1. M.ARCH
JOHANN MAGNUS KJARTANSSON
2014

2. AREAS OF EXPERTISE
GENERAL
overview
group orientated
responsible
focused
patient
pedagogic
ARCHITECTURAL
inventive
visual
process-oriented
thorough
idea generating
urban oriented
conceptual
TECHNICAL
architectual drawing
3D modelling
rendering
photoshop collages
graphical
technincal drawings
fast at self-learning
HVEM ER JEG?
Jeg hedder Johann M. Kjartansson, men mine venner kalder
mig Jói. Jeg er en 29 år gammel Islænding, nyuddannet
(M.Arch) fra Arkitektskolen i Aarhus. Udover arkitektur
interesseremjeg mig for at skrive og spille musik. Det er
noget jeg bruge meget af min fritid på og jeg ser det som et
supplement og til mit arbejde som arkitekt.
UDADVENDT OG AKTIV
At arbejde som arkitekt hvor man skal samarbejde om at
finde kreative løsninger, passer godt til min udadvendte og
imødekommende personlighed og er noget jeg har stor
glæde af. Under mit studie jeg har lagt vægt på at udvikle
mine evner indenfor netop dette at samarbejde ved at
vælge gruppe arbejde fremfor en mands projekter og også
noget jeg har dyrket i tiden efter min afgang hvor jeg har
lavet forskellige projekter og konkurrencer i samarbejd med
forhenværende studie kammerater.
ARKITEKTUR SOM LÆRER AF BYEN
De sidste tre år som studerende fordybede jeg mig primært
i arbejdet med post-industrielle landskaber/situationer med
fokus på grænsen mellem byen og disse ofte centralt placerede områder. Forståelse for de nærliggende og fastgroede
urbane strukturer har været et vigtigt undersøgelsesemne
og udgangspunkt i mine studier og projekter. Denne viden
blev udviklet ved mit praktikforløb hos ADEPT Arkitekter
som arbejder meget i krydsfeltet mellem byplanlægning og
arkitektur.
Jeg håber at det giver et hurtigt og klart billede af hvem jeg
er og vil meget gerne komme forbi for en samtale og høre
mere om jeres tegnestue.
Venlig hilsen
Johann Magnus Kjartansson

3. JOHANN M. KJARTANSSON
Born 10/AUG/1984 in Reykjavik, Iceland
EDUCATION
COMPETITIONS
2011/SEP - 2013/JUN: MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE, AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, DENMARK
2013/FEB - 2013/JUN: Final master thesis | Studio Parable Architecture
2012/SEP - 2013/FEB: Semester project | Studio Spatial Transformation
2012/FEB - 2012/JUL: Internship at ADEPT Architects | Copenhagen
2011/SEP - 2012/FEB: ERASMUS Exchange Student | E.T.S.A.M., Madrid
2013/DEC: MIND THE GAP | Re-activation of a Copenhagen canal
2008/SEP - 2011/JUN: BACHELOR IN ARCHITECTURE, AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, DENMARK
2011/FEB - 2011/JUN: Semester project | Studio Open Script
2010/SEP - 2011/FEB: Semester project | Studio Calculated Uncertainty
2010/FEB - 2010/JUN: Semester project | Department of Urban Planning
2009/SEP - 2010/FEB: Semester project | Department of Architectural Design
2008/SEP - 2009/JUN: Semester project | Basic fundamentals of architecture
IT
2004/NOV - 2005/APR: Hillerød Youth High School, Denmark | Art, Music, Theatre & Sports
WORK
2013/SEP-NOV: KRADS ARCHITECTS, DENMARK | 8 weeks architect traineeship
2013/AUG: AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, DENMARK | Design and set-up of exhibition Made in India
2013/JUL: ROSKILDE FESTIVAL, DENMARK | Design collaboration and construction of seating installation Lean Line
2013/OCT: C.F. MØLLER ARCHITECTS, DENMARK | Model building for Havnehusene Aarhus competition project
2013/SEP: HEDEHUSENE CULTURE PARK | Lanscape park design/stragety
2012/APR: REYKJAVIK CULTURE NIGHT | Wall of Sound musical installation
2010/MAR: BOLIUS.DK DESIGN COMPETITION | Window of Opportunities | 3rd prize
ADOBE CS
RHINOCEROS
GRASSHOPPER
SKETCHUP
VRAY
LANGUAGES
ICELANDIC
ENGLISH
DANISH
NORWEGIAN
GERMAN
SPANISH
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Contact
JOHANN M. KJARTANSSON
LUNDBYESGADE 9, 1TH
8000 AARHUS C
DENMARK
WWW.JOHANNKJARTANSSON.COM
JOIJOHANN@GMAIL.COM
+45 50349590

