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My thesis is about how to design rooms that meet the human need to slow down, contemplate and find peace in an urban environment. Contemplative and quiet rooms with a public character exist as a natural part of common social functions and building types, such as parks, museums, libraries and church rooms. What I want to explore in this work is a type of building that serves as a complement to these public quiet rooms. A typology that functions as a respite in the city, where the focus is not on any particular belief but more on the room’s contemplative atmosphere that provides calm and increased presence to the visitor. Where spontaneous encounters can occur and where people can be alone together. In the investigation of this typology, I have made two design proposals in two different sites in central Malmö: Raoul Wallenberg's park and Posthusplatsen. Both places are located in central Malmö and adjacent to two nodes in the city - Gustav Adolfs torg and Centralstationen. These two sites already function, to some extent, as a respite for people and the city today. The ambition has therefore been a lot about to reinforce these qualities by establishing contrasting and contemplative spatial qualities. The two sites, with their different characters and qualities, have given two proposals which differ in many ways, such as the degree of openness and closure, movement and expression. The proposals also have similarities and share the same ideas about the passage's importance for the change of tempo, the inner enclosing space, the contemplative qualities of light and the flexible use.