Solvalla skolan

Solvallastadens skola är en kombinerad förskola och lågstadieskola ritad för den kommande stadsdelen, Solvalla Staden. Skolan har fokus på naturen precis som den planerade stadsdelen. Från naturen har jag inspirerats av jord och luft (härstammar från de fyra elementen) och har översatt detta till tungt och lätt. Detta speglar också tomten och de omgivande landskapet med berg i dagen och höga träd i skogen.  Byggnaden är utformad som en tung ”sockel” till bottenvåning i betong där dagis, matsal och idrottshall ligger. Dagiset har en lugn inhängnad gård på markplan. Ovanpå betong våningen står skolan som en lättare trästruktur försedd med en generös takterrass som planar ut med marken upp mot skogen. Detta ger de ädre barnen möjlighet att också annvända skogen och den intilliggande centralparken under raster.  Parallellt med konceptet ”tungt och lätt” ska skolan uppmuntra till utomhusvistelse och vara naturnära både vad gäller materialval och funktioner så som centrala kapprum med lätta flöden ut och in.TASK: To propose a primary school building combined with a kindergarten, for an already planned neighbourhood that will be built in a Stockholm suburb, Solvalla. The school should accommodate 240 pupils between the age two and ten. PROJECT: Like the planned neighbourhood, I decided to put nature in focus when creating the building. The plot had rocky ground and is surrounded by forest. I used this as inspiration for the school where the heavy concrete base is meant to resemble the rocky ground and the light wood structure above the forest. The kindergarten, canteen and sports hall are placed in the concrete base, while the school is in the light wood structure above. Despite having an undersized plot, I decided to have two separate schoolyards for the primary school and kindergarten. The kindergarten has a fenced yard on ground level while the primary school has a rooftop terrace yard that levels out with the ground. This allows primary school children access the  forest and park beside the school for play and activities. Further, together with the design of the building and materials used, I have added a cultivation and put the cloakrooms in centre, to really push my focus on nature and to make outside activity more accessible

Solvalla skolan

Solvallastadens skola är en kombinerad förskola och lågstadieskola ritad för den kommande stadsdelen, Solvalla Staden. Skolan har fokus på naturen precis som den planerade stadsdelen. Från naturen har jag inspirerats av jord och luft (härstammar från de fyra elementen) och har översatt detta till tungt och lätt. Detta speglar också tomten och de omgivande landskapet med berg i dagen och höga träd i skogen.  Byggnaden är utformad som en tung ”sockel” till bottenvåning i betong där dagis, matsal och idrottshall ligger. Dagiset har en lugn inhängnad gård på markplan. Ovanpå betong våningen står skolan som en lättare trästruktur försedd med en generös takterrass som planar ut med marken upp mot skogen. Detta ger de ädre barnen möjlighet att också annvända skogen och den intilliggande centralparken under raster.  Parallellt med konceptet ”tungt och lätt” ska skolan uppmuntra till utomhusvistelse och vara naturnära både vad gäller materialval och funktioner så som centrala kapprum med lätta flöden ut och in.TASK: To propose a primary school building combined with a kindergarten, for an already planned neighbourhood that will be built in a Stockholm suburb, Solvalla. The school should accommodate 240 pupils between the age two and ten. PROJECT: Like the planned neighbourhood, I decided to put nature in focus when creating the building. The plot had rocky ground and is surrounded by forest. I used this as inspiration for the school where the heavy concrete base is meant to resemble the rocky ground and the light wood structure above the forest. The kindergarten, canteen and sports hall are placed in the concrete base, while the school is in the light wood structure above. Despite having an undersized plot, I decided to have two separate schoolyards for the primary school and kindergarten. The kindergarten has a fenced yard on ground level while the primary school has a rooftop terrace yard that levels out with the ground. This allows primary school children access the  forest and park beside the school for play and activities. Further, together with the design of the building and materials used, I have added a cultivation and put the cloakrooms in centre, to really push my focus on nature and to make outside activity more accessible

Practical Performance Models for Complex, Popular Applications

Perhaps surprisingly, no practical performance models exist for popular (and complex) client applications such as Adobe’s Creative Suite, Microsoft’s Office and Visual Studio, Mozilla, Halo 3, etc. There is currently no tool that automatically answers program developers’, IT administrators ’ and end-users ’ simple what-if questions like “what happens to the performance of my favorite application X if I upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7?”. This paper describes our approach towards constructing practical, versatile performance models to address this problem. The goal is to have these models be useful for application developers to help expand application testing coverage and for IT administrators to assist with understanding the performance consequences of a software, hardware or configuration change. This paper’s main contributions are in system building and performance modeling. We believe we have built applications that are easier to model because we have proactively instrumented them to export their state and associated metrics. This application-specific monitoring is always on and interesting data is collected from real, "in-the-wild " deployments. The models we are experimenting with are based on statistical techniques. They require no modifications to the OS or applications beyond the above instrumentation, and no explicit a priori model on how an OS or application should behave. We are in the process of learning from models we have constructed for several Microsoft products, including the Office suite, Visual Studio and Media Player. This paper presents preliminary findings from a large user deployment (several hundred thousand user sessions) of these applications that show the coverage and limitations of such models. These findings pushed us to move beyond averages/means and go into some depth into why client application performance has an inherently large variance