Fire Station Project 1st Year 2009

Two contrasting environments; the masculine smooth utility public and the feminine, domestic, fuzzy private environments are fused together. The interior surfaces of the domestic environment cascade into the utility environment taking over the public side of a fire station and thereby creating domesticated living spaces. The two sides of the wall decide what kind of space it is: the textured patterned surface defines private, comfortable living spaces and the smooth side defines the utility spaces.

Oslo April 2010

The Norwegian Opera House in Oslo, designed by Snøhetta

Unitwork in progress May 2010

The project I'm working on now with the seven other students in my unit. We just got planning permission which is exiting- that means this house will actually be built! At the moment I'm working on the timber cladding, trying to find a way to take advantage of the material we have, Western Red Cedar, and the CNC-machine in the workshop right next to the site. We are in the middle of the project, working on the technical drawings now, which are gradually getting more and more detailed. Hopefully we will soon be producing prototypes in the workshop to figure out how everything works together.

Hooke Park field trip

From our trip to Hooke Park in Dorset in September 2009.

10 Day House September 2009

Starting an ambitious project of designing and building a house for a family in Dorset, we were first given a series of house-designing exercises as an introduction to our unit.

TCR tube station

Sketchbook pages

1. Sound installation for Hampstead Heath



2. Interpreting Rothko at Tate Modern for colour studies

3. Field trip to Madrid

Media Studies 2nd Year: Painting Architecture

Creating an urban scene based on some ideas from my sketchbook, using Photoshop and a graphic tablet.

Media Studies 2nd Year: Embodied Landscapes

Exploring the landscape of the human body, we went through various 3d modeling- and rendering software, creating new spaces based on the possibilities of 3d digital manipulation.

Tree House Concept Boards

For the presentation of our proposal for the Caretaker's House in December 2009. The house is for the caretaker of AA's Hooke Park in Dorset, his wife and three children. The house is based on the notion of continuing the tree trunks that form the surrounding forest to become the structure of the house. These form seemingly arbitrary columns that the four rectangular volumes housing three bedrooms and a shared family bathroom in different levels rest upon. These rooms are arranged around a winding staircase that continues out over the front entrance into a small balcony viewing over the site. Below the private rooms is an open kitchen- dining- and living area, a utility room and a toilet. All the four rooms have skylights from a single-plane cut across the whole house, giving a large central skylight flooding the ground floor space with daylight, and giving a clear view of the stars at night.

Tree House drawings

These are the the drawings me and a fellow student presented with our proposal for the Caretaker's House in Hooke Wood in Dorset, the project of Intermediate Unit 2. The House is based on a design manifesto of 3 short points; we wanted to design a house that reaches up towards the light, a house that touches lightly on the ground and a house designed around a central hearth.

Drawing project AA 1st Year: Vacuum Cleaner

Playing around with scale the contents of the vacuum cleaner is removed and replaced with the skeleton of a rat, the animal antonym of cleanliness.

Body Networks: studies of patterns of injury

To enable a fast assessment on site, firemen follow a series of
diagrams depicting patterns of injury. A visualization of these diagrams
show how the parts of a human body are connected through the
impact of a car crash - a literal interpretation of how
injuries occur to a body in a car crash.

diagram iv: ribs - lungs - blood vessels - abdomen - spine

Media Studies AA 1st year

Photo project: The Violet Hour