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Building a Reading
No full textHow can a reading of a fictional text inspire and generate an architectural project?
A process-based project looking into the possible relations and distances between architecture and literature. Based on a subjective reading of Dag Solstad’s short story Det plutselige øyeblikk (Spiraler, 1965), the project is a work of architectural translation. Edited into a book, it unfolds as a dialog between theoretical and practical, exploring the transitional space.
Translator’s note:
A translation is not just a reproduction of “the original”, but it takes on a creative act in its own right. As I have not translated from one written language to another, but from a written language into an architectural “language”, the distance between the source language and the target language is even greater. This distance has made the translation a victim of a bigger transformation, it is not literal anymore. It opens for other translations, other interpretations, transformations.
The acts of translation have been intuitively driven, explored through different media. To put value on the subjectively experienced - the read. The work may be read as a short story collection, where one of the translation is taken further. Working with transformation through transparence, I developed principles of prepositions, for the structure to be read constructively and with the purpose of forming a spatial transformation, dissolving object reappearing.submittedVersio
Would Wood Work? – An Adaptive Urban Timber Structure
No full textThe environmental impact of the building industry accounts for a large extent of the world´s greenhouse gas emissions . Architects must therefore rethink how to design the built environment.
The choice of material plays an important role in lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Timber is a naturally occurring material that is locally produced and recyclable. To avoid premature demolition buildings should be flexible, lasting structures for different use. The school typology must meet the new learning paradigms, as the buildings are meant to last for generations and adapt to an ever-changing society.
In my diploma I will investigate sustainable architecture through the choice of material and typology. How can a timber structure meet the complex spaces of a school?
Engineered timber
Wood has played a major role in Norwegian vernacular architecture. In recent times, timber structures have been limited in large scale constructions compared to concrete and steel. However, with the new development of engineered mass timber, there have been a renaissance of multi-story timber constructions. Pre-industrial buildings were characterized by log or timber frame constructions. In large constructions these pre-industrial methods have been replaced with modern construction methods, which are more labor and material efficient. However, these new construction methods still require further development and research. This diploma attempts to further research timber´s capacity with long spans and flexibility as the main issue.
Site and typology
The project is situated on Blindern Campus in Oslo. The city council wants to further develop the campus and create Norway´s first innovation district. This implies an urbanization of the area with a large variety of educations, workplaces, and public functions. The masterplan suggests a densification in the transition between the campus and research area, with programs improving the student’s welfare.
My project aims to contribute to future development. The function of the new building will therefore be to facilitate researchers and students by creating an arena for both academic and social activities. It will be equivalent to the enclosed and rough buildings of the existing campus, by contributing to a better learning environment with the tactile qualities of timber.
Proposal
Through a collection of engineered timber elements, the new campus building will provide two types of spaces within a compact volume to enable an adaptive structure as a framework for the diverse activities of a school. The structure will define spaces, and the project investigates one of several ways of using the structure. Qualities and challenges of timber have been carefully considered, and the structure seeks to find the most applicable combination of specific and flexible spaces, and the balance between long spans and material use.submittedVersio
Back to the Roots: The Circular City Cabin
No full textOutdoor life has several mental and physical benefits, which is one of the reasons recreational cabins are widely used in Norway. I have looked into ways of making a shared cabin in Nordmarka, accessible without the use of a car, focusing on both social and environmental sustainability.
The project proposes a number of strategies for minimizing the impact and emissions connected to building a cabin, with a big emphasis on reuse timber. It includes selection of site, source of building material, and the way the material is utilized for maximal potential. The cabin’s constructive segments both allow for building and expanding the cabin in several stages, and allow for using (and heating) only the sections that are required for any number of visitors.submittedVersio
Back in the saddle – A clinic for horse-assisted therapy
Get PDFHow to make use of a listed building on its own premise. This project investigates the relevance of protection codes; is it the history that is most important? Or is it the physical building itself? Then comes the question of the purpose of the building. Can the building itself be separated from its use, or not? I believe a building can change over time, but if the purpose is to protect what have been in the past, you should protect its content somehow.
