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IMPORT EXPORT
No full textThrough our diploma we have explored how the transfor-mation of the former import and export quay in Odda, seen in the light of import and export, can generate new flow in our chosen buildings which have been at a stand-still for the past 18 years. This point of interest came from a curiosity of how the concepts and dualism of import and export could generate and evolve into an architectural project.
The two quays represent the movement from one state to another. The different components that facilitate the change of material can be separated from each other, but to function as a process the components must be put in a systematic order. The import quay consists of two concrete con-structed silos and the export quay consists of a storage building. We believe that these buildings should be seen in relationship to one another in order to tell the history of the processes that went on in these buildings.
A place of import and export requires a connection to the existing infrastructure to maintain efficiency and flow. The location by the fjord enables both people and goods the opportunity to make greater use of the sea as a traffic lane in a landscape characterized by an insufficient road network. Additional structures, a bridge, and a pier will help to achieve a balance between the two quays and make the site more accessible.
IMPORT QUAY
The import quay will continue to function as a place of import for people and goods traveling by sea. Our studies done on the 1:50 models showed that this part of the building was best suited for becoming a reception and logistic area for physical goods. The structure of the silos in this part has been transformed into a tribune that makes it possible for visitors and workers to experience the silos from above. This space can also be used for different events outside working hours.
The construction of the silos in the modernized part provides the space with a particular light that we wanted to emphasize in order to tell the history of its former function. Every shaft is staged with different furnishings to make the visitors see the shafts in different ways. This part of the concrete building is programmed as a reception area for people traveling to Odda and Har-danger. The second floor of this part of the building accommodates a sleeping area. The most im-portant function of the import quay is to facilitate the further transportation of people and goods within the region.
EXPORT QUAY
The storage building at the export quay is still functioning as a storage and workshop place
We want to prolong its character as a place of storage and workshops, but also as a place of export and showcase what Odda and its region have to offer. The building has a history of being a meet-ing place for the workers during the industry and for the inhabitants after the closure. Because of this, we have made the nave of the building into a public space that can be used for different arrangements, expos, and markets. To make the building more usable, and to prolong the quali-ties of the building, we have installed new cores along the length of the building, containing toi-lets and kitchens, and also showers for the camping guest.
The project is designed in a way that makes it possible to use only parts of the buildings during the wintertime due to the decreasing amount of activity during these months.submittedVersio
Liv Lagra
No full text«Liv Lagra» er et utforskende designprosjekt om immateriell kulturarv i kystsamfunn i Nordland. Prosjektet tar utgangspunkt i fiskeværet Røst i Lofoten som en case study, og undersøker hvordan den rike kulturarven som eksisterer i kystsamfunnene kan videreføres mellom generasjoner, slik at den lever videre som kultur.
Gjennom samtaler, skissearbeid og prototyping utforsker prosjektet en rekke temaer knyttet til havet og kystkulturen, som vær, språk, landskapsforståelse, håndverkstradisjoner, navigasjon og myter. Dette har resultert i tre konsepter kalt «Lokale Forhold», «I Fjæra» og «Heimsjyen», som alle adresserer hvert sitt tema. Konseptene er ikke ment som ferdige løsningsforslag, men heller som eksempler på hvordan man kan videreføre og nyttegjøre seg av lokal kunnskap gjennom en digital plattform.
Med «Liv Lagra» har jeg ønsket å utforske et område innen vår felles kulturarv, og undersøke hva design kan bidra med når det gjelder alternative måter å formidle dette på.submittedVersio
A Study into Scaffolding
Get PDFThe function of scaffolding is generally pragmatic and it has a compensational relationship to buildings / monuments. But unlike buildings and monuments, which only become what they are when they are built – scaffolding refers to both the unbuilt components and built structures.
This lack of distinction reinforces the idea that scaffolds play a temporary, secondary, and supportive role.
And yet, scaffolding is also indispensable: we rely on temporary structures to keep the built environment operational.
The diploma suggests that this reliance makes scaffolding worthy of architectural investigation. Scaffolding’s relevance in most types of building transformation becomes a way to explore problems of preservation – whether for heritage, sustainability, or other reasons. Through examining the existing relationships between scaffolding and the built environment, the diploma hopes to present alternative and new uses of scaffolding in order to show how architecture might address and anticipate present and future issues of maintenance.submittedVersio
Changing the Landscape
No full textOver the past few decades, new innovations and technologies have enabled digitisation of complex systems and services, resulting in digital touchpoints and information sharing for all actors in the Norwegian
health sector.
However, the siloed structures and processes of public services has resulted in a patchwork of platforms, portals and services that do not connect, to the frustration of both service creators, service providers and
service receivers. With the ongoing shift to home hospital and the increasing need to facilitate for remote care, the pressure for solving the problem of connection between different health services is rising, and
different solutions and discussions for how to unite the services have been, and are still on, the table.
