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40 421 Nordic light in architecture (Daylight and Architecture)

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål: 
Nordic light in architecture (Daylight and Architecture)
Credits: 
6
Course code: 
40 421
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2024 Spring
Assessment semester: 
2024 Spring
Language of instruction: 
English
Year: 
2024
Maximum number of students: 
16
Person in charge
Kathrine Næss
Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

The course is open to students from: Architecture

Course content

Background:

In the Nordic hemisphere we live and build a specific climate: We have approximately 35 % of the time an angle of the sun between 0-10% and 2/3 of the time cloudy sky with diffuse light.

The specific Nordic context requires therefore higher competence in working with daylight than in other geographical positions. In housing projects quantitative methods are predominantly used in early phases although building regulations are only securing a minimum average percentage of daylight; climate and context are not taken into consideration.  A qualitative approach to working with daylight is mostly discussed in smaller housing projects and there is less precision in how we assess and work with quality of daylight.  

The aim of the course is therefore to give students basic tools and methods to assess both quantity and quality of daylight in the process of making. It is also to bridge the gap between technology and the art of building — as the students both work with a technical and phenomenological approach to daylight. The course aims for higher competence and awareness of local specificity when it comes to climate and context —and for an awareness of the potential of daylight as a fundamental part of architecture and how it affects the space, our behaviour —and our health.  

In the course we work with both physical and digital models to establish an awareness of precision in the representation of light. We establish a relation between daylight in the scale model, representation of daylight in the digital model and how it is perceived in the already built (1:1).

Each student will individually frame an interest related to the studio project (mastercourse) and build a model 1:20 of parts of the project where methods and tools to assess either quantity or quality of daylight are discussed in drawings, images and models.

The course is research based and the students will take part in a Nordic collaboration to improve education on daylight in Nordic countries.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

  • of daylight theory (history of daylight, ongoing research projects, scientific)
  • of the specific Nordic light (Nordic climate) and its characteristics.
  • of taxonomy of quality of daylight
  • of various kinds of light and shadow
  • of the relationship between geometry, the light openings and the context and how it affects the “light-figure” in a space.
  • of Building regulations and requirements in TEK 17
  • of glass as material and how it affects light

Skills:

  • In basic tools for assessing both quantity and quality of daylight in the process of making
  • In using simple tools to draw the “light-figure” with diffuse skylight in plan and section (no-sky line)
  • In representation of daylight in both analogue and digital models
  • In conducting a process of making architecture with daylight as the main generator.
  • In digital tools for measuring quantity of daylight and daylight resources on the façade (VSC).

General competence:

  • Ability to translate theory and methods into a process of making architecture where geometry forms light in a specific way.
  • In being able to use tools and methods introduced in the course to assess quantity and quality of daylight in their own project
  • In understanding the complexity and various aspects of daylight and how that can be used in generating architecture.
  • In reflecting upon the multiple perspectives on daylight: sustainability, energy, climate, health, behavior
  • In an awareness of the effect the specific characteristic of material has on daylight (reflection, color, texture etc.)

 

Working and learning activities

 

The course is built up in 3 modules: 1) Taxonomy of quality of daylight 2) Tools & Method 3) Daylight work.

 

Each module consists of 1 task, relevant lectures and readings, feed-back sessions, and pin-up.  There is expected presence at all common activities. We use outlook calendar for teaching activities and communication.

 

  1. Taxonomy of quality of daylight
  • Reading essential texts (papers, articles, essays) and present short lectures to the group.
  • Exploring the potential of Nordic light in models (spatial instruments to investigate the relation between proportions, geometry and light openings) and model photos — with the aim to make a taxonomy of the quality of daylight (in a Nordic context)

 

  1. Tools & Method
  • Observing daylight over time: Drawings, models, photography and simulations to document both quality, quantity and variations of light over time in one specific room
  • Comparison of analogue and digital tools to assess daylight quality and quantity in the specific room.
  • Interviewing practicing architects on their tools and methods to assess daylight quantity and quality in the process of making.
  • Excursion to Daylight LAB, NMBU, measuring daylight in a physical model.

 

  1. Daylight work
  • Using tools and methods from Module 1 and 2, to explore further one specific daylight condition in the studio project, in model 1:20, drawings and images.

 

Excursion:

To Daylight LAB, NMBU, ÅS.

