Qaammat
Monumental pavilion; Designed to celebrate and promote the Inuit's intangible cultural heritage and traditional knowledge of the environment. Inspired by one of the more significant features of UNESCO's Aasivissuit-Nipisat Heritage Site, the extraordinary cairn system is a Greenlandic "inussuk," a manufactured monument in an open environment. The idea and location of the landmark Qaammat are inextricably tied to the traditions of the local heritage and serve both as a reverence for the historical "inussuk", and a modern landmark.
Client: UNESCO, Aasivissuit-Nipisat, Qeqqata Municipality
Historical house in Sweden
This historic building, previously used as a shophouse and office, has been meticulously renovated and transformed into a family home. The renovation aimed to highlight the building's original style by incorporating traditional Swedish craftsmanship from the era, alongside minimal and contemporary design solutions, ensuring compliance with regulations for residential conversion.
The two-story building, which includes a converted attic, is believed to have originally been a single-story house built by sailor Joseph Pettersson in 1862. It stands as a modest house surrounded by larger structures, one of the few remaining rambling houses from that era. Its recessed position towards Drottninggatan is due to the former route of the street's predecessor, Norra Strandgatan.
Drottninggatan, Helsingborg
Tropical coastal house
Restoration of a 1950s coastal house to its original style and distinctive character. More details to follow.
Magasinet
Renovation of historic house in southern Sweden.
Magasinet was built in 1858-59 by Consul Olsson and was originally the Consul's private home and granary. Large parts of the interior of the building have been replaced over time, but the layout is still the same as in the consul's time and the original beams are still visible in large parts of the warehouse part of the building. With its beautiful brick facade, thick walls and preserved details.
Qamutit
Nuuk / Ilullisat, Greenland 2019/2020
This conceptual sled-house exhibits a catalogue of ideas and perceptions regarding the notion of “home” dissolving the boundaries between building and environment and between building and meaning.
To regard a house as a “home” is to regard a building as a world. Qamutit Home seeks to strip the idea of a house from its formal expression and to stimulate dialogue between itself and the audience by inviting visitors to share and further develop the concept of the Home and its subtleties. The project reveals this ongoing research, exposing our own big question marks and giving space for reflection.
The construction of the exhibition piece is inspired by traditional Inuit building techniques, utilising the method of placing poles in accurately cut holes instead of using bolts and screws and tying methods using lashings to create self-locking knots. Traditionally, these methods were used for maximum durability; the structurally flexible joints are ideal for travelling long distances on ice and snow through the Arctic regions. The (exhibition) sledge’s “timber scaffolding” structure includes a series of solid Douglas fir panels, each with an individual’s story on the subject of home and the meanings and associations it creates for the visitors.
The Magoda project
Jakob Knudsen, Lorenz Von seidlein, Konstantin Ikonomidis, Emi Bryan,
Salum Mshamu and Kiondo Mgumi. // Ingvartsens Arkitekter
The Magoda Project is a series of eight prototype houses located in Tanzania. Designed in collaboration with the local community, the prototypes are prime examples of innovative architecture used to enhance health and wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa - a region highly prone to infectious diseases, acquired in and around the home.
It is a necessity in this resource-poor region to minimise contact between disease vectors and people, especially during hot and humid seasons. Typical low-cost African houses tend to have mud or brick walls with few (if any) windows. Floors are rarely raised, airflow is minimal and cooking is often done indoors. When used properly, bednets are highly protective against Malaria. However, airflow is reduced by bednets, contributing to the discomfort of sleeping in poorly ventilated houses.
The aim of the The Magoda Project is to construct innovatively-designed houses to be occupied by local residents in Magoda. These prototypes will integrate Asian architectural features (to optimise airflow) with traditional African building methods.
The new design houses were on average 2.3 C cooler and had 86% fewer mosquitos than traditional homes. The double-storey homes reduced indoor mosquito density by 96% compared with traditional or modified-traditional houses.