A building called the «Horse Clinic» used to be part of the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science at Adamstuen in Oslo, Norway, and was in the period 1927 - 2020 used as a hospital for horses. Today, it is empty and is listed with the highest level of protection in Norway.
This project investigates if today`s protection in its way of preserving the Horse Clinic, also preserves its history and original program of taking care of horses. It further investigates whether the building would be of higher value if the building mass is reconstructed in order to recreate its historic function. This illustrates that even a listed building, like the Horse Clinic, benefits from being taken care of beyond the current preservation codes.submittedVersio
Space For Flow
No full textSpace for Flow is an interaction and service design project focused on helping individuals foster a space for team flow to address the lack of meaning resulting in unengaging work lives (Cranston & Keller, 2013.)(Gallup, 2018).submittedVersio
DSP for SDG – En alternativ strategisk visjon for digitale sentralbankpenger og bærekraftig omstilling
No full textDSP for SDG undersøker hvordan digitale sentralbankpenger (DSP) kunne blitt en offentlig digital plattform for å nå bærekraftsmålene gjennom nye former for penger.
Digitale sentralbankpenger (DSP) er elektroniske penger tilgjengelige for allmennheten som er utstedt av en sentralbank, og kan konseptualiseres som et digitalt alternativ til kontanter, et offentlig alternativ til kontopenger utstedt av private banker, eller som en nasjonal digital valuta. 90% av verdens sentralbanker utreder i dag digitale sentralbankpenger, hvor noen også er i pilotfaser. Felles for utredningene er at de i hovedsak utreder hvordan DSP kan gjøre det finansielle systemet mer effektivt, sikkert og innovativt. Samtidig som verdens sentralbanker arbeider med dette, roper både FNs klimapanel og offentlig sektor på sektorovergripende handling og virkemidler for å kunne adressere bærekraftsmålene og redusere effektene av klimaendringene.
Oppgaven undersøker hvordan digitale sentralbankpenger kunne blitt en plattform for å gjennomføre tiltak for å nå bærekraftsmålene. For å gjøre dette har jeg jobbet parallelt med en av arbeidsgruppene i Norges Bank som utreder DSP, og hatt dialog med dem i forkant, under og ved slutten av arbeidet. I tillegg har jeg intervjuet eksperter innen bærekraftig økonomi, desentralisert finans og strategisk design for å lære om problemstillingene relatert til temaet. Designleveransen ble til gjennom utforskende designarbeid, hvor jeg utviklet ulike konsepter for hva digitale sentralbankpenger kan brukes til i offentlig sektor, for deretter å reflektere over fellestrekkene i eksemplene.
Oppgavens leveranse er en alternativ strategisk visjon for en satsing på smarte digitale sentralbankpenger ledet av Norges Bank i samarbeid med resten av det offentlige, hvor bærekraftsmålene er satt i sentrum. Visjonen inneholder fire strategiske prinsipper og en samling tjenestekonsept som illustrerer hva en slik visjon kunne ha ført til. Leveransen har vekket interesse hos både tradisjonelle økonomer og jurister i Norges Bank, og hos alternative økonomifaglige miljø som Rethinking Economics.
Diplomoppgaven ‘DSP for SDG’ skisserer opp en ny og pragmatisk retning mellom konvensjonelle og radikale ambisjoner for bruk av digitale sentralbankpenger, hvor DSP kan skape merverdi for samfunnet utover bank og finansmarkedet. På denne måten utfordrer oppgaven Norges Bank sitt nåværende mandat og foreslår en ny tilnærming til hvordan Norges Bank kan bidra til bærekraftig omstilling uten å bryte prinsippet om sentralbankuavhengighet. Med ‘DSP for SDG’ har jeg ønsket å bruke design i en kontekst hvor design sjelden spiller en strategisk rolle, sentralbankvirksomhet, og undersøkt hvordan design kan spille en rolle i å omstille samfunnet på et strukturelt nivå.submittedVersio
Proximity - The state of being near
No full textThe premise of the investigation in this diploma is a subjective understanding of the term proximity, which is someone or something relating to and being in varying degrees of nearness to, someone or something else.
