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Living in nature

Location: Turku, Finland
Client: Reale Oy
Program: Housing, mixed community functions
Size: 15.000 m2
Year: 2020-
Status: 1st prize, two-phase competition, on-going
Collaborators: MASU Planning
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren, Kristian Kontula, Lasse Vejlgård Kristensen, Moritz Schineis, Tymon Wolender, Emanuele Biscaro, Paulina Schroeder, Markus Gustafsson

The “Living in the nature” project proposes to develop a former elderly home site into a new 15.000 m2 housing neighbourhood.. The site is located on top of a hill, in the middle of the forest, only 2km from the city centre of Turku. The vision of the winning proposal is based on creating diverse living conditions with proximity to nature, well-being and a strong sense of community. In today’s, busy and fast society, we see a demand in re-introducing quitness and nature into people’s everyday lives.

The landscape and natural values of the area provide a strong, distinctive starting point for the plan. The old elderly home is surrounded by a significant landscape of pine forest and ancient natural rock formations. The housing block has a minimal footprint in order to preserve the nature and build on the site around the existing buildings. The forest introduces a natural, lively and seasonally changing framework for the community to interact with.

The identity of the block is based on creating a neighbourhood with versatile common spaces and activities for the inhabitants. The common spaces invite the inhabitants to interact and strengthen their sense of community. The functions vary from workshops, a gym, a library, a kids room, allotment gardens, a sauna and spa facilities.

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Kumpula Campus

Location: Helsinki, Finland
Client: City of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Senate Properties
Program: Mixed-use development (Housing, Office, Retail, Education, Urban space)
Size: 85.000 m2
Year: 2019-
Status: 1st prize, invited competition in 2019, on-going
Collaborators: MASU Planning (Landscape), Schauman Arkkitehdit, WSP Finland (Traffic)
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren, Kristian Kontula, Lasse Vejlgård Kristensen, Emanuele Biscaro, Paulina Schroeder, Erik Huhtamies, Francesca Bellú

The “Kumpula Campus” vision is based on developing a diverse, urban campus structure for the 21st century – a neighbourhood where the boundaries between learning, research, living and working disappears. Currently an area characterized by large fields of parking, the immediate context of the large science institutions will be developed towards an intimate urban space where residents, students, employees and children reside on equal terms.

The intricate structure of streets, alleys and green public spaces encourage the users to informally interact and socialize with each other – aiming at establishing a stronger synergy between the different users. The existing forest landscape of the hill plays an essential role in the identity of the place, and one of the goals of the plan is to preserve as much as possible the forest that faces recreational Vallila valley in the south.

The majority of the new urban structure is proposed as housing. The aim is to increase liveliness in the area also after the students and researchers have stopped their daily work. The ground floors of the buildings contain extrovert functions such as co-working spaces, offices, start-up garages, cafés and shops. These spaces can be rented out for new start-up firms and single-person firms who want to take the leap from university life to entrepreneurship.

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Tulli Halls

Location: Tampere, Finland
Client: YH Kodit, City of Tampere
Program: Mixed use development (Culture, Office, Housing, Urban space)
Size: 9.800 m2
Year: 2018-
Status: 1st prize in comeptition in 2018, on-going
Collaborators: MASU Planning, Schauman Arkkitehdit, Nisunen Grönlund, Ramboll Finland, Sweco
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren, David Monteiro, Kristian Kontula, Lasse Vejlgård Kristensen, Justyna Krokowska, Ulrik Montnemery, Jaap van den Hoogen, Ella Kaira

The Tulli area, located in the city centre of Tampere, is literally colored by its industrial heritage which also is a prominent quality in the center of Tampere. The red brick is significant for the area and also a robust parameter to build on, emphasizing heritage and at the same time creating generous conditions for long usage and durability.

The tower is a beacon and focal point for Tampere’s-, and the area of Tulli’s future and will guide guests from the travel center and other parts of Tampere to this cultural arena of both in- and outdoor spaces. Both the skyline and the experience in eyelevel will have a grounding in Tampere’s proud heritage as well as aspiring future.

The Tulli Halls project will provide Tampere with an environment for future growth based on the city’s heritage. It enables attractive living conditions for a broad target group as well as a public environment where the citizens can meet and share knowledge, experiences and create new stories together in the very center of Tampere.

