TRANSFIGURATION

Navn
Grima Thordardottir
Uddannelsesgrad
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Arkitektur
Institut
Bygningskunst, By og Landskab
Program
Arkitektur, Rum og Tid
År
2021

Off the south coast of Iceland, lies the volcanic island of Heimaey. Its surroundings result in a very unstable access to and from the island. This project aims to research how to create a shelter in the everchanging environment on the island. A place that can provide the flux of demands with a common refuge. Home for both the permanent, the temporary as well as the in-between.

The journey
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Mapping
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Cartographic documentation showing how the unity of our environment. How the physical nature and the intangible forces co-exist in a constant dialog between the fluid and the rigid. How we are affected by layers we cannot see that give shape to our existence.

Conversion
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Exploring the possibility of converting the information gathered from previous conceptual studies to structural sketches. How do you build something structural, inspired by the intangible forces and it's fluctuating properties, and give it a static, architectural character

Site development
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Stratification of constructive elements on site and purpose of its spatial components

Sanctuary for predictable and unpredictable incidents
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In case of cultural-, ceremonial-, informative-, recreative- and acute events. A collective shelter for the islands various predictable and unpredictable events.

Informative and multifunctional landscape
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The natural - and the built environment merge as an extension of one another. Where the landscape seeks to inform and create shelter.

Det Kongelige Akademi understøtter FN’s verdensmål

Siden 2017 har Det Kongelige Akademi arbejdet med FN’s verdensmål. Det afspejler sig i forskning, undervisning og afgangsprojekter. Dette projekt har forholdt sig til følgende FN-mål
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Konkurrencer, publikationer og priser

Rector Awards - Project of the Year at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.

Student competition : Pavilion design for courtyard of Ceresne building by Architekti Seco Lichy , Bratislava, Slovakia, 2016

Uddannelse og relevante kurser
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Bachelor of Arts, Iceland University of the Arts, Architecture

General focus on the built environment, with respectfulness towards nature, sustainability and history.

Bachelor of Arts, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Studio 3

Exchange semester within my BA degree from Iceland Academy of Arts.
The studio I attended, Studio 3, focuses on computational technologies.
Andre aktiviteter

KUKA robotic arm workshop

Attended at the Technical University of Bratislava, Slovakia.

Íslenski Bærinn

Restoration and construction of turfhouses in Iceland.

Gone with the Wind - Architecture of erosion

Workshop revolving around how erosion effects our environment and how it can be manipulated into design. Taken at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
Erhvervserfaring
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Herzog & de Meuron, trainee

My three main projects during my year and a half as a trainee with HdM were: The National Library of Israel, The New North Zealand Hospital - Hillerød and an unpublished residential tower project on Manhattan, NY. I also assisted shortly with the competition for a commercial tower in Manhattan as well as with an office building within the AstraZeneca campus in Cambridge, UK. Within these project I worked on everything from details, millwork, design options and visualization.
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Kanon Arkitektar, intern

Tasks varied from apartment buildings, student housings for HR in Iceland, proposals for master plans in Akranes - Iceland, regulation drawings and competitions.

IT-kompetencer
Rhinoceros 3D
Photoshop
Illustrator
V-ray rendering
InDesign
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Sprog
Icelandic - native language
English
Danish