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.

Beach Life

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Helsingborg Library

This library is linked to a new station that will function as a centre for a new district that will be built in the coastal city of Helsingborg, Sweden.
Due to the strategic site, a blank space between two segregated areas, this building has to be something special.

The plan is quite simple; a big, shining craterlike excavation in the centre of the floor plan will be where most of the books are, stacked in transparent bookshelves.
From here you can also access to the visual media room where you can play video games, listen to lectures, look at exhibitions and so on.

Around the crater is also some bookshelves and such, but this area is mostly designated for listening to music, reading fast-food literature, comics, newspapers.

A mighty chunk of forest in the north of the building makes up a dramatic backdrop for the whole library. As you enter from the north, you have to pass this in a Hans and Gretel kind of way, a transformation to imagination.

Mesh pathways leaps out in this forest from the second floor and from the roof terrace.
Secluded spaces in the treetops where you can get lost in a book, maybe Moby Dick?
The pathways connect to the building on the other side of the road.
A gigantic botanic garden can be reached from here as well.
Cocoons of strengthen opaque rubber penetrates the roof to light up the interior, and to make interesting places on the roof to hang out.
When the weather and season permits, the whole roof functions as a outdoor cinema, or a concert scene.

If you enter the library from the south, the forest will be most present, but if you enter from the north, the cocoons and the white light will be the dominating factor.
A kind of high-tech vs. nature, tradition vs. exploration.

School of Rock

This school is a part of a building that will contain a station, a library, some shopping and restaurants.

From the underground station you reach an enormous foyer.
Some fixed functions as a ticket office, restaurant, café and such, is located close to the escalators down to the trains.
But the rest of the foyer is empty.
The floor is polished concrete, the roof is clad with mirrors, crystal chandeliers and Persian rugs is scattered throughout the space as well, but besides from that, its empty.
This will function as a gigantic living room for the entire city core.
Everything can take place here, circus, concerts, exhibitions, marketplaces, temporary food courts, flee markets.
What’s important is that this area isn’t fixed by commercial interests, but rather changing itself all the time.
This will contribute energy to a dynamic inner city and to connect the city’s different parts, the segregated North with the South, the existing city with the new extensions.
A quality building on a strategic site.

On the second and the third floor is a school located.
On the weekends can other functions take over due to the flexible plan.
Mess hall, nightclubs, exhibitions.
A lot of storage space handles the fast switches.

The school is equipped with a fantastic school yard on the roof, a botanic garden with some scattered play areas in concrete.
The garden is also accessible for public.

Propyard

Entry for EASA006, Budapest
The task was to transform a neglected courtyard, with an abandoned tennis court, into a playground for grown-ups.
One important thing is that the structure/play-thing is going to last and never become boring.
Our proposal is based on the human imagination, and when that is depleted, so is our solution. So it will probably last for a while.
We kept the tennis court structure and added some poles, painted it red, attached some PVC-sheeting and turned the whole courtyard into a Prop yard.
A prop yard is a new invention that functions as a creative place where you can create new environments with the help of props.
A prop is a thing that is used in movies or in the theatre to enhance the experience/feeling that the movie/play would like to pass on to you.
Fake palm trees, inflatable giant dinosaurs, fake snow, an old jukebox, and so on.
Lighting fixtures and the possibility to plug in electrical devices makes the prop yard more equipped for a greater variety of settings.
We predicted that this phenomenon will be spread to rest of the world, and in many areas, replace the function the park has today.
An interactive, always changing, dynamic park, where you can socialize and create things in contrast to your unsatisfying (?) job.

Plan of the yard and the structure

Collecting props

Axonometric view of the Propyard

Exterior view of the Propyard

Propyard

Villa Isbjörn

An early villa extension proposal that went out of control.
This could perhaps be a sign of a revolt against the boredomness that the architecture school fed us with and how they told us how Swedish architecture should be and look like.
Afterwards we realized that some of these sketches were quite amazing and that architecture could be fun, creative, intellectual and great for the clients at the same time.