Candlestick aka Husstake

This candelestick house was designed and made just for fun. I had ideas about producing and selling them myself but other more important stuff got in the way. Maybe I will pick it up some day, I still think the idea and design is good.

The Revolution will not be Architecturalized...

Never done a comic before but it was fun! Made for a theory course at Lund School of Architecture. 

A link to a pdf with the same comic:  Comic.pdf

Submarine photoshop

This is how it works... It dives when you remove a plug from the pipe that leads to the inside water tank, taking in water from a small hole in the bottom front.

Submarine reparation

Submarine I made two years ago in the schools workshop. A Christmas gift for my nephew. The problem was that it was too complicated for the amount of time I had to make it, so the water intake mechanism failed and the wood cracked directly after its maiden voyage in the bathtub. But now I'm fixing it! Only got the painting left.

Future sculpture maybe? Having fun with the boolean tool in rhino...

Old stuff...

Two really old projects from the beginning of architecture school.

Left: A future pavilion for Small House by SANAA when it hypothetically is turned into a museum. Because of the extremely small lot the house is standing on, the street is instead used for the pavilion. Its functions is split into three "kiosks" and squeezed in between the buildings on the short narrow street leading up to the Small House.

Right: A not that successful prototype of a chair I handmade in the schools metal workshop. Surprisingly comfortable though. Can think of many ways of improving it... The time we had for the design process was ridiculously short, but a friend of mine made an innovative chair that won a price in the same time, so who am I to complain.

Project: Torekov

 

Torekov is a small village 100 km north of Malmö where rich people are paying ridiculous amounts of money for small old fisherman's houses. But even they deserve a community hall of some kind and my group partner Svante and I designed a building that would take care of all the existing qualities that where already in place.

We basicly made a classic architectural promenade, always open for the public, with a viewpoint half way up and a roof terrace on the top. The rooms connected to the promenade, a restaurant, exhibition hall and auditory, is dependent and influenced of the promenade in their design.

An even smaller article...

Rätten till Malmö.pdf

A small article I mostly wrote myself about different ways of appropriation in Malmö by different individuals and organisations. With Lefebvre as the ghost behind it of course. It was supposed to be a group work, but you know, not everyone likes to write...

Another small contest

I proposed a new shopping/residence bridge in the otherwise quite conformative neighbourhood of Rosengård in Malmö, Sweden. Supplementing the existing old boring commercial bridge from the -70s.

Using the unused area of the highway that cuts through the neighbourhood, combining the medieval idea of a pedestrian commercial bridge with contemporary architecture. 

Placing Rosengård (in black) over a map of Florence (green-red) shows a remarkable resemblance. The Arno river and the Rosengård highway is about the same size and follows exactly the same north-west/south-east axis. The Rosengård Center (big black in the middle), i.e the commercial bridge from the 70s, is situated at the same spot as the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. Hardly a coincidence!

Small contest

This project was a small idea competition me and my friend Hanieh Heiderabadi made for the city of Malmö in their wierd competition "ung bo 12".

We proposed to build very simple but fun houses in a special material called "träullit" (wood and cement) that you almost by yourself can but up in a day. 

A nice idea to revitalize the city, but as we proposed it, the construction companies would be left out, and that is not popular in a contest heavily sponsored by the industry...

Just for fun stuff!

Left: Scale model of the lighthouse on the Landsort island in Stockholms Archipelago. My ancestors where ivolved in the construction of the lighthouse in 1658. Made of cherry wood, plexi glass, copper and sandblastered steel.

Right: Candlestick made of folded steel with a candle as the chimney.

Scientific Article

 

This article explores what role did the Tahrir Square played for the Egyptian revolution of 2011. A question that has risen the last years is about the correlation between Internet activism on social forums and blogs and the activism in the streets of our cities. The question if the Egyptian revolution was a “revolution 2.0” was widely spread throughout news media. There is no doubt that the social forums etc. on the Internet played a part in the revolutionary events, but what about the places where people actually gathered and fought? In order to analyze the space of the revolution on the Tahrir Square I will use Henri Lefebvre’s theories about the production of space.

The Appropriation of Tahrir.pdf

Written in April 2012 in a seminar with Brent Patterson at Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture (ESA) in Paris.

The theoretical seminar was about utopies, not only strictly architectural ones.

Some of the final images produced for the bachelor project

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