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Verkstedstorget - A public workshop preserving and communicating practical knowledge
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Egnebu in Vardø - with Sámi values as guidelines
No full textThe diploma investigates the relevance indigenous cultures have for sustainable design today, selecting the Sámi as it is an indigenous people in Norway. Choosing three values from my study of Sámi architecture, I developed a method of using these as guidelines for a design process. My case study is a fishing industry site in Vardø, working on both a strategy for the site and the design of Egnebu (fisher’s sheds).
Does Sámi architecture contain values that are relevant and can aid sustainable design in Norway today?submittedVersio
Mobile Heritage: Preserving Architecture on the Move
Get PDFFrom Drammensveien 312 to Arnstein Arnebergvei 31
"Som en flyvende tallerken i sakte film letter romfartskontoret til Njål R. Eide fra sin plass på Drammensveien 312 på Lysaker sentrum halv ett i natt. Noen timer senere var det på plass på sine søyler på fjellknausen i det gamle fornebu-krysset. "
Source: Asker og Bærums Budstikke, 7. July 1990
Around midnight, a Tuesday in July 1990, a 107 square meter silver box of steel, aluminum, and glass, colloquially called the UFO, took off to a new destination, blocking the E18 Highway in the process. A service module was disconnected before the 10-ton building was lifted by a crane and onto a truck, and three hours later, 700 meters down the road, it landed on its new foundation. The spectacular event, which was extensively documented, with journalists referring to it as something out of a science fiction movie, is the starting point for my diploma project.
Because of the development of Lysakerlokket, a large-scale infrastructural project, Njål R. Eide’s eye-catching architectural office was forced to move elsewhere. Eide initiated the pavilion in 1978 as a prototype for large modular buildings for his two primary sectors of operation: cruise ships and oil platforms. An optimistic belief in a future where technology and mass fabrication played an important role was incorporated into the design. The office pavilion rested on four concrete pillars, 60 cm above ground, on leased land. It had a 25-square-meter service module connected to it, containing an entrance area, technical installations, and water. The office pavilion was built to move.
The unusual event on E18 more than 30 years ago is relevant for an architectural project today because the building in question is an unresolved issue – it currently lies vacant and derelict with no future plan. I will reveal through my diploma project that the building reflects a fascinating, multi-layered history. It is an heirloom from the recent past with a direct link to the oil industry and Norwegian cruise-ship design, two problematic fields which have shaped Norwegian society from the 1970s onwards. The pavilion’s history as a preservation object on the move also connects it to heritage management, a field in which preserving by moving has been a recurring method since the ambitious attempts to save national treasures such as stave churches and other vernacular buildings in the 19th century, leading to open-air museums, with Folkemuseet, located in Bygdøy, Oslo, as one internationally prominent example.
Eide’s portable office building is not a national icon but a style representative. If we are to nurture a holistic culture of reuse, more buildings from the recent past must be preserved and repurposed. This diploma asks how to restore, reuse, transform or dismantle this and similar structures. I propose to move the office pavilion once again to explore its potential for survival and repurposing. Reactivating a concept of mobility as a source of architectural design and a preservation strategy, the project links the office pavilion to past ideas that might be as valid today as ever.
From Arnstein Arnebergvei 31 to Folkemuseet
Today, the building appears as a futuristic ruin - dusty, dilapidated, with punctured windows and full of mold. Forty-four years have passed since its erection, thirty-two years since it was moved, and ten years since it was abandoned. Lysaker is yet again under development, and the building (together with Eide’s archive) and all its surroundings are planned for demolition to make room for new buildings. The easy thing would be to destroy it and forget about it. So why shouldn’t we?
My diploma project proposes moving the building to Folkemuseet as an ex-situ preservation tactic. This will emphasize its importance in Norwegian building practice and industry history and extend the museum’s research to include buildings from the recent past. Aluminum, steel, and glass were becoming more advanced and available in a wider variety of forms in the 70s and 80s. I wish to shed light on the lack of knowledge about preserving these materials and buildings. How does one preserve a building that does not age “gracefully”? And as a museum is almost the definition of permanence, how can one incorporate a building which is intended to be temporary and interchangeable into a museum collection without ruining its essence?
Mobile Heritage: Preserving Architecture on the Move is an architectural research project more than a conventional design diploma. It is also a preservation project centered on the quest of moving the office pavilion to a new destination, involving several design tasks and decisions. Essentially, the diploma is an argument for why a chosen building should be preserved combined with a strategy for doing it. This takes the form of a preservation plan.submittedVersio
Age is just a number
No full textThis diploma investigates how changing the way we design housing for the elderly can respond to the demographic shift, by proposing a shift from institutionalized, age-segregated housing to an age-inclusive and social way of living.
