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The Wardrobe
Get PDFRemember being a kid and hiding under the tablecloth at dinner parties, or climbing your favourite chestnut tree, being completely hidden between its big leaves? Finding a secret place, from where you could observe the world around you, without it seeing you. As we grow up, both social norms and our size prohibits us from hiding under the tablecloth. It's just plain weird. In this project, the hope is to help create the feeling of finding something hidden, a place to withdraw. The site is a small, fenced off gap between two buildings, the street and a park. By opening up a narrow passage through the site, both a secluded part of the steep-sloped park and the site itself become places that engage curiosity.ssubmittedVersio
Interaction beyond limits-A library and exhibition space
No full textInspired by the concept of parallax, the architectural program of this project is a result of spatial investigations relating to the overlapping themes of sight-lines and movement, with the intention to arrive at a structure with extended sensual borders, a space with the capacity to interact with the surroundings beyond its own limits. With the site being the vacant area between the east and south wing of The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the connection to the park and the overall movement on and across the site has been of importance for the development of the spatial concept. The transition between public and semi-private is another aspect addressed towards the concluding structure.submittedVersio
Parking housing: Inhabiting Sannergata 14
Get PDFThe project deals with housing for humans in a parking house structure: Sannergata 14.
Among the fundamental strategies for a green future in architecture is a commitment to discover hidden potential in what is already built. Parking houses above ground inside the central parts of Oslo are long on their way to becoming anachronisms as the private car is politically pushed out of the city center. The aim of this spatial investigation is to identify architectural quality, as a means to outweigh the alternative of demolition.
This project shakes the hierarchy of how buildings are valued, and takes one of the least obvious building structure seriously. Sannergata 14 can teach us enough to trace out a site-specific architecture, generated from history, suitable for life to unfold.submittedVersio
Molly House
No full textWhat is a Molly House? “Molly houses” were locations in Britain where, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, mollies, or Queer men, met for companionship. This project is trying to investigate how architecture can contribute to a more diverse society. This project is architecture based on a hidden voice, in this case Norway’s first known drag performer, and first foreman of The Oslo Student Organization, Peter Munch Wang.
Peter Munch Wang was born in 1792 in Trysil. He moved to Gudbrandsdalen when he was 11. When he was a late teenager he moved to Christiania for studies. Here he became an actor and the first foreman for the Oslo Student Organization. According to old diaries he had four main interest: He was an expert on hosting tea parties, an activity which was called female in his time. He was eager to get new literature into the studies. He was also a well known actor in female clothes, and loved it. He also carried a secret, he was most likely homosexual. He was thrown out of the boys dorm in Christiania after accusations of sodomy. He was forced back to his farm in Gudbrandsdalen. Here he continued hosting festivities, mostly weddings. He drank the alcohol that was left behind after his arrangements, and he died 49 years old, probably from depression and drinking. In the church book he is titulated ”student”.
His four main interests (tea, literature, drag and his secrets), his personality and history has inspired this project, in terms of materiality, construction, the program and the spacial investigation. What happens if you starting point of creating architecture is a hidden voice, an unkown story from the society we live in. Will we end up with a more diverse architecture if we let hidden voices inspire us?
DIVERSITY IN ARCHITECTURE
The city of Oslo appears today with a certain story. A certain narrative. Our society is slowling getting more and more diverse, but does the story the architecture tells follow the diverse development in humans?
NEW STORIES INTO THE LIGHT
If we want to create a city we can feel we belong in, feel ownership to and feel a part of, the solution might not be to create spaces for ”everyone”. Will we end up feeling more connected to the surrounding architecture, if we in stead make spaces specific for someone? And will these spaces in the end be for everyone after all? Hidden stories should be brought into the light, and they should affect us when we walk down a road, or when we enter a building. If we revealed some of the diversity that has allready existed in Oslo during it’s time as a place for humans, will the diverse humans of Oslo connect more to the architecture?
THE DIG
I will try to dig into our own history and bring hidden voices from the past up an into the our awareness.
And let one hidden voice inspire my diploma.