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Raisio – An accessible innovation city in the nature

Location: Raisio, Finland
Client: The City of Raisio
Program: Urban Planning
Size: 4.5 ha
Year: 2018
Status: Commission, vision plan presented 2018
Collaborators: Jouni Lehtomaa (Ramboll), Terhi Leino
Team: Jonas Nordgren, Ted Schauman, Justyna Krokowska, Jaap van den Hoogen, David Monteiro, Ayoub Chkairi

Raisio is a city synonymous with infrastructure. It’s a well-connected city built in an intersection offering great car mobility and connectivity but is also challenged with traffic congestion. The vision for Raisio City Centre builds on these preconditions and will connect the city centre from within as well as to its attractive natural surroundings. With the new tram connection to Turku and the bus connection to Naantali, Raisio will be a node in the region that promotes innovative businesses- living- and outdoor activities.

Future living in Raisio will mean having access and proximity; to nature, to outdoor sports, to sustainable habitats as well as great living conditions for a broad age group. Raisio will be a city where you grow up, stay and also a city where you will want to return to build a family. By submerging the E18 road a unique potential is revealed for the urban development. The city will be stitched together with a lush green corridor, a Central Park comprised and a winter garden, offering the citizens of Raisio all year public spaces to meet and reside

Raisio has always offered diverse forms of living, from villas to small apartments. “Raisio Network City” will offer the similar qualities but enhance it and interconnect them to offer a coherent and safe pedestrian environment. Green mobility and living will be a lead motif for the structure of the new city. The urban landscape in Raisio offers large open public parks to smaller private small gardens and generous green house like balconies.

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Turku Railyard – Engel’s Blocks of Experience

Location: Turku, Finland
Client: City of Turku, Turun Ratapihan Kehitys Oy, VR
Program: Mixed use masterplan (Culture, Event, Office, Housing, Urban space)
Size: 200.000 m2
Year: 2018
Status: Invited competition
Collaborators: Schauman Arkkitehdit
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren, Lasse Vejlgård Kristensen, Kristian Kontula, Jaap van den Hoogen, Ella Kaira, Erik Huhtamies

The Turku Railyard proposal is based on introducing a unique neighbourhood that is characterized by an urban city structure, multi-facetted public spaces and a diverse set of experiences. The backbone of the vision is to continue strict city grid of Turku into the new neighbourhood that is built on the former railyard area. Thus, the aim is to make the railyard a natural continuation of the existing urban fabric of the city centre.

The area is divided into three clear block structures, each one with its own identity. The arena with it’s sports functions stand in the centre as the core of the area. The block on the western side connects to neighbouring housing area while the eastern side contains the planned event and experience functions. These introduce a natural connection to existing event centre Logomo.

Extending the city grid of Turku into the former railyard area introduces a natural, urban extension of the city centre of Turku that can developed in phases over time. The Engine Hall Plaza, which is located in the middle surrounded by the arena, its sports functions, the Music hall as well as the History museum, becomes an attractive all year destination for citizens and visitors alike.

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Napakymppi – The Courtyard of Learning

Location: Tuusula, Finland
Client: Municipality of Tuusula
Program: School, art academy, library
Size: 8.400 m2
Year: 2018
Status: Open competition, honourable mention
Collaborators: –
Team: Jonas Nordgren, Ted Schauman, Kristian Kontula, Lasse Vejlgård Kristensen, David Monteiro, Justyna Krokowska, Ayoub Chkairi, Ulrik Montnemery

“Napakymppi – The Courtyard of Learning” has a central location in Tuusula, an old regiment town that is characterized by beautiful red brick buildings. Today, the area is being urbanized and the city’s new masterplan positions the new school in the heart of a pedestrian environment, surrounded by cultural, recreational and public functions. Napakymppi constitutes a multi-dimensional learning environment that can facilitate a variety of activities connected to learning. Knowledge and innovation are strengthened and developed by sharing – a guiding motive when Napakymppi was developed.

