adnangacaninportfolio

Adnan Gacanin

Royal School of Technology

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Contents:

1....................................................................................................................... Summer house

5............................................................................................................... Industrial cemetary

8.................................................................................................................................Fire station

11........................................................................................Cultural center (degree project)

16.....................................................................................................................................Cinema

17........................................................................................................................................Shelf

Education:2011-2014 Bachelor degree, Royal School of Technology, Stockholm2008-2011 Natural sciences, Rudbeck high school, Örebro

Previous employments:2012- MyAcademy, tutoring2013 Totally Stockholm, distribution2011 Max Hamburgarrestauranger, register2009 Örebro Partihandel AB, warehouse

Language skills: Swedish, fluentEnglish, fluentBosnian, serbian, croatian, fluentSpanish, basics

Computer skills:AutoCad, excellentAdobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, excellentSketchup, very goodRhino, very goodQGIS, very good

Other assignments:Architectural magazine Skalan, editor

when: project 3, year 2, spring 2013what: summer housewhere: elfvik, lidingö

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After being out in the summer sun for hours you go in to the kitchen to get something, warm and covered with grass stains. When you step through the door you feel a coolnes throughout your body, the air even smells cool. Your eyes need time to adjust after squinting in the sun and everything is dark. The contrast is overwhelming. After a short while you start to see the extents of the room and the furniture and you see that the walls glitter with hundreds of spots of light. They are reflected and a bit diffused by the steel sur-face of the interior walls. You find what you came for and step outside again. The sunshine dazzles you and the ground is warm.

One late night you are driving down Elvfik road and you look around. You see dark fields in both direc-tions and beyond them, an even darker forest. When you pass Skogshem a light catches your attention. A cluster of light dots at the end of the field that seem to be floating in front of the black edge of the forest.

interior perspective2

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Site plan, Lidingö

Elfvik

Ropsten

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when: project 1, year 3, fall 2013what: urban designvar: hagalund industrial area, solna

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The first project of the third year was an urban design project in which we were assigned to find, analyze and transform a site be-tween Stockholm and Solna. To-gether with two classmates I chose an industrial area, Hagalund, situ-ated next to a large cemetary and large scale modernist residential houses called Blåkulla. We dis-cussed the issues of gentrification and the homogenous nature of the areas currently being developed in Stockholm. We suggested an alternative plan of action where we freeze development and create a memorial landscape. This is our short manifesto:

Stockholm’s industrial areas are dy-ing and being replaced by expensive housing. Hagalund is currently being purchased by a real estate company with the same intentions.

We suggest an alternative to the cur-rent development in the remaining industrial areas in the city.

There are regulations and constric-tions against residential buildings in the area but these will most likely change when the pressure of the mar-ket rises. Even if the original business-es are conserved this would only turn the area in to a museum, an exception in the city kept on life support.

That’s why we’ve dessigned a per-manent soluion; by transforming Hagalund industrial area into a me-morial landscape and incorporating it with the neighbouring cemetary, the area is given a meaning larger than the sum of it’s components. It becomes a symbol for all the industrial areas that once existed in the city.

The Industrial Graveyard

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when: project 1, year 2, fall 2012what: fire stationwhere: sickla industrial area, stockholm

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I’ve tried to create an open space defined by surrounding volumes that becomes more than a leftover product. A space which not only connects, but is inhabited. Which can be overlooked and at the same time feels secluded. A space in a scale you can relate to.

I placed this fire station in a quiet, green corner of Sickla industrial area, surrounded in two directions by hills and trees which cre-ate a natural boundary for the site. The buildings content is divided into two catego-ries, with functions which need to be placed in constricted volumes i one category, and those which can be

placed in an open space in the other. The result of this was boxes vcontain-ing everything from the garage to dormatories and from the sports hall to dressing rooms and conference rooms. Starting from the garage i placed and adjusted the volumes until they were positioned correctly in rela-tion to the surrounding landscape and each other.

Between them open spaces are cre-ated wich give room for the remaining functions. An artificial landscape with irregular spaces, angles and nooks that can be used and experienced in differ-ent ways by different individuals.

Site plan, Sickla

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Ground floor

Cross section a

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when: degree project, year 3, spring 2014what: cultural centerwhere: marijin dvor, sarajevo

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The aim of the project has been to create an informal institution which offers the public an opportunity to not only take part of the cultural scene, but contribute to it them-selves. Besides a large exhibition area, the building contains work-shops and studios that are open to the public. The different functions flow into each other without spatial separations. The transition from one room to another is articulated by the height of the ceiling, the stairs or the curvature of the wall, leading the visitor trough the building. The linear form of the city is contorted by the sites’ context and the neces-sary lighting conditions until every

room is enveloped in a long, soft motion by the closed wall. I want-ed to create a system which could contain the openness and flowing movement within itself. This result-ed in an arch, 12 meters high and 10 meters wide that wanders across the site and into the ground, defining the space of the building. The arches and the building as a whole are en-veloped by the heavy concrete wall, cast against a hand shaped copper plate, which with its soft curvature and subtle relief catches the light, the rain and the particles from the polluted air and give the wall shift-ing colors and textures over time.

The Curved Line

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1. Main entrance2. Exhibition area3. Administration4. Studio5. Loading dock6. Library7. Auditorium8. Café9. Garden/sculpture park

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Elevation 1:200

elevation väst 1:400

elevation norr 1:400

elevation söder 1:400

elevation väst 1:400

elevation norr 1:400

elevation söder 1:400

elevation väst 1:400

elevation norr 1:400

elevation söder 1:400

Material study 1: hand shaped coppar plate

Material study 2: concrete cast against the coppar

Cross section

Elevation, east

Elevation, west

Elevation, north

Elevation, south

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Exhibition area Administration

Workshop

Studio Library Auditorium Café

Utrullad längdsektion 1:200

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Section rolled out

Model under construction Exterior

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when: project 2, year 2, spring 2013what: transformation of a small roomwhere: KTH school of architecture, stockholm

original wall

Bored, uninspired, restless, wor-ried, tired or stressed? Take a break, watch a movie. The naked cast concrete wall gently curves and enfolds the room. It becomes both wall and entrance. The shape is inspired by the material and is in direct contrast to it’s sur-roundings; a soft shape amongst the right angles, a sculpture in a rational building. On the inside it carries a staircase made from moulded felt which absorbs noise and creates comfortable seating. The projector is constantly rolling and the room is always available when you need to be inspired or distracted or just want to pass the time without feeling that you’ve wasted it.

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when: project 3, year 1, spring 2012what: housing 2051where: brunkeberg square, stockholm

installationer dras med enkla rör från byggnadens mitt

skarvsladdar förser hyllorna med elektricitet

Tält och andra mikroklimatskydd sätts upp. man kan också använda sig av uppvärmd lu� från bankerna och gallerian för att skapa ett behagligare klimat.

hyllorna placeras så att det aldrig är mer än 1 meter upp till nästa, men stegar och andra provisoriska lösningar kan också användas för att koppla samman olika plan.

This was the third project of my first year and it took place in Stockholm 40 years from now. The site I chose is a small alley located between two bank buildings on Brunkeberg square. I studied para-site structures and unwritten rules and social norms in urban spaces.

These studies resulted in a simple and flexible structure that offers in-habitants a room for unconditional use, free to be shaped and filled by the users. A small compensation for all the spaces in the city that have been made unavailable.

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