I could give you a long rant on why they look the way they look, but if I’ve done my job right I don’t have to.

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One of the first spaces that tourist see when arriving with the buss from the various airports of Milan is Piazza Luigi Di Savoia. In this very now, the Piazza is not something that represents the beauty and cultural level of Milan. By creating a stage that is just as beautiful in use as out of use, it creates a space that literally reflects the true beauty of the city.

Some spaces are not to be taken for granted. Some spaces you have to work hard to enjoy the pleasure of interacting with. This space, even though located under the island I’lle Seguin in central Pars, is designed to be one of these spaces. No true reward comes easily. During the day the light will shine into the cave through the openings above, during the evening the light will shine from below, showing the landscape and life underneath the surface.

A little get-away house overviewing the Norwegian shore.  With the aim of designing a luxurious, but yet simple, home that can be accessed from both land and water, this home can been seen from a far. With a heavy inner core made of black concrete and an outer structure of unpainted wooden slats, the structure changes depending on the proximity of the beholder. Time will change the wooden structure as a boat stranded on the shore, and turn it into a silver shell only displaying a few glimpse of what hiding beneath.

When posed with the challenge of creating a piece of furniture from one pieces of MDF, my goal was not just to create a chair, or a table, or something ordinary. My goal was to create something that had never been seen, or even thought of before. My goal was to create something extraordinary.

And Yes, I met both the criteria set for the challenge, and the criteria I had set for myself. And Yes, it is comfortable. And Yes, it is a chair, an extraordinary chair.

How many levels is there to restraint when you don’t have the papers displaying you heritage or that you really exist? You have no right to medical care, you have no right to education and you have right to leave the country you are in. Those are the most obvious restraints, but what about the ones that are not so obvious? What about your mental restrains, after seeing what you’ve seen, after struggeing to get where you are now? Hopefully it is safer, but you are not really safe until someone somewhere have filled out your papers, telling the word you really exist, first then are you getting closer to being truly free.

Moving over the surface as unforgivable, but still as brief as a wave you can find this light, but still stable structure overlooking the Danish shoreline. The context for this project was a gathering place next to the ocean. The rules for the project were simple: Make something you can sit on out of white concrete. The rules set by myself were even simpler: Design something light, something gracious, something clean.