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Send / Receive - Transforming Vigra Broadcaster RADIO REMNANTS
No full textHow do you commemorate something that no longer exists?
This diploma seeks to make amends with a loss through the processing of remains.
The 240 meter tall radio mast of Vigra broadcasting station was demolished in 2011, it left behind an almost 100 year long story of when radio came to Norway. The introduction of radio changed the very fabric of society and its continued use stands as a testament to the importance this technology still has in society. The radio mast at Vigra represented the early beginnings of telecommunication, at a time marked by rapid progress as wireless entertainment, information and communication came into everyday life. The radio masts destruction cannot be undone, but if you dig underneath the surface remnants will reveal themself.
Like a tree, the radio mast had a subterranean grounding system of copper wires extending out from its base. The state and extent of the wiring poses an ecological risk, but also an opportunity to reconnect with the history of the site in a way that can generate a new future for Vigra broadcaster.
Since the site’s closure several attempts at establishing a museum in the broadcasting station have been made, but none has succeeded. This project proposes an architectural program centered around the transformation of the remnants from the site and establishes a museum that is part of creating its own collection. By utilizing certain plants through a process called phytoextraction, heavy metals like copper can be harvested from the soil. The plants absorb the metal into their tissue and through repeated cycles of planting, harvesting and processing the copper can slowly be removed from the soil. This process is cyclical in nature, and as the seasons change so does the program to allow for the different processes to expand and contract together with the museum.submittedVersio
Skriverøya Quarry, discovering unintended beauty at an abandoned industrial site
No full textStone is seeing a revival in architectural constructions, but despite both the material beauty and the constructive qualities of stone, quarrying is seen as a destructive industry. The enormity and scale of our stone quarries, not only as industrial sites but as irreversible incisions into our nature, requires us to evaluate our treatment of the place they leave behind
In this project I investigate the latent potential of a granite quarry to become a place of meaning after production has ceased, and how I, by my role as an architect can contribute to make it so.submittedVersio
More like marka - an urban take on the marka cabin
No full textSports and physical activities inevitably play important roles in the society. It has the ability to let people communicate and interact, regardless of language barriers, reiligion or socio-economic background. Physical activities are also closely related to bigger themes such as public health, integration and inclusion. My impression is that easy accesible facilities for activity not only improves the public health. It also holds a huge potential for contributing to attractive, social sustainable neighborhoods.
My diploma project is a fragmented translation of the traditional, Norwegian typology, the markastue, introduced to an urban setting. It is a prototype for how activity can be implemented to urban neighborhoods to improve and strengthen them. The project aims to create social arenas with a strong local identity and focuses on low threshold access to local activities using both existing and new structures. With the cultural history of cross country skiing as a basis, the program takes advantage of the landscape, nature and urban context through all seasons.
The site for the case study is Breivoll - one of the remaining plots for housing development in Oslo, located at the entrance of Groruddalen. The area is dominated by post industrial buildings for production and storage, but the area is also characterized by a huge, green lunge, with a rich, natural wildlife along the Alna river.
Through a reading of the constraints and possibilities that the natural environment builds up, the architectural program is distributed as seven interventions along the edge of the whole site. Each building acts as a mediator between its local neighborhood and the network of activities. They represent the intention of reaching out to a wide range of people, as an open, inviting space. A place to gather in the local community, and provide a low threshold, cheap and inclusive offer for introduction to skiing and outdoor physical activities.
As a prototype, this translation of the marka cabin explores some aspects that can be taken into consideration when implementing activities to neighborhoods - such as accessability, natural elements, potential reusable structures and local heritage. The project serves as a platform for physical activity itself, but also as a gate, encouraging and motivating the visitor to seek the opportunities in Marka.submittedVersio
Tryvannstårnet: Ascending / Descending
Get PDFBetween forest and city, overlooking the city of Oslo, sits Tryvannstårnet. The 118 meter high broadcasting tower is a well known landmark in the city landscape.
