Studio 7 with Peter Lynch

Emma Mierse’s Diploma Project won the the Celsing Prize.

“Over beyond the strolling area, the passageway, and the garden is my favourite suite of rooms, truly my favourite, for I had it built myself. It contains a sun-room which looks out on the strolling area on one side, and on the sea on the other, and it gets sun on both. The bedroom from its folding doors look out on the passageway, and from its window on the sea. (…) When I retire to this suite, I regard myself as being away from my house and I take great pleasure in it.”

Pliny the Younger II.17, Letter to his friend Gallus, written ca 100 AD.

Studio 7 with Peter Lynch

Johannesborg’s fortification ruin in Norrköping is located in an abandoned field where industrial, historical and natural outlines meet. Kisoo Wang explored this complexity by means of architectural fragments, their combined silhouette, the idea of footprint, and the sequence of existing and new spaces at a building and landscape scale.

At the heart of the Diploma Thesis was an idea of profile and plastic quality explored in architectural elements: walls, platforms, stairs, columns or beams. These were then brought together in relationship as if ruins, looking for the resemblance to reliefs and sculptures.

Studio 7 with Peter Lynch

Nominated for the Celsing Prize

To build is to add to the existing. Three existing wooden buildings in Visby, made in three different local techniques (a post and plank, a timber frame and a log construction) were the starting point on which to build upon. After studying these techniques, new buildings were added in line with the principals of the existing. The existing buildings are situated on two sites, both courtyards, and generated three additions: a kiosk, an apartment building and a visitor centre.

Studio 7 with Peter Lynch

“Dimitris Pikionis in his text, Keimena, described the notion of cultural continuity. He believed that we can move forward only when our thought is ‘added’ to the thought of the previous generations. This thesis project deals with the integration of a cultural building into the historical settlement of Hermoupolis, the capital of Syros island, Greece.”

Studio 4 with Mikael Bergquist, KTH Stockholm, 2018-2019

Agnes & David developed three proposals that in different ways deal with the idea of living collectively. Their aim was to reach beyond the common view that living together could never become more than a utopian idea. They argued that sharing a living arrangement stand as a realistic response to changed household patterns and new ways of living in contemporary Western society.

Their project showed how collective living could be an opportunity for spatially rich living beyond cellular rooms along a corridor by stepping away from the institutional. 

Instead, they looked to historical and grand bourgeois apartments for inspiration, which offered clues to managing the front of house or social spaces with the private back of house.