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Knee Protect
No full textThe aim of this project is to help prevent knee injuries related to winter activities such as skiing and snowboarding.
My research led to focusing on MCL injuries, which occur when the medial collateral ligament in the knee joint is stretched or torn due to inward force on the knee, commonly seen in skiers. I delved into the market for knee protection, and discovered that medical braces primarily aim to support ligaments, while sports knee pads concentrate on absorbing impacts.
Using this knowledge, I set out to design a knee pad that could provide both support and impact protection. To achieve this, I developed a prototype knee pad using 3D air spacer fabric for cushioning and warmth. During my testing, I found the knee pad to be rather comfortable to wear, especially under ski lifts rides.submittedVersio
Facade Autonomy - A study of the 80s facades at Aker Brygge
No full textGlobal capitalism induces the pressure for change and when urban areas, such as Aker Brygge, are being refurbished, so are the facades. Existing buildings are re-clad with new, green facades, resulting in the disposal of old materials. However, in the context of climate change, this waste poses a significant burden on the planet, so instead of simply discarding the old, there is a need to explore and harness the potential of existing structures.
The facades at Aker Brygge plays a central role in representing the areas culture and history, so this diploma project explores repurposing existing facade materials and delves into authenticity, deception, and the facades as conveyors of representation and language, reflecting on how facade changes impact the area's identity and cultural heritage.submittedVersio
The Montane Ethnobotanical Garden: Symbiosis on a Subtropical Island
Get PDFWuling Farm, located 1,740 meters above sea level in a valley of Taiwan’s Snow Mountains, has been a fruitful producer of vegetables and fruits since its inception in 1963. Recognized as a nature reserve. The farm harbors unique ecological resources that contribute to its immense biodiversity. While agricultural activities have enhanced the local economy, the long-term neglect of water and soil conservation raises concerns of environmental degradation. The increasing need for self-sufficiency and agritourism, combined with the urge for land restoration, necessitates a balanced relationship between humans and nature.
This project proposes the transformation of Wuling Farm into the Montane Ethnobotanical Garden, aiming to harmonize environmental restoration, agriculture, and recreation. The garden will serve as an active hub enhancing the area’s ecological, productive, and touristic values, encompassing two primary components: regenerative agriculture and the botanical paths.
The First part is regenerative agriculture which addresses landslide issues while integrating environmental restoration with fruit production. The forest dikes, created through terrain modifications with water-efficient plants will stabilize soil, prevents erosion, and creates natural buffers for environmental protection. Implementing agroforestry methods as part of this approach will act as a natural solution for regenerative agriculture, fostering rich, bio-diverse habitats and establishing a new, open forest edge.
The second part is the Botanical Garden, a mountainside pathway leading to Taiwan’s second-highest peak, Snow Mountain. The garden celebrate endemic and native species found in snow mountain area, sybolizing the island’s rich natural heritage. It is a space designed for interaction and education, it aims to teach individuals how to observe and connect with various forms of life and appreciate indigenous culture.
Arranged by growing conditions, the garden encompasses five main areas: Cultivation Fields, Gallery of Milieu, Natural Classroom, Native Plant Garden, and Ethnic Plant Garden. These sectors represent the environmental characteristics of the surroundings, each showcasing different aspects and attractions of the area which form a continuous journey . In the end of the path, it will connects seamlessly to the primary mountain landscape.
In conclusion,The Montane Ethnobotanical Garden will serve as a confluence of learning and exploration, functioning as a Long-Term Ecological Research site. It will provide insights into agriculture, botany, and history while aligning food production with tourism and ecological restoration.
As visitors interact with and learn about montane plants, they will gain a new understanding of nature, culture, and human life’s interconnectedness, celebrating our reciprocal relationship with the living world. While each garden may just be a remote corner of the world, it serves as a window to understanding our planet’s rich ecological and cultural tapestry, with montane plants leading the way infront of us.submittedVersio
Digital Introspection
No full textDigital introspection is an explorative interaction design project exploring new ways of contextualizing screen usage, disconnecting, and preserving introspective mind-states such as mind-wandering and daydreaming, in the context of the smartphone.
The project consists of three main scenarios: My screen time doesn’t understand me, Taming your device and Quantified self for introspection. The scenarios display a breadth of possibilities and new opportunities for how we define our relationship to our devices, as well as offering a new perspective on what healthy usage is.
