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Climb Oslo
No full textThe research stage of this project aimed to uncover the issues preventing indoor climbers in Oslo, Norway from engaging in outdoor bouldering. The research methods used for this part of the project were expert interviews, climbing workshops, surveys, and desk research. The findings from this research were then synthesized, resulting in four main insights: Accessibility, Safety Information, Planning, and Communication.
Following the findings from the research stage, the project moved on to the design stage, which focused on addressing the four main insights. The design methods used for this part of the project included design workshops, usability testing, card sorting, workshop run-throughs, shadow testing, design sprints, and field testing. The final designs that attept to address the research problems are as followed: a prototype planning tool, a print branding campaign communicating the brand values, an interactive indoor safety workshop on outdoor bouldering, an equipment rental starter package and an over arching brand.submittedVersio
Prognose: Bærekraftig pårørendekommunikasjon
No full textEn prognose er en begrunnelse eller forutsigelse om hva som kan skje i fremtiden basert på data. I et sykdomsforløp kan man for eksempel si at prognosen til en pasient er god og at de er på bedringens vei. Dette prosjektet undersøker hvordan pårørende til eldre kan ha en god, men også bærekraftig prognose i fremtiden.
I dag bidrar pårørende i Norge med nesten like stor andel pleie og omsorg som kommunale helse- og omsorgstjenester (Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet, 2020, s. 11). Vi har en økende andel eldre i befolkningen og vi må også forberede oss på at det vil være færre helsearbeidere per pasient i fremtiden.
Pårørende eksisterer i krysningspunktet mellom helse- og omsorgstjenesten, pasient, eget liv og andre pårørende. De utgjør en sammensatt gruppe, med ulike behov og utfordringer, i ulike faser.
Prosjektet undersøker hvordan vi kan legge til rette for bærekraftig samhandling og kommunikasjon mellom pårørende og helse- og omsorgstjenesten. I vår tilnærming til prosjektet har vi samarbeidet parallellt med neste generasjons e-helseplattform, Aidn. Vi har anvendt både eksisterende og egne designmetoder for utforske, navigere og designe i en kompleks tematikk.
Vår designleveranse består av fem kjernefunksjoner, designet i Aidn sitt foreløpige rammeverk, med mål om en bærekraftig utvikling gjennom å styrke samhandling og kommunikasjon mellom pårørende og helse- og omsorgstjenesten.submittedVersio
Uncovering the hidden gardens of El Pedregal
Get PDFA volcano called Xitle erupted 2,500 years ago. This volcano is part of a mountain range of more than 200 small volcanoes that make up the Mexican volcanic belt. The spill covered a relatively low kidney-shaped area, a total of almost 8,000 Ha. Today is known as El Pedregal.
Jardines de El Pedregal, is the development project born when the Architect Luis Barragán acquired and undertook an unprecedented “real estate landscape” operation, between 1945 and 1952. The discovery in terms of “learning to see the landscape” of petrified lava and stony lands, as a possibility of a way of life exalted by the beauty of nature in the periphery of Mexico City.
Jardines de El Pedregal is an area where the houses and gardens were built in a lava desert field that takes on the most peculiar shapes. The buildings of houses and gardens highlight the beauty of the stones, along with the original character of the landscape. Here Barragán carried out extraordinary landscape works such as the Plaza de Acceso, Plaza Las Fuentes, parks, and sample gardens
El Pedregal has suffered rapid and destructive urban growth during the last 50 years, and the preservation of the last remains of fauna and flora that is endemic to this region and unique in the world strongly relies on the conservation of the Xitle lavas, whose elevated diversity in morphology and vesicularity creates a wide range of microhabitats that host a considerable number of species.
The sample plot or sample garden, although designed as a public space, was planned as a model for the development of private space. They were to illustrate Barragán’s idea of correct construction on site, promoting a kind of “harmony” between architecture and landscape. Currently, the plot of the sample gardens is completely covered by houses, without any trace of what they once were. I intend to uncover the gardens, shown and thus expose knowledge and sensibility toward the geological and modernist heritage of Mexican history.submittedVersio
Rethinking Clay
No full textHow can design contribute to the minimisation of clay waste in the city of Oslo?
