RE/02

RE/02

RE/02
RE-DIPLOMA
2020
Edited by Thordis Arrhenius and Mikael Bergquist
KTH Royal Institute of Technology — School of Architecture Stockholm

CONTENTS
COLOPHON
RE-Master Studio is an advanced architectural
course run at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
School of Architecture in Stockholm.
It is taught by Thordis Arrhenius, PhD (professor
architecture, theory and method) and
Mikael Bergquist (architect and adjunct
professor architecture).
Editors
Thordis Arrhenius, Mikael Bergquist
Design
Matthew Ashton
Thank you to our Diploma students:
Emelie Ahlqvist
Louise Björkander
Oliver Cassidy
Ludvig Ekman
Pär Falkenäng
Jeanette Hoff
Love Lagercrantz
Felicia Narumi Liang
Dan Lindau
Anna Molodij
Silja Siiki
Jofrid Sandgren Østenstad
06 Thordis Arrhenius
and Mikael Bergquist
08 Emelie Ahlqvist
12 Louise Björkander
16 Oliver Cassidy
20 Ludvig Ekman
24 Pär Falkenäng
Re-Diploma
Commemorating the A(s)telier
Fleeting Spectacle — a Seasonal Event
Common Rooms
Civic Manufactory
Collecting a Site
About the type
Univers is used throughout this publication. The
typeface was designed by the Swiss typographer
Adrian Frutiger and released by Deberny &
Peignot in 1957 — the same year as Helvetica.
© For all texts, drawings and images the
respective authors, unless otherwise stated.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication
may be reproduced in any manner without
permission from the authors and the publisher.
Thank you to our invited guests during Diploma
Days, May 2020:
Jury Nina Lundvall (Caruso St John Architects),
Philip Christou (Prof. CASS),
Liza Fior (MUF architecture/art),
Marianne Müller (Prof. Stuttgart State Academy
of Art and Design),
Elena Carlini (Arch.),
Fabian Blücher (General Architecture)
28 Jeanette Hoff
32 Love Lagercrantz
36 Felicia Narumi Liang
40 Dan Lindau
Tailored to Fit
Lifting a Monument
Preserving Postmoderism — a Swedish Case
Building Perceptions
ISBN 978-91-519-2349-9
44 Anna Molodij
City Scoop
48 Silja Siiki
The Public Interior
52 Jofrid Sandgren
Østenstad
Høvik Church Hill

RE-DIPLOMA
RE-Master studio addresses the notion of change, permeance
and resilience through the means of re-storation, re-use and
re-pair. The overall methodological and pedagogical strategy
is to explore the already present, the already built, the
already thought and imagined.
One central driving objective of the studio is to critically re-engage
with the representational and documentary tools used in architecture
- drawing, models, digital and photographic documentation as well
as the latest representational technology of scanning. Particular
attention is payed to scale as an architectural and methodological tool
with a specific focus on exploring how digitalization has affected the
architectural representation. The digital manipulation of analogue scale
models and photographical images have been cexplored in the studio.
The diploma project at the School of Architecture KTH is an individual
project concluding the master, and diploma students are free to
formulate their own individual thesis projects. At the same time the
students are still a vital part of the studio—both physically seated in
our studio space, as well as through pin ups, lectures and participation
in formulating the studios agenda. In some case the diploma students
thesis have more directly related to the master studio’s theme of reuse
and repair, in others not. All through however the notion of economy
of means has been steering design decisions and program . How we in
the present situation of earth pay attention to the common resources,
material as well spatial, social as well as aesthetic.
Emelie Ahlqvist—Commemorating the A(s)telier and Oliver Cassidy—
Common Rooms, both addresses the themes of the shared and the
common in new buildings. Louise Björkander—Fleeting Spectacle and
Pär Falkenäng—Building Upon Layers work with public programs and
look at the decorative and ornamental in different ways communicate
with the public. Jeanette Hoff—Tailored to Fit combines working and
living inside a remodelled Townhouse in Stockholm. Love Lagercrantz—
Lifting a Monument makes a new base for Asplund’s Public Library in
Stockholm. Ludvig Ekman—Civic Manufactory, Anna Molodij—City
Scoop and Silja Siiki—The Public Interior all work with interventions in
the urban fabric as well as the interiors of existing and new structures.
Felicia Narumi Liang—Preserving Postmodernism is a speculative
investigation on how to relate and preserve Swedish Postmodernism.