My screen time doesn’t understand me, is a concept for contextualizing screen usage in a meaningful way, looking at your overall behavior on your device. The concept analyzes not what you look at, but how you look at it and provides feedback and suggested tools accordingly. The tool can also notify you if your habits are changing, aiming to make abstract changes over time tangible.
Taming your device is a concept for grouping all tools related to digital wellbeing in one place. Tools can include system settings, but also more advanced tools such as anti-doom scroll tools or thinking helpers such as nudging, simple mode or the zone tool. The concept addresses the need for more variety in tools to manage your device and usage, seeking to lower the threshold for adjusting your device to fit your needs.
Quantified self for introspection is a speculative concept for tracking your introspective thinking time, looking at how your phone can adapt to support it.submittedVersio
The afterlife of gold mines in the Páramos
Get PDFColombia -the second most biodiverse country in the world- has 50% of the world’s páramos. These strategic ecosystems regulate and provide about 70% of Colombia’s water resources, store large amounts of atmospheric carbon in their soils, and have high levels of endemism.
The páramos of Colombia currently present several potential risks of ecosystem loss due to multiple social and territorial factors that have been forged decades ago and are still in dispute. In Santurban’s Páramo, the dispute over the territory started from the exploitation of gold in paramo areas where gold has traditionally been exploited for around 400 years on a small scale. In recent years large multinational companies started to exploit it through open pit mega-mining and later underground mega-mining affecting the vegetation of this fragile ecosystem and polluting the water streams with mercury at its spring, putting at risk the whole watershed that is born in the paramo.
The Project is presented as an opportunity to regenerate the landscape through active restoration strategies and exhibit the endemic botanical variety of the site, attracting people from the local communities to work on the production and planting of the necessary vegetation in the long-term process. This can also attract researchers, as it will be the largest curated exhibition of endemic vegetation above 3,000 meters above sea level, as well as tourists who will come to experience the interior of a mine, a place normally closed to the public. The high páramos are also increasingly at risk of unsustainable tourism development. The restorative project aims to raise awareness of the importance of protecting these fragile and precious landscapes. One can contemplate the different family species of páramo plants and variations in their climate, observe how they grow and harvest water, and learn about the ecological restoration process from seed collection and nursery production to planting and growing in the field.
The design, instead of focusing its attention on a single problem derived from the extraction of gold from the páramo, presents a collection of adapted tools for protecting and regenerating these landscapes under different territorial pressures. Taking the Santurban´s Páramo as an example, this proposal can be presented as a pilot plan including the different angles from which such project can be approached.submittedVersio
Arctic waste garden - Soilscapes of Salangsverket
Get PDFThis project transforms a current waste delivery station into a dynamic public resource garden, breathing new life into a historic site of former resource depletion, the old iron ore factory of Salangsverket in northern Norway. The waste that is today shipped to be handled elsewhere in Norway and the world, is instead managed on site for recycling purposes, artistic activities, and soil cultivation. The new recycling station is framed by a series of curated gardens that present different stages of soil maturity and plant succession. Through visiting the repurposed facility, visitors and locals can be involved in the recycling processes, understand the vital relationship between different ecosystems and ground condition, as well as take active part in the production of healthy soil. Situating present day waste recycling in a geologic timeframe, this project challenges contemporary practices of resource extraction and depletion.
Modern environmental and societal challenges, specifically those related to the global depletion of the soil resources, waste management and the inadequacies of recycling stations in terms of spatial quality, have motivated the conceptualization of a public resource garden. It is a fact that we, humans, are not really able to place ourselves within the cycle of material systems of today. In our post-industrial society the physical and visible connection to waste is cut, and we have no recognition of the waste nor the prospective processes that could sustainably treat it. In the future, as we see an increased demand for food security in times of climate change, Arctic agriculture might play a big role, and the need for healthy soil more important than ever.