The goal has been to create an open and creative environment for different types of meetings between teachers, students and the public. This environment facilitates innovation to be created, shared and communicated to a broad audience. To study is to be challenged and developed as person, but also to feel calm. Interaction and synergies between different types of individuals require both reflection and interaction as well as alternating dialogue in larger and smaller groups. Napakymppi is an open, safe and flexible educational

environment with local grounding that provides the conditions for knowledge sharing according to the Monio model with a strong social cohesion. Napakymppi is a flexible meeting place that can be developed, changed and adapted in relation to different types of education and new forms of learning we today yet do not know. The new learning environment offers a creative arena for workshops, educational opportunities over generations and is thus a multifunctional building for all residents of Tuusula where you meet share and create together.

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Kangas – City of Gardens

Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Client: City of Jyväskylä, Skanska construction Ltd, YIT construction Ltd, Jyväs Parkki Oy
Program: Mixed use, Urban Plan, Landscape, Housing, Office and Education
Size: 110.000 m2
Year: 2017 –
Status: Open Competition, 1st prize, on-going
Collaborators: Jouni Lehtomaa (traffic planning) Schauman Arkkitehdit
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren, Kristian Kontula, David Monteiro, Diogo Paixao, Sara Zapotoczna, Ludvig Holtenäs

The former industrial area of Kangas is located about 1,5 km north-east of the city centre of Jyväskylä and is characterized by the historically and culturally significant paper factory located in the heart of the area. The factory complex has been transformed into a creative campus used by the educational institutions of the city. The “City of Gardens” introduces a vision that takes its starting point in the existing industrial heritage of the site.

The linear, early 20th century, architecture of the old red brick factory building will function as a characterizing element throughout the new area. The industrial character is re-interpreted and reflected in the treatment of the new buildings, public spaces and the shared courtyards. The urban structure proposes a series of inter-connected courtyards – a diverse set of gardens that establish the backbone of the masterplan.

Each one of these gardens have their own identity, function and character. The City of Gardens introduces a high-quality mixed-use urban neighbourhood for living, working and learning. Its location close to the city centre of Jyväskylä, in a beautiful post-industrial context and in direct proximity to nature, creates a one-of-a-kind starting point for a sustainable life-style, which emphasizes local qualities, sense of belonging and interaction.

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Pargas Maritime Limestone Landscape

Location: Pargas, Finland
Client: City of Pargas
Program: Urban Planning, Guest harbour, hotel, housing, sports & play
Size: 17.000 m2
Year: 2017 –
Status: Competition 1st prize 2017, local detail plan design on-going
Collaborators: Schauman Arkkitehdit
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren, David Monteiro, Sara Zapotoczna, Ludvig Holtenäs

Pargas Maritime Limestone Landscape takes its starting point in a thorough analysis of the the city, its history, structure, character, potentials and challenges.The plan introduces an urban loop that connects the public spaces of the harbour front to the surrounding public spaces and the pedestrian street, which today ends by the harbour area. The loop, a beach boulevard, invites and directs the flaneurs of the city to enjoy a series of attractive public spaces along it. The idea is to strategically position the new functions

along the promenade and thereby making the harbour a “string of pearls” destination for inhabitants and visitors alike. The harbour becomes a natural, recreational, extension to the city centre. In addition to introducing a strategic plan for the area, the project also introduces a compositional design principle that is rooted in the city’s historic and cultural context. The nearby limestone quarry and its large layered open landscape functions as inspiration for this principle.The activity landscapes, consisting

of sports and playgrounds, a beach, piers and the promenade, refer back to the landscape of the quarry. With its layers of limestone formations, it creates a specific design identity that is rooted in the surrounding man made landscapes. Pargas Maritime Limestone Landscape” makes the waterfront accessible and introduces a new attraction by the beautiful bay of Snäckviken. It will be the place in Pargas where you want enjoy ice cream on the pier, the beautiful view, play tennis or take a dip in the sea after enjoying the heat of the sauna.