4. Master Thesis
HARBOUR COURTYARD
A NEW PASSAGE BETWEEN
REYKJAVIK CITY & HARBOUR
Studio Parable Architecture

5. THE CITY
THE HARBOUR
GRID FLOW
HARBOUR IN HARBOURS
VOLUMES / VOIDS / ROADS
FIELDS / OBJECTS / EDGE
SPATIAL LIMITS
SPATIAL LIMITS
WALLS AS SPATIAL LIMITS
EDGE AS SPATIAL LIMITS
PERSPECTIVES / VERTICALITY
PANORAMAS / HORIZONTALITY

6. Urban Masterplan Original scale 1:2000
THE URBAN STRATEGY
FISHING HARBOUR
In the project I have analysed the Reykjavik harbour masterplan and
EVENT HARBOUR
TOURIST HARBOUR
RECREATIONAL HARBOUR
CITY AND HARBOUR ACTIVITY MAP
SHOPPING HARBOUR
JOURNEYS BETWEEN CITY AND HARBOUR
modified it in a way that in general, the city is allowed to grow out to
the harbour space and at 4 specific areas the two enteties merge in
a sequence between the two. In these pin-pointed areas, based on
registrations of structure, flow/volumes, limits and spatial character and
activities on each side, a passage is created where city and harbour
merge in a sequence between the two. The resault is four different
journeys where one experiences a journey between the logic of the
city and the logic of the harbour.

7. Perspective from platform +01
A JOURNEY BETWEEN CITY AND HARBOUR
The structure is seen as a shared harbour surface with the market
on the city side, the cruise docking on the sea side, flanked by the
shared street structure. The harbour courtyard opens up to the city and
creates a new passage between city and harbour. The originial idea
behind the existing customs building, with a covered harbour space,
the docking and the road, is redesigned to merge instead of seperate
the harbour from the city. The city gaines a new courtyard, not a city
courtyard bounded by vertical walls, but a harbour courtyard bounded
by horizontal surfaces.

8. VOLUMES
SURFACES
STEEL CONSTRUCTION
SITE PREPERATION
Site Plan Original scale 1:500

9. “To approach the coast implies a certain
sense of distance, and maybe arriving
there is not the goal. The journey there
may be in fact the most interesting thing”
Hans Feldthusen, Approach the coast.
CUSTOMS OFFICE
EXISTING FLEE-MARKET
PARKING DECK
ROAD
SHARED SPACE DECK
CRUISE SHIP DOCKING
OUTDOOR MARKET SPACE
BOARDWALK
City to Harbour Section Original scale 1:200

10. Bachelor Project
AAA 2.0
NEW SCHOOL OF
ARCHITECTURE IN AARHUS
Studio Open Script

11. CHARACTER SILHOUETTES
DIALOGUE EXTRUSIONS
TEMPOSCRIPT MODEL
SCENE MOVEMENT ANALYSE
MODEL MOVEMENT
CHAPLIN MODERN LIFE
ATMOSPHERESCRIPT COLLAGE: LIBRARY
CROATIAN PAVILLION REFERENCE
FALLAS VALENCIA ATMOSPHERE COLLAGE
ATMOSPHERESCRIPT MODEL
ATMOSPHERESCRIPT COLLAGE: ROOF TERRACE
OPEN SCRIPT STORYBOARD
The main goal of the Open Script course was to create
an architectural concept from a series of abstract narrations, creating storyboard that would be the base of
the building program. Divided into scripts focusing on
tempo/rhythm, atmosphere and context. Another focus
of Open Script was learning methods of teamwork and
was the whole project created in collaboration with a
fellow student.
GRADUATED SPACE
ATMOSPHERESCRIPT COLLAGE: STUDIOS
MODELLING STEPS

