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En sökning efter framtida arbetsmetoder. En skogstomt i Åkersberga. Sju personligheter. Tre träffar. Kreativa övningar. Inspirerande diskussioner. Ett hem. Ett kollektivhus. Examensarbetet innebar för mig en återblick till varför jag en gång valde att bli arkitekt och funderingar kring vilken roll jag vill spela inom yrket fram över. Jag vill som arkitekt vara socialt engagerad och se mig själv som en aktiv del av samhällsutvecklingen. Jag vill låta arkitekturen inspireras av personligheter. Jag vill även finna ett sätt att arbeta på som inspirerar mig till att känna kreativ lust. Jag ser en värld med resurser som sinar och klasskillnader som ökar. Jag anser att vi behöver hjälpas åt mer och minska konsumtionen. Jag tror att ett sätt är att påverka detta som arkitekt är att stötta utvecklingen och byggandet av kollektiva boenden. Genom facebooksidan “Reclaim the home”, som jag öppnade inför examensarbetet, fick jag tag på 7 st människor som var intresserade av att delta i utvecklandet av det kollektiva boendet. Den gruppen har jag träffat och fört en dialog med om deras boendevision. Detta arbete har sammanfattats och presenterats som en analyserad metodprocess och ett arkitektoniskt förslag som är genomritat till skedet för ansökan om bygglov. A search for future practices. A forest plot in Åkersberga. Seven personalities. Three meetings. Creative exercises. Inspiring discussions. A home. A collective house. This work meant for me a flashback as to why I once chose to become an architect and reflections on the role I want to play. I want to be a socially engaged architect. I want to let the architecture be inspired by personalities. I want to find a way to work that inspires me to feel creative desire. I see a world where resources go dry and class differences that increase. I believe we need to to help one another more and reduce consumption. I believe that one way to influence this as an architect is to support the development and construction of collective housing. Through the Facebook page "Reclaim the home" I got hold of 7 people who were interested in participating in the development of the collective housing. That group I have held discussions with about their housingvision. This work has been summarized and presented as an analyzed method process and an architectural proposal that is drawn to the stage of application for a building permit.

The Road Administration wants to improve safety at a hazardous, rural road intersection near Åkersberga, Stockholm by changing the design of the intersection. The intersection today is a three-way connection with a small road connecting to a four-lane main road, much similar to a motorway with high speeds although with a speed limit of 90km/h. Drivers’ attention and velocity in different designs of the intersection are analysed in this thesis with data from two experiments, ordered by the Road Administration and conducted by the Swedish National Road and Research Institute (VTI). Four alternative designs of the intersection were tested using the VTI-simulator; a narrowing from two to one lane through the intersection, rumble strips, a wooden fence and trees at the road side, and a portal framing the intersection. In addition, the original intersection design, both with and without speed limit signs of 70km/h, were tested for comparisons. In the first of the two experiments, the four alternative intersection designs all had speed limit signs of 70km/h, and in the second experiment the alternative intersection designs were tested without the influence of the speed limit signs of 70km/h. Data used in the analyses are velocity data, lateral position, eye movements, brake data and subjective estimations. Subjects were found to look at the critical areas of the intersection in time, independent of intersection design. Only small differences between the intersection designs were found, probably due to width of the main road being a larger design-influence than the measures tested. The results are in favour of the narrowing from two to one lane through the intersection, but traffic density and rhythm make a narrowing difficult to realise at the real intersection. Instead, rumble strips in addition to a speed limit of 70km/h can be recommended, although rumble strips are most likely to increase inattentive drivers’ readiness.