Through an architectural project focused on sharing and intergenerational relations, an alternative way of living for students in early adulthood with senior citizens in the later years after retirement is proposed. The goal is to enhance quality of life for two age groups particularly prone to loneliness in their current housing situations. By investigating different levels of sharing in an intergenerational housing community, the idea is to facilitate a social framework that can provide a safe, active, and lively everyday life for its residents.submittedVersio
Memorial Garden in Lofoten
No full textMemorial Garden is an informal funeral space for passing and reminiscence, in confrontation with the forces of nature, staged in a steep landscape in Lofoten.
The phenomena of thresholds expresses tension between two states, which has strong character of temporality, and can easily be associated with our presence on earth. A threshold is a place at which something starts, and something ends. It is two things at the same time; an ending and a beginning. Our time being alive can be seen as a threshold space between birth and death, and death as a threshold between life and afterlife. Death is part of presence and presence is something eternal, regardless of the existence of humans or other species. Even though we inhabit death, this is also part of an absolute order of nature, which remains.submittedVersio
Activating the threshold between fjord and city
No full textThe threshold areas between the city and the nature in Oslo are important, and decides the accessibility for the inhabitants to nature. The Fjord-city plan calls for a new take on the use of Oslo’s waterfront, seen as border between the fjord and the urban city. The Fjord-city plan ends at Frognerkilen, leaving Bestumkilen privatized and inaccessible for the public. I am looking at Bestumkilen in relation to the waterfront of the Oslofjord, and explore how the site can be more accessible for the public, but at the same time keep the areas identity and develop it by looking at existing activity and life in the area.
With my project I wish to activate situations and thresholds found at the site in Bestumkilen. Situations as the program; rowing and padling clubs, the rowing and padling track, swimming and public leisure. The waterfront, and accessibility to the fjord. The coastal path going through the site, the landscape and its history. As well as different materiality found on the site. The place is for people who are already in the area, live nearby, just passing by, or people who come to participate in the activity. The structure can improve training and competition for rowers and padlers, but most important to offer a free space to for everyone in the area.submittedVersio
Dear future, dear past,
No full textWe are growing older, and the amount of older people in Norway will soon be historically high. The social and societal differences between old an young can create conflicts of interests and lack of togetherness in neighbourhoods and environments.
Dear future, dear past, is a strategic design diploma exploring these differences. The project consists of two proposals; one about how we want to grow old, and one about how we can nurture more connection accross age groups.
The ambition with this diploma is to introduce a bigger focus on connecting age groups in the ongoing strategic work among public, private and ideal actors to prepare the Norwegian society for the emerging population change.
“The Archive of Norwegian Destinies” is a book that contains 200 descriptions written by a neighbourhood in Oslo. The descriptions came from a participatory exhibition called “Destiny’s Market”. Some of these descriptions have been visualised, and show scenarios about how these destinies play out in a future where the young and old are more connected.
“Intergenerational Design Examples” is a website containing 5 concepts, as well as descriptions to how we can design for intergenerational meetings. Each concept focuses on different ways that young and old can interact, through services, social infrastructures, traditions and platforms.
The concepts are the result of a pragmatic exploration; getting older friends, field work in 3 Norwegian municipalities, attending events that are exclusively for old people, interviewing and talking to inhabitants and municipal workers.submittedVersio
Å reise noe nytt og bedre : om arkitektur og politikk 1935–1940
Get PDFEn politisk bevegelse med vilje til å forandre samfunnet, en velferdsstat på skissestadiet og en gruppe arkitekter i rollen som det nye samfunnets formgivere. Det er dette denne avhandlingen handler om. I 1935 dannet Arbeiderpartiet regjering. Det regnes som innledningen til en ny epoke i norsk historie. Kort tid etter sluttet de unge arkitektene i Sosialistiske Arkitekters Forening seg til arbeiderbevegelsen. I avhandlingen følger jeg denne arkitektgruppen inn på det politiske feltet, og viser hvordan den nye politiske situasjonen representerte et nytt handlingsrom for arkitektene.
Arbeidet springer ut av et knippe forskningsspørsmål: Hvilke politiske organisasjoner engasjerte arkitektene seg i? Hvordan kom engasjementet deres til syne i Arbeiderpartiets planer og programmer? Hva slags boligidealer forfektet arkitektene? Hvordan bidro de til å utvide forståelsen for hva arkitektur kan være og gjøre?
