Urbanism and Societal Change

“Gone with the Cloud” explores the spatial, social, and environmental implications of the data centre as an architectural typology, abstracted as “the Cloud” and often perceived as invisible infrastructure, by breaking open the hermetic box and investigating new modes of co-habitation and its life after obsolescence. The project reimagines hyperscale data centres as context-responsive infrastructures that co-locate data storage with agricultural and ecological systems, reusing waste heat and natural site conditions to support research, public engagement, and more sustainable post-data box futures. 2024 Diploma, Laura Polmane

“On Civic Grounds” considers social capital as a bearing parameter for urban development by mobilizing civil society actors in the creation of hybrid spaces. This is explored in the architectural transformation of an asphalt plant in Herlev. Diploma 2021, Daniel Rea Kragskov

USC studio space, Spring 2025

“Magic of the Real” is designed with time rather
than only form. It tests how the deconstruction of architecture can have as much importance as its assembly. The project is tested in an existing site of Copenhagen - responding to the current tendency of tabula-rasa development, contemporary building methods, and permanence of construction in a rapidly changing society. Diploma 2020, Lauge Floris Larsen

“Imagining the future of Lesjöfors” aims to investigate the
future of the bruksort (industrial town) typology in Sweden by challenging the prevailing focus on growth in the Swedish municipal planning system. Diploma 2024, Astrid Broqvist

Sympoietic Landscapes are co-created by humans and the
more-than-human. As humans are becoming continuously estranged to nature and the production landscapes we depend on, a need for establishing new multi-species relations have become ever more important. This project questions the role of the architect in planning of our production landscapes and facilitating a place where we can land together. Diploma 2022, Jakob Malte Miland-Samuelsen

‘Municipal Planning Strategy Supplements’ (temporary re-use/retail strategies) proposes an alternate strategy for the city's increasingly vacant ground floor in an age of online-shopping. Candidate Studio 2017, Archie Cantwell and Tamara Kalantejevska