Island
Studio Theme
Stockholm is a city of islands. A unique material and urban condition where the geological, natural and cultural meet in unexpected ways. The island as a category variously implies isolation, refuge, perhaps even utopia. The island is a world. We are interested in the specificity of this condition. Each term the studio works with one of these islands within the Stockholm region, defined either geographically or urbanistically. A detailed survey of the existing situation becomes key in starting to define a possible new architecture. We encourage a territorial understanding of the architectural project that engages with an increasingly circular material economy of reuse and regeneration.
Studio Methodology
We will work collectively and in pairs to make an architecture rooted in observation rather than invention. By learning from what already exists – materially, urbanistically as well as culturally – and by engaging with construction and making we will aim for an economical architecture full of character and optimism. Work will be structured in a non-linear way where research, proposition, strategy and detail are considered non-hierarchically.
d ways of living in the city. Urban form, spatial organisation and tectonic resolution will be of equal importance.
Teachers: Konrad Krupinski, Martin Nässén Studio