Diploma project

Private bathrooms in new residential buildings in Oslo are predominantly designed for basic-only functionality - an enclosed windowless machine room with a sink, bathtub, shower, washing machine, toilet and dryer, undermining the potential for sociality and ritualistic.

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.

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.