The Danish Approach: How Architecture Can Promote Normalization

IPIC 2024 Presentation by Sonia Bom and Jonas Hviid Mønster (IPIC2024-PID020)

Authors

Sonia Bom

Design Director, Partner, Architect, Alex Poulsen Arkitekter, Denmark

Sonia has since 2016 been Design Director, architect, and partner at Alex Poulsen Architects – a studio that for nearly 80 years has been a close and trustful client adviser and lead architectural office for the Danish Department of Prisons and Probation. She has more than 12 years of experience in secured constructions, from prisons to psychiatries, and other complex typology projects. She has worked as an architect in Denmark for the last 13 years and has previously worked in both Portugal and Spain.

In the studio’s framework agreement with the Danish Probation and Correctional Service since 2018, Sonia has been responsible for portfolio management. She uncovers the projects’ success criteria with prison design. Sonia is furthermore responsible for client consultancy and project management of several projects across Denmark.

With experience in involving users, and managing and planning projects, in all phases of a project’s development, Sonia is skilled in handling complex collaborative relationships. Such relationships not only include builders, client, staff, and users of the institutions but also contractors and external and technical expert advisors. Being part of a larger Security Technical expert panel, Sonia manages the tasks of the project teams for high security facilities with her in-depth knowledge of each individual’s role and expertise.

Jonas Hviid Mønster

CEO, Partner, Alex Poulsen Arkitekter, Denmark

Since 2016, Jonas has been a partner and CEO at Alex Poulsen Architects. He leads and coordinates the studio’s portfolio of tasks, which includes tasks in connection with ongoing framework agreements and tasks for public authorities as well as for private builders. Jonas is usually found at the helm of the good cooperation between the client, users, advisers, and other parties – which is highly valued at the design studio. As an experienced client advisor and building consultant, on several complex projects with a high degree of user involvement and stakeholder management, Jonas finds his primary strengths in facilitating user involvement processes, preparing specifications of requirements, developing early-stage planning and scrutinize tender processes. In his work, Jonas ensures high quality, an open and accessible process, and the feeling of ownership across a project's stakeholders.

Depending on which role and context Jonas is part of in the building process, he has the ability to adapt his work from dealing with overall and strategic questions on one hand, and to maintaining specific technical solutions on the other – this all facilitated by his professional background as a constructing architect.
Jonas has furthermore experience in conducting market analyses for public developers, including in collaboration with the Danish Economic and Financial Services Authority. The aim of the market analysis has been to uncover the market's reaction to price and quality levels, to identify the most advantageous form of contract on specific task types.

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