Student chat: Hanna Hovland Johannesen
We sat down with Hanna Hovland Johannesen, a 2nd year architecture student, for a chat about the steel-workshop she's working on these days.
What are you working on at AHO right now?
I’m working with steel! We are doing a workshop, in groups of four, where we are making structures that also is a relation between two people. My group have been given the word "waiting" as the relation and angled steel as the material to build it with. Our assignment will be a part of the steel-exhibition that the second year of architecture are currently displaying on the school's roof.
How do you answer the assignment?
We've been through many suggestions: are we making a course with a path forcing the users to wait or do we make a place where one can wait together? We chose the latter and believe that a good waiting spot is where you're so distracted you forget the fact that you're waiting. Therefore our structure is tall, with a view over the rest of the exhibition
What’s it like to cooperate in this kind of assignment?
Really nice! We take care of ourselves, so it's necessary to set time limits etc. Not everybody are world champions in getting out of bed, but the collaboration is good!
What are you most looking forward too?
To see the finished result, using the structure and see how the other groups have answered their tasks. It's a lot of hard work, so it will be fun to see the finished structure.
How is the project evaluated?
By an examiner doing a short walkthrough of the project. No grades. The point with this workshop is to learn to work with steel and understand how the material is processed and which possibilities there is.
What other projects are you working on?
We have a semester assignment that we just started. When we're done with the workshop it's just the semester assignment left, apart from the written subjects. We're making first-time housing projects for refugees granted asylum in Norway. We're just done with the introduction, where we've been doing research, site analysis and vaguely started on forming the project. Further we will concretize from the analysis and observations, make choices and create architecture from what we've been researching.