Working with the familiar format of a house, this project is an exploration of how the term proximity can be a generator for architecture.
The idea of being in proximity has been applied to the relational, spatial and constructive. The resulting house, which consists of spaces organized along two sides of a central wall, with an interior absent of doors and enclosed rooms, brings up questions of privacy and tolerance, nearness and distance, and of how we live together.submittedVersio
Inverted Home
Get PDFInverted Home: The right of public space for people with substance abuse problems, is a project based on a collaboration with the company Makerhubs in Oslo. Embrace is a project where we investigate how people with different needs can coexist in Oslo’s many urban spaces. In theory, we all have the same opportunities to use public space, but in practice it is still not so. Can Oslo be an inclusive city for everyone? Is it about not only planning for the society we want, but also for what already exists today. The project focuses in particular on involving drug users. Every day, drug users experience being expelled, discriminated against and not tolerated in the city’s spaces. For my diploma project I will explore and start a conversation around how to create urban spaces for everyone and more specifically to allow space for people with vulnerabilities such as drug addicts.
As a landscape architect I would like to involving myself in social complex topics, while using collaboration and participation. This has been the guiding tool through my process. I therefor propose an alternative method of research using mapping, photography, conducting interviews, model making and participative workshops. All this while working with Makershub and meeting people involved in the drug environment in Oslo. Working with people is a challenge which is time consuming and time restricting but it is absolutely primordial in projects that touch the social sphere. It is about taking risks and shifting the power towards the people that are concerned and influenced by the project, in this case, involving drug users.
The information gathered from all this different methods brings me to a mix of different suggestions on how drug users can feel more safe. The possibility of creating rooms of privacy and intimacy within public space, where drug users are allowed to be, would permit a form of ownership and acceptance for drug users. Spaces they feel safe, sheltered from the rest of the public eye while still being integrated in society. This bringing healing qualities into the complex urban fabric made of many different social practises that collide where there is a need for a more harmonious environment for peaceful coexistence. Creating spaces of activity, spaces of relaxation, sharing spaces of possible encounters, all of that whiles uplifting the ecology of the natural environment.submittedVersio
Three decades of environmental change studies at alpine Finse, Norway: climate trends and responses across ecological scales
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RULE THE(M)ALL - a protection order for the rural mall
No full textThis project aims to highlight the rural mall in Norway as a vernacular architecture based on its social role within the local community. Through the lens of cultural heritage, we explore the rural shopping mall as a building type and place of gathering. Despite a considerable degree of standardization, the rural malls nevertheless have individual characteristics. In many towns around Norway, the mall is the only available meeting place. As such, it is undoubtedly of local importance and deserves to be taken seriously as an architectural heritage.
One of the most prominent traits of the rural malls is the need to be in constant change to adapt to the needs of its tenants and keep their relevance. Today, preservation often leads to static buildings, in which this project seeks to explore ways of preserving by allowing for change while maintaining architectural characteristics. Our main question is as follows: How can we secure the rural mall’s social and architectural values? And how can this be done by using existing preservation practices? By establishing a set of criteria, explored in model building, we want to test how regulations can be used as architectural tools. In Norway, the highest form of preservation is a formal listing at state level. Based on guidance provided by the Directorate of Cultural Heritage, the set of criteria is presented through the act of listing.
In Norway the first indoor malls were erected in the 1960s and 60 years later, 572 malls had spread all over the country. Over time Norway has become the country in Europe with the most square meters of shopping mall space per inhabitant. Many places in rural Norway, shopping malls have dominated the townscapes since the 1980s. These highly visible but introverted landmarks, surrounded by a pool of cars on a field of asphalt, and automatic doors inviting you in, have gotten a central role in urban development. In many towns, the establishment of these malls formed a new town center. Bigger, newer and fresher facilities persuaded many businesses to move their stores to the mall. Consequently, people flocked to the mall, leaving the traditional town centers behind. As a result, the mall has become the most important public meeting place in town, and a natural part of people’s everyday life; casual hangouts, social activities and encounters, events, concerts, and daily duties - everything happens at the mall.submittedVersio