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Elsa SjögrenHandledare/ Peter Lynch & Elizabeth HatzSupervisor

Examinator/ Per FransonExaminer

Examensarbete inom arkitektur, avancerad nivå 30 hpDegree Project in Architecture, Second Level 30 credits

12 januari 2018

”Mellanrum””Interstitial Space”

Mellanrum Interstitial Space Elsa Sjögren Studio 7 Supervisors: Peter Lynch, Elizabeth Hatz 2

Mellanrum Interstitial space

In certain types of complex historical buildings an in-between space is often present. This space is a consequence of something more important such as another room, a necessary movement or the thickness of the wall. This thesis aims to investigate this kind of space, mellanrum, on an interior and an urban scale. Mellanrum means interstitial space in Swedish, but more directly translated mellan means in between and rum means room, this can both mean a room in between something else or something in between rooms. It is a slightly mysterious word and so are these rooms.

Mellanrum is investigated through three case studies Stockholm slott, Rosersbergs slott and Gripsholms slott, the rooms are documented in plan and with a portrait. On an urban scale mellanrum is explored on the small island Riddarholmen in the historical parts of Stockholm, mainly in model.

The main questions this thesis poses are thus:- Can mellanrum, be a form giver?- What is it about mellanrum that makes it special?- Can one create a method to achieve something that holds the poetry of the unexpected and unplanned?

To create new mellanrum the project concludes in the design of a small juridical library on Riddarholmen. Most of the old palaces on Riddarholmen are owned by the Swedish state and are housing parts of the juridical system, mainly courts, the courts needs more space and a way to achieve this is to bring all the existing libraries (five in total) in to one common library.

The method used when designing the library has been to intuitively use the knowledge gained in the research of the case studies. In the case studies, different parameters generated mellanrum but in the design of the library the process has been somewhat reversed, mellanrum has generated the architecture. Mellanrum is about using the unnecessary and seeing the possibilities it possesses, it is a balancing act between order and chaos and about allowing the weird to exist.


Case Study Stockholm Slott

Stockholm slott was designed by Tessin in a quite rigid structure with double height floors facing the city and two floors facing the courtyard, the grand stairs and the smaller ones connecting it all. Mellanrum in Stockholm slott seems to have emerged were this structure was insufficient and over time. The stairs moving in the walls from one floor to another, the passage behind the grand bedroom making it possible to move through the building without passing the primary room and the broken arch passage where the symmetry is broken to get from one room to another.

Behind the Bedroom

Layered Meander Room

Stairs Interacting

Broken Arch Passage

Plan 1:200

Plan 1:200

Plan 1:200

Plan 1:200


Case Study Rosersbergs Slott

Rosersbergs slott is just outside Stockholm. The castle dates back to the 17th century but has been redone and added on over time. Mellanrum in Roserberg are almost made as a stage set with hidden doors, a passage through pillar and hidden stairs taking you unseen from one place to the other. In these rooms little has been done to match the façade thus giving very small rooms very large windows and so on. The rooms are often a negative of the space on the other side.

Double Height Narrow Stair

Hidden Window and Jib Door

Concave and Convex Corner

Moving Through Pillar

Plan 1:200

Plan 1:200

Plan 1:200

Plan 1:200


Case Study Gripsholms Slott

Gripsholms slott was built as a fortress by Gustav Vasa and was completed in 1545 but with some older parts. After Gustav Vasa the castle has been redone and added on in different stages. As the castle was built as a fortress there are towers and the shape is very irregular. Mellanrum in Gripsholm are a consequence of the angles coming together and the wish to make rooms as orthogonal as possible. Another important part of Gripsholm is the construction with a brick cavity wall making the walls very thick and also giving a possibility to hollow the wall in some places, creating stairs, niches, passages etc.

Tower Wall Stair

Intersection of Added Volumes

Inhabiting the Wall

Lorgnetter, Behind the Roof

Plan 1:400

Plan 1:200

Plan 1:200

Plan 1:200


Site Riddarholmen

Riddarholmen is located in the middle of Stockholm and is part of the historical city. The palaces, mostly from the 17th century, are relating to the water rather than the city thus creating urban mellanrum in-between them, not unlike the mellanrum within the case studies. To investigate mellanrum on the urban scale in Riddarholmen models in scale 1:200 were made of the urban rooms there.

The site is down by the water, where there seems to be a cut in the relationship between mellanrum and buildings. There is a piece of rock sticking out and a strange little tower is connecting the buildings.

Urban mellanrum Riddarholmen, models 1:200

Riddarholmen, Stockholm Site, Riddarholmen Rooms Riddarholmen Urban space towards the water, Riddarholmen Interior urban space, Riddarholmen Analysis site


Norstedts hus1773, 1857-58, 1882-89, 1891Publishing house and officesOnly house on Riddarholmen not owned by the state.