“Rethinking Clay” aims to offer a contribution that promotes the creation and consumption of locally-sourced products. It intends to transform the perception of blue clay from waste to a valuable resource. The objective of this intervention is to explore innovative ways to utilise blue clay, thereby minimising waste and maximising its potential across various contexts.
Two products were developed as a proof of concept. These products are created locally and sustainably utilising blue clay as the main material and partnering with refugees for its creation, providing refugees with valuable context on the working environment in Oslo. “Rethinking Clay” does not only promote sustainable practices, it also facilitates the integration of refugees into the local community and empowers them with valuable skills for their future endeavours. It promotes the possibility for the creation of a profitable, circular, and sustainable micro-economy.
The partition walls are created with a simple, modular tile design, allowing for a wide range of functional and decorative constructions.
The three-dimensional elements of these tiles create a playful dynamic in the space through their interactions with light, adding aesthetic value to any space where these tiles are used. Besides the aesthetic value, these tiles promote acoustic isolation due to the inherent sound-absorbtion qualities of blue clay.submittedVersio
Pierced mountain
No full textThis diploma thesis investigates how the built structures of Gaustatoppen can meet the needs of the increasing number
of all-year-round visitors without compromising the mountain landscape. Gaustatoppen (1883 m) is one of the most visited mountains in Norway. The areas around are relatively flat, which makes the mountain stand in significant contrast with its oblong and pointed shape. The mountain contains one of the largest blockfields in Scandinavia. Freeze-thaw activity has fragmented the exposed quartzite rocks in situ, making a dramatic landscape in its shape and surface.
In 1893, a tourist hut was constructed by Telemark Trekking Association on the mountaintop to “promote the beautiful Telemark” (Aase 1993, s. 24). The tourist hut was built with stones found on site, 73 years after the first official climb in 1810. Today, several buildings are located on the mountain top, including a small weather station, radio tower with its base, former military apartment, and link hut.
Each year around 100 000 people visit the mountain (SNL 2021). Until 2010, Gaustatoppen was only reachable by foot in summer and skis in winter. However, most parts of the formerly secret and closed-off military facility opened to the public when the Norwegian Army sold the facility to Tinn municipality, based in Rjukan. A commercially run funicular inside the mountain now carry tourists up and down the mountain throughout the year, often with the sole purpose of looking at and experiencing the panoramic view towards 1/6 of Norway.
Different stakeholders want to use the mountain as a catalysator for attracting tourists. However, the number of visitors poses
a challenge to protecting nature in the area. The Trekking Association, DNT, operates in the middle ground between commercial and protective interests. They have expressed their need to expand the existing tourist hut, to meet the needs of the increasing number of visitors. The purpose of this diploma is to suggest a strategy for building in this type of environment with the tourist hut as a case study for intervention
Living Together: Towards a Third Housing Sector in Oslo
No full textThe narrative of this diploma is twofold and will deal with two topics. Firstly, it seeks to explore the spatial possibilities of an obsolete and empty health-care building from 1939 and how this can be transformed into dwellings. Secondly, it will discuss alternative forms of housing in relation to the third housing sector in Oslo, and challenge the ways in which we think about the concept of dwellings and ways to live in the city.
The approach of this project is design-based, and hence the thesis is developed as a project consisting of proposed and existing investigations. The process of the project was structured into four phases; (1) the buildings’ history, (2) the building today,(3) the building in change, and lastly (4) the building tomorrow. The presentation, however, will focus on existing and proposed elements and conditions. Initially the project was approached through the building of an archive of physical surveys, photographs and studies of former and existing states as drawn out in archival drawings.
As set out in the thesis, the project discuss the possibilities for a third housing sector in Oslo. Housing prices - both rental and owned - are on the rise and the housing market is only accessible through the communal (social) sector and the open market. This is the case many places in the world today. However, several cities in Europe, such as Zürich, has had a third sector for as long as around a hundred years and provide a strong precedent. Here, the sector emphasize social, cultural and political aspects more so than the purely financial. Quite often, the third sector is also more focused on alternative forms of living and different forms of owning and/or renting. Access to the third housing sector in Zurich is given by the state as sites and/or empty buildings at a very reasonable price and with low interest loans.
