Examens projektet är en ny Folketshus byggnad i Järna trakten. Jag har under ett års tid bekantat mig med trakten runt Järna. Minuppgift var först att planera för en expansion av Järna. Hur ska Järna växa hållbart och samtidigt bevara de kvalitéer som gör att man väljer att bo i Järna?Mitt förslag är urbana slingor som kopplar samman landsbygd med stad.  Slingorna byggs smala men med tät bebyggelse så att kontakten med omgivningen bevaras.Den andra delen och huvudfokusen för examensarbetet är hur kan man skapa ett folketshus som rymmer både produktion och traditionella folketshus aktiviteter, på ett hållbart sätt som tar hänsyn till omgivningen. Det har mynnat ut i ett folketshus byggt med hyperparaboliska former i betong som utgör ett skal. Det rymmer aktiviteter och inre huskroppar som kan förändras med tiden. Tanken är att det yttre skalet blir så robust och uttrycksfullt att det kan stå i över hundra år även om behoven kommer förändras under tidens gång. / The project is a proposal for a new building for a community center in the Järna area.  During one year I have studied the area around Järna. The first step in my brief was to plan for an expansion of Järna. How could Järna grow sustainably and at the same time preserve the qualities that make you want to live in Järna? My suggestion is urban loops that connect the countryside with the city. The loops are narrow but heavily populated so that everybody live close to nature but there are enough people so that there is still economy for city services. The next step is to create a community center in the area.  The center should be able to house both production and more community centered activities in a sustainable way that takes the environment into account. The result is a community center built with hyper parabolic shapes in concrete. The concrete shell contains internal buildings that are able to change over time to suit different activities. My idea is that the outer shell will be so robust that it can stand for over a hundred years, even if the needs of people using the building will change over time.

During the Nordic Bronze Age, houses were not exclusively connected with profane contexts, but did also feature in burial places, a peculiar fact when considering the careful separation of settlements and graves. What kind of houses do we find in these sacred contexts? What did these houses stand for? Why was the house symbolism chosen to accompany the dead? And why did the house symbolism flourish during the Nordic Bronze Age? To answer these questions three representatives for the house symbolism in Sweden are discussed in more detail, such as the burial in longhouses, peculiar houses called cult houses and house urns. Further, the phenomenon has been put in its temporal, geographic, social and ideological context, where aspects such as trade and settlement structure are presented. The house symbolism is, however, not confined to northern Europe. Through comparison with contemporary parallels in southern Europe and ethnohistoric analogies different possible viewpoints are detected.

In this paper, I discuss the presence of farm animals in longhouses during the Iron Age in Sweden with some examples from Europe. Longhouses are often described as multifunctional housing. Though housing animals indoors has been questioned in the past, it remains a generally accepted interpretation. This paper aims to investigate if and how animals were housed inside and how archeologists in the future should work with the issue.