Programme in Architecture

As Uppsala continues to grow and densify, the demands on central sites such as Norra Hovstallängen increase. This places greater emphasis on how large buildings operate over time and how they contribute to the surrounding environment beyond isolated events. Monofunctional structures that remain inactive for long periods risk underutilizing highly valuable urban locations.

Within this context, the project explores how an arena at Norra Hovstallängen can be structured to support a broader range of uses. Through strategies of flexibility, multifunctionality, and spatial adaptability, the proposal investigates how the building can accommodate both large-scale events and smaller, recurring activities related to sport, education, and everyday use.

The thesis argues that a future arena at Norra Hovstallängen should be understood as more than a destination for temporary events, but as a highly adaptable building that can operate continuously within a central and highly significant urban location.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

One interested party in the prison is Backa Kåken, a grass roots organization/not-for-profit formed in 2023 with the goal of buying both the prison and the land it is on to create a social, creative and cultural hub. The aim is to create a part of the city outside of the speculative market, which can be developed directly by the locals and is not dependent on the political seesaw or other organizations that primarily serve their own, separate interests. Backa Kåken is a flatly organized collective – and the prison will be developed and run just so in the event of an acquisition. 

This thesis is about how I’ve worked with Backa Kåken to create a plan for how the prison can be filled with their active member businesses and how the whole complex can be used to realize the vision of an independent, citizen-owned part of the city. In parallel, I discuss the architect’s role in the context of a flat organization. What skills do we have and how can we use them to contribute in a collectively driven process to actualize a collective spot where the users feel agency and common ownership?

The presentation will be held in Swedish. 

It is not a question of aesthetics, but one of compassion and consideration for what we build. 

This thesis is an artistic investigation into craftsmanship, materiality, and the presence of care in architecture today. It serves as a critique of the industrialisation of architecture and the mass production of prefabricated elements through craft prototypes, model making, interviews and research.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

There are certain spaces that instantly invite us to slow down and soften our voices, places where presence, stillness, and contemplation naturally can take place. These can be sacred, religious rooms or other peaceful places where one can feel comfortable just sitting in silence to ponder both the big and small questions of life. This atmosphere isn’t random, it is the result of specific architectural qualities combining to create a distinct mood.

In today's society, very little space is dedicated to our inner life, where we are allowed to simply be, think, meditate, contemplate, or pray. We lack spaces that are independent of any specific religion, and where there is no requirement to pay or perform. A room where you never have to ask: How long am I allowed to stay?

This project began with these thoughts: how architecture can create space for stillness, presence, and spirituality within a secular and multireligious society. It then turned toward the immediate surroundings, exploring what a room dedicated to this could look like right here on the university campus.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

As this part of Kista transitions from a monofunctional office district into a mixed-use city area with new housing developments, the project identifies a growing need to create space for public life and culture for new residents, while valuing and making use of the city’s existing built structures.

The proposal responds to this situation through the transformation of the former headquarters into a public art hall and museum with an accessible public ground floor. Through an analysis of the building’s organisational principles, rhythms, and flows, the theme of the palace is identified, revealing parallels in its role as a building of representation and the display of influence. This reading of the building’s inherent qualities forms the basis for the design decisions, with focus on enhancing the palace theme in order to explore how this characteristic of the headquarters can inform new interesting spaces for exhibitions and public use.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

There are many qualities that can be important in creating a good home and there is one characteristic that I think ties many of them together. This characteristic is movement, specifically movement of people. This has made me curious to explore movement further and it has therefore become the basis for this work.

I have explored the concept of movement with three different methods. Through these methods, I have developed eight aspects of movement: Configuration, Integration, Visibility, Axiality, Circulation, Rhythm, Light and Openings. The first method consists of theory. In the second method, six existing dwellings have been analyzed based on the eight aspects. The third method consists of a practical exploration where I have designed three dwellings with the concept of movement in focus.

The work addresses the following question: What can the concept of movement mean in the design of a home?

The presentation will be held in Swedish.  

The project begins with a study consisting of a visit of six weeks where we visited Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, using mapping, interviews, sections and observations to understand the relation between streets, buildings and temporary activities.

My project focuses on the football hall Maracana, named after the Brazilian stadium. It is a building that has gradually expanded through a series of additions: toilets, shop extensions and a newly cast foundation where it will expand even more. The hall is not understood as a finished object but as part of an ongoing process in which each addition changes the building’s relationship to the street and the surrounding public life.

