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Housing as Home and Investment for the Precariat
Get PDFThe number of people with an unpredictable income is rising. Self-employment and temporary contracts are on the rise and have created a new social class, the precariat. While not necessarily being poor, the unpredictability or precariousness of their situation block their access to mortgage and prevents them from entering the traditional housing market. With housing investments being at the heart of our private economy, we need solutions that cater for the new economic reality.
Housing as home and investment for the precariat is a project that through architecture reacts to a specific need for a specific group in a specific place at a specific time. It offers a predictable investment to those living unpredictable lives.submittedVersio
A Schoolhouse in Oslo
Get PDFThe project is a new elementary school in the dense neighbourhood Bervens Løkke in Oslo. The requirements for the school programme should accommodate spaces for a wide range of activities within a limited collection of spaces.
The definition of the space can be thought of a space machine. It was made up by individual parts which are compactly and concisely operated. They preserve their independence and are defined at the same time by their coherent structural context. The result of this condensation is the utmost increase of the spatial complexity.
Fragment the whole unity into smaller units: walls, floors and columns have a containing capacity that allows the content to change without affecting the whole. Furnitures are put in space, build structures that divide up and so articulate the space around them. They make the space smaller and larger at the same time.
Supporting structure, staircase and furnitures all those components make up a holistic organism and interpret the different components in the urban complex
Serendipity in the Field. Facilitating serendipity in design-driven field studies on ship bridges
Get PDFField research requires openness to unforeseen insights and opportunities, especially when designing for complex and dynamic workplaces, such as a ship bridge. In this paper, we investigate how serendipitous outcomes may be facilitated
in design-driven field research. We present a case study of two field research trips onboard Arctic-going vessels, during which we investigated the premises of designing augmented reality (AR) systems for navigators. We describe how an explorative and opportunistic mixed-methods approach facilitated serendipity and analyse which specific aspects led to serendipitous outcomes in three examples. Last, we discuss how practical support for designers and design researchers conducting design-driven field research can be developed and suggest how strategies to employ approaches that facilitate serendipity can increase the likelihood and awareness of serendipitous outcomes.acceptedVersio
The changing enfranchisement of stakeholders in Brutalist architecture
Get PDFThe Brutalist movement formed the vehicle for post-war socialism to heal the country, focusing on welfare and quality of living for all, reflecting the utopian dream of its progenitors. It took its lead from earlier 20th century efforts to rehouse the poor from slums through blocks and garden cities, such as such as Park Hill, Sheffield and Alexandra Road, and Robin Hood Gardens in London amongst others. In Norway, it created residential buildings and pioneering public architecture, such as Regjeringskvartalet and the early Brutalist works of Ove Bang amongst others, with examples such as Samfunnshuset and Grensen. In recent decades, society has begun to reappraise Brutalism as part of our heritage, contrasting with an earlier negative interpretation and an increasing groundswell of public and professional bodies, who have joined residents and architects in championing and safeguarding its future. It divides purists and those who seek to update or free the tradition to allow for more modern interventions in updating buildings. The style also has detractors, who regard the period and its buildings as an aberration, which should never have occurred. The scale of the projects from residential complexes, to imposing public and private edifices, present major challenges in terms of conservation and management, but most importantly in terms of use. A key issue in this is the challenge designation and protection presents for planning the continued use of these buildings by which to guarantee their future. The diverse range of stakeholders, particularly in terms of residential buildings, often presents conflicting interests and viewpoints to be addressed in determining continued and new use, to secure the futures of such buildings. This abstract follows a 2014 Masters dissertation, which looked at developing an approach stakeholder interest mapping and engagement and determining sustainable futures for Brutalist buildings, both private and public and seeks to gain critical insights into the interests and aspirations of those involved. The 2012 study built upon professional work, engaging with Brutalist heritage through planning in the UK and Norway and has since been further developed. The paper resulting from this abstract, will demonstrate the approach to securing sustainable futures for these buildings in full and present within the context of the increasing importance post-war architecture is given in heritage protection terms.publishedVersionpublishedVersio
MOTIVE - A Norwegian Rail Experience
No full textDue to Norway’s mountainous landscape, we have an extensive network of both roads and small airports connecting cities. We are the ones travelling the most by air travel domestically compared to other countries. Cheap airfares have made us more flexible and our world smaller. Nevertheless, they have also made us responsible for releasing tremendous amounts of greenhouse gasses.In a time where global warming and climate change is on the agenda, it’s perhaps time to look at the alternatives?On the other hand, snow-capped mountainous terrain, deep blue fjords, lush valleys, wild and untouched nature, cold winters and mild summers make Norway to what it is.However, we believe that this challenging nature is exactly what would make Norwegian high-speed rail into more than just a transport leg, making for one of the most scenic rail experiences in the world.With the objective to frame and encapsulate the bypassing nature, this project aims to create a whole new experience. Through a systemic design approach and extensive field research, we have created a train where the rail journey is in focus. All while catering to the needs of a universal target group within three different zones: Immersive, Productive and Essential. By reinventing the role of the employees and the layout of the train we were able to create a more personal and engaging experience for all. The outcome of centralising facilities and service eliminates transport in the length of the train, resulting in a single coach experience for all activities including dining, seating, and viewing.submittedVersio
