MPDSD16_ANDERSSON_Jens_8692311

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MPDSD16_ANDERSSON_Jens_8692311
Design for sustainable development

Letter of motivation
Jens Andersson
2016-01-15
· Adress: Föreningsgatan 5, 451 52 UDDEVALLA · Social security number: 870930-4870
· E-mail: jens.ragnar.andersson@gmail.com · Phone number: 0735-55 49 93
Are you looking for an architect student that is already an educated building engineer? My name
is Jens Andersson and I could very well be custom-made for your Master program.
Since upper secondary school I have got a bachelor of science in engineering and been designing
prefab concrete elements. These experiences have made me realize what I want to do in my
future career. I am interested of responsibilities in various types of projects, where I can be
involved throughout the whole design process. This made me search for the architectural
program in Umeå, which has an artistic and social profile that complements my technical
background.
My goal is to combine my previous experience as a building engineer with my future profession
as an architect. I want to use the ability of structure, materials and tectonics to enhance the
overall concept of my proposals and work closely with clients, planners, craftsmen but foremost
for the users. My dream is to work within the local and regional context of my hometown
Uddevalla. "A contribution of waterfront homes in the harbor will create a living center", argues
the housing provider in the municipality of Uddevalla. How could waterfront homes by their
own promote meetings and exchanges between different types of people, as a living center
normally can offer? How could I as an architect propose something else in Uddevalla that could
encourage several social groups to meet and participate in the development of their common
city?
This application, to the master program Design for sustainable development in Gothenburg, is an
attempt to come closer to my dream and hometown. I think this program match my future
expectations by supporting a holistic view of sustainable development in a large variety of
contexts. Furthermore, it could offer me the opportunity to shape my own profile. I hereby wish
to announce my interest to start at your master program this autumn of 2016, to develop my
ability to analyze and situate local situations in relation to broader contexts.
Personally, I consider myself suitable as a part of your master program, because I have good
knowledge and experience as a building engineer and architect student. You would get a person
with a high level of ambition and commitment, who likes to develop projects through a critical
approach. I perform my responsibilities with a high level of detail, both for my own development
and to communicate correct information to my co-workers´. My acquired knowledge and my
curiosity to always learn new things, means that I would be a useful resource for your Master
program, as well as you can offer me a challenge to gain me new and valuable experiences. I hope
my background has attracted your interest to let me start your program.
Best regards
Jens Andersson

