Maria Holst - Portfolio

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Maria Holst, BA. Arch.

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture

Selected works from 2012-2015

Tranquility in the City // Yoga Center

Connections // Workspace for Artists and Scientists

A Spatial Cairn // Shelter

Suburban Street Life // Housing Project

An Architecture for Funeral Ceremonies and Urban Contemplation // Bachelor Project

The Perception of Context // Column and Logbook

STÅHEJ // Series of Concerts

Gabriel - “Ithaca” // Scenography for Music Video

Copenhell Festival// Installation and resting spot

Daylight Kinetics // Daylight Installation

Reflections // Glass Experiments

3rd semester - Fall 2013

1st semester - Fall 2012


4th semester - Spring 2014


5th semester - Fall 2014

Involvement oustide studies - 2014

Claus Pryds, MAA Architect and teacher at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Jan Samuelsen, project Manager and founder of cultural production studio; Indgreb

Jazzpianist Niels Lan Doky

Rune Bech, CEO and co-founder of Jazzhouse Montmartre

Involvement oustide studies - November 2013

Involvement oustide studies - June 2014



Site: Copenhagen, Denmark

Site: Fictive

Site: Hardangervidda, Norway

Site: Lyngby, Denmark

Site: Copenhagen, Denmark

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MUSIC AND SPACE

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Education

Personal Data

Computer Programs

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE OTHER INVOLVEMENTS

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Study Trips

B.Arch. at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine ArtsInstitute of Architecture and Culture Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and LandscapeFall 2012 - Spring 2015

Name: Maria Holst Age: 1991/10/26 Nationality: Danish Residence: Copnehagen Phone: + 45 21 44 34 43 E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign Rhino 3D Google SketchUp3D Studio Max/V-RayAutoCadAutodesk Revit

Danish - first languageEnglish - fluent written and spokenFrench - moderate German - little, motivated for improvement

2014: Japan, Venice - Italy, Karlskrona -Sweden2013: Portugal, Spain

Aurehøj Gymnasium STX-diploma Grade point average: A

Vallekilde Folk High School Performance DesignSpring 2011

STÅHEJ

HOW Planning

Indgreb

Music From Around - WOMEX

Management and booking assistant for Niels Lan Doky

Venue Management

The New Framework of Live Music

City Link Conference Hamburg

Music Videos for Bottled in England and Gabriel

Graphic Design - Scientific Report

Co-founder and project leader

Visualizations

Project manager

Production assistant, event- and tour management

Doky is a well acclaimed jazzpianist

Concert productions

Panellist on behalf of Ståhej

Exchange of culture and urban life between cities

Assistant producer and scenographer

The Drug Related Death in Denmark Study University of OsloConcerts at urban, unorthodox sites

Architecture Studio

Various cultural productions

International World Music festival

National and international booking and management

Venues: Rust, Stengade & Jazzhus Montmartre

January 2014 - December 2014

Freelance since December 2014

March 2012 - December 2014

January 2014 - December 2014

December 2010 - September 2011

May 2010 - September 2011

February 2015

September 2014

January 2012 and November 2013

October 2014

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Through all time and across cultures man has used special and import spaces for ceremonies that mark life’s big events. Meaningful spaces that provides a significant frame the ceremonies and rituals that marks the transition between life stages. This project focus on the transition between life and death that takes place at a funeral, and how this ceremony creates a link between the past, present and future. In an increasing multicultural and secular society we need an alternative to the church and other religious spaces whereby this project aims to create a meaningful setting for the last goodbye regardless of faith or beliefs - religious or non-religious.

The project is placed in a post-industrial area in Copenhagen harbour and contains three pavillons each focusing on a different phase of the parting and sorrow; a house for the funeral ceremony, a house for the social interactions accompanying a funeral and finally a berth from where you sail out and scatter the ashes in the ocean. Finally the project contains an establishment of a green pocket in the post-industrial area that creates contemplative urban space near Copenhagen Harbour, where people can return to commemorate their deceased or simply find peace in the hectic city without necessary connection to the deceased or any ceremonies.

An Architecture for Funeral Ceremonies and Urban Contemplation // Bachelor Project


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Site plan showing the house for ceremonies, the house for gatherings and the small quay

Ceremony

Gathering

Berth

The long perspective to the open sea

The green axis towards the old citadel

The urban view and where the harbour starts to narrow

Arrival at the site with “The House for Ceremonies” in the front and “The House for Gatherings” in the background


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House for Ceremonies creates a peaceful and solemn space for people to show their respect at the funeral. The circular ceremony room creates a democratic connection between the deceased and the mourners.

The House for Gaterings has a more extroverted appearance and opens towards square from where you see the city and the towers of Copenhagen.

The small berth is placed on the corner of the site oriented towards the larger sea, where a corten steel shelter creates a protected and private outdoor space from where you sail out and scatter the ashes.