Curriculum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Mandatory courseworkCourseworks requiredPresence requiredComment
Presence required RequiredStudents are required to attend no less than 80%.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Mandatory coursework:Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:Required
Comment:Students are required to attend no less than 80%.
Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)-Pass / failThe basis for assessment in the course is based on a portfolio consisting of assignments and presentations. To pass requires hand in of the assignment in all 4 phases and attend 80% if the course activity. Students will be assessed on what is achieved in relation to described learning outcomes and on the project assignment (all 4 phases).
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)
Grouping:-
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment:The basis for assessment in the course is based on a portfolio consisting of assignments and presentations. To pass requires hand in of the assignment in all 4 phases and attend 80% if the course activity. Students will be assessed on what is achieved in relation to described learning outcomes and on the project assignment (all 4 phases).
Workload activityComment
AttendanceStudents are expected to attend all course days and be active participants in the seminar activities.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Workload activity:Attendance
Comment:Students are expected to attend all course days and be active participants in the seminar activities.

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40 423 Architecture & Film; from Darkness to Light

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål: 
Architecture & Film; from Darkness to Light
Credits: 
6
Course code: 
40 423
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2024 Spring
Assessment semester: 
2024 Spring
Language of instruction: 
English
Year: 
2024
Maximum number of students: 
16
Person in charge
Rolf Gerstlauer
Wenkai Xu
Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS) and a desire to conduct your own experimental artistic research on moving images producing and containing architectural phenomena and conditions.

Course content

This elective course in Architecture & Film will focus on the Morphology of Body and Space through investigations in photographic and moving images registering, and creatively editing, Daylight conditions as they move from Darkness to Light. The aim with the course is to further understand, influence and critically develop the architectural space through a phenomenological and perceptual approach. The course uses the video camera and editing software as creative tools to individually observe, register, and interpret different situations, sensations, and phenomena with the aim to anew reflect upon and inform architectures spatial properties.

Learning outcome

Knowledge: The students will receive an introduction to various theories of architecture, media studies, film, and videoart connected to the topic of the course.

Skills: Exercises, lectures, and discussions give the students the opportunity to develop a critical stance on the use of camera/editing software as architectural tools in order to further facilitate an advanced, experimental design practice based on a current, critical architectural discourse.

 

General competence: The ability to conduct an advanced visual experimental architectural design research through the work on moving imagery; including process preparation/adaption, development of own working method, critical verbal/written reflection on one’s own visual material, and the conclusion of the research in a final presentation and film-screening. 

 

Working and learning activities

The course starts with a brief historical, theoretical, and philosophical discussion on film in general, and on kinetic representation of architectural space in particular. Students will be introduced to the field of investigation through lectures, literature and a series of films and videoart works.

Exercises in video sketching* and video editing will train the students’ practical skills and give them insight in the relation between space and the image, and space in the image. Each course day starts with an hour-long talk on the challenge of the day (mandatory lecture). The students manufacture their video individually and then screen and discuss the video work in plenum.

Mandatory reading material is handed out on the respective course days. A literature list is available online and serves as a recommended reading list (not mandatory). *Video sketching: to draw – to doodle/voodle – to paint with video.

Curriculum

Link to course literature registered in Leganto

Mandatory courseworkCourseworks requiredPresence requiredComment
Presence required RequiredWork Effort/Demands: Each of the ten course days demands 5-7 hours of attendance and work. The final elective course week has its own outline and demands daily attendance and work.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Mandatory coursework:Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:Required
Comment:Work Effort/Demands: Each of the ten course days demands 5-7 hours of attendance and work. The final elective course week has its own outline and demands daily attendance and work.
Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Project assignmentIndividualPass / failThe course is assessed based on a semester project; this entails the weekly practical and theoretical exercises with visual and verbal project presentations, and the making of a film/video and a text/essay in the final elective course week.
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Project assignment
Grouping:Individual
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment:The course is assessed based on a semester project; this entails the weekly practical and theoretical exercises with visual and verbal project presentations, and the making of a film/video and a text/essay in the final elective course week.

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40 424 Authoring Architecture: Fehn 100

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål: 
Authoring Architecture: Fehn 100
Credits: 
6
Course code: 
40 424
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2024 Spring
Assessment semester: 
2024 Spring
Language of instruction: 
Norwegian / English
Year: 
2024
Maximum number of students: 
16
Person in charge
Thomas McQuillan
Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Due to the archival material, it is beneficial to have reading skills in Norwegian.

