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Style. Notes on the transformation of a concept
Get PDFStyle has been a key concept in architectural discourse since the 18th century, yet its meaning is far from unequivocal. This essay traces the shifting meanings attributed to style in German architectural thinking from the mid-18th to the early 19th century. Reading and discussing texts by J.J. Winckelmann, J.W. Goethe, C.C. Hirschfeld, A.W. Schlegel, H. Hübsch, and F. Eisenlohr, I study the multifarious uses to which style was put in this period and look at the effects these uses had on architecture.publishedVersio
YW™ -Your Water :Design Thinking for Future Water Treatment
No full textThe YW™ -Your Water is a speculative industrial design project that aims to radically challenge the way the public perceives, thinks of and gets involved in with the increasing water scarcity in the age of the Anthropocene. The project investigates the potential environmental and socio-economical benefits of recycling all household wastewater locally and consciously through a visible process within every urban household. The YW™ project is explorative and experimental. The design thinking behind it is tested through action based research and public interventions. The final result is a design concept of a modular household wastewater treatment system: YW™ -Your Water -that allows its users to recycle their wastewater, including black and grey water, into clean drinking water and valuable secondary by-products suchas sustainable energy, phosphorus, microalgae biomass, oils and etc.With YW™ no wastewater leaves your house, eliminating the environmental risks of secondary pollution common in currently conventional wastewater treatment plants. Currently, 80% of wastewater produced globally is released back into the environment without any treatment. YW™ is the essential water management tool in the age of the Anthropocene, ensuring maximum water efficiency and reuse that is a crucial element towards sustainability in the increasingly urbanized world. YW™ is the new generation technology making the toilet-to-tap water cycle the new standard towards a clean environment and sustainable use of natural resources. With YW™ water recycling becomes a visible and conscious process of every household across the world. YW™ saves lives. Millions of lives. Almost 80% of diseases in developing countries are connected to water causing more than 3 million early deaths. Every 17 seconds there is a child dying from diarrhea. YW™ will nearly eradicate all the transmission of diseases through water consumption.10 times more water? YW it!submittedVersio
Ullevål Sykehus – Left, but not forgotten
Get PDFI have looked into the future of Ullevål Sykehus, once it ceases to be a hospital. In 2030 the hospital will be relocated to Gaustad. I wanted to bring attention to an acute problem in Oslo; the lack of strategy regarding historical buildings and neighbourhoods we leave behind or demolish.
Ullevål Sykehus has a history that stretches back to the late 19th century. It is a facility with strong identity, primarily known for its characterful brick buildings and enriching green spaces. A significant proportion of these buildings are at risk of being demolished in the future. Therefore I have focused the project solely on re-imagining the existing buildings with new functions, as well as enhancing the natural surroundings, benifiting the well-being of both humans and other species.submittedVersio
Being Buoyant - Dealing with Ghost Fishing in Recreational Trap Fisheries
No full textIn all of the world’s seas, oceans, and waterways, fishing gear is continually lost and discarded. As a result, animals become captured, only to die from starvation, predation, cannibalism, disease, or poor water quality. When caught animals die, they, in turn, attract scavengers, thus creating a cycle of death. This diploma is the result of exploring what can be done in the near future, to the causes and effects related to ghost fishing in Norway. With our proposal of a trap; purposefully created to prevent its loss, we hope to be part of a much-needed solution. The concept includes preventative measures beyond the product itself, but when, however, bad luck strikes; the trap will reliably self-surface and release its captives, ensuring it stays off the bottom and remains with its owner.submittedVersio
Continuous Hydrology - Moving Along The Water's Edge
Get PDFHovseter valley is part of comprehensive system of open spaces that are instrumental to the spatial and functional quality of Oslo. The project interpret the river valleys as a park: a material, physical space (of land and water flows to manage), a social space (of conflicts among actors/activities to solve), a cultural space (of ethic and aesthetic values to preserve), a political space (of land use rules to define), a public space (of freedom of expression to ensure). The water system is key component of the valley-park. Goal of the diploma project is re-organising the water system as comprehensive visible landscape devise looking for win-win combinations between water flows, activities, and actors in the area.submittedVersio
Search & Rescue Helmet : A dedicated search and rescue helmet, designed for the Norwegian Air Ambulance service.
