3.15.2019

A new architectural office is born

I have a new firm along with my best homie! Let's make magic

The dynamic duo from the gotland branch of skälsö arkitekter is now transformed into ateljé ö. In february 2019 a new era begins.

In the atelier we regard architecture as one of the fine arts and we work as artists of architecture. We believe that buildings can reconnect man with nature and bring happiness, calm and inspiration. For many years we have been working with the gotlandic nature as a generator of strong architecture and we love the context based work, whether small or big, on the island, the mainland or abroad.

Like the architects of old times we take pride in our profession and strive to take a hierarchically strong roll in the process of building. We are specialized in taking architectural projects from first idea to delivering the key to the client. Together with builders and craftsmen we create surroundings for life, beautiful and practical internally and externally.

We have been awarded with Villapriset (sweden's best villa) by Sveriges Arkitekter in 2017, ung svensk arkitektur (sweden's most promising young architects) by tidskriften Arkitektur 2017, Residence stora formpris (architects of the year) by Residence magazine 2017. And we did the worlds most prestigious architecture exhibition at la biennale di venezia curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley Mcnamara 2018. All under the name of Skälsö Arkitekter.

Joel has professional experience as a partner at Skälsö Arkitekter in Visby and previous employment at AQ arkitekter in Visby. Mats has professional experience from Skälsö Arkitekter in Visby, Abelardo Gonzalez arkitektbyrå in Malmö, Chroma arkitekter in Malmö and an architecture studio under own name in Malmö. We have professional academical connections from teaching and lecturing at Lund school of architecture (LTH) and SLU alnarp. Both Joel and Mats have degrees from Lund school of architecture (LTH) and the Royal Danish Academy of fine arts school of architecture (KADK) in Copenhagen. Joel also has a degree in building conservation from Uppsala university - campus Gotland. You can see some of our previous work by looking at Skälsö Arkitekters website www.skalso.se




1.17.2017

Skälsö Arkitekter - Building 104

A former military bunker appropriated.
See more images here




9.19.2016

Skälsö Arkitekter - Military base Gotland

Me and my colleagues at Skälsö have made a proposal for a new military base on the island of Gotland. 


 



9.27.2015

Arcosanti - Paolo Soleri



Skälsö Arkitekter - Sahara1


New projects finally up on skalso.se

Check out more of our stuff there and look at our process photos on instagram @skalsoarkitekter






9.08.2015

Knud Friis - Eget Hus Friis Moltke

Stumbled upon a publication of a fine Danish functionalist villa by Friis Moltke with both drawings, photos and the story behind the house and its architect.  http://www.realdaniabyg.dk/media/99659/knud_friis_web.pdf

also check out other Danish architecture at the realdaniabyg.dk website.

5.25.2015

Workshop in Lund

Skälsö Arkitekter held a workshop at Lund School of Architecture a few weeks ago. This is the result of two hard days work from first and seconde year students!


4.19.2015

Manthey Kula

An amazing project by the Norwegian practice Manthey Kula.
I had the honors to spend a few days together with Beate Hølmebakk (one of the founders of MK) a few years ago, while setting up Lund Architecture Symposium. I'm very fascinated and inspired by their work. Hope to see alot more in the future.
Here is a link to her lecture that I co-arranged for Lund School of Architecture: https://vimeo.com/78862713
 

12.13.2014

Dymaxion

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dymaxion House as installed inHenry Ford Museum
The word Dymaxion is a term that Buckminster Fuller used for several of his inventions. It is a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension.[1]
A brand name was needed for the display of Fuller's first architectural model, later to be known as the Dymaxion house, at the Marshall Field'sdepartment store in Chicago.
In order to invent a word, a wordsmith hired by Marshall Field's spent two days listening to Fuller and trying to get a feel for the type of language he used. He then played with syllables from typical Fuller words, until he and Fuller agreed on the word "Dymaxion".
Fuller was excited about the word and used it for many of his inventions during the decades to follow, including the Dymaxion house, the Dymaxion Deployment Unit, the Dymaxion car, and the Dymaxion World Map. Dymaxion also came to describe a polyphasic sleep schedule he followed, consisting of four 30 minute naps throughout the day. He also renamed his elaborate journal, in which he sought to document his life as an experiment with the greatest possible detail, as the Dymaxion Chronofile.

12.02.2014

Anatomy sections

I was cut open a few weeks ago to remove a troublesome organ.
Inspiring to take a peek into the body and trying to get a grip of my own anatomy. Think my lost buddy is shown somewhere between 0.18 and 0.20, but I'm not sure...