The innovative approach of this project aims to integrate environmental, ecological, social, and aesthetic values into a unified framework. It wants to help transform the perception of recycling stations from mere dumpsters to integral components within a landscape. The Arctic waste garden welcomes consumers through a coordinated system of paths, shedding light on the waste process normally concealed. By recycling and reusing local materials, it establishes a foundation for coexistence with waste, reducing the exportation of waste from the municipality. The introduction of spatial qualities within the five main corridors provides intimate areas for visitors to dwell in and to be able to observe the relationship between plant species and soil layers. The five corridors after The bedrock passage are The lichen bridge, The second pioneering islands, The weed silos, The shrub terraces and The young forest intertwine. The annual art biennale at Salangsverket will continue with enhanced facilities and exhibition spaces within the surrounding forest for installations that expose artistic views upon waste. Water catchment will be integrated with small water channels that collect and direct the water into reservoirs that contribute to soil production, laboratories, and allotment gardening. Mix use gardens call for mixed professions that can combine their expertise within the garden, therefore a common facility in the old power station can accommodate a social, cultural and service hub for locals as well as guests.
Repurposed for sustainable resource management, local materials will be utilized in an expanded waste garden. The waste garden will function both as a waste recycling station and soil factory in an era when the amount of healthy soil on the globe is decreasing and the demand for it is increasing. The garden will allow workers, users, and visitors to participate in the material flow and to grow a deeper appreciation for the afterlife and aesthetics of waste. The strategic compression of the waste cycle and the emphasis on minimal transportation aim to transform the resource factory into a self-sustaining landscape entity. The visitors will meander through the historic and present landscape of the garden through diverse paths and embark on a journey through ecological succession. Witnessing the evolution of Langneset from bare rock rising in the coast to the thriving ecosystem of the climax forest in the uphill, the waste garden will bridge the past and the future. The historical journey of the Arctic waste garden at Salangsverket serves as a reminder of the delicate equilibrium required between human progress and environmental stewardship.submittedVersio
Mine Datapunkt
No full textHvordan påvirker våre tanker, følelser og motivasjon kvaliteten på arbeidet vårt som designere? Forskning viser at disse faktorene har en direkte påvirkning på vår ytelse. Vi presterer faktisk bedre når vi har en positiv oppfatning av arbeidet vårt, opplever positive følelser og har en sterk indre motivasjon. Likevel, er få bevisste på dette.
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Mine Datapunkt er en eksplorativ design-diplom som utforsker hvordan vi som designere kan dokumentere og reflektere rundt eget prosjektarbeid. I tillegg har vi undersøkt om det er mulig å bruke visualiseringer for å hjelpe oss å se egne mønstre, samt øke forståelsen for hva som påvirker oss i kreativt arbeid.
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Tilnærmingen vår prioriterer utforskning og eksperimentering. Vi har betraktet oss selv som forskningsobjekter og brukt egne erfaringer og refleksjoner som datasett. Ved å bruke denne tilnærmingen har vi ønsket å identifisere faktorene som påvirker vårt eget prosjektarbeid, og undersøke om disse erfaringene er gjort av andre.
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Resultatet av prosjektet er konsept som lar en dokumentere og etter hvert analysere ens egne følelser og påvirkningsfaktorer, slik at man kan lære av tidligere erfaringer og prosjekter. Konseptet, sammen med rapporten, utgjør en ramme for å diskutere og reflektere over hva som påvirker vårt kreative arbeid.submittedVersio
This land is not for sale
No full textThis land is not for sale intervenes in an ongoing construction site situated in the municipality of Bamble, using a newly established road as focal point for discussing alternative development options. By examining the conflict inherent to any built structure established in a natural landscape, this diploma seeks to explore the interplay between an architectural outcome and a certain political and cultural locus.
A forest named Bunestoppen is the chosen site for the case study, embodying a landscape marked by several traces of human activities over the years. Treating the new construction site as a monument of the past, the project opposes the extensive planned development at the Langesund Peninsula. In the fictional alternative scenario, the infrastructure intended for private development is transformed from private assets to better benefit the existing local community. The diploma explores an architecture for neighborhood activities, placing trust on the locals to function as committed caretakers for the forest, as they have been for many years before the new building process began.
Organizing the existing discussion about the forest into theoretical actors assists a further analysis by distinguishing the architect’s role as an actor - who or what does the architect represent? Thus, professional judgements in complex situations are brought up for evaluation. Despite calls from various actors to protect the area through nature conservation acts, it was instead subject to a municipal regulation plan involving a new double-lane road, accommodating 120 new housing units and a fire station. These plans disrupt the existing use of the forest for leisure activities and as a favorable commuting route between home, school and workplace on foot or bicycle. Local politicians, however, are of conviction that the area benefits from new housing development potentially increasing municipal incomes from land sales and preventing excessive moving - a potential investment for the future of Bamble municipality.