Dan Lindau—Building Memories is a methodological and emotional
investigation of the Swedish documentary photographer Sune Jonsson
and the making of a local architecture. Jofrid Sandgren Østenstad—
Høvik Church Hill sensitively explores ways of inserting new functions
and structures into the already layered history of a church site in Oslo.
This booklet is a first collection of Diploma works from studio RE-. It
is a selection of work from the extensive full material produced by the
students.
Thordis Arrhenius, Mikael Bergquist
Teachers Re Master Studio
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COMMEMORATING THE A(S)TELIER
Emelie Ahlqvist
This is a project on the topic of living and working and it
consists of two parts. The first is a research thesis analyzing
the development of the atelier typology. The second part
is a proposal for a new architectural typology, the ‘super
villa garage’, that combines spaces for dwelling with those
of production and labor. The project is set in Stockholm.
Throughout the years studied the concept of the atelier as
a multifaceted typology is lost. The place to produce in has
gradually separated itself from both the space of dwelling
and the place of consumption. My interest lies in speculating
on bringing them together again. As a typology the atelier
shifts the boundaries between the private, the communal,
and the public and I believe that it has the potential to
generate new ways of living and working, as well as give
new possibilities for interaction and integration with local
contexts.
Line drawing of a ”Konstnärsbostad”, in Högdalen. A tower block from 1956 by Familjebostäder and Curt Strehlenert.
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1, The urban and the semi-public 2, The semi-public
and the shared 3, The shared, the private and the
landscape
Paper-cut model. The super villa garage, a proposal for a new typology for living/working.
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FLEETING SPECTACLE –
A SEASONAL EVENT
Louise Björkander
My project is a floating stage for the summer. The stage
uses the waters of Stockholm along with the different
sceneries it offers and appropriates it as a backdrop. There
is no fixed site. This is a project about the experienced site
specificity and when architecture becomes scenography. I
want to continue the historic tradition of building and staging
fantasies. To draw the spectator in I use draperies and veils
as ornaments. With the drapery and veil I want to hide
and reveal, create anticipation and excitement. By layering
architecture with scenography my hope is that the audience
will be inclosed within a fantasy and that the line between
scenography and reality blurs.
Possible site, anchored at Riddarholmen
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Elevation
Section
Model photograph, interiour
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COMMON ROOMS
Oliver Cassidy
60% of people in Stockholm live alone, one of the highest
figures in the world. If these people are to occupy standard
apartments the spatial requirements per person rises.
Spaces such as kitchens, bathrooms and living rooms are
required sepwarately for each resident; appliances such as
fridges, washing machines and hobs are owned individually.
This is not just a spatial strain, but also an economic and
environmental issue.
The project proposed is a residential hotel; a multitude of
small, individual dwelling spaces are mixed with a wide
range of shared facilities. The massiveness of the building
creates economies of scale which allow for common
luxuries.
South Facade Detail
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Angled Elevation from the South East
Model View of Common Area
Ground Floor Plan
Typical Plan Detail
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CIVIC MANUFACTORY
Ludvig Ekman
Along with market liberal values, maintenance of our
possessions has been substituted with the possibility to
easily replace the broken object with a new one, resulting
in an economic shift and the separation of investment and
ownership we experience today. The favors of placing the
private matter of maintenance in the public sphere are
obvious, the technology and space needed to attend the
matter is shared, and expertise can be collected into a
sort of library of skills where knowledge is passed on from
person to person. Maintaining our belongings is an act, or a
chore that is closely associated with the home, what kind of
building could replace the home as labour space when the
hardware needed is centralized and shared publicly? And
what consequences does placing a private matter such as
maintenance there result in?
Model, 1:200, View from Medborgaplatsen
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Collage, Lillienhoffska palace
View of interior light repair rooms within the palace
Medborgarplatsen, plan and elevations
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COLLECTING A SITE
Pär Falkenäng
Nothing can occur in a vacuum. Everything new relates to
something already existing and in my project, the already
existing determines the rules of the outcome. By collecting,
dissecting and fragmenting the already existing or the
already thought, I create a framework for new additions.
I take control of the framework by kneading, deforming
and transforming it in a considerate, yet ruthless manner in
order to speculate on additions or adaptations in a context
characterized by change, development and continuity.
In this project I work with an addition to Kungsträdgården
in central Stockholm which will provide the site with a new
public program and relate closely to the history of the place.
I choose to see the changes that have taken place over the
years linked to the site as a palimpsest where the various
states of the now existing, the past and what could have
been all together left traces that for me are free to use,
reshape and recreate.