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Hiedanranta Innovation Bay

Location: Tampere, Finland
Client: City of Tampere
Program: Strategic Planning
Size: 1.500.000 m2
Year: 2017 –
Status: Competition 1st prize, on-going
Collaborators: Mandaworks, Ramboll Finland
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren, Kristian Kontula, Ella Kaira, Jaap van den Hoogen, Ulrik Montnemery, Anna-Sofia Lavanti, Sara Zapotoczna

The city district of Hiedanranta is situated on the north-west of the city of Tampere. Over the next 20 years the Innovation Bay will house over 25,000 new residents and 10,000 new jobs, as well as the transformation of the former industrial district into an innovation hub for the development of a circular economy and a sustainable future. Embracing the circular economy

and creative potential of Tampere, the masterplan catalyzes innovation, embraces the future of smart manufacturing and creates a robust platform for public life. Hiedanranta Innovation Bay embraces the site’s industrial character and builds upon its foundation to create an urban district that supports new technologies, emerging business trends and local energy production.

The vision for Hiedanranta Innovation Bay is achieved through a set of urban development strategies that will transform the bay into the western hub of Tampere. The strategies connect Hiedanranta to its surrounding context, outline methods to achieve a carbon neutral development, and create an integrated public space and transportation network.

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From Nesbyen to Nesfjella – Bring the Mountain to the Village

Location: Nesbyen, Hallingdal, Norway
Client: City of Nesbyen
Program: Mixed use, Urban Plan, Landscape, Housing, Office
Size: 45.800m2
Year: 2017 –
Status: Invited parallel assignment, on-going
Collaborators: DRMA, Everyday, Masu Planning, Papirbredden Innovasjon
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren, Ludvig Holtenäs, Sonya Rokmaniko, Radu Teodor Petrica

Nes village and Nesfjella is situated in the middle of Hallingdal in Norway. The area is known for its all year round outdoor leisure and recreational sports and events. With the initiatives from the local community, Nes is in a unique position to shape tomorrow’s mountain-, leisure and outdoor activities. Contemporary tendencies and future prognoses indicate that our working-life and lifestyle reveals fewer limitations, more flexibility and greater freedom to seek work-life alignment between leisure and everyday life.

Today people seek lifestyle-oriented leisure and lifestyle-oriented workplaces. Nesfjella and Nes Village Centre have the opportunity to set a new Norwegian standard for the alignment of work and leisure.
The lively centre in Nesbyen constitutes a natural place to meet for local residents, cabin owners, visitors and tourists. The scale of the village and its urban spaces; square, paths and meeting places are attractive and well-proportioned for human activity.

The vision for Nes is based on identifying, prioritizing, connecting, refining and supplementing existing qualities. With a few clear planning principles, Nesbyen’s many existing qualities will be revealed, enhanced and connected into a coherent community and a network of all year round attractions. The investment in the centre re-establishes Nesbyen the natural service and experience centre in Hallingdal.

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Kunskapsberget – An interconnected knowledge environment

Location: Linköping, Sweden
Client: Lejonfastigheter
Program: Urban Planning, School, Sport, Office
Size: Main Building 8050m2 (School block 29.500 m2)
Year: 2017
Status: Open competition 2017
Collaborators: Tredje Natur
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren, Diogo Paixão, Sara Zapotoczna, Ludvig Holtenäs, Radu Petrica

Knowledge and innovation are developed through sharing and dialogue. This has been a guiding principle when both the neighborhood and the main building were designed. To introduce interfaces for interaction and innovation between teachers, students and the public has been a guiding principle for the design; not only for the building but also for the neighborhood. “Kunskapsberget” constitutes an open, safe and flexible educational environment of knowledge sharing, located in a social and urban environment with lush nature. The neighborhood forms a flexible platform that can adapt to forms of education as well as use.

The main building of “Kunskapsberget” constitutes a social melting pot in Linköping. Students in the region gather here to develop their creativity as well as to meet a wide audience. It is a contemporary educational environment with attractive landscapes where you can create but also experience the knowledge and culture being generated in the school.The main building opens up with an inviting atrium towards Drottningtorget and Linköping center and stands as a beacon for education and creativity. The atrium in the main building presents the profiled cultural programs in the school and utilizes a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration.

The educational format is in constant change, but the need for dialogue, interaction and reflection are important for meeting individual needs. These pre-conditions structure the building and create a framework for what is flexible, robust or fixed. As an example of this principle, the main spaces for circulation function as spaces where you experience the activities in the building. This building and urban block of knowledge will supply a robust education platform for a democratic and creative educational environment.