Course content

Sverre Fehn has conventionally been celebrated for his authorial power and metaphysical approach. This image that we have of him is bolstered by his deft sketches and captivating lectures. But this hagiography has mostly run its course, and on the celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth, it is increasingly relevant to understand the physical context in which the work was produced, and the ideas that facilitated the studio environment that produced them. In collaboration with the National Museum, we will delve into materials that have previously remained underexamined, with the goal of understanding the studio environment from which they spring.

Learning outcome

Knowledge: The course offers critical knowledge of architectural history and historiography through the study of an unexamined archive, by identifying the various types of materials commonly found in an architectural archive, such as drawing, models, photographs and correspondence.

Skills: The ability to critically analyze archival materials to derive architectural insights, narratives, and contexts, as well as to distinguish between primary and secondary sources and evaluate their relevance and reliability in architectural research.

General competence: The aim is to enable students to be confident researchers able to command, apply and present contemporary perspectives on a historical material.

Working and learning activities

Weekly lectures/workshops, visits to the archives of the National Museum, independent work, and regular presentations of findings in the group

We meet every Tuesday. The seminar requires a full day of attendance on Tuesdays and a full week of attendance during the elective week. In addition, students are required work on independent research and complete assignments in their own time. Students are expected to attend all course days and be active participants in the seminar activities. Completing assignments and attendance at reviews is mandatory. 

Curriculum

Link to course literature registered in Leganto

Mandatory courseworkCourseworks requiredPresence requiredComment
Presence required Required
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Mandatory coursework:Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:Required
Comment:
Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Project assignmentIndividualPass / failProject assignment and Presentation
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Project assignment
Grouping:Individual
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment:Project assignment and Presentation

Start semester

40 417 Transformation in Practice

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål: 
Transformation in Practice
Credits: 
6
Course code: 
40 417
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2024 Spring
Assessment semester: 
2024 Spring
Language of instruction: 
English
Year: 
2024
Maximum number of students: 
16
Person in charge
Amandine Kastler
Erlend Skjeseth
Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: Transformation in Practice

The course is open to students from: Architecture

Course content

The field of preservation and transformation has long been consigned to the fringes of contemporary architecture, but a paradigm shift is occurring across the discipline. In the age of climate change and circular economy the value of everything that already exists increases. The need for a more sustainable building industry is orientating architectural practice towards the reuse and renewal of our existing building stock.

 

This seminar will provide a framework for general practice as an architect, with a focus on working with existing buildings. Students will be introduced to practitioners that work with our existing building stock, both in Norway and internationally, from the restoration of listed buildings to the transformation of existing buildings, to the reuse of building elements.  

 

The building industry and the laws that govern it have traditionally been geared towards the construction of new buildings, but in this seminar, students will also learn about the regulatory and legal frameworks that govern the reuse of existing buildings. Gaining a knowledge of these frameworks is integral to general practice and key to the realization of an architectural project.

Transformation in Practice courses are part of the research project “Provenance Projected. Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity”, run by Mari Lending and Erik Langdalen.

 

Learning outcome

Knowledge:            

Introductory knowledge of 

  • The role of regional cultural heritage authorities 
  • Building regulations, particularly in relation to existing buildings  
  • Drawing scales and types in relation to project stages 

Skills:

Basic skills in:  

  • Documenting and surveying existing buildings 
  • Assessing historic significance  
  • Locating and understanding planning documents  
  • Writing planning dispensations

General competence:

Students will be introduced to the processes required to work with existing buildings in general practice and encouraged to situate the emerging field of building transformation in relation to their own aspirations for future practice. 

 

Working and learning activities

The seminar will be organized in modules covering the topics listed in the learning outcomes guided by lectures and discussions with professionals from the field. Students will produce a report speculating on the potential future transformation of a case study. Coursework will include survey work and resolving fictional scenarios drawn from real situations in practice. 

 

The seminar is not only relevant for students wanting to work with existing buildings but also those wanting to gain knowledge of general practice. During the duration of the semester students will engage with contemporary architects, conservation architects, planning authorities, heritage authorities, and others working within the building industry. Lectures and excursions will support and supplement students' individual case study analysis. 

