abstract My project has been a reflection on; our consumer society, what a home is, and how we are supposed to live. It all started with an interest in flexible living, looking at buildings and the cities in a new way, and a new interpretation of the already built environment. My research question was “What do we really need?” and “ What is the minimum requirement for making a home?”. The project touches on the topics of housing, housing shortage mainly but also sustainability, minimalism, and reactivation of space. This manifested itself in the way that I designed a portable, flexible unit that is your interior space and that also cloud store one’s belongings. The unit was explored in a 1:1 scale model and drawings, exploring both design and different contexts such as; student rooms, small living for couples, and temporary living (mainly students and refugees in mind). I was inspired by Tokyo nomad woman, Shigeru Ban’s paper log house, and Ibiza instant city.

In Stockholm today, there is a shortage in housing and one way to supply the market with new housing is through densification. This degree project investigates the possibility to improve an existing courtyard and surrounding through densification. By visiting six different courtyards a greater understanding of what factors that makes up a good courtyard was obtained. The doctoral thesis Uncommon ground written by Eva Minoura set the base for the deeper understanding of the structure of courtyards and what creates ownership within them. Based on the research a specification of requirements was developed describing how to carry out a socially sustainable densification. By locating areas with low ownership and build there, territorial boundaries can be changed. Densification with minimal effect economically and ethically on the neighborhood enables the current qualities and living to be kept and the densification is positive for the area. The importance of clear territorial ownership and respectful densification led the way for this suggestion of building densification. The purpose with the project is to highlight a densification which reshapes an existing territorial misuse. Thereby increasing the value, not only for the separate home, but the value of the area. The question is what values to follow and how to implement a densification according to them. The result is illustrated through drawings of a densification in Bärkinge, an area in the Stockholm suburb Tensta. The proposal is attached to the rapport. The proposal is a townhouse with four separate homes each 208 !". Its placement, corner to corner with existing development changes the territorial misuse by enclosing the previously open courtyard. The proposal is changeable homes, adaptable over the years. The entry level is flexible in the sense that it can be altered without large affection to the house. Each home stretches over three floors where the upper floors two and three are constructed in a typical Swedish family home layout with bedrooms on top and living and kitchen underneath. The project presents four alternative plans, one for the large family, one for multiple living, one with extra accessibility and the last with space for home office. The project is a suggestion of a building in a Swedish million dwelling area using ground territorial misused ground and making a new attractive area using studied preconditions for densification.

The goal in my bachelor thesis has been to create a multifunctional furniture, a product in which the form has followed the function to allow the user variation for the body and practical functions. The purpose of this project has been to encourage reduction of unnecessary furniture within compact living spaces and instead offer better solutions to practical multifunctional furniture. In my research phase for this project I studied different forms of multifunctional furniture on the market as well as carried out different observational studies of student living and how students generally use their furniture. The first being various visits to different student rums and apartments. The other being a closer study at Malmstens school in which I allowed students to create their own space and interact with the furniture to study how the students used the furniture and how the students sat in the furniture. A basic, yet crucial, survey about multifunctional furniture was sent out to gather information on what people do at home and what type of furniture people prefer if they were to live in a compact space. The research gathered led to the next phase of the project in which many different sketching techniques, both 2d and 3d, resulted in a multifunctional furniture which offers variation within sitting and practical use. As a result of the analysis a furniture prototype will be built and shown at Malmstens Spring Exhibition and Vallastaden Living and House Society Exhibit in September 2017. / I detta examensarbete har målet varit att skapa en multifunktionell möbel, en produkt där form följer funktion som erbjuder variation både för kroppen och för praktiska funktioner. Syftet med att uppnå detta mål är att uppmuntra till minimering av antalet möbler på en begränsad yta och därmed bidra till minskad konsumtion och erbjuda fler praktiska lösningar i hemmet. Jag vill upplysa om och uppmuntra tanken att möbler kan passa människans flexibla behov. En insamlingsetapp av information från studiebesök, deltagande observationer, en enkät och en omvärldsanalys har lett till en god uppfattning om hur människor kan möblera i framtiden. Under dessa observationsstudier besöktes olika former av studentboende med fokus på att observera förhållande mellan hur möbeln användes och placeras i rummet. I den andra studien som ägde rum på Malmstensskolan skapades ett påhittat rum som fick inredas av olika studenter för att se vilka funktioner möbeln användes till och hur studenten rörde sig i sina möbler. Undersökningen har lett till en omfattande skissprocess med olika skissmetoder. Resultatet är en multifunktionell möbel som ger variation för både sittande och praktiskt användning. Utifrån detta examensarbete tillverkas en prototyp som ska ställas ut vid Malmstens Vårutställning 2017 och vid Vallastaden Bo- och Samhällsexpo 2017.