The built proposal in the speculative scenario takes the form of a structure placed amid a landscape of felled trees and blasted rocks, seeking to emphasize alternatives to extensive building in the forest areas while pedagogically acknowledging the human impact, seeking not to hide or cover up the various traces of human activity. At the same time, the project proposes alternative built functions based on the neighborhood’s needs, using the remnants of the development. By offering a public space with an outdoor kitchen and restrooms, as well as flexible spaces for different activities, the aim is to take the neighborhood and their everyday life into greater consideration.
Investigating the spatial potential of ongoing construction sites, the diploma seeks to discuss the process of decision-making, examining not only what we decide to build and how, but also what we refrain from constructing. Exploring alternative solutions in the existing scenario, the diploma offers a new future for the forest where the plots are never sold. Instead, the project elaborates the purpose of new infrastructure to better consider various impacted actors - tentatively seeking to soften the local conflict, while gaining insight into a sensitive, but highly relevant topic for planning our built environment. What public spatial potential does an ongoing road construction have, and how can a broader value system be implemented?submittedVersio
Urban Spaces: Are city bikes, electric scooters, and shared cars means to achieve goals, or goals in themselves? A discussion of Oslo municipality's goals, facilitations, and effects of new shared mobility solutions.
Get PDFÅ reserverer plass til bysykler, bildeling og elsparkesykler i offentlige gater kan bidra til at det blir enklere å reise uten privatbil. I kompakte byer kan det være et viktig virkemiddel for å finne arealeffektive løsninger. Samtidig kan dette hindre en fleksibel og samtidig bruk av arealene for innbyggerne generelt. Det vanskelige er ikke å utarbeide mål og bestemme hvordan det skal tilrettelegges for delte kjøretøy på offentlig grunn. Det vanskelige er å undersøke hva tilretteleggingen faktisk bidrar til. I oppgaven undersøkes hvordan Oslo kommune omtaler mål, tilrettelegger for og måler effekter av bysykler, bildeling og elsparkesykler.
Studien finner lite som tyder på at delte kjøretøy brukes som virkemidler for å nå overordnede mål. En tydeligere forankring og forståelse for hvilke mål utleiekjøretøyene skal bidra positivt til, kunne gitt en mer kunnskapsbasert tilrettelegging i form av krav til utleiere og kjøretøyene, samt hvilke områder tjenestene skal tilbys i.
Videre vektlegger den behovet for klare mål, kunnskapsbasert regulering, og måleplaner for å effektivt nå byens transportmål. Oppgaven argumenterer for nødvendigheten av strategiske beslutninger om hvilke forretningsmodeller og kjøretøy som skal få tilgang til offentlige arealer. Studien advarer også mot manglende kobling mellom reguleringer og konkrete mål i Oslo kommune og foreslår forbedringer, inkludert tydeligere konsekvensmålinger og en tverrsektoriell tilnærming. Studien understreker behovet for grundigere evaluering av reguleringenes faktiske effekter på målene om redusert klimagassutslipp og endret transportmiddelbruk.Reserving public space for city bikes, car-sharing, and shared e-scooters in public streets can contribute to making travel without private cars more accessible. In compact cities, it can be a crucial tool for finding space-efficient solutions. At the same time, this may hinder flexible and simultaneous use of the spaces for residents in general. The challenge is not in establishing goals and determining how to facilitate shared vehicles on public grounds. The challenge lies in investigating what the facilitation contributes to. The thesis examines how the Oslo municipality discusses goals, facilitates, and measures the effects of city bikes, car-sharing, and electric scooters. The study finds little evidence that shared vehicles are used to achieve overarching goals. A clearer anchoring and understanding of the positive contributions rental vehicles are expected to make to specific goals could lead to a more knowledge-based facilitation, involving requirements for rental providers, vehicles, and the areas where services should be offered. Furthermore, the thesis emphasizes the need for clear goals, knowledge-based regulations, and measurement plans to effectively reach the city's transportation goals. The thesis argues for the necessity of strategic decisions regarding which business models and vehicles should have access to public spaces. The study also warns against the lack of connection between regulations and specific goals in the Oslo municipality and suggests improvements, including clearer consequence measurements and a cross-sectoral approach. The study highlights the need for more thorough evaluation of the regulations' actual effects on the goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and changing modes of transportationsubmittedVersio