By relating in a speculative way to a place’s history and
allowing me to circulate boundlessly between present, past,
future and imagination, I can achieve an architecture that in a
contradictory way has everything to do with a place while in
the same time has nothing to do with it.
Fragments / Digital casts
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A space for culture
A public platform
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TAILORED TO FIT
Jeanette Hoff
To live where you work or to work where you live. New ways
of representation, and the combination of living and working
at the same place. This will be an exploration to reuse and
converting an existing townhouse building in Lärkstaden in
Stockholm and work closely with the historical layers and
create a fictional character and brand to inhabit the space.
How is the staging of a combined home and work life, and
the blurred lines between what is a home, and what is a
workspace as well what is public and private. The access
to every part of a home that connects to the public social
media stage and how fashion can be a driver for shaping a
backdrop of a modern live/work.
Main staircase and view to library, interior model 1:20
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The Story
She said she wanted a bedroom and a
studio facing east. Morning sun,
with rays of warm golden light.
She telles me she is looking for a place
in Stockholm, most likely on Östermalm,
an office and workspace for her well
established fashion brand, a place where
she can have a showroom and a design
studio combined with her family life.
A combined home and studio where the
boundaries between the public and the
private are blurred out and where the
aim is to create a home where you can
work or create a backdrop or a staged
environment possible in every room of
the house.
can do one large intervention that can
have a huge effect in the building, but still
be careful and adjust to what is already
there.
There is this area that has an interesting
work/live history that is called Lärkstaden
on Östermalm, between Odengatan
and Vallhallavägen, on a small hill, that
was carefully design by city planner
Per O. Hallman in 1907, inspired by the
city planning of Camillo Sittes (Artistic
Principles) with smaller scale of buildings,
quiet streets, backgardens, small squares
and an additional park. This would be a
perfect place to look for a house to work
with, that can tailor your needs.
She wants to work with and reuse an
existing building that has the historical
layers and well kept interior, where she
Plan ground floor, showroom
Section illustration 1:50
Bedroom, kitchen and showroom
Collage of showroom
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LIFTING A MONUMENT
Love Lagercrantz
The Stockholm Public Library is a unique cultural heritage
and probably Sweden’s most famous building abroad.
Making a new extension to such a monument instantly raises
a host of questions. Which approaches are most appropriate
in such a charged and world-unique environment?
The method has been based on sampling of the main
building. The goal in designing the extension has been to
submit to the main building without falling into the pastiche.
The thesis is that you can allow yourself quite a lot of
freedom, as long as you identify and reuse the supporting
motifs, materials, room organization, color schemes and the
like from the main building. In this way, the goal is that the
two buildings will harmonize and, hopefully, also lift each
other.
Model 1:20
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Model 1:20
Samples of the main building
Longitudinal section
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PRESERVING POST-MODERNISM:
A SWEDISH CASE
Felicia Liang
Last fall I took a seminar course called “Restoration:
Bringing History to Life”, where the objective was to get
an overview of the historical and theoretical perspective
of architectural restoration. Which then let me to wonder
what’s to come in the preservation development since this
was an initiative taken in the early 1990s. Naturally postmodernism
is modernism´s offspring. This project also
works as a manifesto titled DOCOPOMO(Documentation
and Conservation of Buildings, Sites and Neighbourhoods
of the Post-Modern Movement), in trying to anchor postmodernism
to Swedish 20th century building history looking
at some examples that needs to be identified for different
reasons and with different approaches where a case study
will follow.
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BUILDING PERCEPTIONS
Dan Lindau
Working with images as a primary tool for analysis and
design, the thesis explores how a photographic archive
can help create architecture that relates to, and builds
upon, precedence. The work of Swedish documentary
photographer and writer Sune Jonsson has been a
corner stone in this project. In his work from the 1950s
and -60s, Jonsson documents rural northern Sweden. By
dissecting the work of Sune Jonsson, I have tried to discern
architectural qualities in the photos with the purpose
of implementing them into new buildings. The site is in
Djupsjönäs, about 50 km southwest of Umeå, where a
collection of buildings is added that could house classes as
well as permanent dwelling.
Bottom: Johan Engman, Djupsjönäs 1957. Photo by Sune Jonsson. Top: Digital 3d model of the same space.
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Site & Program
Djupsjönäs, is located near the village
of Nyåker where Sune Jonsson grew
up. On the specific site sits a house
once occupied by one of Sune Jonssons
subjects, Johan Engman. I am designing
a collection of buildings on this site,
that could house classes as well as
permanent dwelling for 4 – 5 households.