At the present, Oslo kommune has a body of 92 empty buildings at a total of 142 295 square meters. A large percentage of these are old health care facilities, which have also been empty for an extended amount of time. This project sought to find a building representative of the typical empty building. And, although this project is qualitative and explores a detailed transformation approach to one specific building, it is our ambition that this can be of inspiration to other similar projects in the future.
The project handles a former infant home from 1939 at Lindern in Oslo. The building is 1270 square meters big divided over five floors and also has a site of 3126 square meters. This building has allowed for the project to tackle typical issues for this type of institutional building; long dark corridors, cell-like rooms, an overly extensive amount of circulation space, as well as large amounts of doors and walls. This building type has often received tight financial funding which in return cause often loss of the initial ambitions and aspirations of the architect(s). The approach has therefore been to reduce the amount of circulation space and give all units access to the south-east facing facade as this gives the steadiest light, which in turn hopefully could give substantial in aesthetical value.
The program consists of 16 units (apartments). 15 of which are apartments and one which can be used flexibly to accommodate visiting friends and family. We do not stretch or add to the buildings’’ form externally, but revert to the original aspirations of the architects that got lost in the process of use over many years. The aim of the transformation has been to interpret the existing condition and respect this, and to preserve some of the buildings inherent qualities. Everything that is changed or reverted to its original idea is performed in concrete in the same time tint as the brick.
The physical programme seeks to challenge the way in which we dwell; owning less and sharing more. Spacious and rich congregation- and common spaces allow for living units to be smaller in size. We explore the transition from the communal spaces to the very private - seeking to find a gradient where meeting and interacting with others flows easily. Originally, the programme set out to give every individual 15 square meters each, but this proved to create too big differences between the units and thus removing the need or use of common spaces. Every apartment is given a kitchenette, bathroom and sleeping space, as well as a storage in the basement. Everything else is shared. Common spaces encompass a vegetation space in the garden, common eating quarters, a library, a recreational space for movement and a roof terrace of 150 square meters. We re-insulate on the inside to preserve the functionalist expression of the facade.
Our project outline was changed in relation to the pre-diploma, from refugee homes to cooperative living spaces.submittedVersio
Preserving the intangible Traditional boat-building craft in Lista
No full textThis diploma works with the tradition of boat building and its craft in Borhaug; a small coastal village
in Farsund municipality. Boat-building has been an important cultural and economic activity in northern
Europe for a long time. Many Scandinavian boats share the same root. They are however all different.
Boat building is an activity that is always affected by its local context. The type of trees available, the intended use of the boat and cultural factors all play a role in the shaping of the boat. Boat traditions differ from region to region. Commonalties can always be found but each region develops the boat in a way that best suits its culture, economy, and resources. Borhaug is no exception to this. In 1815 Gjert Gundersen came to Lista as a merchant but then settled in as a boat builder. He brought with him the boat building tradition from Hardanger. He observed the eastern boats in Lista as there were no boats being built in Lista at that time. He then combined the eastern and western boat into what now is know as the Lista boat.
Ole Olsen Stave, a local, took what Gundersen had and developed it further. He was the first to put a deck on a Lista boat. His contribution goes beyond that as he gave that tradition further to his apprentices that carried on the work after his death. In the second half of the 19th century the Lista boat started to get more attention and demand from regions in the south. The production of these boats became an important economic activity. Many families started building boats and use them to fish. The boats were also used in races and shows where the Lista boat won different competitions increasing the demand even more. The boat was known to require less ballast thus making it attractive for fishermen. Borhaug became a center for all the fishermen to fish and to fix and build boats.
When the fishing industry started to take a downturn the Lista boat was being used for transportation of goods. It also proved to be successful in that regard.
The lista boat struggled to compete against industrial boats. Adaptations were made to the wooden boats but the local industry could not keep up with the rapid industrialization of boat making centers. More and more boat workshops started closing with the last one closing being Brekneholmen boat workshop that was converted in 2003 into a cultural center. The research in this diploma is concerned with boat building as a craft. The research is thereafter used to develop an architectural proposal for preserving the boat and its craft. The proposal takes place in the harbor area of the cultural center. It reverts it back to its original function where it will be used as a
small boat workshop. The program is also extended with a slipway in order to provide a space for the larger Lista boatssubmittedVersio