As an important part of Norway’s post war infrastructural architectural history, constructional longevity has resulted in Tryvannstårnet outliving its initial program. Since its decommission in 2017 the tower has stood derelict and closed to the public. This raises the question of optimal management of our cultural heritage like Tryvannstårnet. One could ask if different approaches are needed regarding protection of industrial and infrastructural architecture in contrast to more classical examples of our cultural heritage. This diploma explores Tryvannstårnet as a multifaceted monument, and how it again can serve the public.submittedVersio
From Seabed To Plate
Get PDFBy focusing on the semantic, cooking, and nutritional information, we have explored how seaweed could become a bigger part of the Norwegian diet.
Norway presents unique qualities to become the leading seaweed nation as it has the market experience and access from the seafood industry and a unique landscape suitable for growing seaweed. While this sea vegetable has been manifested in Norwegian diets in the past, today seaweed has lost its associations to the culinary world.
Being a delicious, nutritious, and sustainable ingredient, seaweed offers a lot of potential to the future challenges of our food system. While it has been a traditional part of Asian cuisines since a long time, it is now gaining more popularity within the West.
Today there are several challenges that the seaweed industry needs to address to penetrate the food market. In our research, we found that there are some linguistic inconsistencies that can cause confusion. The same specie can have several names and the Norwegian translation seaweed ‘tang og tare’ is challenging. This can make it hard to introduce it to the consumer and reachthe international market.
Seaweed also lacks a clear classification system and is currently not present in any food category. Categorising seaweed can be hard: from a nutritional point of view, seaweed has a lot of similarities to vegetables, but from a kitchen viewpoint, it is treated like seafood.
To address all these linguistic obstacles, we have created a set of semantic recommendations and put them into different contexts.
There are other issues regarding consumer information that need to be tackled for seaweed to become an ordinary food product. From speaking to consumers, we realised that health factors can influence consumers’ shopping decisions. If the information is not clear, consumers prefer not to consume any of it. With seaweed being both a very nutritional ingredient and highly concentrated in iodine, it is important to provide consumers with clear guidelines. As a result, we have created various labels that can educate consumers about the nutritional benefits and risks of seaweed.
Cooking with seaweed can be quite intimidating when you are not used to having it in your food. To address this, we have also created a set of labels that can guide users on how to cook and pair the seaweed.
All these interventions aim at creating new associations of seaweed as food.submittedVersio
Stedets betydning i kompakt byutvikling : en undersøkelse av planprosessen for et nytt sentrum i Vestby
Get PDFKompakt byutvikling kan ses som målet for planarbeider i byer og tettsteder. Kompaktbyen er
en modell for utviklingen og skal balansere og ivareta bærekraften i nye prosjekter.
Tema for denne oppgaven er hvordan modellen tar hensyn til det spesifikke stedet når den
konkretiseres i planer om fortetting. På hvilken måte påvirker stedet planene som følger
kompaktbymodellen?
Analyser av steder gir begrunnelser og legitimerer valg som blir gjort av politikere og
planleggere, og er dermed selv med å forme omgivelsene. Studiet tar derfor utgangspunkt i
veiledere for stedsanalyser. De gir innsikt i hvordan stedet forståes etter kompaktbymodellen.
Veilederne omhandler stedsanalyser både av det materielle og det sosiokulturelle stedet.
De sosiale og kulturelle sidene av stedet har med økt oppmerksomhet på medvirkning og
sosial bærekraft fått større oppmerksomhet som kunnskapsgrunnlag for fysiske planer. Det
skaper en større kompleksitet i planarbeider som kan være utfordrende å håndtere.
Oppgaven undersøker dette ved å se hvordan stedets egenart blir vektlagt i planarbeidet for
sentrumsplanen for tettstedet Vestby. Empirien er sammensatt av intervjuer med aktører som
har hatt påvirkning på planarbeidet, dokumenter fra planprosessen og stedets fysiske
kjennetegn. Gjennom studie av empirien identifiseres stedspesifikke kjennetegn. De sorteres
etter tre dimensjoner av stedet: det materielle, det aktive og det konseptuelle. Forbindelser og
sammenhenger mellom disse undersøkes mot kompaktbyens veiledere og ideer.
