Building Perceptions - Images in the practice of architecture

• Main Author: Lindau, Dan
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: KTH, Arkitektur 2020
• Subjects: Sune Jonsson; photography; photo; images; render; Västerbotten; Nyåker; Djupsjönäs; camera; vernacular; representation; Architecture; Arkitektur; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-280186

Working with images as a primary tool for analysis and design, the thesis explores how a photographic archive can help create contemporary architecture that relates and builds upon precedence. The work of Swedish documentary photographer and writer Sune Jonsson (1930-2009) has been a corner stone in this project. In his work from the 1950s and -60s, Jonsson documents rural northern Sweden, undergoing vast changes due to depopulation. By dissecting the (photographic) work of Sune Jonsson, I have tried to discern architectural qualities in the photos with the purpose of implementing them into new buildings. The site is in Djupsjönäs, about 50 kilometers southwest of Umeå, where a collection of buildings is added that could house classes as well as permanent dwelling for 4 – 5 households. The buildings include workshops, a gallery, a library, a common house with dorms, a sauna, and some other practical facilities.