I go to a place looking for something but nothing in particular. It is a meeting. I bring myself and all of my things. Brenden waits for me there with all of its things. Between me and Brenden there opens a space of imagination and inspiration.
Diploma project
I denne oppgaven tar jeg for meg gjenbruk av verneverdig bygningsmasse og forsøker å gi den nytt liv med fokus på spennende form og bruk. Formålet med oppgaven er å vise at man kan bygge spennende arkitektur innenfor verneverdige rammer og at dette må sees som en mulighet snarere enn et hinder.
Torskeholmen lies in center of Grimstad, at the intersection between the historical town center and the former industrial harbour. Facing development plans, Torskeholmen Public Bath explores the potential of existing structures and uses to become a destination for both locals and tourists through the spectacle of the bathhouse specifically and the resort in general. The project consists of three buildings with surrounding waterfront that has been transformed, refurbished or extended in order to facilitate existing and added uses.
This project is a research on the museum of contemporary art. The study doesn’t attempt to reinvent or make changes to the concept of the museum but is looking for ways to find the new in an established concept. It studies the museum through the idea of the white cube, which is the idea of a hypersensitive state triggered during the act of perceiving. If a person is receptible to perceive the expression of an artwork, it’s also receptible to everything else, making the interaction a vulnerable event.
Tistedalen Paper Laboratory forms a space in which
material is processed - in this case, paper - from raw
material to resultant product. Through investigations
of material, time, and place, this diploma forms a
study of the role in which continual processing and
reprocessing has the capacity to form the foundation
of an architectural investigation – one that coexists
with physicality, fragmentation, and memory.
As a laboratory for experimentation, the project forms
a space that can tie into the active paper mill
material is processed - in this case, paper - from raw
material to resultant product. Through investigations
of material, time, and place, this diploma forms a
study of the role in which continual processing and
reprocessing has the capacity to form the foundation
of an architectural investigation – one that coexists
with physicality, fragmentation, and memory.
As a laboratory for experimentation, the project forms
a space that can tie into the active paper mill
This diploma is about the island of Jomfruland and Jomfruland National Park, established in 2016; a 116 km2 stretch of Telemarks coastline. The main attraction is the moraine landscape where 98 % is posistioned below sea level.
The management plan (forvaltningsplan) for Jomfruland Nasjonalpark has a clear vision. To facilitate for a varied and optimal use there is a need for strategically placed elements that are recognizable to the public.
How to combine these ambitions in a comprehensive architectural plan?
The management plan (forvaltningsplan) for Jomfruland Nasjonalpark has a clear vision. To facilitate for a varied and optimal use there is a need for strategically placed elements that are recognizable to the public.
How to combine these ambitions in a comprehensive architectural plan?
This project aims to question the coexistence between horses, landscapes and humans.
How can architecture be used to establish a new relationship between the environment,
including humans and horses?
A decrease in agriculture lands in Norway
It is only around 3 % of agricultural land left in Norway. A small area of this is available
for food production, and a scarce percentage of this is fertile soil (Bioforsk, 2018, 02:51).
Due to climate change, erosion of productive soil has increased as a consequence of more
extreme weather.
How can architecture be used to establish a new relationship between the environment,
including humans and horses?
A decrease in agriculture lands in Norway
It is only around 3 % of agricultural land left in Norway. A small area of this is available
for food production, and a scarce percentage of this is fertile soil (Bioforsk, 2018, 02:51).
Due to climate change, erosion of productive soil has increased as a consequence of more
extreme weather.
to go into the world and look for something,
what we find particular.
observe, find, look
capture, crop, understand, write
place in context; light, body, surface, and meeting.
what is the cropping? where is the particular?
the picture is a fragment, a particular situation of a whole,
a state of tension, balancing at the border
between the recognisable and the strange,
the normal and the particular.
pulling apart, putting together
make our own situations, explored in physical models
what we find particular.
observe, find, look
capture, crop, understand, write
place in context; light, body, surface, and meeting.
what is the cropping? where is the particular?
the picture is a fragment, a particular situation of a whole,
a state of tension, balancing at the border
between the recognisable and the strange,
the normal and the particular.
pulling apart, putting together
make our own situations, explored in physical models
KALAMAJA MAJA is a housing cooperative located at Vabriku 49 in the city district of ‘Kalamaja’ in Tallinn, Estonia. The building features 12 dwellings, 2 commercial spaces and a sauna. The building seeks to respond to the existing cultural and traditional contexts, while solving contemporary obstacles in an environmentally conscious form.
Starting from an event that I realize that I am always carrying a room [1] and I am always living in one of the rooms of the apartment. With the personal intention for a one family house [2], I study the apartment I am living in now. Through having the focus on bringing forward my architecture, I make objects and advance those objects to become other objects. Following those advanced materials, I come back to the cell I am living in. And now, my cell [1] as an individual structure asks for a collective opening structure.