Portfolio - Alexander Rullán Rosenlund

Alexander Rullán Rosenlund A selection of projects. 2008 - 2014.

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Table of contents

p. 03 My information

p. 04-05 Installation, Trondheim

p. 00-00 Diploma, Oppdal p. 00-00 Housing, Moursundveita

p. 05-00 Housing in Poble Nou, Barcelona

p. 00-00 Gallery, Trondheim

cover photo: detail of lamp, concrete workshop,NTNU, 2011 back photo: detail of pavillon, 1:1 wood workshop, NTNU, 2009

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Alexander Rullán Rosenlund

born 28.05.1986in Bergen, Norway

+47 [email protected]

www.alexanderrullan.com

Education:2008 - 2014: Master of Architecture, NTNU, Trondheim2011 - 2012: Exchange student at ETSAB, UPC, Barcelona2007 - 2008: Studied art history at NTNU, Trondheim2006 - 2007: Studied economics at NHH, Bergen2005 - 2006: Borderguard at Norwegian-Russian border, Gjøkåsen Grensestasjon, GSV2005: Graduated from High School, Fana Gymnas, Bergen

Work2014: Architect at TAKTIL arkitekter as, Oslo 2013: Intern at Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, Barcelona2010: Intern at Garcia-Ruiz Arquitectos, Palma De Mallorca2009-2011: Teaching assistant for Arcitecture 1-3 at NTNU, Trondheim2007-2008: Receptionist at Radisson SAS Royal Garden Hotel, Trondheim2007: Graphic designer at NHH Symposiet, Bergen2007 : Baggage handler at SGS, Bergen Airport2006-2008 : Translator (Danish -> Norwegian) for Kompan

Computer proficiency

...... AutoCAD

...... SketchUp

...... InDesign

...... Illustrator

...... Photoshop

...... ArchiCAD

...... Revit

...... Rhino

Languages

...... Norwegian

...... English

...... Spanish

...... Catalan

...... French

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Installation, Trondheim(2013)

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course:Art & common space, NTNU

professors:Anne-Karin FurunesSimon HarveyMaaretta Jaukkuri

with:Astri M. DalseideLinda Emdal

Thov Sanden

In the fall of 2012, I attended a course at the art academy in Trondheim. The theme of the course was “situations of the everyday”. We had several small workshops during the semester, exploring the theme of the everyday. For our final exhibition we wanted to create someting that would create a unexpected experience in the everyday of people in trondheim. The result was the short exhibition “Drifting in the shadows, searching for the light”, 12 large jellyfish, made of bubble wrap, chicken wire and four metre plastic sheets. They were displayed on two different sites in rondheim.

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11:59 - 12:00 - 12:01(2014)

course:Diploma, NTNU

tutor:Markus Schwai

with:

Bjørn Inge Melås

For our masters thesis at NTNU, we wanted to work with food and how it could influence how we live. The title comes from a lecture by physics professor Al Bartlett where he explains the exponential function and how it relates to energy and population growth. Like the title, the diploma is divided into three parts. In 11:59 we explore the status quo with regards to food production and resource use. 12:00 is a possible future where a crisis is forcing people to transform the way they live. 12:01 is the stable aftermath where society has learned from previous errors and transitioned into a different structure. This is our utopia. As the backdrop of this scenario we used the region Trøndelag and the mountain village of Oppdal.

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11:59 Today

In the time before we started the diploma work, we became more aware of the negative impact our current way of doing things has on a large part of the worlds population, the natural environment and our own quality of life. One topic that always came up in discussions, was food.We eventually chose to work with food as the main theme of the diploma.11:59 contains some of the research that we did before and during the diploma work and tries to connect the way we consume and eat food to the way we organize our society.

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World resource use

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Food consumption and production

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12:00The crisis

In the previous part of the diploma, we argued that our society is in desperate need of change. In discussing how that change could come about, we pessimistically (or realistically) concluded that change would not come unless it had to. All graphs are pointing in the wrong direction, and we wanted to imagine what our part of the world would be like when we finally are forced to realize that. This part of the diploma explains why we chose to set a crisis as the main catalyst in our scenario, and sets the stage for the final part of our work.