 

The Transformation in Practice (TIP) electives and studios are run by Amandine Kastler and Erlend Skjeseth. The course series focuses on working with existing structures and places and is closely linked to the practice work of Kastler Skjeseth Architects. http://www.kastlerskjeseth.no/.  Examples of previous TIP studio work can be seen @tip_archive

The elective course will meet every Tuesday. The seminar requires a full day of attendance on Tuesdays and a full week of attendance during the elective week. In addition, students are required work on independent research and complete assignments in their own time.

 

 

 

Curriculum

Course literature is be available in Leganto.

Mandatory courseworkCourseworks requiredPresence requiredComment
Presence required RequiredStudents are expected to attend all course days and be active participants in the seminar activities. Completing assignments and attendance at reviews is mandatory.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Mandatory coursework:Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:Required
Comment:Students are expected to attend all course days and be active participants in the seminar activities. Completing assignments and attendance at reviews is mandatory.
Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Project assignment-Pass / failProject assignment and Presentation
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Project assignment
Grouping:-
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment:Project assignment and Presentation
Workload activityComment
AttendanceThe seminar requires a full day of attendance on Tuesdays and a full week of attendance during the elective week. In addition, students are expected to work on independent research and complete assignments in their own time. Students are expected to attend all meetings and be active contributors to the course.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Workload activity:Attendance
Comment:The seminar requires a full day of attendance on Tuesdays and a full week of attendance during the elective week. In addition, students are expected to work on independent research and complete assignments in their own time. Students are expected to attend all meetings and be active contributors to the course.

Start semester

40 419 Elements of Architecture:The Ceiling

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål: 
Elements of Architecture:The Ceiling
Credits: 
6
Course code: 
40 419
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2024 Spring
Assessment semester: 
2024 Spring
Language of instruction: 
English
Year: 
2024
Maximum number of students: 
16
Person in charge
Mari Hvattum
Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: OCCAS: The Art of Collecting Architecture

The course is open to students from: Architecture, Design

Course content

Elements of Architecture is a series of master seminars that looks at the history of building elements and architectural motifs. The spring 2024 seminar is dedicated to the ceiling. Ceilings are great examples of how architectural motifs persist through different materials and techniques, times and places. Looking particularly at the coffered ceiling and its reinterpretations from antiquity to the present, we study the technical, tectonic, material, and iconographic translations of the coffer and other ceiling motifs through architectural history. 

 

The seminar consists of lectures, reading seminars and field trips, ending in an exhibition at the end of the semester.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

  • In-depth knowledge of architectural transformation processes and particular historical cases

Skills:

  • Academic reading and writing; exhibition curation

General competence:

  • Increased understanding of architecture’s history and material practices

 

 

 

Working and learning activities

The course consists of lectures, reading seminars, and field trips. Focusing on specific cases, each students study the history and trajectory of particular ceilings and ceiling motifs. The cases will be displayed as an exhibition at the end of the semester.

The course will include a number of local field trips.

Curriculum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Mandatory courseworkCourseworks requiredPresence requiredComment
Presence required Required The students are expected to read and present course literature; to present case studies, and to take active part in curating the end of year exhibition.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Mandatory coursework:Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:Required
Comment: The students are expected to read and present course literature; to present case studies, and to take active part in curating the end of year exhibition.
Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Project assignment-Pass / failThe course is assessed on the basis of seminar presentations, case studies, and contribution to the final exhibition.
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Project assignment
Grouping:-
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment:The course is assessed on the basis of seminar presentations, case studies, and contribution to the final exhibition.
Workload activityComment
AttendanceStudents are expected to attend all course days and be active participants in the seminar activities.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Workload activity:Attendance
Comment:Students are expected to attend all course days and be active participants in the seminar activities.

70 403 Rethinking Development and Sustainable Futures

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål: 
Rethinking Development and Sustainable Futures
Credits: 
6
Course code: 
70 403
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2024 Spring
Assessment semester: 
2024 Spring
Language of instruction: 
English
Year: 
2024
Maximum number of students: 
16
Person in charge
Anders Ese
Required prerequisite knowledge

Passed foundation level courses (BA-level) at AHO or equivalent, 180 ECTS. Open to all study programs.

Course content

 “Rethinking Development and Sustainable Futures” is a course that takes a critical stance by scrutinizing how the fundamental concepts of “Development” and “Sustainability” are understood.

