På Taken - En undersökning om det estetiska samspelet mellan nytt och gammalt vid påbyggnad av kvartersstadshus
(2024) AAHM01 20241Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- With an ongoing housing shortage in Swedish cities, challenges such as limited land availability, financing, and the environmental impacts associated with new development prompt us to explore alternative solutions.
As architecture is inevitably a form of aesthetics and the idea of transforming and re-adapting our existing structures to deal with these challenges gains traction in the architecture community, it compels us to not only approach architecture as a practice of creating something new. Suddenly we must also understand the existing, inevitably forcing us to take a stance on our approach to cultural heritage, one aspect being the aesthetics of the existing and added.
Vertical densification of existing buildings in the most... (More) - With an ongoing housing shortage in Swedish cities, challenges such as limited land availability, financing, and the environmental impacts associated with new development prompt us to explore alternative solutions.
As architecture is inevitably a form of aesthetics and the idea of transforming and re-adapting our existing structures to deal with these challenges gains traction in the architecture community, it compels us to not only approach architecture as a practice of creating something new. Suddenly we must also understand the existing, inevitably forcing us to take a stance on our approach to cultural heritage, one aspect being the aesthetics of the existing and added.
Vertical densification of existing buildings in the most central parts of our cities is not a new concept. But the aesthetic aspects that come as a result are often overseen, if not criticized for its negative impact on the cityscape. To what extent are we willing to alter the existing and how do we motivate the aesthetic relationship between existing and new architecture?
This project aims to explore the aesthetic relationship between existing residential buildings and additions to their roofs, taking an in depth look at the different architectural styles that make up the central residential buildings in Swedish cities from the early 1900s.
Various factors, such as the existing construction, accessibility, contextual impact, and design principles are identified and set against four different design approaches where the relationship between existing and new is explored and evaluated based on different transformation philosophies.
How would David Chipperfield approach an addition of a building from 1891 while preserving its aesthetic values? How does Lacaton & Vassal add without subtracting? If Herzog & De Meuron do not care about beauty, what do they care about? Alternatively, would it be possible to densify without actually altering the aesthetics of a building? (Less)
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- author
- Grahn Nobring, Emanuel LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- AAHM01 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9188439
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- 2025-05-15 08:40:35
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abstract = {{With an ongoing housing shortage in Swedish cities, challenges such as limited land availability, financing, and the environmental impacts associated with new development prompt us to explore alternative solutions.
As architecture is inevitably a form of aesthetics and the idea of transforming and re-adapting our existing structures to deal with these challenges gains traction in the architecture community, it compels us to not only approach architecture as a practice of creating something new. Suddenly we must also understand the existing, inevitably forcing us to take a stance on our approach to cultural heritage, one aspect being the aesthetics of the existing and added.
Vertical densification of existing buildings in the most central parts of our cities is not a new concept. But the aesthetic aspects that come as a result are often overseen, if not criticized for its negative impact on the cityscape. To what extent are we willing to alter the existing and how do we motivate the aesthetic relationship between existing and new architecture?
This project aims to explore the aesthetic relationship between existing residential buildings and additions to their roofs, taking an in depth look at the different architectural styles that make up the central residential buildings in Swedish cities from the early 1900s.
Various factors, such as the existing construction, accessibility, contextual impact, and design principles are identified and set against four different design approaches where the relationship between existing and new is explored and evaluated based on different transformation philosophies.
How would David Chipperfield approach an addition of a building from 1891 while preserving its aesthetic values? How does Lacaton & Vassal add without subtracting? If Herzog & De Meuron do not care about beauty, what do they care about? Alternatively, would it be possible to densify without actually altering the aesthetics of a building?}},
author = {{Grahn Nobring, Emanuel}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{På Taken - En undersökning om det estetiska samspelet mellan nytt och gammalt vid påbyggnad av kvartersstadshus}},
year = {{2024}},
}