The design proposal explores how the building’s existing logic can extend into the street through temporary appropriations, modular structures and recurring objects. The project has been developed through a series of analytical and spatial drawings inspired by the work of John Hejduk and Balkrishna Doshi, where relationships between objects, symbols and spatial motifs are explored through axonometric projections. Through these drawings, the thesis attempts to abstract the site and understand how elements and artefacts together can produce a whole coherent space. The final axonometric drawings function as syntheses in which the building’s slow development, the street’s temporary appropriations and everyday public life merge into possible future scenarios. The aim is not to produce a solid, closed form, but to visualize a possible condition within an ongoing urban transformation.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

The project is located in Mariefred, on the site of the former Gripsholms Kungsladguård. Historically connected to Gripsholm Castle and the surrounding agricultural landscape, the site once functioned as an important place of production. After a fire in 2014, the area has remained largely abandoned, with only fragments of its former structures still present. The project asks how the site can be reactivated by rediscovering its role as a productive environment and strengthening the pedagogical connection to its agrarian history. The proposal takes the form of a public cultural complex, bringing together spaces for making, learning, gathering and contemplation. 

The ambition is to create a place where these activities become meaningful alternatives to passive digital consumption, while reconnecting the site to its cultural history. 

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

Acts of recycling and reuse are often relegated to the urban periphery, placed in sparse industrial zones detached from everyday public life. This thesis repositions reuse as a generator for interaction, education, and civic engagement, while questioning the notion of storage as a passive act. By taking advantage of the existing structure’s spatial and structural capacities, the project proposes a new reuse centre where inhabitants can access and reclaim materials from the city, extending their life cycle through continued use.

Magasin 405 was the only remaining building from the former port not demolished during the development of Oceanhamnen, a new mixed-use waterfront district containing housing, offices, and restaurants. Despite its central location, the area lacks a distinct identity and sufficient green public spaces for its residents. In response, this project proposes an alternative approach to urban development, one that embraces existing architecture as a resource for densification, preservation, and the creation of a more characterful urban environment.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

The thesis ultimately asks how unplanned streets within informal environments can be regularised while enhancing their public values.

Through case studies and site-based fieldwork conducted within a selected area, the project investigates how structures and activities related to vending shape the use and meaning of the street. By examining the relationship between temporary and permanent spatial conditions, the thesis develops an understanding of use versus program, and how these interact within informal urban environments.

Drawing from architectural research through observations, interviews, photography, and spatial analysis, the project investigates how temporal spatial systems create urban coherence despite the absence of centralized planning, ordinance, and control, while responding directly to the needs of the majority urban population in Tanzania.

Rather than working at the scale of the masterplan, the design explores how architecture can relate to temporality and adaptability in enabling social occupation, flexibility, and shared urban life.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

The project focuses on Lundagård in Lund, Sweden, a historically significant public space located between the cathedral, university buildings and the city center. While Lundagård is generally experienced as a calm park environment in everyday life, it is radically transformed during Lundakarnevalen into an intense and highly active public space filled with temporary structures, social interaction, and changing movement patterns.

Through site analysis, mapping of flows and spatial organization and studies of the carnival’s temporary structures, the thesis examines how relationships between public space, architecture and movement change during large-scale events compared to everyday conditions.

The design proposal consists of a flexible multifunctional pavilion in Lundagård. During the carnival, the pavilion functions as an information center and activity hub, while during the rest of the year it can accommodate student activities, a café, or other public functions. The project particularly explores flexibility and the coexistence of temporary and permanent uses over time.

The thesis is further informed by practical experience from the planning of Lundakarnevalen 2026, including work with the festival’s overall site map, spatial flows, safety planning, and program organization.

Presentation will be in Swedish. 

During its peak, the lighthouse was a catalyst for technical innovation, particularly during the maritime trade boom of the 19th century. Today, society faces entirely different challenges, such as climate change and human impact on the local ecosystem. The center aims to address these issues through both field research and public exhibitions designed to spread awareness.

Theoretically, the project is grounded in Carl Jung's ideas about symbols. Based on Jung’s theory, the idea of the lighthouse as a "church of the sea" is developed. Furthermore, it incorporates Edmund Burke's concept of the sublime: the awe-inspiring terror evoked by the forces of nature. The goal is for the architecture to evoke this sense of the sublime in the visitor.

The marine center is built around a spatial sequence of seven typologies designed to mirror the lighthouse keeper's journey to the lighthouse. The experience begins with a walk from the small natural harbor, representing the journey across the sea. As visitors move forward, they experience the arrival at the site and follow a curated path through the building. Upon entering, they walk from dark, narrow spaces toward light-filled areas that reveal expansive views of the landscape.

Ultimately, the project strives to create a grand architectural experience that strengthens the local economy, promotes marine research, and acts as a contemporary symbol of sustainable innovation in the spirit of the lighthouse.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

For nearly a year, I have been working professionally on the transformation of a barn outside Lund, attempting to distinguish between the existing historical layers, the layers of the addition, and the spaces created in between. Throughout the process, I have relied on resources such as the knowledge of colleagues and consultants, the history of the site, the clients’ references and programme, and repeated visits to the building itself. What I have come to realize, however, is that the most valuable resource in any design process is time, and time is often scarce in the architectural field. In transformation projects especially, limited time can constrain a concept more than the existing walls and roof structures of the building itself.

