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(Re)unite – Transformation of an industrial heritage structure in Longyearbyen
Get PDFTaubanesentralen (the ropeway hub) is a listed monument situated in Longyearbyen, conveying the history of a coal mining community in the Arctic. It was constructed in the late 1950s and used to transport kibbles with coal from the mines in the mountains where it was collected and passed on to the port and out to the world. The industry was in many ways constructed around the ropeway hub. Taubanesentralen is a purely practical installation, most likely shaped without thought for the esthetics. The colossal ropeway dominated the cityscape like a wild and untamed animal, it was the beating heart of the coal mining industry. After the ropeway was replaced with trucks in the late 1970s, the building went from being an instrument for the industry, to a symbol of history. Together with the ropeway, the kibbles and supporting structures in the landscape, the ropeway hub was a clear symbol of the coal mining industry, even after it was operational. But over the years, the ropeway, kibbles and supporting structures slowly fell into ruins, and Taubanesentralen was disconnected from its own past. It became a monument completely disengaged from its original function, and people’s ownership of the building withered.
Our vision is that our proposal will make Taubanesentralen accessible again, but also create a building that the inhabitants and tourists want to use, now and for the future. Through interventions we aspire towards affiliation, facilitation for inherent use, curiosity and connection between the building and the inhabitants. Our goal is that Taubanesentralen belongs to the future, while at the same time confronts its fundamental and important past. Taubanesentralen should be something the Svalbardians should be proud of
Investigating agentive urban learning: an assembly of situated experiences for sustainable futures
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DYPP : exploring the future potential of seaweed as bioplastic through strategic use of design
No full textAbout 70% of the earth’s surface is water. To meet the needs of future population growth and climate change, we have to look to the ocean. How might we use the inherent potential of seaweed to tackle some of these challenges?DYPP is a design diploma exploring the future potential of seaweed as bioplastic through strategic use of design. Based on our own explorations, interviews and feedback from experts, our design proposal consists of a roadmap and four future scenarios. The aim of the roadmap is to create an overview and illustrate key steps and relations between the industry, government and research departments. To exemplify a possible development, we have designed four future scenarios using seaweed for packaging. The scenarios are illustrated through physical touchpoints and future trends. Exploring how to introduce the new material and how it can challenge what packaging might be in the future. What if local food could have locally produced packaging? And what if packaging could nourish the content or release nutrients when eaten? The overarching goal of our design proposal is to make a contribution to upscale seaweed farming in Norway and move towards a green shift. We hope our contributions can trigger discussions and inspire the industry.submittedVersio
S T A Y - emergency accommodation for homeless people
Get PDFS T A Y is an emergency accommodation in the center of Oslo, hosting homeless people in the evening/night. Ground floor is a day time-center for the people living on the street.
Address: Schweigaardsgate 41, 0191 Oslo
A low threshold-service.
Addressing those who have legal residence permits, but no welfare rights.
The project provides 300 sleeping places.
The design of the accommodation is based on a sleeping-capsule-principle, with associated logistics.
A space-efficient-solution, where you get the privacy you need for sleep.
To explore the balance between being primitive and comfortable, while allowing for an architectural and good experience.
Concept of:
overview and orientation / light / a strict logic and organisation / circulation / view / sight lines / noise
Background of the project:
People are living on the street with no safe places to sleep.
The already two existing emergency accommodations in Oslo are in poor conditions and do not meet the need of the amount of people.
There is a great need for better solutions, that takes this societal problem seriously.
There is not enough places for the people to stay, warm up and feel welcome.
A permanent solution for a non-permanent issue: The building will also work in the future, as a capsule-hotel, for tourists and travellers.submittedVersio
Open user interface architecture for digital multivendor ship bridge systems
Get PDFThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs (JoMA). The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13437-019-00168-w.acceptedVersio
The Couple
Get PDFI often see objects and then I see in them a longing
for something else. For me this obsession or act is
about finding the balance between closeness and
distance. That’s also why this sentence “He loves to
be alone, as long as she is in the room next to him”
lingers close to my material acting and sensing.
And because of my obsession for seeing or seeking
longing between objects, I decided on making two
houses in the landscape where I grew up. On a site
on a hill near the ocean where cows one time ate
grass. As a child I dwelled a lot in this landscape
through making wooden huts or caves in the tall
grass. I wanted to dwell there again by reliving the
memories through the architecture of two houses. I
wanted to make two objects and place them in this
landscape.submittedVersio
off / track
Get PDFWe have more ways to see data about ourselves than ever before. Self-tracking products can now tell us how we’ve slept, how productive we’ve been, how much we’ve exercised and much more. What have we been choosing to measure? What does what we measure say about what we value? In this project, I explore the values embedded in our seemingly neutral self-tracking tools. Drawing from a mix of design research methods and academic discourse, I articulate a list of values or biases that underlie existing products. I find that these values, which center around individual health and optimization, ignore the community and contribute to a culture of self-perfectibility. In order to surface and challenge these values, I develop an oppositional list of values and develop discursive design concepts aimed at materializing them. Through this project, I want to encourage a greater plurality of self-tracking devices, and engage other designers, makers and product developers in conversations on being critical of and intentional about the values that are embedded in our work.submittedVersio
KALAMAJA MAJA : a house in northern Tallin
Get PDFKALAMAJA MAJA is a housing cooperative located at Vabriku 49 in the city district of ‘Kalamaja’ in Tallinn, Estonia. The building features 12 dwellings, 2 commercial spaces and a sauna. The building seeks to respond to the existing cultural and traditional contexts, while solving contemporary obstacles in an environmentally conscious form.
The Project is informed through the analysis of the architectural history of this former Soviet nation. Future challenges such as Estonian dependence on fossil fuel such as oil shale, and cooling of its economic boom experienced during the 00s, play a significant role in the development of this diploma.
My proposal features a cuboid building propped on a base which itself is sunken into the ground. The building is comprised of a ground floor containing two commercial spaces and a sauna, and three floors of dwellings. There is an additional floor on the roof for storage. The three floors of dwellings cantilever from the base on all sides creating a canopy by the base of the building.
The dwelling floors themselves feature a double skin; one facade running vertically along the lines of the base, and the second running on the perimeter made of glazing. The space between these two skins house the winter garden which functions as an extension of livable spaces on the inside. Each floor contains four corner-dwellings of the same size (75 sqm) and configuration. The building is built out of cross laminated timber elements with the exception of the base which is concrete
