2015 Høst

Kurset har fokus på områder som markedsforståelse, bærekraft og emosjonell design. Utvalgt litteratur fordeles på grupper som forbereder en presentasjon av det aktuelle tema for hele klassen. Studenten velger et eget fokusområde og bruker referanser blant oppsatt litteratur og avslutter kurset med å skrive en kronikk.

In the fall 2015, OCCAS offers a master studio as part of the international research project The Printed and the Built: Architecture and Public Debate in Modern Europe, in collaboration with the Museum of Cultural History.

The studio takes as its point of departure the two most important public institutions debating and presenting architecture to wide audiences in the 19th century: the illustrated press and the museum. On the backdrop of the collections of the former Department of Antiquities in Grosch’s University buildings and their transference to Henrik Bull’s Historical Museum at Tullinløkka around 1900, we will look into the public debates on acquisitions, cultures of collecting, practices of exhibition, installation design and archeological excavations, in short: the public debates surrounding artifacts of the past in changing, contemporary architectural frames. The illustrated press will provide new insights into one of the most important mass media of the 19century. We will study this publication culture in-depth, from typography and images to the international contexts of the debates.

In parallel with studying the historical debates surrounding this collection and acquisition history, we will work with contemporary exhibition design and curatorial deliberations. The Museum of Cultural History is in the process of re-mounting their permanent displays, with an exception for Sverre Fehn’s permanent galleries for the medieval collection. In collaboration with museum staff, we will develop new design schemes for several of the galleries, to be presented at the museum through the semester. An important reference for the new designs will be Fehn’s museum architecture and exhibitions of historical artifacts such as the show “Medieval Art in Norway” at Henie-Onstad Art Center in 1972 and Domkirkeodden at Hamar).

This research based studio will admit maximum 10 dedicated students, interested in visual culture, exhibition curating, as well as singular, fragile antiquities and their mass medial representations.

In spite of being a characteristic feature of all landscapes, road networks seldom attract much attention among architects involved in urban planning and landscape architecture. One reason can probably be found in the dominance of the zoning approach to planning, where road networks easily becomes reduced to a matter of traffic management and transport economy. Another possible reason could be, as suggested by Australian landscape architect Christopher Sawyer, that road networks like other infrastructures are conceived ‘outside’ the more visually oriented domain of landscape architecture at a much larger and more abstract territorial scale. This is not to say that infrastructure does not operate within the landscape, it obviously does, but rather that it does not originate there. According to Sawyer, infrastructure is conceptually located elsewhere and thus is not strategically accessible to landscape architects working only in the realm of landscape. As a consequence infrastructure often becomes something landscape architects work around rather than engage with and alter.
If Sawyer is right, how can we as landscape architects engage with road planning and design in profound ways that move beyond the purely visual and pictorial? Is it possible to conceptually re-locate road networks in the landscape? This question will be pivotal in the Spring Studio 2015 at Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial Studies, in which we the main objective is to investigate and explore how the planned extension of the main highway E8 though Ramfjord can be thought as an integrated part of the landscape. The studio will be organised in collaboration with Troms County Municipality and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration together with experts from UiT - The Arctic University of Norway

Specific issues to be addressed in relation to the study of E8:

• Landscape analysis and survey of potential highway alignments
• Concepts for the integration of infrastructure and landscape
• Site-specific solutions in relation to highway design
• Strategic plan for urban development and landscape protection

Dette er et kurs i frihåndstegning der vi bruker arkitekturplansjen som utgangspunkt: i den møtes todimensjonale og formale aspekter fra tegning med arkitektoniske problemstillinger og formidlingen av disse. I arkitektkonkurranser og i utstillingspresentasjoner av eksisterende bygninger spiller plansjen en vesentlig rolle i kommuniseringen av idé og realitet. I dette fordypningskurset tar vi et dypdykk ned i eksisterende visuelt materiale og ser på forskjellige tilnærminger til arkitekturplansjen. Vi studerer plansjen som helhet og går også inn i elementene den består av (bilder spesielt). Målet er å avdekke ulike strategier og teknikker innenfor dette formatet, å utvikle tegneteknikker som uttrykker arkitektoniske ideer samt å få kjennskap til visuelle analyseverktøy.

Nærlesninger av arkitekturplansjen vil skje gjennom et sett av ulike tilnærminger, først og fremst gjennom praktisk arbeid – frihåndstegning. Hva skjer når hyperrealistiske rendringer studeres gjennom blyanttegning? Hvordan endrer meningen seg når samme motiv uttrykkes gjennom ulike tegneteknikker? Hva slags meningsinnhold har ulike materialer, og hvilken betydning har format og komposisjon? Hvordan forstår vi bygninger gjennom fotografier, og hvordan kan fotografier fungere som forelegg for bildeproduksjon?

Kurset har en praktisk tilnærming, og frihåndstegning, diskusjoner og presentasjoner blir viktige bestanddeler av undervisningen. Kurset gir også introduksjoner til relevante kunstnerskap, som blant annet diskuterer representasjon av arkitektur og fotografi som forelegg for bildeproduksjon.