Schering Rosenhanes Palats1650 Palace1697 Royal Registry and National Archives1778 The Swedish Order of FreemasonsSvea Hovrätt (Svea Court of Appeal)

Överkommisariens hus1750 Private recidence1850 Topfloor added1885-1930 State archive and libraryJustitiekanslerns kontor(The Chancellor of Justice office)

Gamla Riksarkivet1888 National ArchivesOffices and events

Birger Jarls torn1530 Fortified towerAdded on several timesJustitiekanslerns kontor(The Chancellor of Justice office)

Stenbockska palatset1640 Palace1772 Bought by the Crown1754 Svea Hovrätt (Svea Court of Appeal)

Gamla auktionsverket1770 Generalassistence office (pantlånekontor)3 connected buildings1750, Current apperance 1860.1754 Svea Hovrätt (Svea Court of Appeal)

Hessensteinska huset1630 Palace1835 (Governement agencies)1980 Svea hovrätt (Svea Court of Appeal)

Wrangelska palatset1530 Fortified towerEarlie 17th century palace1697-1754 Royal Palace1754 Svea Hovrätt (Svea Court of Appeal)

Riddarholmskyrkan1280 with several additions throughout history, church and burial church of the Swedish monarchs.Museum

Kammarrättenshus1805 Kammarrätten i Stockholm Högsta Förvaltningsdomstolen(Supreme Administrative Court)

Sparrerska palatset1630 Palace1763 Birth center1776 Swedish navyHögsta Förvaltningsdomstolen(Supreme Administrative Court)

GymnasiehusenMainy early 17th century, parts medivealMeeting house, school, residenceMarknadsdomstolen(Market court)

Library in the building

Gamla Riksdagshuset1670 Palace 1860 Parliament building 1905 Government agenciesKammarrätten i Stockholm(Administrative courts of appeal)

Hebbeska huset1630 Palace1865 Ständernas husKammarrätten i Stockholm(Administrative courts of appeal)

Gamla RiksdagshusetKammarrätten libarary

Books running metres of shelves/surface m²large library room 575,5m/165m²reference room 92m/18m²compactus 197m/13m²(depository)

Additional space surface m²unpacking/workspace 5m²office 11m²

Furniture and functionsseating 4 armchairstables with chairs 4 chairs 1 tableborrowing computer 1search computer 1return trolley 1shelf for magazinesshelf for newly purchased books

Wrangelska PalatsetSvea Hovrätt library

Books running metres of shelves/surface m²total 670m/200m² dividided in 1 large and 3 small rooms)compactus 200/12m²

Additional space surface m²magazine room 25m²office part of the library room

Furniture and functionstables with chairs 11 chairs 3 tablesarmchairs randomly placed 2borrowing computer 1search computer 1return trolley 1printer

Gamla auktionsverketMark- och miljööverdomstolen library

Books running metres of shelves/surface m²268m/80m²

GymnasiehusenPatent- och marknadsöverdomstolen library

Books running metres of shelves/surface m²100m

Kammarrättens husHögsta förvaltningsdomstolen library

Books running metres of shelves/surface m²large library room 506m/255m²large library room 246m/70m²compactus 220m/15m²(compact depository 620m)

Additional space surface m²Reading room/magazine room 25m²2x office 7+7m²

Furniture and functionstables with chairs 4 chairs 1 tablearmchairs randomly placed 10borrowing computer 1search computer 1return trolley 1recyclingprinter

Court Library RiddarholmenProgram

main entrance

deliveries

entrance

entrance

entrance

670m/

670m

Högsta Förvaltningsdomstolen750m

Lecture room

2 restrooms

5 restrooms

Archivecompactus

unpacking/workspace 15m²

with desk

cloak room

kitchen and break room20m²

8m²

8m²

8m²

8m²

8m²

Mark- och miljööverdomstolen268m

magazine room 30m²

6 work/read spaces

6 work/read spaces

6 work/read spaces

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Patent- och marknadsöverdomstolen100m

Program Courts Library

Most of the buildings on Riddarholmen are owned by the Swedish state and are housing courts and other parts of the juridical system. The courts needs more space but extensions to the old palaces are, for different reasons, hard to do. All the courts have their own library and a way to free space from the palaces could be to move them all to one common library.


Process Models

Some of the mellanrum found in the case studies were built as models in scale 1:50. The thickness of the walls were taken away as a way of reimagining what the primary rooms shaping them are.

Mellanrum model Rosersbergs slott Mellanrum model Stockholms slott Mellanrum model Gripsholms slott


Process Models

Further on models of the found mellanrum were put together in new arrangements creating mellanrum between mellanrum. Findings in these new models were collected in photos. The most interesting things being the relationship between the small and the large, the connections between them and how the light gives them very different characteristics, the unexpected and the layering and also a beginning to create some kind of facades. In this part of the process an architecture generated by mellanrum is starting to emerge.

Mellanrum in-between mellanrum Rosersbergs slott

Mellanrum in-between mellanrum Stockholms slott

Mellanrum in-between mellanrum Gripsholms slott


Fold out waterfront facade 1:500

Library

The library is facing the water towards south west, the facade is strict relating to the existing buildings but with deviations made, translating the mellanrum within to the facade. A small parc is added east of the building, facing south.

Site model


Siteplan 1:1000

waterfront facade

waterfront facade

waterfront facade

Site plan 1:800

Mellanrum Interstitial Space Elsa Sjögren Studio 7 Supervisors: Peter Lynch, Elizabeth Hatz 122nd Floor

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Mellanrum Interstitial Space Elsa Sjögren Studio 7 Supervisors: Peter Lynch, Elizabeth Hatz 133rd Floor

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Mellanrum Interstitial Space Elsa Sjögren Studio 7 Supervisors: Peter Lynch, Elizabeth Hatz 145th Floor

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Section a-a 1:200 Facade East 1:200


Library to the right, creating new urban mellanrum Library to the left, framing the existing Facade detail facing south west


Facade west 1:200Facade north 1:200


Section c-c 1:200Section b-b 1:200


3rd floor library interior, model photo 3rd floor library interior, model photo2nd floor lecture hall interior, model photo


1st floor main stair dividing in two, model photo3rd floor library interior, model photo 3rd floor library interior, model photo

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