Reaching for Zero Design interventions for eliminating cervical cancer
Get PDFEvery year about 300 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer in Norway. Cervical cancer can be eradicated. This diploma is made in collaboration with the Norwegian Cervical Cancer Screening Program (NCCSP) and explores how design interventions can reinforce their services and aims to support them in reaching the goal of eliminating cervical cancer.This diploma builds on the existing services of the NCCSP and proposes a new physical and digital letter, SMS notification, social media campaign, email and website guidelines. It also provides an internal tool for the NCCSP which they can use when designing new information material. The project focuses on young women and immigrants which are both groups with lower screening rates.submittedVersio
Āśvāsam - Palliative & dialysis community clinic
Get PDFThe site is in the rolling hills of the midlands of Kerala, a state on the south western coast of India. The chosen site is in a small rural village of Chellakkappady which only has a population of around 1500 people. The main purpose of the Palliative and Dialysis community centre is to improve and aid medical access to the ageing population of Kerala especially around the rural midlands of Central Kerala.
The programme has been researched and developed with help from a small group of doctors who serve the local populace and doctors from the Indian Association of Palliative Care. The focus of the programme is to create a working community health clinic and palliative care centre, where one may choose to receive palliative care or even spend the last days of their life.
The building is designed to best suit the local climate characterized by heavy monsoonal rain and harsh intervening sunlight. It draws design inspiration from the vernacular architecture of the region, the local building culture and the works of pioneering monsoon modernists such as Geoffrey Bawa and Laurie BakersubmittedVersio
Torskeholmen Public Bath – Preservation through resort typology
Get PDFTorskeholmen lies in center of Grimstad, at the intersection between the historical town center and the former industrial harbour. Facing development plans, Torskeholmen Public Bath explores the potential of existing structures and uses to become a destination for both locals and tourists through the spectacle of the bathhouse specifically and the resort in general. The project consists of three buildings with surrounding waterfront that has been transformed, refurbished or extended in order to facilitate existing and added uses. Historical research and the survey have been important tools to create a project where historical traces and current use has heavily informed the proposal for a guest house, a workshop and a bathhouse extension to the current fish depot.
True to the structural system of the quay, the existing buildings adhere to the rigour of a columned grid. The architectural response has been centred around the column and the open plan with historical photos and drawings as well as the placement of existing infrastructures informing the design.
I am considering the coastal facility not only as a tourist attraction, but as an appreciated part of the daily lives of locals. The project aims to generate an interaction between tourists and locals through the use of the resort as an umbrella for a range of activities in the crossing of leisure and local industry. A different social setting is created, one where the separation of programs, the worker and the visitor blur, becoming a spectacle in their own right.submittedVersio
In Vitro
Get PDFRaising livestock and growing feed for them requires wast amounts of energy and physical space. In vitro meat production could provide an environmentally sustainable solution to this problem, requiring only a fraction of the same land area and energy to yield the same amount of produce as traditional methods.
The goal of the diploma is to employ architectural concepts and planing tools to provide an example of a facility in the city, housing a production line that can also be an educational example to the consumers of its final products.
The result is a cross between laboratory, factory and gallery in an urban setting, a new typology for production and learning, that at the same time gives public park area back to the public.
The suggested name for such a place is ‘Carnery’, relating to brewery and winery. The scale of the project is determined by the production volume and the proposed solution could in theory produce enough meat to sustain roughly 180.000 people with a normal consumption in a year.
The placement of the project in an urban context is justified by the benefits of local and short-travelled produce. Locating the project in the city allows for smaller scale distribution chains, since the need for larger vehicles is eliminated.submittedVersio
The Enchanted Gardens of Ada Kaleh
Get PDFOnce, a fortified island in the middle of the Danube River. Now, a dispersed landscape. What remains of Ada Kaleh is an encyclopedia of stories, testimonies, photographs and a diaspora of artifacts that migrated when it was submerged. A carpet in Constanta A fragment of fortification on Simian Island An absence in the middle of the Danube The island is not gone, it's groundless. It needs to ground itself in something new. The project acknowledges the disappearance of an island as a tangible landscape and explores different means to promote it as a purely cultural landscape. They vary from descriptive to performative, from the scale of an exhibition to the scale of large architectural and landscape proposals. This investigation can be regarded as an intentional act of building cultural heritage.submittedVersio