Ett examensarbete i Arkitektur om en ny moské i Umeå som en del av den nya översiktsplanen för stadsdelen Ön

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In the design, the student researches urban color and explores how to use color to improve people's experience in the city.

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The population in Sweden's metropolitan areas is expected to increase sharply and the Nordic is forecast to be among the most urbanized regions in the world in the near future. A effect for the growing population in cities is a greater need for high-capacity transport and high-capacity systems within the city limits. This candidate essay is a consideration to address the contexts that arise when the will and need to build dense and cohesive urban environments are to be combined with traffic systems and transport infrastructure in the city. In the first part of the  thesis, government-published reports, surveys and other relevant literature are studied based on a qualitative analysis methodology to identify the different planning principles used when planning urban development in connection with traffic systems and transport infrastructure. The identified planning principles are then applied in four established plans across the area of ​​Pampas / Tomteboda in Solna and Stockholm municipalities. Thereafter, it is examined how each proposal affects the ability to build dense urban development in Pampas / Tomteboda.

In this paper a method for evaluating the performance of sunshades and the controlling of the sunshades is presented. The method evaluates the sunshades in the perspective of the availability of useful daylight over the year in the room where the sunshades are installed. The metric is based on a climate based daylight metric called “Useful daylight illuminance” (UDI), which shows the fraction of the occupied time that the illuminance in one point is within a predefined illuminance interval. Furthermore the relation between the presented metric and the consumption of energy was investigated. The method is a result from a literature study. The literature used in the study mainly consists of articles on the subject daylight in buildings and daylight metrics. Two different sunshade technics was evaluated with the presented method, an electrochromic window and an external textile screen. The simulations were made in Rhino 6 and the levels of daylight were calculated with daylight coefficients. According to the results the electrochromic window had a better performance in both the availability of useful daylight and in the consumption of energy for heating and cooling the room.

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Abstract   This thesis will present the background and thoughts behind the architectural project “Village within” which aims to be a rural, holistic, earth-centered settlement, as an alternative to increasing urbanization. I have been working together with two villages in Västerbotten - Sikeå and Rökå - and this project is the result from meetings and discussions with them, as well as experiences from a citizen-perspective. The thesis will elaborate on the subjects of food, the countryside’s position in a globalized, industrial and city - centered civilization, on the ongoing environmental collapse and the concept of resilience. Utopian ideas and their most classical impasses have been important to understand how this project is just one in a long history of human urge to think of, or create a better world. Examples of historical and contemporary initiatives of local self-sufficiency, attempts to “escape the system”, movements for ruralization, together with discussions on how a future village could look like have all created a rich baseline of inspiration to this project.

A major challenge to town planners in Britain is to help fulfil current and future housing need in a sustainable manner and avoid excessive development land take. This thesis therefore establishes what future development models are currently under debate and undertakes extensive research into Governments preferred option the 'Compact City'. Research focuses on empirical data for sustainable development and arguments for/against a policy of urban intensification. On conclusion that research alone fails to provide a sufficient basis for promoting a policy of 'Compact Cities', research emphasis was placed on the Dutch planning system, which has promoted such a policy for over a quarter of a century. Dutch experience was used to answer many unresolved arguments surrounding the 'Compact City' and an investigation was undertaken into how the Dutch have made this policy successful. In light of the fact that Dutch experience has shown that high quality urban housing is fundamental to attracting residents back to cities, an investigation of current UK generic housing models was undertaken and these were tested against sustainable density research and UK/Dutch design advice. On comparison it was established that many failed both tests and it was established that additional housing types could be required under a policy of 'Compact Cities'. An alternative development brief for additional housing models was therefore developed and this brief was investigated through the design of three alternative housing types. In final conclusion it was proposed that the Dutch treatment of density could provide a model for future planning in England and their design principles could aid the creation of alternative urban housing types.