12. A
A
TERRACE
SHOP
WORKSHOP
RECEPTION
STUDIO
NICHE
CAFE
WORKSHOP
DEPOT
WC
DEPOT
DEPOT
EXHIBITION SPACE
LIBRARY
STUDIO
STUDIO
NICHE
MOCK-UP
AUDITORIUM
STUDIO
NICHE
TERRACE
A
A
Ground Floor Plan Original scale 1:200
ROOF TERRACE
3rd Floor Plan Original scale 1:200
CANTEEN
STUDIO
STUDIO
STUDIO
STUDIO
WORKSHOP
STUDIO
STUDIO
AUDITORIUM
OFFICE
STUDIO
LIBRARY
SHOP
MOCKUP
WORKSHOP
AUDITORIUM
Section Original scale 1:200
Facade South Original scale 1:200

13. ATRIUM, FLOW AND FUNCTION CORE FROM TEMPOSCRIPT
BUILDING GRID STRUCTURE FROM ATMOSPHERESCRIPT
Perspective from Exhibition space
THE EXCAVED SCHOOL TO NEST IN
By adapting the concepts and spatial qualities of the
aggregate scripts, a design proposal for a new School
of Architecture in the post-industrial area of the Ceres
factory in Aarhus was created. The gradient grid system
from the atmospherescript model was used to create a
flexible frame for a building and a landscape concept.
The temposcript was used to create an interior void
around a functions core with the buildings main flow
artery, by excaving the 3 dimensional grid system. The
resault is a school with a central public flow, a sculpural
central core visable from everywhere within, and floor
spaces with flexible gradient boundaries that the users
can nest themselves to their specific activities.
Perspective from 5th floor

14. USER STRATEGY
PERMANENT USERS
The gap is surrounded by
to areas, The IT school and
dwellings, Families and Students
are the main users in the gap.
Our design proposal focuses on
their needs, and performs their
relation to the gap.
INTERMITENT USERS
The second group of users are
the people walking or biking
a long the canal towards the
Metro Station, Schools or Dormitories. As well all the people
that sails in cayaks or skates in
the winter: the main to activities
of the canal.
CANAL ACTIVITIES
Orestad canals are an active part
of the life in the area, out proposal
develops the existing activities, and
proposes new ways of using the
canal.
URBAN STRATEGY
Mind the Gap
WE ARE IN THE GAP
COMPETITION PROPOSAL FOR
A CANAL TRANSFORMATION
www.innosite.dk
THE CANAL
EXISTING BRIDGES &
NEW PLATFORMS AND
SCALE BREAK-UP AND
PLATFORMS ACTIVITIES BASED
PLATFORMS
BRIDGE ADD-ONS
INTERACTION
ON CONTEXT PROGRAMS

15. STRUCTURE CATALOUGE
NICHES
FURNITURE
COMBINATION EXAMPLES
INTERACTION IN A CITY CANAL SPACE
The canal takes the identity of the buildings that surround it, but by itself is a long stream of water
which doesnt give opportunities for users to interact, in some parts the canal becomes interesting
by buildings that give another atmosphere, but in between them are breaks where nothing happens.
We accept the canal as a void in the city; a long strong perspective space that joins the buildings and
emphasizes the concept of area. Every part of the canal has it´s own character and reacts according to
the buildings and the landscape that surround it.
Plan of Canal proposal

16. PLAYGROUND PLATFORM
The playground platform generates a cross interaction in the canal, the families, kids and visitors of the
dwelling side of the canal are provided with a dynamic and playfull space that is specifically designed
to bring activities and flow towards the water.
IT SCHOOL PLATFORM
Our proposal introduces different devices for
approaching the water, these elements provide accessibility and furbish the existing platform keeping
it´s qualities and improving with shelters which the
IT students can use for, studing, relaxing, sitting, or
hanging around in contact with the water.
Isometric drawing of proposal
Platform diagrams

17. Thank you for this time...
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