This project is about making the data centers that are so often out of sight a beneficial and visible part of a society. This by both utilizing the excess thermal energy to heat public pools and introducing the program to a more urban context.
Diploma project
This project is about making the data centers that are so often out of sight a beneficial and visible part of a society. This by both utilizing the excess thermal energy to heat public pools and introducing the program to a more urban context.
Working with transformation is different than building something from scratch. The concept must be the structure itself, its odd details, organizational logic, and existing qualities. These can be exaggerated or hided, but they are there, waiting to be addressed. This is, in my opinion, what makes transformation interesting.
Reuse in the building industry creates possibilities for reducing demand for virgin resources and minimizing waste. However, there is currently no well-established infrastructure for reused building materials. The proposed building is a reuse hub, a centralized location where architectural salvage is collected, processed, recertified and stored before being sold to the market. In addition, the reuse hub will function as a civic interface through a public workshop, experiential path and shopfloor.
The typical approach for this situation when another theatre can’t be rented is to build a tempo- rary building or tent. But in a city like Oslo, that is currently undergoing a lot of transformation that involves tearing down older buildings, could one of these buildings be adapted and get a second life as the temporary home for the National Theatre? And with this approach, could the project also act as a catalyst for a developing area?
It rests upon the initiative; ‘I want to make a house, for whom I do not know’, which expresses the want to make a house, and raises the question of for whom is the house made? The work is a desire to establish a way of thinking and a language for expressing myself through the medium of architecture. I want to place myself within the profession; to make a house, to find the words that make the house come about.
The task for the diploma project is to design a visitor center to Uppåkra with the purpose of mediating the history of the site and provide facilites for archaeologists to conduct research. The project adresses the paradox of building upon an archeological site: the visitors center is needed to mediate the site, but building on top of the archaeological findings could potentially destroy them.
Memory of a place
A small place created by a family of farmers
Buildings made from the dirt of the land
Created for the purpose of utility and beauty
Rooms for the family, spaces for work and rest
Shelter for the animals
Spaces where light was absent
Changes in temperature and humidity
A home in the eastern part of the Sahara in Egypt, not far from the river Nile
– My great grandfathers dwelling
