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Panibagong Bahay: Revitalizing Filipino Architectural Traditions Through Affordable Housing
No full textWhat can we from traditional Filipino housing typologies, specifically the Bahay Kubo and Bahay na Bato, that can be applied to designing affordable housing solutions to address the current housing crisis in the Philippines while preserving the beauty and simplicity of Filipino cultural heritage?
This architectural diploma project centers on the creation of a comprehensive book documenting the traditional Filipino housing typologies of the Bahay Kubo and Bahay na Bato. The book serves as a curated archive, incorporating photographs, textual narratives, reference projects, and technical drawings from various historical periods. Its primary objective is to examine and elucidate the construction methods, materials, and techniques associated with these iconic structures, emphasizing those still practiced today and those at risk of being forgotten.
The project underscores the critical need to preserve the Philippines’ architectural heritage while making this knowledge accessible to a broader audience. By tracing the historical evolution of the Bahay Kubo and Bahay na Bato, the book provides insights into their cultural and functional significance. It also explores how traditional architectural approaches can inspire contemporary housing solutions, particularly for climatevulnerable communities and individuals seeking self-built homes using locally sourced materials.
This initiative aspires to bridge the past and present by offering an educational resource and practical guide. By delving into the cultural, historical, and technical dimensions of these typologies, the project aims to ensure that this heritage remains vibrant for future generations. Additionally, it equips Filipinos with the knowledge to design sustainable homes rooted in their history and identity.submittedVersio
A community on the quay
No full textThis diploma reclaims the quay house at Nordre Sandøy into a community house, reimagining a space once central to the island’s social life. Inspired by Giorgio Agamben’s “whatever-being” and Henri Lefebvre’s “social space,” it fosters connection beyond identity.
Employing a centrally organized plan and using blue columns and red and white curtains, the interior both references the building’s historical colors, but the notions of liberty, fraternity, and brotherhood too. The rectangular concrete base, referencing the old house and culture, is cast with the old walls as formwork, contrasting its roughness to the non-referentiality of the upper floor. A square room for gathering between opaque channel glass walls under an oculus, this room is sleek and oriented inwards, but not secretive.
Critiquing late-capitalist privatization and hyper-individualism, the project positions architecture as a vessel for communality. It aims to repair Nordre Sandøy’s fragmented society, blending tradition and modernity to inspire coexistence and collective renewal.submittedVersio
Lyra Emotional Music Creation System
No full textDo you ever wish to tell your story through music? Or perhaps you feel emotions that words simply cannot capture? Have you ever considered using music as a way to express your feelings?
Lyra is a system designed for everyone—no musical skills required. By transforming your stories and emotions into music, Lyra helps you experience, recognize, express, and understand emotions on a deeper level.
The project mainly consists of two parts:
1. AI music generation online platform: Based on AI technology, it converts users’ stories into music and sounds, and supports users to create emotional music.
The online platform focuses on converting users’ emotions and stories into music, injecting more possibilities of emotional expression into music creation.
In the design of physical products, this project provides users with a new interactive experience by studying different theories, discussing with professionals, and exploring a variety of music editing methods.
Lyra’s core goal is to develop a new tool and method:
Help users improve their emotional abilities, especially in the areas of emotion recognition, expression, and understanding.
Allow users to create unique and resonant music through emotions, opening up new ways of emotional expression and music creation.submittedVersio
A Building in Acts
No full textChange happens more frequently than it used to, and the phase is picking up exponentially. Our built surroundings are at the centre of this, and sees adaptation to both new uses and new challenges. Buildings age, they are transformed, modified by the actions taking place in or around them, they are re-used, re-configured and re-organized. Yet few buildings welcome this, and change often happens at the cost of both economic and environmental interest. This thesis explores the thematic of resilient building, and researches how to build for longevity in a changing world.
Addressing this in architecture means to base the design in other aspects than programme. The resilience that can take on a range of uses seems rather to be found in a building logic anchored in thorough studies of concept, structure, material and space, while the form should seek to be site-specific, and the expression rooted. With a spatial structure that is adaptable and resilient, while also portraying a certain identity, it seems possible to imagine not only an initial use, but multiple.
The project is set on the island of Risøy. This place marks the Western Norwegian city of Haugesund’s meeting with the sea, and is an embodiment of how the outskirts are prone to change. While the island is a historic district of the city, its peripheral location has made it an ideal host for Haugesund’s maritime ventures, and both landscape and built mass has transformed as a result of its evolution. Its current state is characterized by the haphazard convergence of industry, residents and tourists, lacking of qualitative public space, all the while a different future seems on the horizon. A public building is therefore proposed as a remedy.
As the setting asks for the speculation on an eventual use very different, the project does not only to image an initial use, but also a second and third, and the architecture responds to a series of plausible and predicted future scenarios. As its architectural model serves the theatre, where the permanent, general stage is built to take on a series of specific, but moveable acts. The resultant building being an unprogrammed spatial structure made in stone, aiming for longitude by offering qualitative, general spaces capable of taking on a wide range of futures.submittedVersio
Between Man and Machine
Full text linkBetween Man and Machine is an explorative interaction design diploma. It investigates the possibilities of bioelectrical sensors as input modality to digital systems like computers and phones.
The project’s outcome is three scenarios highlighting possible use cases of emotional and cognitive data inferred from bioelectrical sensors to digital systems. These scenarios aim to demonstrate applications of this technology and stimulate discussion about its future potential rather than providing polished and definitive answers to their respective uses.
Inner landscape aims to visualize nuances in emotional and cognitive states. By transforming physiological data into motion, it offers an alternative approach to exploring your emotional well-being. This concept provides various visualization styles, ranging from low to high abstraction, allowing for personalized insights based on individual preferences.
