Diploma project
Industrial buildings are often given a new life through re–programming when the initial purpose of a building is defunct. Their facade often listed, but their interior reimagined with program as the spatial generator. When seeking to understand such buildings, we tend to focus on the representation of the facade, while the discussion of the interior spaces is often left untouched.
Forglemmegei (forgetmenot) is a nursing home for people with dementia located at Mortensrud in Oslo. To create an efficient work place, have for a long time been the top priority when designing nursing homes in Norway. This often at the expense of creating good homes.
With a person-oriented approach I have tried to understand how we can create good homes for people with dementia. My research has led to some architectural principles I have used while designing.
With a person-oriented approach I have tried to understand how we can create good homes for people with dementia. My research has led to some architectural principles I have used while designing.
Reinterpreting: Folketeateret explores how a comprehensive building analysis can expand stakeholders’ definition of a building’s significance. By highlighting different examination entries, the aim is to exemplify how alternative narratives can point to the complexity of a building’s history.
Introduction:
This diploma focuses on exploring the future development of Kvitsøy Municipality in light of a national infrastructural project that will establish a direct connection to the Stavanger metropolitan area. By documenting the growth of cities into peripheral areas and studying its impact on the landscape, the project aims to identify structures and thresholds within the cultural landscape to utilize. The objective is to examine how these structures and boundaries can coexist harmoniously with a future neighbourhood on the islands.
This diploma focuses on exploring the future development of Kvitsøy Municipality in light of a national infrastructural project that will establish a direct connection to the Stavanger metropolitan area. By documenting the growth of cities into peripheral areas and studying its impact on the landscape, the project aims to identify structures and thresholds within the cultural landscape to utilize. The objective is to examine how these structures and boundaries can coexist harmoniously with a future neighbourhood on the islands.
Loneliness is the feeling of being alone. Some people feel alone even though they are surrounded by others, but most people feel alone because they experience social isolation. Being social is a fundamental component for feeling happy. Studies have shown that mental health is greatly affected by social and spatial surroundings. Taking action to relieve loneliness, can better the quality of life, good mental health and can even prevent premature death.
The diploma WELCOME TO DRAMMEN! works with the Port of Drammen, located mainly on the island of Holmen close to the centre of the city. Situated about 40 kilometres south-west of Oslo, Drammen is home to one of the biggest ports in Eastern Norway. As in other Northern European port cities, for instance Oslo, Drammen is redeveloping parts of its waterfront from logistical to residential, business, and recreational use, in Norway referred to as “Fjordbyen”, leaving less land for port activities.
This diploma works within a present condition where architecture and context cannot be separated. An approach where architecture manifests itself as diverse interpretations rather than a common order. A cultural landscape is a palimpsest, brought forth by the overlapping of countless different systems. By reading cultural landscapes as states of constant change, it has encouraged an idea of working with architecture as conditions rather than form.
For all the attention paid to notions of flux in philosophy and architecture in recent years – of the movement and oscillation between seemingly hermetic states, the perpetual becoming of the world – it is surprising how little effort has been devoted to the architectural element most concerned with the dispersal of bodies between static spaces, namely the corridor.