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Kaxjäla Archipelago Village

Location: Lövö, Kimitoön, Finland
Client: Private
Program: Archipelago Village Masterplan
Size: 100 ha
Year: 2016
Status: Commission, on-going
Collaborators: Schauman Arkkitehdit Oy
Team: Jonas Nordgren, Ted Schauman

The project, called, Kaxjäla Archipalgo Village introduces a welcoming and inviting, small scale environment that is based on the context and its surroundings. A village with a variety of identities, each one with a strong relationship to the existing landscape and the history of the site. A symbiotic relationship to nature and the sea are the starting points for developing Kaxjäla as a sustainable and contemporary 21st century archipelago village.

Kaxjäla Archipelago Village has not only the potential to become a physical gateway to the archipelago, but also a manifestation of the values and qualities that the archipelago represents. A strong building tradition and a respect of nature, are elements that characterize the success of the villages in the archipelago. These are also the key values that characterize Kaxjäla.

When you arrive in Lövö over the bridge from the north you are greeted by the historical setting in Gösta Serlachius archipelago farm on the right hand side. The project proposes to open up the historical setting to the public and make it accessible for everyone who is looking for a summer retreat in the archipelago, where fishing, gardening and local food are key values.

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Water Lily Ponds of Örebro

Location: Adolfsberg, Örebro kommun, Sverige
Client: Örebro municipality
Program: Water reservoir
Size: 15.000 m3
Year: 2016
Status: Competition proposal
Collaborators: Thomas Hobbs
Team: Jonas Nordgren, Ted Schauman

How can the new reservoir continue Örebro’s building tradition in relation to the existing water towers? Reservoirs in Örebro have since the pumps at Kyrkogårdsgatan and Våghustorget been characterized by being slender, stately and eye-catching water towers. The Southern Water Tower, the North Water Tower and the iconic “Mushroom” are built in tune with their times and are visual orientation marks in Örebro’s urban fabric.

Which values are important today, what should a modern water reservoir represent and what should it offer its citizens today? The red Waterlily in Örebro county has a local presence in the water landscapes surrounding Örebro city.
Water lilies grow in symbiosis with the water and oat on its surface. The new reservoir, the Waterlily,

builds on the values and identities of Örebros water landscapes. The reservoir and its surrounding ponds introduce a natural public attraction that manifests itself as a tribute to water as a natural resorce. The new destination in Adolfsberg provides Örebro with a recreational forest glade in proximity to the new housing areas of Södra ladugårdsängen and Reträtten.

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Guggenheim Helsinki Museum

Location: Helsinki, Finland
Client: Guggenheim Foundation
Program: Guggenheim Helsinki Museum
Size: 7.500 m2
Year: 2014
Status: Competition proposal
Collaborators: Schauman Arkkitehdit
Team: Jonas Nordgren, Ted Schauman, Ludvig Holtenäs, Simon Sköld, John Philip Edstrand

The “Landforms & Artforms” project builds on the idea of bringing the subtle qualities of the Finnish archipelago into the new Guggenheim museum. The conceptualization of the project is based on studies of the “typologies” of the archipelago and introduces these to the way the museum is experienced and composed.

The typologies range from vegetated rock based islands and underwater reefs, to smaller sand-based atolls with little vegetation and vegetationless skerries and cliffs that penetrate the sea. All of these together contribute to the unique perception of the archipelago, and this project aspires to convey that perception to the visitor of the new Guggenheim museum.

The Guggenheim Helsinki thrives from the Finnish culture as subtle combinations of physical qualities and establishes itself as an open civic cultural node in the very heart of the Finnish capital on a site that is flanked by the city, the park and the sea.

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Lalax Boathouse

Location: Högsar, Nagu, Finland
Client: Private
Program: Boathouse
Size: 35 m2
Year: 2015
Status: Under construction
Collaborators: –
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren

“The Boathouse” project investigates the traditional archipelago boathouse typology and proposes a contemporary, subtle addition to the summerhouse setting on the island of Högsar, in Nagu. The new structure replaces an existing run-down boatshed, but stays within the existing footprint.

The new boathouse functions both as storage for small dinghies, tools and gear during the winter as well as a recreational pavilion for social events during the summer. As in the old shed, the west gable functions as the main service entrance for the boats. On the south facade, two large sliding doors in glass bring in natural light to the interior,

while also introducing an interesting, social connection with the outside. The Boathouse project explores the interplay between the long-established boathouse building typology and the contemporary social aspect of the life in the archipelago. By using traditional building techniques, materials and color palette, the building bridges the gap between the old and the new, the traditional and the contemporary.