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Possible future scenarios

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Possible future scenarios continued

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Section of Trøndelag just before the crisis

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The crisis illustrated

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The crisis told as a story

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12:01 Utopia

The result of our previous storytelling was the utopian 12:01. Here we describe, with the use some of the tools that we have used throughout our studies (and some new tools), a society wich has solved many of the problems that we pointed out earlier. We present this future with an emphasis on food production and how it influences the way they live. It is not, and was never supposed to be, a plan or a literal solution to the problems of today. We wanted to create something vivid, that could show people a different vision of the future and create a base for further discussion about the choices we make today.

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Section of a utopian Trøndelag

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Food production at different scales:

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Plan of central Oppdal at12:01

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Transformation of the agriculture

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Clustering

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A reclaimed farm

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Street sections of the outer central area

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“Melkerampa” - A kind of node

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“Melkerampa” in a different setting

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Social networks

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Central Oppdal

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Street sections of central Oppdal

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Golf course transformed into recreational producive spaces

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Gallery, Trondheim(2010)

course:ark 2, NTNU

professor:

fredrik lund

For the final exam of the first year, our task was to design a temporary gallery for the faculty of architecture and fine arts. It had to have a toilet, a small storage space and exhibition space for about twenty works.The site is a empty space near the school that is currently used as a parking lot. As the site does not have any clear entrance, I chose to make a building that is accessible from all directions. It consists of five identical tubes intersecting each other. It has an exposed steel structure, with massive wooden elements in the floor, roof and walls.

As it is a temporary gallery, I chose to leave the site mostly untreated. The entire structure is also lifted slightly off the ground, with the supports hidden away towards the centre of the gallery. This creates the illusion that the gallery is floating temporarily on the site.Every wall, both inside and outside, can be used for exhibitions. The larger open area in the centre, can be used for small gatherings when exhibitions open etc. This space mainly gets its light from the uncovered rooflight in the centre.

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Housing in Poble Nou, Barcelona(2013)

course:Projectes V, ETSAB

professors:Josep Ferrando

with:Henrik Flåte Poulsson

Christian Westberg

The site for the second semester housing project in Barcelona is located in the old industrial area of Poble Nou. This area is currently going trough a large transformation with the goal of becoming the media and technology centre of Barcelona. Even though the area has the same Cerdà-grid-layout as most of Barcelona, the remains of its industrial past is still visible. The old buildings of Poble Nou is oriented towards the old main road, Pere IV, that intersects our site and the square blocks are more fragmented than the ones in Eixample. The fragmentation, the industrial past and the colliding of old and new grids, is the basis of our concept. Our site contains some newer buildings that we kept and some old derelict garages and houses that needs to be demolished to make room for our proposal. We explored the concept of vertical living, where each unit has four floors with a garden roof terrace and possibilities of a small commercial space at the ground floor. Stairs, toilets and kitchen are located in the brick walls that also acts as a column to support the hanging cubes witch contain the living areas. The change in direction of the cubes creates small semi-public plazas that also provides the neccesary air and light for the dense structure.

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The site.

Northeast of the city center in Barcelona, you have Poble Nou, a part of the city that never really adapted fully to the Cerdá-plan. It has an interesting mix between newer housing blocks trying to fit the Cerdá grid, and traces of the industrial past oriented toward the old main road going north, Pere Quart, which still cuts trough the grid.

Exististing conditionsThe intersecting small road and the old industrial buildings does still create its own grid on the site.

ConceptThe basic concept of the plan is that we separate roughly the spaces in the building into two groups; “communication-spaces” and “living-spaces” and assign one grid to each group.

New gridThis creates a grid which mimics the organic “chaos” that exist around the site today while still being interpreted as a whole building.

Adapted to the situationWhen this grid is applied to the existing site conditions, different, new public and semi-public spaces are created in the intersection between the old and the new.

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Housing in Moursundveita(2012)

what:Competition entry, 120 Hours

with:Per Bersvendsen Bjørn Inge Melås

The assignment for the student competition 120 Hours was to explore the possibilities of utilizing an unconventional plot to relieve the pressure on the housing market, especially for students and other newcomers to the market. The site was the narrow courtyard of an office building in the centre of Trondheim.

We made a dream house for the migratory student.

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view more of my work at: www.alexanderrullan.com