Different actors within the Swedish construction sector have their significant roles within the complex interplay with rules, regulations, and the programming of space. The design outcome of our built environment and how is it perceived depends on the level of consensus between them. It is a complex topic that does not hold only one universal truth. This thesis departs from a contemporary debate concerning the ongoing changes in Swedish housing regulations in the year 2024 and the negotiation among actors. Therefore, the report intends to use Boverket’s referral on new housing regulations as a catalyst to investigate power relations, varying motivations, and values in a project through the lens of three different actors in the construction sector; namely, the developer, the architect, and the building permit officer. The thesis combines readings of referral statements and semi-structured interviews together with theories addressing power relations and varying values in a developed project. Furthermore, a research-by-design investigation has been conducted to speculate about the development of an architectural project from two different perspectives; economy and design. As a result of this, two versions of a tower block have been produced, compared, and evaluated in relation to each other. The design versions represent the complex interplay of a project in built form.

Mitt examensarbete handlar om vikten av att arkitekter noga väger sina val av arkitektoniska element utefter vad de vill kommunicera. Detta eftersom arkitektoniska element är mer än bara byggnadselement. De väcker känslor. De påverkar människor med hur de är utformade, genom bland annat färg, taktilitet och kontext. Arbetet grundar sig främst i mitt intresse för den rumsliga omvärldens påverkan på människan. I denna rapport tar jag upp teori som har kopplingar till människans samlade upplevelse av rum och arkitektoniska element. Jag studerar väggen som ett exempel på hur ett arkitektoniskt element kan bjuda in till mänsklig interaktion, samspel och intimitet. Detta undersöker jag i skisser, modeller och slutligen i utställningsformat.

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Jag har i mitt examensarbete valt att arbeta med en komplex byggnad och med ett rumsligt program som ställer specifika krav. Jag har särskilt velat undersöka rumslig organisation och rumsliga samband och hur olika förhållningssätt resulterar i olika beslut estetiskt och konstruktivt. Samtidigt har även stadsbyggnadsperspektivet varit centralt. Tomten ligger centralt i Liljeholmen strax söder om Stockholms innerstad och gränsar till ett gammalt industriområde som kallas Lövholmen. Lövholmen betraktas som ett stadutvecklingsområde och kommer på sikt att genomgå en strukturförändring och en ny stadsdel kommer att växa fram. Vilken betydelse skulle en byggnad som Danshögskolan, kunna få på platsen, rumsligt och innehållsmässigt? Det har också väckt frågan till vilken grad byggnaden ska vara publik, vilka konsekvenser får det för verksamheten och på vilket sätt det publika är en viktig aspekt i stadsrummet. / I have in my thesis chosen to work with a complex building with a spatial program that sets specific requirements. I particularly wanted to examine spatial organization and spatial context and how different approaches result in different decisions aesthetically and constructively. Simultaneously, the urban planning perspective has been central. The site is centrally located in Liljeholmen just south of Stockholm city center and adjacent to an old industrial area known as Lövholmen. Lövholmen is considered as an urban development area and will eventually undergo a structural change and a new district will emerge. What impact would a building like Danshögskolan bee able to get on the site, spatially and in terms of content? It has also raised the question to what degree the building should be public. What are the consequences for the business and in which way is the public an important aspect in the city?

Förslag till nytt kommunhus i Nynäshamn / Proposal for a new townhouse in Nynäshamn

