30 000

Brief: A competition to produce architecture for 30 000 Swedish crowns in the suburb Tensta outside Stockholm.

How much stuff can we do for 30 000 Swedish crowns (approximately 3000 Euro.)? In architecture 30 000 SEK is a small amount of money. For that money you can get a sauna, a decent garden shed or maybe a new kitchen.



But architecture is perhaps not the most suitable for Tensta. For 30 000 you can for example get 600 hours of pony riding, two hours of Zlatan, 2000 “coffee and cake” on 7 Eleven or maybe 30 swings for the kids in Tensta.



Can we use these notes for more than just buying? A 20 note is in circulation for 1.5 years in average, and should pass around 500 hundred people during its life time. For 30 000 SEK you will get 1500 20-krona notes so the message on the bills will pass 1500notes x 500 hundred people= 750 000 people which is almost 7% of the Swedish population!

One architect working on one project in Sweden for five weeks costs in real life about 40 hours x 5 weeks x 700 SEK per hour = 140 000 SEK. That means that the twenty people working on this competition would cost 2, 8 million SEK if they would receive an architect’s salary. By only picking one proposal you could say that you lose 2 800 000 - 140 000 = 2 660 000 = almost 2.7 million SEK. So, by giving every competitor 1 500 SEK each and make 20 projects instead of one, Tensta would have gained about 2,5 million SEK in creative thinking if our work was paid.

Instructions The 30 000 SEK are exchanged in to 20-krona notes, every participant in the competition receives 20-krona notes, to a value of 1500 SEK. The first step is to write a message on each bill with a text promoting al the proposals produced during the competition.

The result: a festival of cheap projects! an enormous increase of money and publicity!

In Between Skyscrapers

La Purisima, a traditional mexican plaza, is located in the periphery of downtown Monterrey, a growing and financially a very important city with almost 5 million
Inhabitants in its vicinity, surrounded by impressive mountains.
The two twisted and slanted high-rises, gives the area a vital injection, and expands the downtown centre.
The buildings will become a landmark and a statement of the city’s ambitions and also refer to the scale of the surrounding scenery.
The space between the two buildings will function as a great vertical green garden.
Different functions like a pool, gym, terraces and so on will give the inhabitants a rich differentiated environment to live their everyday life in.
The two sides of the gap is clad in white net, to reduce the wind and to allow green foliage to grow on it.
This will give the in between space a jungle like calm feeling and the skewed form of the building enhances the nature experience with its winding canyon like formation. instead of having ordinary railings, the walkways are covered in net as well, also to allow plants to grow on it, and make a more intimate feeling for the residential units.


Skyscraper exterior


Section


Interior between skyscrapers

Interior flat

Interior flat

Office interior

Example of plans

Sandslott

Falsterbo, Sweden. The old nightclub situated next to a beach was burned to the ground and a competition for a new one on the same location was put out.



The site is located among pines and just a small distant from the nice beach with its dunes.

We proposed this 4-Step construction-phase:
1. The bearing pillars



2. The frames for the floors are laid out.



3. Sand from the area is laid out on the frames and then the concrete is cast upon the sand with a plastic membrane between that smoothes the surface and keeps the sand in place.



4. Glass panes are inserted and is now reflecting the surrounding trees.


1. Dancefloor 2. Foyer 3. Restaurant 4. Bar 5. Wardrobe 6. Ramp 7. Toilets
8. Kitchen 9. Logé 10. Logé 11. Scene 12. V.I.P.




Sections


Night exterior

Club Sky High

Located in the downtown of Monterrey, this club will be the leading club and event arena in the city.
You drive your car up on the roof, where a very thin watersurface is, its like you are parking on an ocean, the water is subtly lit up as well.
A feature with this club that will make it stand out from all the others, is the VIP-rooms, that functions as warm-air, balloons.
You can rent a room for some hours and have your private party while floating in the air with a spectacular view of the city and the surrounding mountains.


Exterior view


In the balloon

Robot Rock

Örebro is a small city in Sweden with a nice city centre, with the old castle surrounded by a small river being the icon of this area, but it’s relatively dull and has a lot of unused potential.
We proposed two robotic sculptures that take care of two neglected places. A tall and energetic sculpture at a renewed square that activates the place with sounds, lights and so on.
A more tranquil sculpture is placed in the water inside a new pool so the people can swim in the river without being taken away by the strong currents. This calm contemplating place will contrast sharply to the more bustling square.


Sitplan


Active robot


Tranquil robot

Digital Office For Some Evil Dudes

A second prize in a competition in mexico that later was transformed into the digital office for a secret society.
The building is complex in its structure and in the way the people move around in it.
By doing this, the building gives the workers in it a feeling of being special and chosen.
The scale shifts dramatically, from big imposing grandeur to more intimate places, but with the same character kept between the switches to not lose the ambiance.


Main foyer


Office


Atrium

Payam Palace

The client lives in a former garden shed that lies between two apartment buildings on a very narrow plot.
Mostly theese apartments is filled with students, because very close lies a very important university.
This means that a lot of young ladies lives here.

The client wanted to take advantage of this and a suggestion is to clad the entire shed with mirrors so the ladies will look more at this house, while the client zips a beer on a chair in front of his newly pimped house.
With a better view this time.

VD Game

Smörgåsbord

Competition entry for a glass pavillion in Borås, Sweden.

The structure is made out of stacked glass and becomes an activity magnet in the slumbering park.

Air Igloo

A new visiondivision invention for life in the nature.
Just plug your inflatable Air Igloo in your car's exhaust pipe and your house is blown-up in a couple of seconds.
For more information please contact visiondivision.