Model photos of House for Ceremonies

Model photos of House for Gatherings and the berth

Detail section and elevation showing how the corten steel detaches from the insulated concrete

West elevation of House for Ceremonies


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Vizualisation of the Ceremony Room showing the indirect, diffuse daylight

Over the past few decades the constitution of family has changed, bringing with it new family pat-terns: from single parents and weekend children to step-parents and siblings forming the modern family unit. The idea of a family as a rather static and closed institution has gradually changed into a more flexible organism, where the number of residents in a family home expands and diminishes on a weekly basis. The aim of the project is to develop the architectural framework for the family patterns of today, where the physical surroundings can easily adjust to the current family status. Whether you are few or many, the house should never appear to be empty. The residents, however, should always maintain the option to participate or withdraw from the social context in the house or within the surrounding neighborhood.

Each house faces a social pedestrian street, while opening up in the back to a more natural and open space. The porch on the front of all the houses supports the idea of a social environment in the street, a place where you can sit and meet your neighbors on their way to work or school. The ground floor of the house continues this social aspect with the kitchen in connection to the street. The first floor holds smaller rooms and niches for a more private and contemplative space, although these too can be transformed into one open space.

Suburban Street Life // Housing Project


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Elevation from the street

Section through the site

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The contrast between the social ground floor and more contemplative first floor

Section through street

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Plan - Ground floor

Plan - First floor

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As the complexity of everyday life grows the need to compensate with an hour of zen and harmony becomes more necessary. The tension between the hectic city and the personal rest, which should take place in a yoga center, is the basis for this project. The yoga center appears as a solitary object, detached from the packed typical Copenhagen block, with planted walls as a green backdrop. The building is situated at the far end of the site, away from the street, supporting the existing void.

The focus of the project is a special support for the transition from the extroverted to the introvert-ed state of mind. The overall architectural context is deliberately a very simple and clear design, as a counterweight to the overwhelming stimuli encountered in daily urban life. The simple design is further supported by the simplification of the visitor’s lookout, which opens into the two-dimensional surfaces in the form of the green wall and the sky. The viewer is deprived of depth and perspective to support focus within the mind and concentration on the inside.

Tranquility in the City // Yoga Center


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In an exercise in cooperation and composition, four individual projects have become one. The diagonal building facilitates a workspace for a performance artist, a photographer, a structural en-gineer and a meteorologist. When you move through the building you pass each artist or scientist within his or her universes with the purpose of creating a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment. Each workspace has a very distinct spatial flow and way of elevating you from the ground. You begin below ground level and then rise in different ways up to the meteorologist, where your own movement is replaced with the movement of orange pennants in the wind. The sculptural building is intended to be built with concrete and located on a high plateau on an overgrown slope.

Connections // Workspace for Artists and Scientists


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The shelter is located at a moor called Hardangervidda in Norway and is designed with a primary focus on the summer time, where you experience the midnight sun. In the daytime the tempera-tures are around 15 degrees, but at night it drops to freezing temperatures, so you to need a pro-tective shelter. The project deals with the conflict between keeping the space warm at night and still maintaining access to the beautiful view by day, so by day you push out the red Plexiglas box and by night you pull it back into the “stone” garage. The appearance of the shelter is inspired by the cairns, where man sets his mark on nature. The shelter should not try to be invisible or hide because it would never succeed in this, but should instead be a small landmark in the large moor. When people are staying in the shelter you will either see the red box over the creek or a red light from inside of the cairn.

A Spatial Cairn // Shelter


The shelter by day

The shelter by night

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The column is based on thematics from fieldtrips to the naval cities of Karlskrona in Sweden, Hol-men in Copenhagen and Venice in Italy, all processed in a logbook through drawings, photos and writing. The column deals with how an object can support the more tranquil stories of its surround-ings and identify its context’s inherent narrative.

The column consists of a welded steel wireframe shaped as a result by the context created by my four neighbor columns and their stories which I have subjectively distilled and intertwined into one frame. Selected areas of the column are accentuated by establishing surfaces made of sewing thread, inspired by a ship’s sail and how it is undeniably shaped by the wind, but still affected by a subject. The column’s main material is absence defined by the steel wireframe and the surfaces of sewing thread.

The Perception of Context // Column and Logbook

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Height 180 cm


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Understanding Karlskrona through diagramtic sketches of the city structure in plan and section


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Pages from logbook


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Our bodies are designed to live in the constantly changing daylight, something that is essential to our well being and shapes the world around us. The project is inspired by the diffuse, varying Scandi-navian daylight and is working with softly moving triangular fractions of opposite reflectors. It softly filters the exterior illumination into the room, and provides the light of the changing skies in the interior space. As in nature, the soft moving filtration creates a setting that, in a sliding movement, changes character during the day.

