Aiming for a heaviness: implementing a heaviness with wood as building material on a bed & box retreat
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Architecture and urban design (MPARC), MSc
Publicerad
2021
Författare
Andersson, Julius
Stare, Oskar
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This thesis investigates the possibility to express a heaviness through wooden structures
in architecture. The historical reference and inspiration to our thesis is the style of brutalism
architecture. The thesis aims to display how to achieve a heaviness in the expression
using wood instead of other often-used heavy material such as stone, brick, and concrete.
By replacing other heavy materials with wood, we allow the expression of heaviness to
be achieved sustainably. We strongly believe that using renewable building material is
the answer to sustainable architecture. In the shift to sustainable architecture, we do not
need to lose the expression of heaviness in architecture. This thesis is primarily research
by design-driven, where we are working with drawings and models to find out how we can
implement our theory and research of heaviness into our design proposal.
Our focus lies on the aesthetic qualities and the perceived experience of heaviness within
architecture. We believe that strong and good architecture relies on its proportions and
expression. To achieve the heaviness we searched for, we needed to conduct model
studies and to study different reference projects that have already achieved this. It was
also in our interest to investigate how the expression of heaviness affected our perception
of space.
By looking at the history of wooden buildings internationally and in the Nordic, we gain
knowledge of how to contribute to contemporary wooden architecture in Sweden. With
our thesis, we want to highlight glulam and CLT as building materials when creating
contemporary architecture.
Our design proposal is a Bed & Box retreat where we bring horses and people together
under the same roof. Our design proposal is an attempt to highlight the relationship
between animals and architecture as well as the interaction and joined experience
between people, animals, and architecture.