A dwelling for a single father with two young daughters.
I wanted to create an interesting environment for the the kids. With the dimensions of a child in mind I could create spaces where the parent would have to go down to a level equal to the child or spaces where the child would otherwise have the advantage.
The exterior envelope of the building is of similar proportion to that of the old workers houses. The rooms inside are placed independantly of each other, with the goal to create a continious space in between them which would serve as the living space.
The ground floor has the kitchen, bathroom, laudry and a spare room and in between them is the living space with two separated larger areas. On top of the kitchen and overlooking the living space is an office space with its own stair. The other stair leads to the two bedrooms on the upper floor. One bedroom on the upper floor as well as the spare room below are separated from the exterior walls. This separation makes it possible to have windows to light both the rooms and the the living space at the same time.
Showing spatial relations, a hint of the final materials, the structural idea and how light enters and spreads throughout the building. Model scale 1:50.
Testing out ideas for structure, materials and room composition. My concept for the building was to see the different rooms as boxes within a larger space and with the help of composition try and create an interesting and functional in-between. Models in scale 1:200 and 1:100.
An intimate experience in between trains and railway tracks.
The Holmsund rail yard is quite a busy place considering it’s size. Train wagons are being shuffled around the seven tracks throughout the day and occasionally a freight train would pass on its way to or from the Holmsund industry and Harbour. This creates an ever changing landscape of trains. A space in constant transformation.
Walking amongst the tracks, and in the narrow space in between the trains, the scale and presence of the trains becomes more apparent. It is overpowering. Being surrounded by the trains in such a way really is a different experience from what you would get from a distance or even from a station platform.
This feeling of being in between and in the presence of the trains was something I wanted to explore. So I decided to keep all the seven tracks and place my project in the middle of everything. This gave me a width of roughly 2,8 meters to work with for the train platform.
I wanted for people to experience the narrow space in between the trains, just as I had. By just having a platform that would only happen on the rare occasion there would be a train on both sides.
My solution, instead, was to place a wall on one side of the platform, to house service spaces, further narrowing the space and creating two possible occurrences; either there is a train next to the platform, creating this in between space, or there is none, generating a more open space.
Reaching the platform had to be an interesting experience in and of itself. My idea was to make a sort of trench with the tracks above exposed with minimal structure supporting them. This would let you experience the trains from below in the same way a train mechanic might.
A model study of the Ford Residence by Bruce Goff (1948).
I wanted to challenge myself a bit and chose one of the more complicated projects for this workshop. I first made a digital mock-up of the building in SketchUp, then extracted all the pieces and had them cut on a CNC machine.