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Alvar Aalto Museum Extension

Location: Ruusupuisto, Jyväskylä, Finland
Client: Alvar Aalto Foundation & City of Jyväskylä
Program: Museum extension & shop
Size: 280 m2
Year: 2015
Status: Competition proposal
Collaborators: –
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren, Ludvig Holtenäs

The “Tabernae” project proposes a versatile and flexible connection between the Museum of Central Finland and the Alvar Aalto Museum. The extension does not only become a functional link between the museum and a shared shop, but also a new social heart for the museum – a fantastic space in the green that respects and emphasizes the architecture of the existing buildings. A wide ramp along the western facade of the extension connects the two museums seamlessly together.

The museum shop and its utility spaces are located on the floor below (+85.690), thus creating a light space with a high ceiling towards the lush landscape wedge in the east. The large staircase from the Museum of Central Finland takes the visitor down to the shop area and functions as the new social heart of the building. On the staircase, one can sit and overlook the activity in the shop or gaze at the beautiful landscape through the large glass facade.

The tall ‘tree-like’ columns that support the roof aim at introducing a sense of lightness to the space – as if the wild forest in the west continued through the extension to the eastern side, thus minimizing the impact that the new extension has on the existing landscape. The ‘Green Tabernae’ introduces a subtle, but powerful extension to the two existing museums.

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A.S.Helsingö Handles

Product: Novel, Bagel
Client: A.S. Helsingö, http://helsingo.com/
Type: Kitchen handles
Year: 2016
Status: In production
Collaborators: –
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren

A.S. Helsingö (helsingo.com) was founded on the belief that everyone deserves the joy of a liveable beautiful interiors – with an affordable price tag. By combining the high-quality materials, carefully picked colours and clean-cut details of design doors and handles with IKEA’s cabinet frames, Helsingö can offer kitchens

and wardrobes that has a true design feel. SNA has developed a series of handles for Helsingö that are robust and subtle in their expression. The Boolean handles are conceived from basic geometries and distinct manipulations. By altering basic geometries through a few modest operations the handles perform as tactile and simple,

in materials such as copper and brass. The handles are based on a monolithic cylinder and a rectangular block with a subtracted space to create the handle. Due to its basic appearance it can be used in a vast variety of situations, with fronts of different materials, colors and textures.

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Kauppatori Market Square

Location: Turku, Finland
Client: Private
Program: Urban space
Size: 3 ha
Year: 2014
Status: Commission
Collaborators: Schauman Arkkitehdit
Team: Ted Schauman, Jonas Nordgren, Ludvig Holtenäs

The vision for Kauppatori, “A strong heart – A strong city center” is to connect the square in street level and underground to the surrounding urban spaces and shopping facilities as well as enhance the infrastructural connections to the neighborhoods of Turku. This project proposes four comprehensive strategies to procure a strong public domain in the heart of Turku. The strategies unfold diverse experiences and an attractive urban setting for the citizens and visitors of the city.

Old or young, wealthy or poor, the new heart of Turku will be met as a tangible coherent experience with great urban spaces, both outdoor as well as indoor. By proposing a new underground bus terminal, new and upgraded functions, as well as better pedestrian connections, the citizens will once again have the possibility to regain Kauppatori Market Square as their urban living room. The current well functioning daily market will be framed by street -and city life instead of heavy bus traffic.

Fluent connections to the adjacent city blocks (Forum, Sokos/Wiklund, Kultatalo, Hansakortteli), both underground and at street level, will secure the potential for a successful revitalization of the urban heart of Turku. Kauppatori market square will, with these four strategies, regain the glory of its past and take a big leap towards a successful 21st century Turku.