 

With growing concerns of climate change, loss of ecosystems, forced migration, urbanisation, and increasing social and economic disparities, these are concepts of global importance to the fields of design, architecture, urbanism, and landscape architecture. These concepts are also often partially interrelated, sometimes conflicting, and exposed to sectoral or profession-based interpretations. In this course, we will be stepping outside our “defined” professions to critically rethink the future of both development and sustainability through interdisciplinary readings, discussions, and writing. The goal is to reveal and deliberate what these profession-based conceptions and discourses typically hold and what they try to sustain. The course will also explore if there are other alternatives to established discourses that could be engaged with, promoted, and acted upon.

 

Informed by these dialogues, students will produce articles or essays based on their reading, on a topic of interest. They will also be tasked with critiquing each other's texts as a part of the production.

 

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

  • improved their knowledge about "Development" and "Sustainable Design".
  • knowledge about and experience in critical readings of texts.

Skills:

  • developed their skills to write their own texts.

developed their skills to describe and discuss their own and others´ texts in an academic seminar setting.

General competence:

developed a critical and reflective stance towards society, trends, development and design.

Working and learning activities

The content of the course spans from practical work with texts to lectures, discussions, student presentations, and the compilation of a reader. Typically, students are expected to deliver two reviews each of two books or other relevant sources; one from the reading list and one found through one's own explorative research. However, some modifications might be made to accommodate the needs identified in the group.

Curriculum

The curriculum is developed as part of the course's own seminar process

Link to course literature registered in Leganto

Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)-Pass / failThe students will be assessed on the following components: -Taking part in class discussions -Peer student assessment -Student presentations -A final delivery of 2 book reviews
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)
Grouping:-
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment:The students will be assessed on the following components: -Taking part in class discussions -Peer student assessment -Student presentations -A final delivery of 2 book reviews
Workload activityComment
AttendancePrecence and active participation in class is expected, as well as involvement in the production of the final delivery.
Forventet arbeidsinnsats:
Workload activity:Attendance
Comment:Precence and active participation in class is expected, as well as involvement in the production of the final delivery.

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60 413 Creative Community engagement in exposed territories

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål: 
Creative Community engagement in exposed territories
Credits: 
6
Course code: 
60 413
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2024 Spring
Assessment semester: 
2024 Spring
Language of instruction: 
English
Year: 
2024
Maximum number of students: 
20
Person in charge
Karin Helms
Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO’s Master programme in Architecture or Landscape Architecture. Basic knowledges in architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture are required. 

Be interested in communities and in landscape adaptation to climate change

Course content

The course will explore different public participatory methods offered by landscape architecture, design and other disciplines to explore large scale landscapes that are undergoing transformation due to environmental risk and urban urgencies. The course is related to ongoing research on nature-based solutions in landscapes exposed to geohazards such as flooding, mudslides and avalanches. The course provides an overview of current interdisciplinary ways of working with communities that needs to imagine the future of their territories and transformations caused by climate change and critical 21st century issues. The elective investigates the first steps in designing with and for communities living in territories of risk, this means where actions need to be taken to adapt and anticipate future situations.

We will explore:

- Background to community engagement. The role of the designers and role of the communities. Traditional methods need to be changed to make acceptable changes in the landscape.

- Public participation methods for large scale landscapes, modes of doing with locals to anticipate future changes, transformations, acceptance of disappearances and the integration of new artefacts in large landscapes. Proposals of tools to act with locals.

- Tools such as the innovative Systems Oriented Design, (SOD). SOD is a skillbased methodology that has been developed to understand, interact with and design complex systems through Gigamapping. This allows for collection, analysis and interpretation of information, actors and entities across the large data system.

- Field work. In risk landscapes, locals need to anticipate possible transfer of activities over to new settlements. We will learn by working with a community through a common workshop

Learning outcome

Knowledges/ Competences:

At the end of the course the student will have acquired the knowledge of a vocabulary related to community engagement, understand the different methods and tools through scale: Gigamappings, large-scale landscape transformation understandings and local scale for new housing or settlements. 

Skills:

The aim of the elective is to give in-depth knowledge theory on the different methods in community participation, understand  planning for people; public participation, community engagement for those living in larger landscapes on risk due to climate change.

General competence:

On completion of this elective course, the student will be able to

- Research precedents linked to participatory actions and articulate them in large -scale territorial scales.

- Apply and transfer design projects principles derived from precedents and from theoretical backgrounds to future projects.

