories in the appartment use all the initial structures, the walls and floors of the building. The narrow windows makes the reflection in the appartment very important, I have worked with the stairs, translucent floor and furnishing that enhances this.

Lunds provinical Archives was designed in 1968 by the architect Bernt Nyberg. The buildning is brutalistic and the major part of the building lacks windows. The building is very characteristic and represents a great landmark on the way out to the suburb of Dalby. It is now decided that this building is being redesigned into student housing. This is my suggestion for how this could be done without harming the initial design of the buildning.

Föra in ljus i bostäder och skapa övergångar mellan våningar

Rita något möjligt och genomförbart

Försöka hålla samma linje som Bernt Nyberg

Använda den existerande rytmen i byggnaden och behålla dess värde

Uppnå koppling mellan inne och ute

PROCESS, SKISSER.

r e c Y c l e Each year in the School of Architecture in Lund we do a furniture project. This alows us to learn more on materials, the makeing of something in scale 1:1. This is another kind of process than we do when making plans for a building. Sprung out of a workshop based on a character we created, we each chose a way of furnishing and the development of a chair. This shows parts of my process and my final result, my swing.

My idea was to use a material that otherwise just goes to waste. The inspiration was a classic car tire swing, I chose to work with used bicycle tires. They offer an elactcity that gives ergonomic comfort, is a playful weaving material that is easy to get alot of, and cost barely anything. The swing came out great. I wove the tires around a welded fram that i made from old iron pipes.