MY DIPLOMA
In my work with this diploma I started out studying hidden voices, and which voices that might have been forgotten through the years. As I personally has a great interest in queer art and social life, I was curious to find out who Norway’s first drag perfomer was. I was quite sure that he was still alive, and my hopes was to interview this person. To my surprise, he was not a live at all. In fact he was born in 1792 and his name was Peter Much Wang.Why hadn’t I heard of him?I started my research about him and found old journals and old recensions from plays he participated in. In addition to being Norway’s firs drag performer, he also was a part of founding Norway Student Organization.
Why isn’t this a man I have heard of?
According to old diaries he had four main interest: He was an expert on hosting tea parties, an activity which was called female in his time. He was eager to get new literature into the studies. He was also a well known actor in female clothes, and loved it. He also carried a secret, he was most likely homosexual. He was thrown out of the boys dorm in Christiania after accusations of sodomy. He was forced back to his farm three hours away from Oslo. Here he continued hosting festivities, mostly weddings. He drank the alcohol that was left behind after his arrangements, and he died 49 years old, probably from depression and drinking. In the church book he is titulated ”student”.
WORKING METHOD
I let my main man, Peter Munch Wang decide my program:
DRAG CLUB - TEA HOUSE - LIBERARY - SECRETS
It became a queer culture house, with these four programmes in mind. I have mainly worked in models.
During my investigation in models I asked myself these questions:
-Like a person with secrets, how can architecture inhence this state of mind?
-How can architecture keep a secret?
-How can a building awake curiousness?
-How can architecture be safe, but not exposed?
-How to keep the queer society exposed - yet still safe?
VOCABULARY
I reflected on the queer community today, and how this part of society is growing quickly. It’s easy to observe queer humans when you walk in the streets of Oslo, but not that easy to see in our surrounding architecture. I created a vocabulary I wanted to work with which both could be terms in architecture and in a queer life:
-Observe
-Learn
-Contemplate
-Curiousity
-Meet
-Hide
-Explor
The Architecture of Stitching
No full textHow can stitching and its embedded know-how become the genesis of an architectural experience? Through the needle, thread and textile, this experimental research investigates key notions that reflect upon architectural phenomena embedded in the act of stitching and the stitch itself. Stitching becomes the tool to create three dimensional structures, to observe the light, spatiality and mood that occurs. It discusses thread and textile as structurally dependent materials, and reflects upon the relationship between skin and skeleton. The collected knowledge is translated into an architectural principle that has learned from the architecture of stitching but liberated itself from the scale of the needle, thread and textile. This principle becomes the general foundation for further explorations, as it can expand in any scale, materiality or form to reveal new spatialities that keep the qualities of stitching in mind.submittedVersio
Kristiania Teglverk: Preservation of architecture and ecology ; A new annex to NATUR Vocational School and developing a flower field at Bryn
Get PDFMore then ever we are demolishing our built environment and obliterating our nature in the sake of progress. This attitude towards the existing environment has high costs on many levels. As a coming architect I am inspired to think and see value in what we already have around us, both the built and the living. In the design process words like securing, preserving and maintaining has gained new strength. And only when needed, additions are made.
This diploma work explores aspects of preservation of architecture and ecology through a existing example; Kristiania Teglverk at Bryn in Oslo. Attempts to discover and seek correlation between these two fields are tested. Kristiania Teglverk, a former brick factory from 1898 had and have a intertwined relation to the surrounding nature and the Alna River passing by.
I have approached and learned about the building and the surrounding ecosystems taking different paths. These paths or branches are organized in five delivery documents. They can be seen as separate documents or all together feeding in to my attempt to get closer to the relationship between Architecture and Ecology, with old Kristiania Teglverk as the centre of attention.
A major focus of this delivery has been the search in finding a program and a proposal for the building that can inherit the discussion of the relationship between Architecture and Ecology. This search of program was not linear and can be seen in fragments in the different documents attached, more or less highlighted.
The conclusion of the search for program ended in two levels - The Landscape and the Building. The two levels are connected by the existing path D10 following the Alna River from the Fjord almost to the source in Marka. This path enables the visitors to explore and discover the diversity of nature, the collection of old industrial buildings along the river and their mutual relation. The path is broken at the Bryn area with Kristiania Teglverk in the centre.submittedVersio
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