In this thesis, I am taking advantage of the time provided by the school of architecture to explore a personal philosophy of transformation, adaptability, and aesthetics through the design of an addition rooted in the concept of layering. The aim is to refine existing spaces and introduce simple structures that allow for iteration and change over time, while offering a range of spatial qualities and uses.

Just as personal values evolve, so do our needs and our built environment. We refurnish rooms, add and remove partitions, and attend social gatherings in former hay barns. This project represents principles developed in the threshold between architectural education and professional practice, as well as the architectural values I currently believe in.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.
 

This project investigates how to reclaim the unregulated, transitional urban spaces without compromising their unique and inherent qualities. Today Staffanstorp functions largely as a commuter town, experiencing a rapid population growth of young families alongside a documented lack of "third places", with very few free, non-commercial public spaces for spontaneous social interaction. This lack often leads to a cultural leakage to nearby cities, such as Malmö and Lund.

The proposed design strategy addresses these challenges by transforming the abandoned railway corridor into a continuous green recreational and cultural artery, establishing it as the town's new civic backbone. By reinforcing existing informal pathways rather than forcing arbitrary new ones, the intervention maintains a delicate balance with the rich spontaneous biodiversity thriving along the embankment. The conceptual framework envisions a multi-layered hub at the old station area, where sports, culture, and community life can coexist in a dynamic way. Ultimately, this thesis demonstrates how a forgotten infrastructural leftover can be reimagined to bridge urban divides, retain local creative energy, and foster a more inclusive, vibrant, attractive and resilient identity for Staffanstorp.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

The project approaches the stone barn through a framework where architecture is understood in relation to craft and memory. Öland's landscape is inseparable from its limestone bedrock, and for centuries this geology has shaped not only the buildings but the knowledge embedded in those who built them. The art of dry-stone construction, the careful stacking of stones without mortar, is today listed on UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Yet the living knowledge of this craft is disappearing. It is this double threat, to both the physical building and the intangible heritage it embodies, that drives the project.
The proposal centers on two interventions. The existing stone barn is transformed into a centre for limestone craft, providing workshop spaces that enable the practice and transmission of traditional stonemasonry at various scales. Alongside this, a new residential building is introduced into dialogue with the historic volume, an addition that neither imitates nor ignores the existing, but seeks a contemporary architectural voice within an established environment.
The project argues for an understanding of cultural heritage as something living rather than static. Architecture here is not a frame around history, but a continuation of it, built from the same ground, the same material and the same craft that has always defined this place.

The presentation will be held in Swedish

In recent years, a major architectural debate on aesthetics has emerged in Sweden centered around façades and their impact on the public spaces in which they are situated. What provokes concern is not whether these buildings fulfill their function or are technically well executed, but rather the effect façades have on the cityscape, urban environment and its visitors.

One aspect often missing in criticized contemporary Swedish architecture is façade ornamentation. Ornaments were once an integral part of architecture-integrated art and contributed to the public artistic landscape and urban public space, but since modernism in the early twentieth century rejected decorative ornament as unnecessary and wasteful, these elements have largely disappeared from the architect’s repertoire.

By reintroducing the view on façade ornaments as a form of public art, it can be legitimized and its values more clearly understood. This perspective may also support architects in moving beyond historical ornamentation and instead working with more contemporary expressions. 

The study finds that façade-integrated art holds significant architectural potential, and that its qualities can inspire architects in shaping façades that contribute to urban public spaces. Furthermore, it identifies an apparent lack of artistic work within architectural practice and suggests strategies for reintroducing it.

The presentation will be in Swedish.

Villages such as Arild are largely composed of privately owned summer houses, resulting in limited shared spaces and seasonal fluctuations in activity. Through a design proposal consisting of a shelter, a sauna, a hostel, two cabins, a community building, and a trail connecting the buildings to one another as well as to Skåneleden, the project examines how site-specific architecture can respond to the growing interest in nature tourism while also contributing to social sustainability in the village throughout the year.

The presentation will be held in Swedish. 

When I look at a building I do so with my own eyes and thoughts. As does everybody else. When I think a building is beautiful, someone might say it’s ugly. When an architect says a building is supposed to bring life to a neighbourhood, someone living there can tell you it doesn’t. If I for a moment stop looking at the building, and look around or through it, what can be learned from that? Can looking around, and writing down what is seen, thought and read be important for architects?

When traditional critique is mainly about the building as it stands, märkligheter is writing about values that come with the building, placed into our cities. How it affects ordinary people and their lives. As architecture is not a sculpture, but a massive blob around and through which life happens, I believe it should be written about as such. With three essays of prose, I want to look at these aspects, to rethink the language, the contents and the purpose of architecture criticism. 

