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40 560 Future transformation into collective housing, public spaces and gardening
Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).
Students must master the use of Rhino Xerox and Autocad.
The course is open to students from: Architecture and Landscape Architecture
The studio deals with a future fictional situation in about 40-50 years;
The Norwegian queen has abdicated and moved with her family to a farm in the countryside. The National Assembly has democratically decided that the royal palace with its great surrounding park and additional buildings should be further developed for use in the most sustainable manner for communal programs and collective housing for needy groups of the city's population. The castle's grandest halls shall be utilized for more versatile public use. The spatial park areas are initially not to be built on, but used for the sustainable cultivation of plants with a flora that frequents pollinating insects. All large trees must be preserved.
Based on broad analysis of the existing historical buildings, the surrounding park landscape and the connected urban fabric, the studio will develop proposals for establishment of both individual housing units as part of a housing collective and public accessible building spaces for diverse use. The studio will also work on proposals for a sustainable further development of the surrounding park areas.
Knowledge about
- different approaches for organizing and designing collective housing with an additional public program in a historical listed building
- transformation and conservation
- sustainable material use and reuse
- the building physic challenges
- how strategies of fire security and acoustic implications can inform structural organization of different spaces and detailing of architectural building elements
- sustainable approaches for transformation of urban park environments
Skills:
Being able to discuss, consider and explore:
- a historical and listed building complex and an urban park landscape
- architectural expression and materiality for new building elements in an historical context
- Being able to document and present a conclusive, comprehensive and sustainable architectural project through excellent illustrations and physical models
General competence:
- Engagement
- Commitment
- Self-assessment
- Sorting and assessment of various professional inputs
- Development of concept
- Design skills
- Verbal communication
- Graphic presentation
- Construction of physical model
- Application of technologies
The studio will be carried through with a main emphasis on architectural projects to be completed in groups of 2 students.
The course includes various activities:
- initial subtasks on current topics
- theme-oriented lectures
- private and group input / lectures and discussions
- studies and discussions on reference projects
- inspection of relevant local projects
- an excursion
- reviews every second week
- contribution with text and illustrations to a MSB course book in the end of the semester
The course is organized in several modules, from building and landscape analysis, concept development, project development and dissemination with individual and group hand ins and presentations for each part.
Excursion:
There will be a study-trip related to the theme and assignment for the studio project.
The teaching team:
- Bente Kleven
- Lina Broström
- Kolbjørn Nybø
- Audun Fossum
Course literature will be available in Leganto.
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project assignment | Group | Pass / fail | The students work on a given/selected project throughout the course and the assessment is based on an assignment that counts for 100% of the grade. The students present the final project work orally to the examiners and the oral presentation itself is part of the assessment. |
| Workload activity | Comment |
|---|---|
| Attendance | It is expected that students: - participate and attend in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, presentations and discussions - follow the course schedule regarding completion, presentation, and discussion of partial assignments |
| Excursion | Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this. |