Studiet viser at en visjon om byliv knyttes til en bymessig utforming etter kompaktbyens
modell. For å sikre gjennomføring blir høy arealutnyttelse og fleksibilitet i planen sett som
strategiske virkemidler, som gir insitamenter for utbygging. Den fysiske stedskarakteren ses
som en faktor for attraktivitet og tilhørighet, men står svakt i møte med fortetting. Det kan
skyldes at bylivet kan ivareta de samme hensyn som stedskarakteren.
Målet er at en studie av teori i kombinasjon med studier av et spesifikt steds planprosess, kan
tilføre ny kunnskap om hvordan en bred forståelse av sted kan håndteres i planlegging.submittedVersio
Volcanic Biome - a park system as a territorial enabler
No full textVolcanism in metropolitan France appears as a unique phenomenon and feature. Located in central France in the Auvergne region, Clermont-Ferrand and the Chaîne des Puys are the theater of the establisment of a new park system concept. Indeed, the project aims to establish a stepping stone park system enhancing the soil memory, history and identity of the territory.
The site may be considered as a high valuable landscape with important ecological values and international recognitions. The Chaine des Puys and the Limagne fault are both in the Unesco lists while the lower part of the territory shelter most of the settlements and the fertile land with the Limagne plain and the Allier river to the East.
The park system has been designed following the edge landscapes. Those edges are formed through lava’s flows, water action as well as contemporary elements as the highway banks. In addition to promoting soil memory and history, the park system recreate an ecological path from the volcanic plateau to the plain. A connection that has been lost through the last decades. Therefore, enhancing the beauty, ecology and legibility of the territory.
The edges may react differently depending on their orientation, location and values. However, they are following the same planting framework and strategy so as to implement a visual continuity on the terriotory. Visible and recognisable through the site.
The park system and revealing of the slopes will be made through a planting strategy bringing back the history of the territory as well as implementing a strong visual aspect. Indeed, the three main entities, populus, pyrus and prunus, have been chosen for their blooming colours, their ecological values and the link they have with the territory and history.
First the poplar following a raw planting strategy to mark the upper part of the slopes. Then the slopes will be composed of pear and cherry trees to correlate with the historical agriculture past of the slopes. Next a natural and more dense planting at the limit of the lava flows and finally a more spreading staggered planting as to have a continuous flow as a moving lava in the city.
Transplanting the planitng strategy into a planting diagram gives a fluid movement alongside the slopes. The volcanic’s slopes are therefore the theater of the enhancement of the legibility of the territory and its geomorphological features through the trees’ beauty. A visual beauty with their blooming colors and forms or an ecological beauty, bringing back a flourishing ecosystem.
The establishment of this new park system concept on Clermont-Ferrand’s territory may offer an opportunity for the city and its surrounding landscape to reconnect while preserving and enhancing the natural beauty and ecological values of the space.
The preservation of the voids and the enhancement of the topographic features allows a discontinuous park system through the dense urban core of Clermont, while reconnecting the Chaîne des Puys to the Allier.
The project is establishing the future cultural identity of Clermont-Ferrand and the Chaîne des Puys through the design of a large-scale stepping stone park system based on soil memory. Thereby incorporating past and contemporary elements. Elements designed with various scales -from regional to local- and through the interactions of various layers
From One To Another
No full textIn 1962, two new buildings were built in Drammen a modern hotel and a new courthouse. Today, both buildings have reached the end of their current use leading to one being replaced and one being abandoned.
By investigating and documenting these two buildings, From One To Another attempt to test the ways in which buildings created for entirely different uses can be transformed and adapted when newtypologies are introduced. The project aims to look at what is already there and identify existing values rather than removing them. Can we revive outdated buildings without removing their origins?
In Drammen, as well as the rest of Norway, there are many examples of buildings that are being torn down to be replaced by new ones. This applies, in particular, to public buildings such as schools, libraries, nursing homes, sports halls, and courthouses. Many of these are from between 1960 and 1970, existing for only fifty to sixty years. They have become worn and outdated, are in poor technical condition due to lack of maintenance, have become too small, or ‘perhaps, the main reason: The value of the newness - We want something new! Sintef and Riksantikvaren’s report from 2020, «Grønn er ikke bare en farge», summarizes that the most climate-friendly square meter is the one that is already built. The project seeks to build upon this notion through addressing these buildings’ values and attempting to find ways to take better care of the materials and buildings that we already have.