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Altewai Saome Flagship Store

Location: Malmö, Sweden
Client: Altewai Saome, http://www.altewaisaome.com
Size: 80 m2
Year: 2011
Status: Built
Collaborators: Exakt Snickerier
Team: Jonas Nordgren, Johannes Herbertsson

Altewai Saome – Hidden Treasures. The highly acclaimed fashion house ALTEWAISAOME was founded by Natalia Altewai and Randa Saome in Malmö, Sweden in 2009. The store concept derives from the wish to create a calm space on a busy street. To conceive this notion we discussed the sense of rapture for a particular fashion product and that it sometimes can be

created by more than just the product itself. A visit to the Altewai.Saome concept store could be compared to the fulfillment of when you find an undiscovered glade in the forest. The conceptualization of the store balances the tension between consumer societies hidden treasures found in the urban fabric and the comforting monumentality found in nature. Without taking the focus of the products the structure is woven on site in aeroplane veneer slats that

creates enclosure around the two changing booths and the central placed counter. The woven, wooden structure frames the garments that are displayed along the walls on galvanized steel tubes. The floor have a pale warm tone which together with the wood and galvanized steel creates a gentle backdrop for the different products on display in the Altewai Saome flagship store.

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The Fairytale Grove

Location: Odense, Denmark
Client: Odense Kommune, Realdania, Odense bys museer
Program: Museum, park
Size: 3.700 m2
Year: 2013
Status: Competition propoal
Collaborators: –
Team: Jonas Nordgren, Ted Schauman

Hans Christian Andersen is both a national treasure of Denmark as well as a beloved asset to the global community. His fairytales are widely known both for their mesmerizing qualities as for the interposition of subtle philosophies of life where one sometimes can sense the presence of H.C. Andersen himself as a character within the story. The new House of Fairytales or “ The Fairytale Grove” as we call it, will not only be a museum but a lush green lung where the citizens of Odense will, in their everyday life, obtain a natural relationship to the treasures of H.C Andersen. The Fairytale Grove is part of the local context as well as an iconic destination for far away tourists who want to know the work and person of Hans Christian Andersen on a deeper level.

The visitors who enter the Fairytale Grove will discover that the museum unfolds as a fairytale landscape where the guest intuitively experiences the time, life and art of H.C. Andersen on their own terms, thus experiencing the museum on a personal level just as one experiences a fairytale. Just as his stories the museum offers different kinds of atmospheres; lightness and darkness, colors and textures, narrowness and spaciousness, playfulness and calmness as well as informative and educational environments. The main organizational principle of the Fairytale Grove is to establish a robust and flexible platform where the exhibition areas and the support functions coexist and are interlinked but where they are able to function independently and without disturbing each other.

This robust principle enables the plan to adapt and adjust according to the exact needs of the museum. The museum, bookshop and café will be natural anchor points in Odense’s urban fabric and complement the development plan for Thomas B. Thriges Gade with a lush parkland setting with a classic-like pavilion as the café, gift shop and the flexible exhibition area operate independently but in connection with the other parts of the museum. However, everyday life is always present at the Fairytale Grove making the person play the an important role of the experience. And as Hans Christian Andersen would have put it, “Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!”

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The Urban Slingshot

Location: Kouvola City Centre, Finland
Client: Kouvola City & Kiinteistö Oy Torinreuna
Program: Urban Planning
Size: 25.600 m2
Year: 2015
Status: Competition proposal, Honourable Mention
Collaborators: –
Team: Jonas Nordgren, Ted Schauman, Ludvig Holtenäs

In order to unite the Kouvola Centre-neighbourhoods and cityscape, its various scales, urban spaces and characters we have developed an over all vision that’s based on three different principles. These three principles are founded on the intention to supplement, enhance, and interconnect existing values and characters in the area. We propose to introduce a unifying element as an urban loop,

connecting a multifaceted coherent city experience with a sequence of urban spaces in various scales and characters that stretches between the shopping centre Manski in the Northeast, and the market hall in the southwest. To supplement the loop we propose a recreational green spine that stretches from City Hall to the Pohjola neighbourhood thus flanking the urban loop. The last of the three principles identifies and connects the internal trade functions and squares from the shopping

centre Manski to the Market Hall connecting the area like a string of pearls of attractive urban experiences, both indoor and outdoor. Together, these three principles constitute a robust foundation for the further development of the urban activity, connectivity and commerce in the Kouvola Centre. Thereby transforming the area into a lucid urban experience that supplements the adjacent Manski pedestrian street.