The problem is that many of the solutions that are currently up for discussion are large-scale and ambitious, requiring millions of kroners and years of development before they are ready to serve a value. The potential
end value is high, but so is the risk of running out of finances midway, or of the system having become outdated at the point of completion.
This diploma project proposes an incremental approach to the standardisation problem.
With this project we are presenting the outlines of a long-term standardisation research project aimed at establishing a national framework for accessible and universal UX design in the health sector.
Our design proposal is a description of what this might entail and the values it provides, along with a roadmap for an accessibility pilot project, which constitutes a first step towards moving
towards standardisation of UX design processes and products in Norwegian health services.submittedVersio
Learning to yarn with the land ~ Re/Inhabiting Architecture
No full textThe first part of the title ‘Learning to yarn with the land’ expresses the idea of relating with the land as a way of acting and establishing an approach to a project. It’s about letting impressions take hold and attempting to come closer to those qualities that one discovers, or are revealed by the place itself. Being careful to be as honest as possible to the things at hand and letting influence come from a space between ones own voice and that of the land, a kind of indirect voice.
In the pre study work to this diploma, I spent an amount of time at Lista on the South Western coast of Norway in an attempt to begin the process of this kind of approach and connect it to ideas of architecture. Hand drawing was established quickly as a principle tool for bringing forth the feeling and sensing one is confronted with when meeting a place. That way it can be quick and the intuitive voice can come through. I undertook a series of sky, land and rock drawings, walking and collecting as a way to come into dialogue with the surroundings. The changing light and clouds brought about awareness of the sky, always playing with the horizon and oceans surface. The great rocks at the coastline, captivating for their ability to be still between storm and sun days. The close presence of the land bringing forward the awareness of the different feeling we experience when a place is connected with the natural world to that of an urban setting. It was a move toward understanding the role of bringing a land orientated dialogue into an architecture.
Reflecting on ideas between land and inhabitation, I made three physical representations of principles that I hoped to work with in this kind of approach. The thinking tools (representations) were that of the camp, the shrine and spirit grounds.
Camp is a reference to a way of being that is close and communal. Where there is sense of openness and simplicity to lived daily life. A social place that is aware of the landscape it is in.
The shrine is a response to a question that I would like to work with, of celebration and respect, how an architecture can engage an awareness towards this, something that brings joy.
Spirit grounds is about creating a sense of identity and sharing a kind of ‘common place.’
The site I have chosen to work with is the headland between Østhasselstrand and Nordhasselvika on the south western part of the Lista peninsular in Southern Norway. The most obvious existing feature of the site is the massive concrete bunkers built by the Germans as part of the Atlantic wall fortifications of world war II. Prior to this layer of occupation, the site has been a focus for a cluster of burial mounds which are believed to have been made in the latter part of Stone Age to throughout the Bronze Age.
Although these narratives speak of different histories, they both reference an underlying strength of the site; A place in the land that offers something more than its immediate condition. In the case of the burial mounds, it was an act of ceremony. To leave the dead in mounds carefully situated, to exaggerate a natural point of local topography, lifting them toward the sky and out over the ocean. The bunkers and canon points are sited in direct connection with what the land offers, embedded within the old beach cliff for both vantage and camouflage.
I have tried to work with this offering in making a new place to re-inhabit the site. I found it was necessary to find a gesture that plays with the idea of celebration of place and land.
Throughout Lista there is a strong narrative of forest loss in the flatlands, forest that grew in the milder periods post ice age have now become the fields of agriculture. For hundreds of years, stories of shipwreck were tied to the exposed low-lying Lista coast. Still today, remnant pieces emerge from the sand on the beaches and the occasional fishing boat gets caught by fast approaching storm before reaching the Borhaug harbour. More often now, it is the tankers that roll past splitting the line of the horizon with their bow. Ever since people have occupied Lista, the daily life has been closely woven with that of the sea and land, and still the town is spirited with the life of the fisherman and the farmer.
The place I propose at Østhassel point aims to be a gathering place to celebrate at, with with the presence of the landscape acting as a unifier for all; locals and visitors. Somewhere that brings the land closer to the lives of its users. Something of the memories of the landscape and the previous narratives that have been lived there before. And something of a renewed expression that relates to the underlying offering of a powerful place in the land.submittedVersio
NRK Nyss - Balanced and Reliable Political News for Youth
No full textSince probably forever, news has played a part in people’s lives. We share news with each other. It is influencing our opinions and worldview and gives us information to base our decisions upon. News is a lot more than just information about what is happening in the world. It is a powerful tool, it is a platform, it is a reflection room, it is a fundamental social element and it is part of most adults’ everyday lives in one way or another.
