Portfolio

Finally I have an updated architectural portfolio
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Thesis Project Exhibition | Vernissage

On Wednesday, June 27 me and my fellow students projects are exhibited at the school of architecture in Copenhagen.
Come and see 135 inspiring projects in the big exhibition hall.

adress: Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 51, Holmen, 1435 København K

It's open between 16 and 18 on wednesday and then it will be open daily 11-18, free entrance

Exhibition period: June 28 - July 6 and then Augusti 6-18

last semesters key moment

It's almost impossible to see the key moment in a project while you're in it. In the rearview mirror I think this was the moment where the project took shape and "became"

FINAL CRIT | DESCRIPTION

the final description of New Amsterdam will be provided in the middle of Februari. Apologizes for this. Here are some thoughts and and earlier description (for those of you who know swedish).

Tak for billedet, Brian

FINAL CRIT | SECTION ELEVATION

FINAL CRIT | FRAME FOR LIVING

FINAL CRIT | PLAN DRAWINGS

FINAL CRIT | INDEX OF BITS & PIECES

FINAL CRIT

tomorrow (read today) I'm having my final crit on my Masters program before starting my thesis. I'm now aiming for 1,5hour(s) of sleep and then of to the print shop to plot 3square meters of line drawing

POW!

Mechanical Amsterdam

Plan under construction

It's getting cleaned up, complexity is added, and I'm also trying out some textures for that sweet style

lost in transformation

10 days to go on fall semester then I'm heading straight to the thesis, no paus...

conceptual trajectory

Slim houses in the sky is reflecting the existing urbanity in the commercially polluted cultural relic known as Amsterdam. 

RE-FRAMING AMSTERDAM

axonometric stereoscopic shadow

In the middle of model making. I'll show the result soon 

Hard morphology

The sketch from a couple of days ago with some aspects refined

Summing-up

A long time now since I actually described what I'm doing. But don't fear, I'm right on top of things!

The project has taken an utopian turn over the last month and no matter what this sketch looks like, the structure has taken scale and the overall circulation is getting solved.

I'm still over Amsterdam, but not Amsterdam as structure and topography, but Amsterdam as atmosphere and character, in other words I'm only interested in the city's inherent properties. 

The projects trajectory is to reflect and act as a complement to Amsterdam. 

It aims to reflect the townscape physically as well as its properties and history, at the same time it's creating room for what is currently missing in the city. It communicates hard criticism towards the touristification and commercial pollution the city has been undergoing for the last decades.

Amsterdam started of as a lo-tech small town a couple of hundred years ago and now it's became a old town-metropolis hybrid. 

So what if we wanted to go back in time, but keep the technology of the future as well as keep the present time? 

My mind un-controllingly wandered to Back to the future II, where Michael J Fox travels into a parallel reality and the professor (what's his name) draws a Y-shaped vector on a chalkboard to explain this phenomena... Maybe it's that simple to make this vision possible. Just build the city in parallel autonomous layers!

This is my vision and experiment! 

To say it simple: I'm superimposing a new hi-tech small town with some of the charm and picturesqueness the old one use to have.

Defining characteristics

Diagrammatic collage-drawing dealing with a few keywords within the project

-Vertical
-Hanging
-Light
-Rhythmic enclosure
-Clinging space
-Reaching or Stretching

Topographic drawing

-defining territory
-looking at strategic positioning
-creating a pattern for programming possibilities

drawn by hand with ink and marker, added vector lines in illustrator 

Amsterdam Site Analysis