I avhandlingen undersøker jeg hvordan de sosialistiske arkitektene, innenfor konteksten av et politisk paradigmeskifte, bidro til å utvikle forståelsen av arkitektur som et verktøy for samfunnsforming, og arkitektens rolle som samfunnsplanlegger og samfunnsbygger. Dette var ideer som sprang ut av modernismen. Å undersøke det særeregne rommet som oppsto mellom arkitektur og politikk i andre halvdel av 1930-tallet, kan også bidra til å kaste nytt lys over modernismens utvikling. Det hører med til den etablerte fortellingen om modernismen at den også hadde en sosial eller politisk side. Gjennom å gjøre rede for hvordan de sosialistiske arkitektene utviklet faglige løsninger på politiske problemer, anskueliggjør jeg hvordan det politiske aspektet ved modernismen kom til uttrykk i den unike, historiske situasjonen.
Etter andre verdenskrig ble boligpolitikken en av bærerebjelkene i velferdsstaten, og i avhandlingen argumenterer jeg for hvordan fundamentet for etterkrigstidens storstilte boligbygging ble lagt i årene mellom 1935 og 1940, umiddelbart etter at Arbeiderpartiet kom til makten. Ett av avhandlingens viktigste funn er hvordan partiet aktivt knyttet fagfolk - som arkitekter - til seg. I den nye politiske situasjonen var det behov for ekspertkunnskap, og jeg viser hvordan arkitektene i årene frem mot andre verdenskrig tok i bruk sin fagkunnskap i politikkutformingen. Jeg argumenterer for at arkitektenes sentrale posisjon i oppbyggingen av velferdsstaten kan knyttes til deres evne til å formulere og konkretisere hvordan viktige samfunnsoppgaver kunne løses arkitektonisk. Min interesse gjelder særlig dynamikken mellom det faglige og politiske, der arkitektfaglige løsninger bidro til å utvide politikkens handlingsfelt.
Det viktigste teoretiske grepet i denne avhandlingen har vært å kontekstualisere og historisere, det vil si å avdekke det unike og spesifikke ved utviklingen på arkitektur- og politikkfeltet i årene mellom 1935 og 1940. Å betrakte arkitektur som noe som blir til som en del av et historisk forløp er noe som i liten grad problematiseres i arkitekturhistorisk forskning, og slik er denne avhandlingen også ment som et forsøk på å utforske andre måter å skrive arkitekturhistorie på, som et mulig alternativ til den tradisjonelle verks- og stilorienterte arkitekturhistorien.publishedVersio
Eboon - Emo, Blood, Moon
No full textEboon is a product to mentally and physically relieve Chinese females’ serious dysmenorrhea symptoms.
Dysmenorrhea is a complication that accompanies women around the time of menstruation and it causes great distress both psychologically and physically, such as emotional breakdowns and physical pain. It can be severe enough to send a woman into an emotional spiral of self-doubt or so painful that bed rest hinders her daily life. This project was designed to provide mental and physical relief to Chinese women suffering from menstrual pain through product design.
Eboon is a product to relieve women’s dysmenorrhea symptoms. Its body is a hand-held, self-heating product. When some women have dysmenorrhea, their hand temperature decreases to cold, making it difficult for them to focus on work and study. To solve this problem, Eboon houses disposable, replaceable, heat activated charcoal packs that relieve women of the cold in their hands caused by dysmenorrhea. That’s not the only thing Eboon does. Another feature is that it can help relieve the negative emotions that women experience during their periods due to rising hormones. Eboon is designed to provide an outlet for women’s emotions by smelling, pressing on soft surfaces and rubbing the hard particles against the touch. It also has a built-in sensor that records the user’s mood with each press, providing a quantified digital report digital report of the user’s emotions, turning unquantifiable mood swings into a visible emotional journey.
In addition, due to the private nature of the topic, dysmenorrhea is rarely discussed openly, not only in China but also in the world. As a result, there is a lot of opposition to women being unable to participate in social activities, such as work, meetings, and studies due to dysmenorrhea, and they cannot even use it as an excuse to take time off work. Because of this lack of understanding, women remain silent even when they are in pain, and are reluctant to share or ask for help. I want to break this silence and make dysmenorrhea more accessible and understandable to the public. For this, Eboon’s big part is a pedestal that carries the smaller part. It is designed to be prepared so that people can hang it on the walls of their homes. The aim is that when women use the Eboon small part to relieve dysmenorrhea symptoms, their parents, partner, or roommates can tell whether she is experiencing dysmenorrhea or not by looking to see if the pedestal is empty. It creates a communication bridge between women and their closed ones, allowing them to proactively provide emotional support to women.submittedVersio