Curriculum Vitae
Jens Andersson
2016-01-15
Education
2013-- Architecture program, UMA School of architecture, Umeå
- The program have a critical, artistic, social, experimental and international profile
- Concept development of space(s) with focus on what architecture can generate rather than how it looks
- Urban variance: Mapping in the local context of informal settlements within the megalopolis of Ahmedabad
- Inhabiting the hinterland: Dwelling and public interventions in Robertsfors with focus on co-existence
- Dance space: Understanding the character of modern dance and investigate its spatial relationship
2007-2010 Building engineering, Chalmers University of technology, Gothenburg
- Urban planning, construction and structural engineering
- Design project in Haarlem: Designed a music pavilion with focus on building technical details
- Bachelor thesis: Designed a compact apartment for today's shortage of affordable rental units for single households
- Urban planning: Residential area in Höviksnäs that(which) we presented to the local inhabitants
2003-2006 Technology program, Östrabo upper secondary school, Uddevalla
- Focused on architecture and construction
- Extension of a heritage house: Meassured and did some building permission drawings
Work experience
2015 (june-july) Contekton Arkitekter Fysrtad AB, Architect trainee, Vänersborg
- Established drawings for facades, sections, plans, doors and windows for various types of projects
- Inko, Uddevalla: Submitted several proposals on the location, layout and logistics of an industrial building
- Pre-school, Mariestad: Helped a college during the idea phase with sketching of plan and façade layouts
- Office, Trollhättan: Extend an existing building and changed both the interior and exterior plan
2007-- Kynningsrud Prefab AB, Construction engineer, Uddevalla
- Established production and assembly drawings of precast concrete and steel products to schools, hospitals,
industrial buildings, car parks etc.
- Identified the requirements and wishes of authorities, clients, sales, production, transportation and montage
- Coordination with clients, consultants, suppliers and colleagues
- Developed the company´s drawing standard
- Reorganized checklists at the construction department of the company
- Documented basic structural calculations
- Assigned by the company´s confidence in me, as the first construction engineer at Kynningsrud, to coordinate new
type of special projects
- The heating plant in Lidköping: 40 ton heavy concrete columns linked with an advanced steel frame
- Car park in Kallebäck, Gothenburg: Facades of graphic concrete
- Hospital in Angered, Gothenburg: Polished facades of white and black concrete
2006 (oct-dec) Östrabo upper secondary school, Assistant for the teacher, Uddevalla
- Practiced as assistant teachers in Mathematics, Architecture and Technology
- Prepared teaching materials in the education
- Built and repaired house models
- Photographed historical buildings in Uddevalla
Curriculum Vitae
Jens Andersson
2016-01-15
Courses
2009 (june-aug) Ecological building technique, Mid Sweden University, Östersund
- Studied construction techniques with limited environmental impact
- Presentation of ecologically sustainable solutions in a 300 square meter greenhouse with an internal timber home in
Sikhall, Vänersborg
Association commitment
2012-2013 The housing cooperative Brf Brynjan, Board member, Uddevalla
- Secretary at the board meetings
- Project manager for the replacement of windows for the property
Other qualifications
2011-2013 House designer, Uddevalla
- Designed building permit drawings for two villas
2006-- Driver licence, B
Languages
- Swedish: Native language
- English: Very good knowledge
- Spanish: Upper secondary level
Computer programs
- AutoCAD, Microsoft Office: Very good knowledge
- Revit, Adobe CS: Good knowledge
- Sketch-up, Tekla Structures: Basic knowledge
References
- Certificates, ratings and recommendation letters are submitted on my profile at the universityadmission.se
Anton Shramkov
Lecturer and year responsible for UMA2, Umeå School of Architecture
Phone: +370 620 69292
E-mail: anton.shramkov@arch.umu.se
Mikael Andersson
Design Manager, Kynningsrud Prefab AB
Cellphone: +46 522-63 63 76
Phone: +46 703-89 88 03
E-mail: Mikael.andersson@kynningsrud.se

I am stuck in a traffic chaos in Ahmedabad. I feel the polluted air. The heat is even
warmer, because of idle vehicles. Endless noise is created by the horning vehicles.
The vehicles are incredible densely packed and the drivers are chatting with each
other. Suddenly my rickshaw driver goes off-road. He uses the sidewalk to avoid the
traffic jam. He horns at everything that is in front of him; people, dogs, cows, even to
a man on a galloping horse. Then he forces himself into the traffic line again.
Even though the section of the street is zoned by urban planners for different speeds,
it seems that people in Ahmedabad make up their own rules out of necessity. People
seem to be very responsive and tolerant. They know how to adapt to different
situations by noticing and helping each other. Together they are cleaning their streets,
drinking chai, reading newspaper, spitting tobacco, carrying water, feeding birds and
cows, praying, putting up markets, preparing for festivals and so on. Through daily
routines do people create public spaces with vibrant qualities. Nobody walks alone
and I felt really secure in this city.
The organized chaos of different spaces is created by and for the inhabitants. Spaces
are enclosed by thin buildings attached together creating a continuous rhythm of
varying scales. Shops are located in the ground floor and during business hours are
the sidewalks occupied by the shops. Parked scooters are used as seating places and
also forcing pedestrians another layer towards the chaotic traffic zone in the middle.
Gateways of narrow paths lead you from this chaos to a calmer atmosphere with
more personal encounters. There are hardly any places to hide. Maybe this is how it
should be, to squeeze people so closely together that social interaction is inevitable.
UMA 3Umeå School of Architecture uma 3The megapolis of Ahmedabad 2015-2016 Jens AnderssonMapping and development strategies
Mapping in India
My perception of Ahmedabad

My mapping is about how people transform the plaza of Manek Chowk in different ways during day
and night and how the different activities fill the gaps between each other. It transforms from a busy
commercial market during daytime to a festival character during evenings. I started to zone the different
activities during day and evening into these diagrammatic sections. Then I studied different kind of daily
routines of how they setting up the different spaces during day and night.
Moving scooters to make space for
street food
Holes indicate where he used
to place his stall...
The traffic is blocked for a moment......which starts to activate the space
Daily vendor meeting food stall
Vendors use scooters as enclosure
elements of space
Pedestrians are directed in front of
vendors
Pedestrians are directed in front of
vendors
Mapping of Manek Chowk
How to create spaces within a square?