- Relate individual and specific design decisions to wider contexts and concerns of landscape, architecture and design fields. Students will learn to work in pluri-disciplinary teams (we will work in teams during the intensive elective week). They will achieve a critical understanding of current theories, principles and concepts and demonstrate ability in reading and summarizing contents, interpreting the concepts and communicating conclusions.

Working and learning activities

The semester is divided into three parts.

PART 1: DIFFERENT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MODES OF ACTING Part one is an introduction to the different modes of acting in community engagement projects. This part is an individual work

PART 2: MAPPING NATURE -BASED SOLUTIONS FOR RISK LANDSCAPES Nature-based solutions, landscape at risk: How can we work with a community to make them accept risks? Second assignment is group work and consists of a visit to a landscape site under risk: first stages of a landscape mapping.

Propose in 60 413 – Creative Community engagement in exposed territories.2024-KH.docx 2 : 2 written words the - Past / present / desired future following SOD methods. And preparation for a possible community engagement event

PART 3: PREPARE A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENT – Documents that are needed – learn to find the good documents that are aligned to SOD method but also site-specific to the landscape area that has been chosen for the course.

The will be a one day trip to Mesna – Lillehammer – walk along Mesna. The trip costs is not covered by the course- The alternative work is a mapping “travel “ to the site´s specificities.

Attendance each Tuesday, morning lectures and 1:1 tutoring. Afternoon is set aside for the student individual work. The course is framed for one workday a week.

Curriculum

Link to course literature will be registered in Leganto

Mandatory courseworkCourseworks requiredPresence requiredComment
Presence required RequiredAttendance each Tuesday, morning lectures and 1:1 tutoring. Afternoon is set aside for the student individual work. The course is framed for one workday a week.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Mandatory coursework:Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:Required
Comment:Attendance each Tuesday, morning lectures and 1:1 tutoring. Afternoon is set aside for the student individual work. The course is framed for one workday a week.
Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)IndividualPass / failAssessment folder Each assignment (part1, part2.part3) counts for 1/3 of allocated ECTS credits for the course. In case a student is absent more than 80% of the time without notice on one of the three part , we will not be able to give the full number of ECTS
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)
Grouping:Individual
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment:Assessment folder Each assignment (part1, part2.part3) counts for 1/3 of allocated ECTS credits for the course. In case a student is absent more than 80% of the time without notice on one of the three part , we will not be able to give the full number of ECTS

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40 671 Restore: Weather

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål: 
Restore: Weather
Credits: 
24
Course code: 
40 671
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2024 Spring
Assessment semester: 
2024 Spring
Language of instruction: 
English
Year: 
2024
Maximum number of students: 
16
Person in charge
Erik Fenstad Langdalen
Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Course content

Restore: Weather is an experimental preservation studio in a series of courses exploring how architecture can be redefined through the reuse, transformation and preservation of what is already built. This semester will be dedicated to weather in all its forms and meanings, and its implications for the construction, care and understanding of architecture. Weather constantly dominates news headlines across the world, reporting on floods, rain storms, drought, landslides, wildfires, blizzards and tornados, giving proof of accelerating human-induced global warming. Arguably, architecture is all about weather, providing shelter against the violent forces of nature, spurring creative acts of construction and maintenance. Weather is constructing building codes and regulations, turning architecture into a complex set of material composites and maintenance-schedules. Weather is both science and poetry, chronicled through time as surveys and statistics, but also in the form of painting, literature, sculpture, film and photography. Weather is at the center of preservation, activating core questions of the discipline, relating to patina, authenticity, originality, authorship and more. The studio asks for speculative explorations of weather as a broad cultural phenomenon, as well as specific architectural propositions on how to deal with weather in the reuse, transformation and preservation of architecture.

 

The studio is part of the research project “Provenance Projected. Architecture Past and Future in the era of Circular Economy”, run by Mari Lending and Erik Langdalen

Learning outcome

Knowledge: Students will be familiarized with the history and the physics of weather, and how weather influences the practice of preservation, reuse and transformation.

Skills: Methods and skills required to work within the discipline of preservation, reuse and transformation, like archival work, survey, value assessment, drawing, model building i.a.

General competence: The students will be encouraged to take a critical and experimental approach towards the discipline.

Working and learning activities

The teaching is a combination of desk crits, pin ups/reviews, lectures and excursions. The studio has normally two teaching days a week. There will be both a midterm and a final review with guest critics.