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

Temporary structures such as scaffolding and fumigation tents are often understood through their impermanence, adaptability, and strict functionality. By drawing on the qualities of these ephemeral structures, as well as implementing emerging perspectives on fabrication and standardization, this project reconsiders the barrack as an architecture capable of responding to context through architectural authorship.

Working through the lens of structure, construction, and tectonics, school barracks are reimagined as self-sustaining and context-adaptable ecosystems of interdependent parts. By standardizing relationships rather than individual parts, the inflatable can be carefully authored. This allows design agency and, by extension, a temporal architecture that responds to place while still incorporating key aspects of the barrack typology. It consists of smaller components that together form a whole, adopting a hands-on approach to construction and implementation at a scale suited to human hands.

Katedralskolan in Lund serves as the case study for the project. The institution carries with it a careful and historically informed approach to expansion. The site currently contains barracks that have served as the concrete object of this investigation.

The presentation will be in Swedish.

The work takes its point of departure in a scholarship trip to Japan in the spring of 2026, where contemporary architectural projects, traditional building types and urban environments were documented and analyzed through a self-developed investigative format. Particular focus was directed towards the concept of ma (間), understood as an active and meaningful void between things, spaces and events. Through observations of sequences, transitions, light, transparency, movement and construction, a framework was developed for reading and working with in-between spaces at different scales.

These insights are subsequently translated into a Swedish and Lund-specific context through a design proposal in the Toppen block in central Lund. The site, characterized by historical divisions, demolitions and undefined urban voids, is studied as an in-between space between different urban spaces, movements and identities. The project proposes an architecture in which street, block, dwelling, work and greenery are allowed to overlap through sequences of spaces and graded transitions.

The work argues that the in-between space should not be understood as left over space or a void, but as an active layer within architecture with the potential to create proximity between opposites without dissolving their differences. By making the in-between space into a conscious working principle, we believe that the existing city can be developed with greater spatial complexity, social proximity and long-term sustainability.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

The project is based on fieldwork in the region, where participatory methods are used to engage with the communities as experts of their own realities. Through conversations with students, teachers, and residents, local challenges emerged, including environmental challenges and the ongoing outmigration of young people in search of education and economic opportunity. Today the villages rely mainly on self-sustaining agriculture, and few have a stable income. There is a strong desire for spaces that can support community gatherings, skill-learning and vocational training, supporting collective social resilience. 

Alongside these social investigations, the thesis explores traditional construction knowledge, local materials, and climate-responsive strategies within the environmental context of high earthquake risk and monsoon periods with heavy rainfall mixed with seasonal water scarcity. 

The project approaches architecture as a collaborative process rooted in lived experience and local knowledge. It proposes a school that extends beyond its institutional role, embedded within landscape and community, and capable of supporting learning, social exchange, and long-term resilience in rural mountain regions.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

The project is situated in Lövholmen, Stockholm, an area shaped by industrial history and ongoing transformation. Through the proposal, I investigate how new housing can respond to the existing landscape and urban fabric while introducing more adaptable and generous living environments. Rather than viewing the dwelling as a fixed unit, the project explores housing as a framework that can support changing needs, different household structures, and everyday encounters over time.
By working with variations in scale, shared spaces, transitions, and spatial sequences, the thesis examines how architecture can create a stronger sense of belonging and community within dense urban environments. The work asks how future housing can move beyond standardization and instead support more flexible, social, and sustainable ways of living.

The presentation will be held in Swedish.

Platsanalysen är djupt rotad i intuition och sensoriska upptäckter i naturen. Genom analogt fotografi fångar jag både horisontens storslagenhet och markens dolda detaljer – ljusfenomen, skuggor och texturer som det mänskliga ögat annars riskerar att förbise. Denna metod kombineras med skisser, berättande texter och colour-mapping för att ge mig viktiga insikter och verktyg till gestaltningen. Målet är ett arkitektoniskt samspel där plats och byggnader ömsesidigt tillgängliggör och förstärker varandras kvaliteter.

Min plats som jag väljer är Kolvik på ön Brännö i Göteborgs södra skärgård. Valet föll på Kolvik på grund av klippornas dramaturgi samt vikens placering vid slutet av en grusväg, nåbar via en kort promenad från öns båda båtbryggor men också hur de befintliga fiskebodarna och bryggorna ger platsen dess karaktär.

Mitt program avser två mindre publika byggnader längs en vandring och är dimensionerade för cirka 50 personer. Genom att hålla skalan liten skapas en privat atmosfär och intim gemenskap kring delade upplevelser. Vandringen i Kolvik ska fungera som en målpunkt oavsett säsong, öppen för såväl fastboende som turister som besöker platsen under en långpromenad på ön eller vid en bokad tillställning.