During
business
hours does
the open square
transforms into a
market place where
people can buy anything
from jewelry to towels. The
square becomes like an island,
claimed by the vendors and scooters,
which is surrounding by a constant
movement. The road through Manek Chowk
turns into a chaotic traffic corridor, since the
square is linked between major commercial areas of
the Old City. This hectic activity of circulation adds to the
pulsating nature of the square. People that either shopping
or passing through are quite busy, they comes alone or in small
groups. Shop owners are alone or consist of several family members,
but they are not that busy. The sidewalks are either claimed by the shop
owners or blocked by scooters, which force the pedestrian to compete with
the traffic or walk along the vendors. People are using the scooters as benches or
as elements that enclose spaces for encounters in-between the edges and the plaza.
During buisness hours

During evenings

The scale of enclosure turns from vertical during the day
by surrounding buildings horizontal during evenings
by human activity and the ceiling of artificial lightning.
The spicy food, the heat from cooking and the densely
enclosure of standing people and dinner tables makes
you perspire a lot when you are eating here.
To conclude I met the owner of Balan Dosa (yellow
crew), one of the food market stalls, and he told me
something like this: “Manek Chowk never sleeps and
it is always activated. This means security. Security for
the shop owners of jewelry and gold, since there are
no robbery here. Security for women who even comes
alone during the evenings. This food bazaar has been
running every evening in over 50 years and we have a
permission that says that this my space after 8 pm. We
are happy to be here and the shop owners are happy
that we are here during the nights. This concept really
works.”
Conclusions and Reflections

UMA 2Umeå School of Architecture uma 2The hinterland of Robertsfors 2014-2015 Jens AnderssonArchitectural boundaries in public space
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SpindelVäven
Preformance and Gallery space

Municipality
Music Gallery/Performance
Dance Graffiti
TimberTextile
The culture of Robertsfors is more than music. Handicraft and visual arts,
are strong and alive. Spindelväven is a cultural house that is driven by the
municipality and not bound to an association or to private interests. Spin-
delVäven is mainly designed to create a possible exchange between dif-
ferent arts and crafts, like graffiti, timber making, textile, dance and music,
which are today separated and more or less private activities in Robertsfors.
spindel
SpindelVäven
A cultural house in Robertsfors

make
learn
sharecreative
community
confirmed
yourself
textile
graffitidancemusic
timber
We were born to make. We make to share.
To share is the real payoff, both for you and
the whole community. SpindelVäven makes it
possible for the community to learn how to
make and share their skills. Hear you can ex-
press yourself by making your own stuff next
to others. By doing so, you show what you are
making and be confirmed by people that will
ask for your advice. This place supports the
interplay between different generations and
the productive do-it yourself lifestyles in Rob-
ertsfors.
The activities are placed in separate buildings
to connect the both sides and to enhance
certain qualities of the site. They are connect-
ed by an outdoor canopy that re-directs the
movement through the site. SpindelVäven
works as a framing boundary that creates out-
door voids. Here is a common square created
that allow the different activities to expand in
summer. The canopy and square work both as
meeting point between the different activities
and between each activity and people that
move through the site.
Visibility
Framing boundaries Accessibility
SpindelVäven
A Maker Space

SpindelVäven is placed in the west-
ern glade of the river, right across the
social space where people gather for
“Valborg” and New Year’s Eve. The site
of SpindelVäven has two different con-
ditions, one towards the river and town
in north and one towards the Brännan
part in south. From north is Spin-
delVäven visible but unreach-
able. From south is it hidden
but accessible. It is placed
here to connect the both
sides of the river by
introducing another
kind of movement
than the existing
one back and
forth along
Storgatan.
SpindelVäven
Site location