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Mollis Easy Chair

Product: Mollis easy chair
Manufacturer: RVW Furniture, http://rvw.se
Type: Lounge Chair
Year: 2009
Status: In production
Collaborators: –
Team: Jonas Nordgren, Artur Moustafa

The Mollis chair is gentle and pliantly conceived piece of furniture that derives from form studies about a light and ethereal shell with a prosaic and grounded steel base. By creating a gap between the steel frame and the shell the form is accentuated and the profile becomes significant.

However a visually lightweight and pleasingly proportioned chair, Mollis is a low-slung easy chair that revels in simplicity of form. The slender wooden seat is made from molded veneer that curves around the body. The seat pad is made from foam and is upholstered in either fabric or leather.

The molded veneer shell sits upon a double cross steel leg frame that holds the wooden shell gently. All components in the chair is crafted specifically to be visual. There are no backsides; no parts to conceal or hide away. Therefore can the chair stand in a vast variety of spaces without becoming to dominant or to anonymous.


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Totoro Chaise longue

Product: Totoro Chaise longue
Manufacturer: RVW Furniture, http://rvw.se
Type: Chaise longue
Year: 2004
Status: Prototype
Collaborators: Reholz
Team: Jonas Nordgren

The Totoro chaise lounge takes inspiration from Japanese fairytale and provides sanctuary, comfort and a place to replenish ones energies. The chaise lounge is constituted by the crescent shaped wooden outer shell and the inside of the shell is

clad with cushioning for comfort, and is upholstered in fabric or leather and rests upon a double cross steel leg frame. Its asymmetric shape makes it ideal to furnish in large spaces where you want to create a variety of spaces, both more closed as well as open.

The outer shell is made from 3D veneer and is one of the largest products produced in this material. The Totoro deftly achieves a balance between the visually bold and the physically endearing.

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Don’t Touch Vase

Product: Don’t Touch Vase
Manufacturer: RVW Furniture, http://rvw.se
Type: Vase
Year: 2010
Status: In production
Collaborators: –
Team: Jonas Nordgren

Vases are conventionally static and formal objects that we use as ornaments to contain and display flowers or plants. The Don’t touch vase challenges those conventions and present itself as a functional, yet unconventional interior object. The name of the vase is a contradiction and trigger rule bending and discovering new ways to perceive.

The Don’t touch vase is a hand made glass vase that is inspired from the organic forms found in nature and plays with our perception of fragility. Unable to sit up straight, Don’t Touch invites you to play whilst holding a single flower with a sense of fun.

The proportions is studied in revolved plaster in a vast varieties of sizes and forms and developed secure its application. Through the development process during prototyping we also found another application, it’s ideal to decanter red wine and can thereby with advantage be used as a wine carafe.

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Køge Industrial Harbour

Location: Køge, Denmark
Program: Mixed Use
Client: –
Size: 25.600 m2
Year: 2011
Status: Vision proposal
Collaborators: –
Team: Jonas Nordgren, Ted Schauman

In order to create a healthy social development in a growing postindustrial suburb, diversity in both skills and in job opportunities is indispensable. The industrial harbor areas of Køge ought to be developed responsibly and in harmony with the city and the modernization of Køge through the “Køge Kyst” strategic development plan. The North Industrial harbor will play an important role in Køge’s development from a primary industry based economy to knowledge-based economy with creativity as a cornerstone. Currently the Northern Harbour appears as a traditional industrial area, cut off and blocked from the rest of Køge, where the border between leisure and work is strong.

The vision for the Northern Harbor is to create a new urban structure where “positive” and sustainable industries are intertwined with the urban life. The vision is to enhance recreation and culture that can create a sound interaction between private and professional life. The existing industries should not be moved to new areas. Rather, we propose to introduce unexpected synergies between industrial and urban life. Similar to the ones that can be found in particular areas of the Meatpacking district in Copenhagen – and area that remains active and alive throughout the day.

The “Nyhavn” waterfront will be extended and made available to the east along the quay. The Northern Industrial Harbor will be developed in conjunction with the Køge Kyst project and thus complement it with diverse workplaces for the community. From being a cut-off part of Køge’s public life, the Northern Harbor will become an area of diversity, adaptability and flexibility, and it promotes industrial quality over quantity, creative industries and innovation as well as recreative qualities for the public.