Togetherness as a driver for reimagining our urban spaces
Studio Common Connection represents the idea of collaboration, shared ideas, and a focus on community. The name suggests a space where diverse voices come together to create common solutions for the physical frame that are our cities.
Manifest
Studio Common Connection seeks to create a forum where diverse stakeholders —such as municipalities, landowners, and neighbors — can come together to share common goals and dreams for a place. The aim is to foster stronger communities and create places that are co-designed by the people who live in, use, and own them.
It’s not about the architect, municipality, or developer alone. It’s about gathering different perspectives and building shared dreams.
I believe that collaboration leads to much more interesting and meaningful places—places that nurture the people who live, work, and pass through them.
Let’s dream together. Let’s rebuild together!
Projects
Europan 17 Krøgenes / Krøgenes Peninsula (NO)
Shared 1. prize in competition in Krøgenes, Norway 2023
Krøgenes was a competition site in Europan 17, an international competition for young architects under 40. The aim of Europan is to design innovative housing and urban planning solutions for selected sites across Europe.
Role: Project Lead with contributor Nanna Marie Vindeløv-Rasmussen
After the competition the two winning proposals was commissioned by Arendal municipality to develop the proposals further in 2 fases followed by woekshops. The proposals was a collaberation between CaosCaos and Maria Crammond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJMYcz0IjVk
Read more: https://europan.no/projects/korgenes-peninsula
Europan 16 Fagerstrand / Intertwining Fagerstrand (NO)
Special Mention in open competition in Fagerstrand, Norway 2021
Fagerstrand was a competition site in Europan 16, an international competition for young architects under 40. The aim of Europan is to design innovative housing and urban planning solutions for selected sites across Europe.
Role: Project Lead, in collaboration with Helene Sarborg Wied
Client: Fagerstrand Municipality
Read more:
https://www.europan-europe.eu/en/exchanges/Intertwining-fagerstrand
Europan 15 Ørsta / Connecting Ørsta (NO)
The main concept of the project is to establish clear connections and identities in Ørsta. Today Ørsta consists of many small and unconnected 'islands', that function internally, but not as a whole, inhibiting the cities flow.
In our proposal Ørsta city centre consists of three main connections that all branch off from the square by Nekken. The three main connections are: The Urban Connection, The Park Connection and The Educational Connection.
Together they create a strong identity and tie the city back together.
After the competition we was commissioned by Ørsta municipality to create a development plan; Nya koplingar i Ørsta - Utviklingsplan (NO) 2016
1. prize in competition in Ørsta, Norway 2015
Ørsta was a competition site in Europan 15, an international competition for young architects under 40. The aim of Europan is to design innovative housing and urban planning solutions for selected sites across Europe.
Role: Project Lead with Jens Nyboe Andersen and Karl Baggins.
Read more: https://europan.no/projects/connecting-orsta
Education / Let’s build a city together
School workshop in 2024, Chicago, Illinois
Workshop in kindergarten to introduce architecture and urban planning to kids, age 5 and 6. Task Each child was given a wood tile along with bricks, glue, and a popsicle stick, symbolizing plots, buildings and roads. Their task was to plan their own little neighborhood with their wish for spatial identity. In the end they all had to connect the neighborhoods into one big urban fabric. Creating a diverse city they all were apart on.
About COMMON CONNECTION
In January 2025 I founded Studio Common Connection with the vision of using togetherness as a driver for reimagining our urban spaces.
My background as architect and urban planner, ranges from strategic planning on a large scale to designing intimate urban spaces.
My approach is analytical, with a broad understanding of complex issues. In my design proposals, I focus on the intersection of physical and social spaces. I believe this approach fosters new interactions and strengthens the identity of a place. My ambition is always to create environments that connect these spaces, creating opportunities for people to meet and engage.
I pay careful attention to the human scale and composition of space. To strengthen interactions and belongingness, where landowners, passersby, residents, and municipalities all feel connected and heard.
I believe the collective impact of these spaces elevates the space, transforming it into a place that everyone cares for and nurtures — a place of community, atmosphere, and identity.
Let’s dream together. Let’s rebuild together.
Services
Strategic planning, development plans, master planning, public space – Small to XL Urban planning.
Maria Ramild Crammond, Architect MAA , born 1985Education2015 Graduated from The Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation. CopenhagenThesis project, The Urban square - Amager’s overlooked urban space transformed into new exchange points in the physical - social city.2012 Merit student at Copenhagen University, Department of Sociology. The room is the machine. Architecture-Sociological Interventions in the city’s physical social space, 7.5 ects.2011 Merit student at Copenhagen University, Department of Anthropology. Urban Anthropology 7 ects. Introduction two Anthropology, 15 ects. communication, innovation and marketing, 7.5 ects.2011 Bachelor in architecture from department 1, Architecture, city and landscape by Jens Kvorning.2007 Began to study architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Preservation.Experience2025 Founded Studio Common Connection2015 - 2024 Vandkunsten Architects, project lead2017 Jury member, Europan in Norway2015 Gottlieb Paludan Architects2013 - 2014 Vandkunsten Architects2013 Intern at Vandkunsten Architects2010 The Meat Market: Art Against Injustice (DK) Photo exhibition in Meat Market district in Copenhagen.2009 Photographer for Gladsaxe Arkitekturpolitik Achievements (private)2024 Europan 17 Krøgenes / Krøgenes Peninsula (NO). Shared 1st prize.2021 Europan 16 Fagerstrand / Intertwining Fagerstrand (NO). Special Mention2017 Kjøpmannsgata i Trondheim - Mellom Byen og Elva (NO) Special Mention 2015 Europan 13 Ørsta / Connecting Ørsta (NO). 1st. prize.Contact
mrc@studiocommonconnection.com
(0045) 50588363
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