Almost everything is designed
with timber to mirror local
and traditional building tech-
niques. The covering boarding
is continuous from the roof to
the façade and it is painted
with Swedish traditional red
color. The horizontal decks are
exposed and will have an age-
ing effect. The canopy roof
has the same covering as the
ground, grass in summer and
snow in winter.
SpindelVäven
Exterior materials

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1
6
7
8
9
11
10
5
4
3
Parking/Loading
Vehicle entrance
Graffiti
Pedestrian entrance
Timber machinery
Timber assembly
Textile making
Performance/Gallery
Barbeque/View tower
Pier
Square
4
3
2
1
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
SpindelVäven
Different activities

1
SpindelVäven
Pedestrian entrance

The graffiti wall is placed to ex-
pose the art towards the street
and to enhance the axes of the
trees on site. These axes are en-
hanced by openings in the wall to
create seating’s aligned with the
trees. On the other side is the wall
and canopy stabilized with some
kind of buttresses that creates
seating’s towards the sun.
2
SpindelVäven
Graffiti

5
SpindelVäven
Timber machinery

The atmosphere is light
and airy with a neutral
color palette that will
stand in the background
to the more colorful activ-
ities. The interior consist
of exposed timber struc-
ture and white painted
timber covering. The exte-
rior covering has gaps in
front of selected windows
to filter the light into the
tool cabinets and as in-
sight protection from the
canopy.
The skylight reflects on
the glue laminated beams
into the main space. Light
through a floor opening
reflects down to ground
level along the edges. This
creates seating place at
the upper floor between
the beams. The left side
has a kitchen and the
right side consists of a
space which could be
used to sit on, hang your
jacket and to show off
what you have made in
the studios.
SpindelVäven
Performance/Gallery Textile making8 7

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24
5 76
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12
13
10
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3
2
2
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2
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Music
Cleaning
Toilet
Wind breaker
Kitchen
Mirror wall
Dance/Performance
Jury
Clothes/Gallery/Seats
Buffet table
Food
Outdoor stage
Square
4
3
2
1
5
6
7
8
9
10
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12
13
Balcony
Lockers/Shelves
Seating
Lounge
Dressing
Loft
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18
19
8
SpindelVäven
Three plans of the main building

This main indoor space
could be used for wedding
dinners, parties, exhibi-
tions... I also imagine that
a replica of the television
show Let´s Dance could
start here. People in Rob-
ertsfors could participate
in the preperations as well
as perform by playing
music, dance, judge, sew-
ing costumes for the per-
formers, cook food to the
audience… They can learn
how to collectively set up
a performance and start a
new tradition that unifies
the community.
8
SpindelVäven
Let’s Dance “Robban”

VisibilityStructural theme
Accessibility
SpindelVäven
Final model 1:100

rain water collector
boarded concrete
thermowood
kolumba brick
infiltration pond
treated waste water
UMA 2Umeå School of Architecture uma 2The hinterland of Robertsfors 2014-2015 Jens AnderssonDwelling strategies for co-existence
Roberts WATER . TREATMENT fors
Commune dwelling with public bath

Nutrition for plant beds
Infiltration pond
Treated wastewater
Stream to sea
Rain water collector
Warm and cold
reservoar
Showering
Toliets
Segmentation waste water
Welcome home to this commune dwell-
ing where 6 people lives and take care
of a public bath with surrounding plan-
tations. Here you will be in a sensual
contact with the treatment of water. By
treatment I mean both the refreshing of
your soul and the biological treatment
of water. In this building can you hear
and see the water rippling from the
roof while you are swimming or relax-
ing in the water.
Process of water treatment

Exploded isometric

Air supply
Summer: Pre-cold
Winter: Pre-heated
Automated windows
Heated roof melts the snow
Water fall
Public entrance - View through the water treatment of the dwelling Private entrance - Axis towards fireplace
Public . Private entrances

The sunlight hits the broken water surface,
created by your body, which provides a re-
laxing atmosphere of glance and reflection
on textured surfaces. You can bring your
children to play in the water while you enjoy
walking along and cross the water and plan-
tations. This multisensory experience of the
cycle of water through architecture provides
knowledge of basic ecological awareness.
All these aspects will be supported and con-
firmed by newcomers and the whole Rob-
ertsfors towards the people who dwells and
take care of this place.
Final model 1:50

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