Our diploma explores the current landscape of news. From a designer's perspective, we have through our research concluded that trusting relationships to the news media, dedicated spaces and focused consumption with high intention are elements that support a balanced and reliable news diet. Nyss is a suggestion that explores how this can be achieved in digital format. We have placed our project in the context of NRK to allow us to design with an editorial framework. Our interventions are envisioned to be implementable in the present news media landscape.
Youth mainly get their news from digital platforms. Additionally, they are in the midst of a key period of their lives, where they are building identity and forming habits and routines that support this identity. Youth’s independent way of perceiving the world is shaped, and news is a key element in this process. News is a tool that reinforces worldviews, substantiating personal relationships and being able to participate in the public and personal conversation. Their relationship to news has therefore been a central part of this project. Our suggestion for a solution is mainly targeting youth, but we envision it being used by anyone that wants to read political news and get context, key information and explanation.
Clickable prototype (for computer use only): shorturl.at/npwISsubmittedVersio
Hello, Stranger? Urban Public Space between Interaction and Attraction
Get PDFA much-celebrated feature of urbanity, is peaceful face-to-face interaction among diverse strangers in public spaces. Such interaction has major civilizing effects, leading urban scholars argue. The rise in privately owned and tightly managed public spaces, tending to displace people, activities and exchanges that may discomfort target groups, has thus raised broad concerns. However, how such ‘new’ public spaces more specifically differ from ‘traditional’ ones in terms of interaction among strangers, has rarely been carefully examined.
This dissertation is concerned with contemporary urban public space and its uses and interactions. It examines the forms and frequency of peaceful, spontaneous face-to-face interactions among strangers in two contrasting ideal types of public space, ‘traditional’ and ‘new’. Three subordinate questions, dealt with in the dissertation’s four articles, guide the study: How can the diverse uses of public space be comprehensively categorized? What are the underlying circumstances that encourage or license peaceful chance interactions among strangers in public space? Additionally, more specific to one of the sites in question, what are the key – mainly use-related – characteristics of a ‘new’ public space in a Nordic context?
Primarily, the conducted field study draws on long-term close observation of everyday activities and encounters in selected public spaces – squares and adjacent spaces – in dense mixed-use areas of Oslo, Norway. The two main sites, representing respectively ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ public space, are set in starkly contrasting settings: One in a multicultural and partly gentrified low and middle-income neighbourhood (Grønland); the other in an upmarket privately owned and managed waterfront district (Tjuvholmen). In addition, the study makes use of reference material from Argentina, mainly from Buenos Aires.
The investigation reveals that the form and amount of interaction among strangers differ strongly between the two sites. In the one case, interaction plays out on a regularized, recurrent basis. In the other, it does so in the form of more infrequent, episodic exchanges. Largely, this difference is due to the presence or absence of underlying circumstances that prompt or authorize interactions among strangers. In this analysis, the dissertation makes use of and expands on some of pioneer sociologist Erving Goffman’s lesser-known insights, that is, circumstances which expose people to contact with others, spur or license people to approach others, and open up to mutual accessibility. A close reading of the international scholarly literature indicate that these findings have a broader, more general significance with respect to ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ public space.
A key contribution of the study to research and debates on public space is the documentation and systematization of basic mechanisms that account or the often-reported differences in chance interactions between strangers in two contrasting types of public space. Thus, the study demonstrates how minor manifestations in public space reflect a fundamental shift in urban governance and planning. In this shift, attractiveness in the physical and social environment takes centre stage in prestigious urban developments at the expense of the disordered exchanges of everyday life.acceptedVersio
Entering Inaccessible Space - The Continuity of an Industrial Site
No full textUrbanisation is gradually changing our cities. Industry is relocating outside the city core and areas where production took place are left to be integrated into future developments. Industrial facilities are often characterised as hostile environments. The landscape and the buildings are usually based on logistics and rational decisions. These buildings are often designed for machines and efficiency rather than for the human body, and most structures are completely inaccessible. How can these buildings adapt to a new program? Are they able to continue their integrity but be redefined with a new identity? In which way can their history continue to play a role in our future?
There are many beautiful examples of historic buildings that have been transformed and given a new purpose. The merging between old and new provides exciting and unique spatial qualities that a new building cannot provide. I question whether the introduction of a program in the early stages sometimes overshadows the existing value and opportunities. In this matter, I am critical that these areas which are part of our cultural heritage are transformed into residential neighbourhoods for the sake of economical profit and continue to be withheld from the public.
During my diploma semester, I have investigated different ways to approach and transform an old industrial facility without a program being the focal point. Instead, my focus has been to highlight architectonical qualities and provide urban accessibility. My project take an old industrial mill facility with more than 250 years of history as its point of departure. Hegreneset is situated on a peninsula in Bergen that is one of the most attractive locations on the coastline. Though the milling industry has played an important part in the site’s history it has not been in operation for almost 30 years.
I have researched the developments of Hegreneset and my project has accumulated into five booklets that present my research, process and project proposal:submittedVersio