Map overlay visualizes how different environments affect your emotions on a map. As you move through various locations, the system maps your emotional states, highlighting areas where you felt positive and negative emotions. This approach helps you understand the emotional impact of your surroundings and make more informed choices about where to spend your time.
Moments capture snapshots of highly positive emotions, creating a gallery of happy times. The system automatically takes photos by using physiological data to detect these emotional peaks, preserving spontaneous and genuine moments. The concept aims to celebrate small memories and highlight the happiest times of the day.submittedVersio
Contaminating Clothing
No full textContaminating Clothing is an experimental service design project exploring culture and aesthetics as materials for experiences. The diploma investigates, through a two-part experiment, how culture and aesthetics may be integrated and utilised in the service design process, using clothing rental as a case study.
Efforts to make the fashion and textile industry more sustainable are largely focused on bringing us consumers in contact with clothes used by others either through resale, rental or subscription-rental models. The main ambition of this project was to explore the potential of a cultural approach in imbuing sharing services with social and symbolic value which could motivate a shift in consumption practices. How may we through design create new narratives, symbols and meanings around emerging practices? How can we utilize design to leverage cultural narratives, creating value and meaning through experiences? And, in what ways can we ‘cleanse’ rented items of the presence of their owner and ‘contaminate’ them with positive characteristics?
The outcomes of this experiment are three service probes and one service concept. The process of making these and observing users’ reactions prompted reflection and discussion around the questions and themes mentioned earlier. Together they allowed me to reflect upon and discuss the opportunities and challenges of integrating such an approach in the design of services.submittedVersio
Shearing is Caring: An Exploration of the Role of Sheep in Shaping Regenerative Practices in an Altering Cultural Landscape
Full text linkThis diploma project revolves around the potential of sheep resources in Norway. Through the study, I aim to highlight the unused value of sheep, with an emphasis on wool production as an underutilized asset as well as the sheep’s role in maintaining a cultural landscape.
Inspired by the historical interdependence between sheep and humans, the aim is to develop a framework fostering collaboration between the two to optimize wool quality and enhance a specific coastal landscape called Hvaler, an archipelago located southeast of Oslo.
The project seeks to minimize wool wastage and address challenges facing Norway’s wool industry, such as excessive wool disposal and declining traditional practices. The rotational grazing system proposed integrates traditional sheep farming practices from the local cultural heritage with modern landscape management approaches. The layout of the pastures builds on the characteristic elongated formation of the Hvaler geology with its fertile low-lying valleys and higher bedrock strips.
’Shearing is caring’ illustrates how the mutual care between sheep, humans, and the environment can lead to sustainable landscape management and cultural preservation. In essence, ’Shearing is caring’ encapsulates a holistic approach to agriculture and landscape management—one that recognizes the mutual dependency between humans, animals, and nature, and emphasizes the importance of nurturing these relationships for the well-being of all.submittedVersio
Connecting the dots. Insights from Navigating Complexity within Consultative Advisory Design Situations
No full textThis thesis explores the navigation of complexity, “wickedness,” or “messes” within consultative advisory contexts or design situations. Such situations may be said to mirror the nested problematiques of our society, thus entangled in in restrictions that affect movement and actions in the system we design within.
The study is rooted in pluralism building on theory from management, organizational and design literature. A systems oriented design (SOD) lens is used for studying into the researcher’s own practice cases within the public sector, and the problematiques of cybercrime and national security.
This thesis provides insight into how navigation of complexity and the pursuit of interventions is entangled with capacity building to create movement beyond stopping point of practice, impacting design-decisions. Further it points to how the SOD mindset was and may be leveraged within the design situation through the construct of “connecting the dots.” This thesis should be seen as the first step into a longer journey of utilizing SOD cross-boundary, into practice context that is in much need of responding to complexity in new ways.submittedVersio
MOSS ROCK CITY STEPS TO A PLURIVERSAL ECOLOGY OF SYSTEMS ORIENTED URBAN DESIGN
Full text linkThis master thesis delves into the multi-layered, complex, and dynamic landscape of urban development in a coastal city in south-eastern Norway. Where ownership to themes and solutions are blurred, roles diverse, actors and stakeholders numerous. Framed within five parallel urban development processes, I aim to show how these are related, in time, at different levels, with distinct actors and types of power. Through this exploration, intricate details, systemic connections, and relations to overarching processes are unveiled.
Going beyond theory and the five processes, the research aims to develop a praxeological tool applicable in similar, but diverse contexts, projects, and processes. This framework and/or tool is made with the intention of highlighting the systemic patterns and relations in any urban development process. It can be used in different ways, for example, but not limited to:
• a systems oriented tool for gathering and relating knowledge
• a framework/blueprint for/in participation processes
• a holistic approach for/in decision-making processes
• a transdisciplinary communication tool
• a way of setting up conversations in an organisation
Modis operandi in the department of planning, environment, and technical infrastructure (Norwegian: kommunalområde plan, miljø og teknikk) is to a high degree hierarchical, linear, and siloed. This is by no means special and should be relatable for people working at different levels in public administration. The master thesis explores ways of working with and around the modus operandi, while also shifting focus to facilitate for the emergence of a mindset better suited for urban design processes, and implementation of transdisciplinary, holistic solutions that benefit multiple and pluriversal worlds.
This approach offers a relational framework to address multifaceted challenges involving wicked problems, multiple actors, focus, drivers, power dynamics, roles, and emotions. By recognizing the interplay between analysis and human relations, the master advocates for a systemic approach, guiding urban governance practices toward stronger systemic understanding of parallel projects/processes working at different timelines at the same time. The focus is on scale and time, in various contexts, with the goal of creating an environment for innovative implementation practices, and transformative outcomes for Moss, other cities, communities, and municipalities.submittedVersio