The buildings include workshops, a
gallery, a library, a common house with
dorms, a sauna and some other practical
facilities. Making a collection of smaller
buildings ties in with the traditional way
of grouping houses and has allowed
me to try different designs in different
buildings.
The library
Method
Analysing the photos taken by Sune
Jonsson and then recreating them in
digital 3d models has been a way to
identify architectural qualities seen in
the photos. The ambition was then to
transfer these qualities into my own
additions. Using a collection of old
photos has been a way for me to relate
to tradition in an opportunistic way,
without being to dogmatic. In addition
to working with plan and section
drawings, I have relied heavily on the
rendered image in my work. Not only as
a means of representation but as a tool
of thought. I have considered rooms and
spaces through a virtual camera lens,
allowing me to focus and frame things
not necessarily visible in plan or section
drawings.
Dorm room
Site plan
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CITY SCOOP
Anna Mołodij
This project is speculation in search of possibilities and
rethinking the potential of Gamla Stan, it is mainly a
residential area, but also a “living, pedestrian-friendly
museum”. This is a place out of time and frozen in its form,
a certain sensitivity is required when thinking about such a
fragile context.
However, the urban structure is not a fixed entity, but
a dynamic and evolving one. By gentle carving in the
existing city fabric, the aim is to re-introduce a workshop
space in a contemporary manner. The idea is tested on
the block of Cassiopea, where its building components get
interconnected to make a continuous interior.
Nolli-like map of Stockholm
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Methodology
The different components of the
city block touch each other but are
disconnected.The strategy for the
interior is to connect the pieces to
create a continuous interior made of
interconnected rooms like in the bank
of England, by following a strategy of
American artist, Gordon Matta Clark that
is known for his cuts in existing buildings,
slicing into and opening them up and
converting into walk-through sculptures.
The different buildings are joined
together and interconnected by the
carving out of the partition walls. Some of
them are taken away to allow for bigger
rooms, reworking the areas that were
planned to be demolished in the 1940s.
The proposal is a speculation on the
possible scenario, where the demolitions
didn’t happen and the decision was made
to repurpose the space for cultural use,
so that the different buildings become
one body to host a new program. Cutting
out of Cassiopea block would make its
inner part more porous, by creating
connections between the different
building volumes a continuous interior is
created. The workshop users can move
freely between different spaces on every
floor and the visitors can walk through
the block and have an insight into the
workshop on the way.
Today the island holds heavy restrictions
regarding making changes and
perhaps this is why gamla stan feels
like a museum. Right now, it is mostly
about consumerism, and this proposal
introduces another activity, bringing a
different reason for going there. The
program deals with a very contemporary
function, that molds into the existing
fabric and within this framework the
program informs how the space is
reshaped, in contrast to what happened
in the Klara district where the exiting was
raised to fit the contemporary needs of
the city. In this proposal an alternative
approach showcases how the existing
fabric can be toughed and changed, but in
a sensitive manner while preserving the
character of the place.
Urban pocket in context
Carved out long view into the workshop
Carved out meeting of three buildings
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A PUBLIC INTERIOR
Silja Siikki
This thesis project refers to the overlooked resource of
existing buildings and explores how to create something
new in the existing building fabric. This is not a restoration
project, but an attempt to create a new layer instead of
erasing a building and starting over.
The discussion on preservation of buildings is often focused
on the exterior and what is the value this adds to the city.
This thesis aims to expand this discussion beyond the facade
into the interior qualities. Identifying the qualities of the plan,
thresholds, materiality, color, history and how these can be
used to inform the transformation of the building.
A view of the interior
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Longitudinal section
Plan
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HØVIK CHURCH HILL
Jofrid Sandgren Østenstad
The project is to develop the site around Høvik church,
Norway, into a hub of local culture. The starting point has
been improving the existing qualities of the site, and using
these as inspiration for new elements.
There are three components. Firstly, the development of a
park on the hill, creating a public green space to be enjoyed
both by church goers and others. Secondly, renovating and
improving the existing parish building (built 1971). Finally, a
small addition, which connects to the park and the existing
building, taking inspiration from and adding qualities to both.
Themes addressed are the church as a landmark and focal
point for local identity, the connections to the history and
develpment of the area, and the role of the church in the local
society.
South elevation; facade of parish house in front of the church
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Section through the addition
Illustration: The parish house with addition viewed from southeast
Sketch: Vegetation
Sketch: Park life
Plan, addition, 2nd floor
Sketch: Connections
Sketch: park, style, inspiration
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