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Naturum Laponia, konceptmodell
(Chalmers tekniska högskola // Institutionen för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, 2026-03-02) Syarief, Muhammed Thirafi Hadyan; Neidhardt, Jasmin; Sandehl, Frida; Núñez, Laura; Englund, Simon; Iskander, Antony
Naturum Laponia is the main visitor centre (“naturum”) for the Laponia World Heritage area in Swedish Lapland, located in Stora Sjöfallet/Stuor Muorkke National Park on the Viedásnjárgga point by Lake Láŋas.
Naturum Laponia, huvudmodell
(Chalmers tekniska högskola // Institutionen för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnadsteknik, 2026-03-02) Englund, Simon; Neidhardt, Jasmin; Sandehl, Frida; Syarief, Muhammed Thirafi Hadyan; Núñez, Laura; Iskander, Antony
Naturum Laponia is the main visitor centre (“naturum”) for the Laponia World Heritage area in Swedish Lapland, located in Stora Sjöfallet/Stuor Muorkke National Park on the Viedásnjárgga point by Lake Láŋas.
After the flood: Speculative architecture in a post-climate crisis world
(2025) Tóth, Aletta Zsuzsanna
“Climate change is not a crisis of technology—it is a crisis of the imagination.” Addressing climate change requires more than technological advancements; it demands creative, systemic thinking and the ability to envision alternative futures. This master’s thesis explores how speculative fiction can inspire architects to conceptualize new ways of living and dwelling. Through the lens of speculative architecture, it aims to contribute to a discourse that serves as a catalyst for making alternative futures possible. The thesis investigates how climate fiction, media tools, and narrative storytelling can act as platforms for site-specific speculative visions. It focuses on coastal residential buildings in Gothenburg, Sweden, imagining their future under a global warming scenario exceeding 4°C, as projected by the IPCC under the current emissions trajectory. The study examines four major climate hazards associated with this scenario and their impact on the built environment at both macro and micro scales. To explore responses to these extreme conditions, the thesis considers how speculative architectural scenarios might be presented in ways that shape public imagination toward coexistence with rising sea levels, rather than reinforcing narratives of retreat or defense. By reframing adaptation as an opportunity for flourishing, it seeks to highlight design approaches that move beyond survival toward thriving in altered environments. The primary focus is on flooding and extreme rainfall events, analyzing their implications for urban infrastructure and daily life. The thesis culminates in the design of a speculative street section along the Göta River, conceptualized as an abstraction of a typical Gothenburg street. Through first-person narrative storytelling, it showcases possible architectural and urban adaptations to these climate challenges, offering an immersive perspective on future life in a waterlogged city.
What do you want (to be) yeast? Exploring early stage yeast-based materials through the lens of architectural materialisms
(2025) Quioza Rodriguez, Constanza Andrea
In the context of climate change and global warming, the construction sector is among the most polluting industries¹, prompting a critical review of its processes. Although bio-based materials are often proposed as a sustainable alternative, research indicates that their large-scale production can have unintended negative consequences², particularly due to land-use changes that affect natural environments and local communities, escalating socialecological conflicts³. One alternative is to reduce the demand for extracted bio-based materials, such as wood, by creating new materials from their by-products, so-called biofabricated materials4. This thesis investigates the potential of a yeastbased mix, a bio-fabricated material, for architectural applications5. Using architectural materialisms as a holistic framework that integrates community, architectural, and nonhuman perspectives, the material is examined through theory-informed design in the robotic laboratory at Chalmers. Additional methods include scientific experimentation, diagramming, material fabrication, 3D scanning, and comparative analysis. The results highlight the importance of the architect’s early involvement in material research, as this enables the adoption of holistic perspectives and ensures a socio-ecological understanding of materials, complementing conventional biological, physical, and chemical performance assessments. The conclusions are synthesized in a design proposal that demonstrates a potential full-scale (1:1) construction using the material, confirming its capacity to become part of the future construction material palette and to offer sustainable, context-sensitive alternatives to conventional bio-based materials.
From an existing building complex to a regenerative system: Design strategies to transform an existing architectural project towards ecological regeneration
(2025) Rodriguez Rico, Andrea Del Carmen
This thesis aims to be part of the solution of the environmental challenges of the construction industry nowadays by moving beyond impact reduction toward architecture as an active contributor to ecological health. It starts with an existing project, Housing and Beyond, an academic exercise that works with the transformation of a school in Tynnered, Gothenburg, into a residential complex focus on community development. The present thesis explores how this project can be transformed to support and become an active contributor to its closer ecosystem through regenerative practices. Regeneration in architecture is defined as an holistic design approach that aims to create projects that works as systems capable not just to sustain themselves, but restoring and revitalizing their specif site. That is, to use the elements and conditions of a project as resources that can enhance and improve the environment, not only offering what is necessary to fulfill human needs but providing a balance between human activities and ecological processes. For that, architects needs multidisciplinary knowledge to be applied since the conception of the project, understanding how the sites´s characteristics can contribute to propose solutions that supports the environment. Therefore, this thesis project presents an exploratory exercise, with a design - based research methodology, where regenerative principles will guide the on-site interventions to transforms Housing and Beyond into a regenerative project. The ecological aspects of regenerative theoretical frameworks are the central focus of this research. In other words, address basic elements of the built environment such as energy, water, and carbon emissions, enriched with biological and ecosystemic approaches. The proposal develop an early stage design, where the strategies respond to specific site conditions and the needs of the existing building complex. The systemic hypothesis will be generated through the analysis and interpretation of datasets, relevant literature review, and expert consultation. However, to generate a final proposal, the system is designed, modeled, and evaluated using computational tools such as Rhino, Grasshopper, Revit, QGIS, and Excel. This approach enables early-stage interaction, allowing changes and adaption during the design process. In summary, this research project explores how an existing architectural proposal can be transformed into a regenerative one using multidisciplinary knowledge and existing resources from the site, through specific design strategies aligned to regenerative principles. It proposes to rethink the role of architects and designers as integrators of theories and practices from different fields, managing complexity and translating them into design decisions. In the same way, it explores how existing computational design tools support these processes, their limits and their influence into early-design stages of design.