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Through experiments with glass I studied the relation between the pre and post process of the glass, and how every state created a new layer to the object. Each state had it’s own character, from the form to the glass object and finally to the light reflections. Within the process you could plan and control very little, so the material applied its own qualities to the project and lived its own life.

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STÅHEJ (meaning “fuss”) was originally launched as part of a municipal experiment to create a music scene, and potentially a venue, in Fredriksberg Copenhagen, an area of the city that had previously been devoid of any musical development. STÅHEJ has organized a series of musical events in unorthodox locations in 2014 to kick-start the debate of a potential venue and its format.

We aim to curate space and music to either support or challenge each other, creating a complete experience and an interesting narrative. The goals is to build up an entire universe around the artists that reaches beyond visual and sonic stimuli. It has since evolved into a debate over the established music venues in all of Copenhagen and the way in which we arrange and experi-ence music concerts today in general. Furthermore, this turned into a new way of thinking of the venue, how it should be a merging of the qualities from festivals and events, where the space is redefined every time, and the continuity of a traditional venue.

Locations: an auto mechainc, an old ballroom, a monastery, an incinerator etc. Press: VICE Magazine DK, Soundvenue, Politiken, Musikeren, Gaffa a.o. Further information: www.facebook.com/staahej

STÅHEJ // Series of Concerts

Involvement oustide studies - 2014

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Photos from various Ståhej-concerts

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Installation and resting spot at metal festival Copenhell based on the phenomenon “Heads on a stick”. The entire installation is made of recycled materials without any expenses.

Copenhell Festival// Installation and Resting spot

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Scenography for a low-budget music video to the song “Ithaca” by danish artist Gabriel. The scenog-raphy consisted of floating fish tanks above a bathtub.

Gabriel - “Ithaca” // Scenography for Music Video

Involvement oustide studies - November 2013

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Tlf. +45 32 68 60 00Fax +45 32 68 61 11www.karch.dk

From: Claus Pryds , Architect MAA and teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation

Reference concerning Maria Holst I am writing this reference at the request of Maria Holst. From the very first moment, it has been clear to me that Maria is a very gifted student. She is remarkably industrious and committed. Furthermore, she works hard and never loses focus on the final result. Her process is marked by inquisitiveness, creativity and overview. It is a distinguishing feature of her to continuously develop new procedures and tools, which she integrates into her methods. Maria is able to combine artistic integrity, pronounced formal skills, a well-developed sense of form and space, strong aesthetic sense, and a clear awareness of the demands and restraints of reality.

Apart from her professional skills, Maria has a distinctively social side, and she is very much appreciated by his fellow students. In conclusion, Maria Holst is an exceptionally good architectural student and I highly recommend you to approve her application.

Yours Sincerely,

! Claus H. Pryds,

Architect maa and Teacher at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, school of architecture

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To whom it may concern I have had the great pleasure of working together with Maria Holst since 2011, where she has been a part of a long list of many projects. At the latest, I have experienced a very positive collaboration in connection with Maria´s project leadingship of the initiative for concerts in urban spaces, ”Staahej”, and also in relation to the opening of the new institution for culture and movement, KU.BE. Maria always shows great creativity, responsibillity, productivity and autonomy which has led to many fine results. In the last years, Maria has managed to incorporate an architectual approach and professionalism in the projects in a very succesfull manner.Maria has a special ability to go from the first initial conceptual ideas and considerations to the final production, showing great determination and strength in the handling of the many and different elements throughout the whole process. Very early in her career, Maria has managed logistically complex productions in connection with touring business, concert event, festivals culture, events which included communication and press relations, applications for funding, obtaining visas for musicians from developing countries etc. With her great creativity, spontaneity and ability to keep focus and overview, Maria is an upcoming talent in the cul-ture industry. Maria´s personality opens many doors, and her positive and open mind has a very positive impact on the entire workplace. Therefore, I give Maria my very best recommendations !

Best regards,

Jan Samuelsen, Project Manager and Co-founder of Indgreb T: +45 22 25 17 12M: [email protected]

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Jazzhus Montmartre, Store Regnegade 19A, DK-‐1110 Copenhagen K, Denmark, www.jazzhusmontmartre.dk

Copenhagen, Denmark October 5th, 2011 To Whom I t May Concern The bearer of this letter, Maria Holst, is a very special volunteer of the newly reopened legendary jazz club Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen. I warmly recommend her. Maria is a wonderful person to work with: Smiling. Kind. Caring. Responsible. And smart! Just one advice for people looking to enroll or hire Maria: Go for it, she is great! She very quickly excelled, and was given special responsibilities as Duty Manager at the club, taking care of everything from staff matters, economy and other issues. Montmartre club reopened May 1st this year; in its original 1959-1976 premises where it served as home for many expatriate jazz greats such as Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Stan Getz and many more. The new reopened Montmartre is a non-profit endeavor. Maria was a part of the team from very early on, and she shows dedication in whatever she goes into. Kind regards,

Rune Bech, CEO, co-founder

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