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40 660 Re-store: Petroleum
Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).
Part of course series: Re-store
The course is open to students from: Architecture
This studio builds upon the assumption that Norwegian petroleum production will be phased out in the near future. This gigantic industry will leave behind an enormous amount of structures, counting offshore installations like oil-rigs, housing-rigs, sub-sea installations and infrastructure, as well as land-based building structures, urban areas and industrial landscapes. The studio aims to answer how we can reuse these remains in a meaningful way, how we determine their heritage value, and how they can form the basis for new forms of architecture. Being the main factor for national wealth and a monument of the 20th century, carrying both symbolic and social value, this industry deserves meaningful memorials.
Knowledge:
Students will be familiarized with the history and current operation of petroleum production, the history and theory of preservation, and on the current practice of preservation, reuse and transformation.
Skills:
Methods and skills required to work within the discipline of preservation, reuse and transformation: archival work, survey, value assesement i.a.
General competence:
The students will be encouraged to take a critical and experimental approach towards the discipline
The students will be given existing structures as points of departure and asked to map the many different types and conditions, they will do research on their material histories, qualities, values and potential for reuse, and develop an architectural project based on the findings. Petroleum and its many bi-products will be examined as potential material for new forms. The studio is project-based including desk-crits, reviews, a lecture series, reading seminars and excursions (possibly Stavanger and the North Sea). There will be a strong link to the architectural practice.
Course literature will be available in Leganto.
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
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| Project assignment | - | Pass / fail |
| Workload activity | Comment |
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| Attendance | Participation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars and workshops is expected. |
| Excursion | Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this. |