No full textThroughout the year, the workers of the Norwegian Air ambulance face difficult rescues and challenging environments.The shifting weather and environment found in Norway means that the crew have to operate through bad weather, steep mountains and cold waters. This implies that both the gear and crew will need to withstand extreme environments and situations throughout the whole year. In these scenarios, the crew are highly dependent on their equipment to work properly, and safety can`t be addressed high enough, with the helmet being one of their most important tools. Thomas N. Dahle, rescuer and idea initiator recognized the potential of a dedicated search and rescue helmet, that could greatly improve their current solution. Helmets can be found in a wide variety of markets,from bicycle helmets to climbing, rafting and skiing. Few of these commercial focused helmets can fulfill the demands that the air ambulance service in Norway requires.In my diploma I have focused on the user and their demands regarding functionality and integration. From several field studies, interviews and prototyping, I have made a prototype that resembles the first stage in the development of a new search and rescue helmet for the workers of the Norwegian Air Ambulance. In the end, I hope this project will inspire further development of a new search and rescue helmet, and hopefully, improve the advanced emergency rescue service in Norway.submittedVersio
Traces : Highlighting history trough intervention. Transformation of a historical Jewish complex in Oslo.
Get PDFThe intention of the project is to create a Knowledge Center for Norwegian Jewish Culture and History in the historic Jewish complex in Calmeyers street. The purpose of the center will be to elucidate, communicate and make Norwegian Jewish history and culture accessible to the public, in the hope that understanding will increase and prejudice will be reduced. This will be done trough my architectural interventions in the exiting buildings. The project does not include exhibition design. The center is not to be seen as a memorial, but rather as a way to convey the history and culture of the Norwegian Jews, as well as relating it to the present.submittedVersio
Border conditions: The forest sanctuary
No full textThe concept of the border/bordering is analogous to the concept of other/othering. The town of Most in Czechia is a place of transformation and liminality. Located at the northwestern edge of the lignite-mining region of Sudetenland, this place is significant due to the radical changes that the adjacent border has had on its culture and its landscape. The aim of this thesis was to extend the typical definition of nature by linking it with the cultural and political history of a place. This project proposes a contemplative architecture that encompasses an other nature, inherently linked to culture and to the impact of human activity on the landscape. The result is a monumental environment, The Forest Sanctuary, that is always changing, reacting, and evolving with time.submittedVersio
The School in the Isles
Get PDFIn the coastal municipality of Rødøy there are 377 islanders living on eight different islands. Traditionally most of them would have their own school and function as self-sufficient communities. Today there are three schools left and children have to travel by boat every day to get to school. When a school is closed it is almost as the island gets a death sentence. This project is about re-thinking the island school in terms of form, space and community.
The first condition is to regard the island school as a type. This type has to be connected to water, so the site is on a ferry quay at Gjerøy, one of the most central islands in the archipelago. Secondly it has to belong to everyone, not only the islanders of Gjerøy. In an attempt to awake a sense of ownership, it is treated as an object that is visible for everyone traveling by. Its very foundations are grounded to the seafloor, connecting it to the vast public sphere that is the ocean surface, a sphere that is shared by all islanders.
There is a tradition of building structures along the fairway, structures that are both symbols of something, and have a specific function. In a symbiosis of autonomous external form and internal spaces of a trivial program, the School in the Isles appears.
The main construction of the curved concrete walls retains the social spaces of the gymnasium and the kitchen on the ground floor. The spaces for learning and working are in the attic, under the big protective roof that keeps out the rough weather of the Nordland coast. Opposed to the concrete world below, the roof is a light timber structure. Openings are carefully made to let light in, but not exaggerated so that the feeling of shelter is prevailed. A bridge from the adjacent hill brings the children directly out in the schoolyard.submittedVersio