If the buildings no longer fit the program they were meant for, can they fit another program in the future? Is it possible to change people’s opinions about these buildings? Since the hotel already has already been demolished, I wanted to work with a building that might face the same fate as the hotel and attempt to find an alternative future. To complete the circle, I wanted to work with the idea that the courthouse could replace the hotel we have lost.
By documenting both buildings, I have identified structural, spatial and social values that I emphasize and preserve throughout the project. In order to develop a new program, I started by translating rooms and areas from the Park Hotel. Furthermore, I made four models of four rooms that differ in size, program and materiality. These were used to experiment by adding new elements and meanings to the rooms. For example, transforming a basic office into a hotel room. Can a space intended for work be used for relaxation? The project indicates that small changes and interventions can generate different atmospheres, and hopefully, revive the obsolete.submittedVersio
The Future of Production is Hyperlocal and Open Source
Get PDFProfit is at the core of production today. We see that businesses and leading industries are driven by expanding profits while minimizing labor costs. They export pollution and maximize production, while advertising for products we don’t really need. Moreover, they manufacture products with materials, and resources extracted in exploitative ways, with both social and environmental consequences.
At the core of these issues lies the way in which we consume, produce and dispose of. We need to turn our focus away from individual responsibility, to the root of the manufacturing process and the systems these processes operate within.
This diploma looks at how we, as creators of products, might look at materials through a radically different lens. The way in which we source these materials, and utilize them in the products we design and manufacture.
The aim of this project is to demonstrate the potential of using locally sourced materials in the production of new products. I hope to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs to seek out novel materials or consider existing materials in radically different ways. Additionally, I aim to encourage these actors to share their knowledge and information about these methods of production, material sourcing and product development openly, so that others may replicate, learn from, and build upon them.
A result of this is a backpack, a proof of potential, made from bicycle inner tubes, milk bottle caps and plastic packaging. All sourced from within five kilometers of its final assembly.submittedVersio
Det magiske teppet - et pionerprosjekt? : en studie av Blå Strek sitt konkurransebidrag til idékonkurransen om Ørestaden.
Get PDFI arkitektkonkurransen om Ørestaden i 1994 var det et prosjekt blant de premierte bidragene som skilte seg særlig ut. Det var arkitektkontoret Blå Streks sitt bidrag, Det magiske teppet. Prosjektet inntok en
kritisk posisjon til konkurranseprogrammet og kan forstås som en overskridelse av konkurransens diskurs. Det rommet ikke et tradisjonelt byplanforslag eller fremtidsbilde, men beskriver mulige strategier som kan gi ulike utfall. Prosjektet var slik radikalt annerledes enn de øvrige bidragene i konkurransen. I oppgaven reflekterer jeg over hvilke faglige innganger som ligger bak prosjektet, både ved å analysere dets representasjon i tekst og illustrasjoner, og ved å undersøke hvordan det forholder seg til faglig beslektede strømninger i samtid og ettertid. To hovedtemaer drøftes i oppgaven. Det ene er prosjektets bruk av landskap som strategisk tilnærming til utvikling av Ørestaden og hvordan prosjektets representasjon bidrar i denne tilnærmingen. Det andre er hvordan prosjektet skriver seg inn i tradisjonen Landskapsurbanisme. Et av formålene med oppgaven er å løfte fram Blå Strek og Det magiske teppet som en unik stemme i arkitekturdiskursen på 1990-tallet gjennom å belyse hvorledes prosjektet representerte et nytt perspektiv på landskap og planlegging i sin samtid. Et annet formål er å trekke opp nåtidsrelevansen. Oppgaven peker på elementer ved prosjektet som jeg mener har bidratt til en bredere diskurs i arkitekturfaget som igjen har påvirket arkitektur og byplanlegging-praksisen i Norge.submittedVersio