Strängnäs är en småstad inte helt lik vad som helst, man kan fortfarande se hur de historiska lagren påverkat och än idag påverkar stadens bebyggelse. Hur Domkyrkan, stadens allra tydligaste urbana artefakt bidragit till en våg av byggnader i det kanske självklara materialet tegel, men även i det minst lika vackra ”fattigmansteglet”, falu rödfärg. Det torg där stadshallen placerats består av bägge, dels har vi den strikta huvudgatan med nationalromantiska samt klassicistiska inslag, sedan det mer bråkiga villaområdet norr om, där slamfärger dominerar fasaderna. För mig har projektet gått och blivit väldigt personligt, jag är själv uppvuxen i en mälarstad med historiska anor och förstår vikten av att som invånare kunna identifiera sig med staden och dess stadsväv. Mitt huvudfokus har därför varit att representera samt inkorporera de materiella samt typologiska kvalitéer jag menar att staden samt den mer specifika platsen tillgodoser. Av just denna anleding menar inte mitt projekt att sticka ut, hamnen fungerar redan idag som en port in till staden, där dess silhuetten täcks av den medeltida domkyrkan. Jag har istället med hjälp av materialitet samt proportionsanpassning haft en vilja att smälta in i det redan existerande kvarteret utan att inskränka eller ta fokus från dess redan existerande arkitektoniska kvalitéer.

According to SBC there will by 2026 be more children living in smaller municipalities than in the larger ones in Sweden as a whole. More families are moving from the city than to it. The suburbs are many people’s answers to this.  Is the city perhaps more and more becoming a space we want to visit but not live in? Has the romantic idea of the rapid growing, fast pace, productive life of the city also become its fall?  I have been researching the impact of the movement from the city. How this is reshaping our suburbs and smaller towns. Trying to answer questions such as: What is the ideal prototype of our suburban home? What lifestyle can the suburb provide? How can this home become the ideal space?  My project is a site on Tynäsudden on the island of Hammarö in Värmland. A town which in recent years has grown dramatically.  How do we maintain these suburbs to not become over clustered and mimic the city? The precariousness around us puts an even higher demand on the space that we surround ourselves with. Due to this I believe the spaces we create needs to be even more adaptable. There is a need for more temporary spaces that can be adjusted and act dependent on the demand. These spaces need to cater to both different stages and scenarios of life. In doing so we might find them more pleasant for longer but also through different periods of time.

We live in societies constantly changing at an ever-faster pace, while we plan and build our houses as if they were permanent environments without need for change. This consumes the planet's resources and a change in how we relate to our built environment is necessary for us to be able to stay within the planet's boundaries. New technology in combination with old knowledge can give us opportunities to produce buildings and environments that make better use of our resources and the site's conditions. This text examines theories and projects to find different strategies for how a more flexible, circular, and healthier architecture can be created and implemented in a project. Resulting in a proposal for a new building system designed for change. The use of digital tools, new financing models and production methods is proposed to give users a greater role in the design of their built environment. Thinking in systems, using local conditions, natural flows, introduce food production in an urban context, design for easy disassembly, using healthy and renewable materials, and user participation can help us become better at managing the planet's resources and create healthy environments for us to live in. A conclusion is that we need to become better at collaborating across different professional boundaries and develop both the architect's and the user's role in a project.

This project is an alternative urban design scheme for the re-development of the Kathputli Colony in New Delhi, India. The Colony, approximately half the size of Gamla Stan, is located 30 minutes west of the City Centre and consist of a myriad of improvised dwellings. The residents of the colony are primarily artists, performers, craftsmen and puppeteers and have lived on the land since the 1970s. Now the land is set to be re-developed, directed jointly by the Delhi Municipality and a private developer, Rajeva, as part of the political initiative to turn Delhi into a “World-Class City”. The new scheme consists of two gated communities, a block of high-rises and a luxury skyscraper. The residents of the colony have been promised accommodation in the high-rise block, but have protested the proposal, and received a lot of media and scholarly attention. They argue that the new buildings with their small and isolated apartments do not cater to their needs. The existing landscape of dwellings which they themselves have constructed contain a number of different spatial qualities on which they depend to be able to continue they’re subsistence - Bazaar streets to sell their wares, courtyards to congregate with their families, squares on which to perform, roofs on which to sleep on during the hot summer months. I visited the colony twice on my two months journey around the country last semester. On the second visit, all of the dwellings had been demolished. The brief I have set for myself is to design a more exible and faceted alternative plan with new building stock that will able to cater both the needs of the ex-residents and the Indian middle class.

Diss. Frankfurt am Main : Univ., 2007.