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60 515 OSLO CIVIC
_OSLO CIVIC
Oslo is the City of Relocation.
The top down process of prime post industrial sites being replaced by cultural institutions for consumption - and production - is almost fullfilled.
In the neo liberal logic of the urban environment -
civic institutions – once forming the the representative layer in the city - are now on the move.
More often than not – escaping the city, leaving behind an increasingly monofunctional privatized city.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN URBAN CITIZEN today?
WHAT BELONGS IN THE CITY?
HOW CAN WE RETHINK THESE TYOLOGIES so they can still fit – and belong?
-and keep our city rich, diverse and civic.
Can we turn this city of abandonment into a city of reinjections and diversity?
How can we re-read and reintroduce these institutions and services back into the city with new spatial logics responding to new needs, technologies, forms of transportation and mobility, social demographics and density.
The Cloud liberates space in the city by absorbing programs – redefining post services, banking functions, media, shops, education, hospitals – making architectural typologies obsolete, atomized or replaced by an app. This new lightness, open for other interpretations of human interaction and transparency.
SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, institutions to inform, educate, keep us safe and healthy are all up for new logics of relocation and redefinition.
The Future City is to be found within the existing city.
POLYMORHIC TYPOLOGIES -
5 CASE STUDIES on the move – to be relocated and redefined.
NRK (broadcastinghouse), Veterinærhøgskolen (urban campus), Botsfengelet (prison/rehab centre), Firestation and Student Social Centre - rather than having outgrown their premises, is in need of a more compact, efficient, transparent and open spatial response – may be redistributed.
_MEDIA : NRK moving from Marienlyst…the redefined urban MEDIAHOUSE?
_EDUACATION_ Veterinærhøgskolen moving from Adamstuen…the new urban CAMPUS?
_SAFETY: _ Main Fire station moving from the Ring 1…the new FIRESTATION?
_REHAB_ Botsfengelet moving the new urban PRISON?
_SOCIAL _Chateu Neuf moving from Majorstuen…the new urban STUDENT SOCIAL CENTRE?
_HEALTH _ Ullevål Sykehus…the new urban HOSPITAL?
LEARNING OUTCOME;
As a research based studio, the students will investigate the needs, potentials, and challenges of these processes of redistributions through collective mapping, and analysis phase learning both quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Lectures and reading seminar will run in parallel.
Each typology will be explored through its programmatic evolution by chosen references through timelines.
Alternative strategies will be developed into individual design speculations.
Each student will select one case study and develop alternative site selections
(or reuse strategies) and implementation, of new typologies for the Oslo Civic.
Group Work; Quantitative and qualitative research. Mapping, timelines, catalouge of typology evolution
Lectures and Reading seminar
Individual work; Development of urban strategy, siteselection and advanced architectural project through individual desk crits, pin ups, mid terms and final crit.
Study trip to be decided.
1. Project Japan; Matabolism Talks - Koolhaas Obrist
2. Benjamin Bratton - the Stack; On Software and Sovereignity
3. Saskia Sassen; Expulsions; Brutality adnd Complexity in the Global Economy
more texts to be defined. for reading seminar.
| Form of assessment | Grouping | Grading scale | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe) | Individual | Pass / fail |
| Workload activity | Comment |
|---|---|
| Attendance | Attendance and participation in the studio, group work, and lectures are expected. Absence and low participation may result in a lower grade |