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Longing

P O S T´s essay is emerging.
The first assignment you get as an architecture student at Chalmers School of Architecture is to answer the question "What is architecture to you?" After four years in architecture school we are now facing our last assignment and ask ourselves the same question again "What is architecture to us?"

With this question as a starting point we sat down and had a first discussion about master thesis subject and content. We discussed our view and perception of architecture, the structure of the education and previous projects that we had done on our own or together at Chalmers.
We also talked about what fascinates us, not only in architecture but also in music, arts, phenomenon, books etc. To the discussion both of us brought pictures to illustrate what move us in those topics. It appeared that in some cases we had brought the same pictures and in all the pictures we had brought, there was a common thread. All objects in the pictures had the same feeling and emotion. At first we found it difficult to describe what this could be. But the more we talked about it the more visible a common thread became. The images expressed a longing. A longing to get away and a longing for the origin.

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rain vs fire

P O S T today planned a fire workshop to investigate how logs burn. We wanted to investigate the time it takes for a log to burn out. We also wanted to explore the other qualities of firewood. The sound, the smell, the warmth and the visual impact that a fire can give. But the rain stopped us. To be continued.

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5 meter upp i luften

P O S T have now bought tickets to Kiruna.

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Slipping through my fingers workshop

P O S T wanted to explore and work with a ephemeral material to see how a material like this preform and react. During short glints of time beautiful space and landscapes appeared before they sagged down and dropped away. We found that in this material it was easy to create emotional and sensual spaces. The material could also be cut into more stringent forms.

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Icehotel Jukkasjärvi

P O S T now have a location for the pavilion. It will be placed at the Swedish Icehotel in Jukkasjärvi in the north of Sweden. The pavilion will be built by us in the beginning of January 2011. It will be cold and dark but truly beautiful and we are very glad and thankful that the Icehotel crew want to be a part of our project.

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Ephemeral mystique

P O S T have wandered around and studied transient and ephemeral phenomena in nature. This is some of the things we found and we are overwhelmed how beautiful nature can project it self in both structure and form creating space and architectonic qualities. Like the mist on a lake, the form a stone dropped in water creates, a sand dune shaped by water and wind and the structure of foam in a creek.

As we have already discussed we are truly fascinated about ephemeral architecture. The building is living in the moment and you get a sense of presence. You also appreciate it more because you know it soon will be gone.

Ephemeral buildings live on in your memory. Memories tend to be distorted and are constantly changing. The memory of the same building will look different in different peoples minds. The same memory also changes over time. This make the feeling and the experience of an ephemeral building ever changing. It´s your mind and your imagination that keep the buildings alive creating a mystique in this type of architecture.