stockholm SWEDEN

KTH, School of Architecture
critics: Marcelyn GOW, Sam JACOB, & Cino ZUCCHI.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Luciano Peirone UDRIOT: Stockholm Roofscape Revisited is a vision of a vertical densification and continuation of the 19th-century city, through additions that translate and negotiate the historicity of Stockholm’s cityscape with a contemporary approach, drawing on the existing while projecting forward. . . .

The idea was to translate and use stylistic features of the existing buildings as a starting point for each addition. Amplifying and exaggerating, as to retain a familiarity, while suggesting something new, capturing a new and altered individuality for each building.

sP: What or who influenced this project?
LPU: The project deals with our relation to the architecture of the 19th-century city as a central bearer of western history and identity. My interest was the possibility of negotiating the formal diversity and richness of Stockholms historicist and eclectic styles with a contemporary approach that uses the dreamscapes and fictional imagery from to the world of comics and film, as reference and speculative tool.

sP: What were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?
LPU: Comic artist Jean Giraud (Moebius) and Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner were my main inspirations. Listening to Prince, Avishai Cohen, and Drake.

sP: Whose work is currently on your radar?
LPU: Jimenez Lai.