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SWEDISH EMBASSY DESIGN IN QATAR
GLÄNTA
"Celebrating The Swedish Sunlight."
The project was about portraying the Swedish Culture in Qatar through the Swedish Embassy. The goal was to learn about this culture and use its elements to design a space that will give the users a taste of Sweden.
I chose to apply the nordic sunlight and the effect of light pernetrating through the leaves of Swedish forests. This design was carried out by manipulating the direction of the sunlight to cause it to act like the Nordic sun and the filtering of the sunlight was experimented by placing a mesh (imitating a forest canopy) on the windows of the south facade of the building.
As people of a Nordic counrty, the Swedes experience short periods of summer and long winters. This means that there is less light for a longer part of each year. Because of this, the people long for sunlight and embrace its quality by spending time outdoors in the summer at countrysides, in forests or parks.





The Process of Working with Sunlight
Experiments carried out by using a model and allowing the penetration of sunlight through structures created with skewers.
Design Program of the Embassy
Cross Section B
Exhibition Space of the Embassy
The idea is to create an atmosphere of working, lounging and walking in a Swedish forest with the natural sunlight filtering through lthe eaves and trees.
Redirecting the at 45 degrees to acquire a Swedish sunlight using white, glossy surfaced reflectors that are grouped together and used as a folly outside the embassy.
Top: The exhibition space is one of the “Glanta” spaces in the building where a sufficient amount of sunlight filters in.
Left: Exhibition space showing the effect of the swedish sunlight through the double height space.





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