Excursion to a location with rough weather (to be decided)

Curriculum

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Mandatory courseworkCourseworks requiredPresence requiredComment
Presence required RequiredAttendance in studio on a regular basis, as well as all lectures/inputs and reviews throughout the semester
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Mandatory coursework:Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:Required
Comment:Attendance in studio on a regular basis, as well as all lectures/inputs and reviews throughout the semester
Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Project assignmentIndividualPass / fail
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Project assignment
Grouping:Individual
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment:

Start semester

40 670 Broadcasting NRK

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål: 
Broadcasting NRK
Credits: 
24
Course code: 
40 670
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2024 Spring
Assessment semester: 
2024 Spring
Language of instruction: 
English
Year: 
2024
Maximum number of students: 
16
Person in charge
Jørgen Johan Tandberg
Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Course content

In 2020, the Norwegian public broadcaster, NRK, sold its properties at Marienlyst to developer Ferd for 3.8 bill NOK. This will transform one of Norway’s most important nation-building institutions into a private development project.

 

The original broadcasting building, Kringkastingshuset, was designed by Nils Holter (1899–1995), after a 1935 competition. It was at the time a completely new, and radical building typology in Europe. Given the novelty of broadcasting technology, Holter’s task was to plan for the unforeseen demands of the new media and its spatial requirements. Broadcasting buildings were machines whose exact purpose was yet to be fully understood, and Kringkastingshuset’s longevity can be attributed to the fact that Holter and his client had the foresight to plan the NRK site to give a flexible framework for a public institution in growth. It is a piece of modernist architecture built with an eye for constant expansion and re-organization, to meet unforeseen technical demands posed by the new medium of radio.

 

 

Over the past eighty years, the Marienlyst site has been transformed from a greenfield on the city border, and into a sprawling media facility within what soon became one of Oslo’s densest residential areas. Nils Holter's office would continue working with NRK for nearly half a century, extending and reorganizing the original building as well as adding additional buildings; all according to the rapidly changing technology for broadcasting. Marienlyst is both a master planning project, an important work of monumental public architecture and a highly complex piece of technical infrastructure. This course is about one of the most radical building typologies of the 20th century, at the moment when it has been declared obsolete.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

- Increased knowledge about the building methods of 20th century Norwegian modernism

- An in-depth understanding of the broadcasting building as a typology, as a means to understand the architecture of modern media

Skills:

- Archival work as a method for writing architectural history

- Modelmaking as a representational tool

- Architectural detailing as a research method

General competence:

Students attending the course will be better equipped to handle historical complexity, making it operative within a research project.

 

 

Working and learning activities

The course is divided into 4 phases, each with its own submission requirements.

 

Phase 1.

Nils Holter (1899–1995) was arguably one of the most important Norwegian architects of the 20th century, and yet he is surprisingly overlooked within modern historiography. We will begin the semester by making a historical survey of Holter’s projects, identifying characteristic design strategies. His buildings, regularly published in the Norwegian journal of architecture Byggekunst, span from his work for Oslo Reguleringsvesen in the early 1930s, to the extension of the Norwegian parliament building (1959), and Bibelskolen in Linstows gate (1972). Our survey will provide an alternative lens for understanding Norwegian modernism in the inter- and postwar years, challenging familiar narratives. 

 

Outcome of phase 1: scale models, plans and sections of Nils Holter’s work. Oral/visual presentation.

 

Phase 2.

Through archival studies, we will make a timeline of the broadcasting building’s development. This will include lists of contractors, suppliers, and consultants, as well as major events affecting the plans. Major historical events directly affecting the building was the depression and unemployment of the late 1930s, resulting in a pressure to use natural stone on the facades in order to aid a struggling stonemason industry; the Nazi occupation of 1940 which, due to the Germans’ appreciation of the importance of broadcasting, brought the final building closer to Holter’s intentions, making it one of the few national institutions to come strengthened out of WWII; as well as a series of technological breakthroughs, including the advent of television. 

 

Outcome of phase 2: timelines and (beautiful) diagrams. Oral/visual presentation.

 

Phase 3.

Arguably, any contemporary engagement with the historical broadcasting building demands not only an understanding of architectural detailing from the past eighty years, but also an interest in media archeology; the science of understanding modern media through its historical artefacts. In phase 3, will document and discuss material use and building details in the broadcasting building, focusing on the specific rooms and areas most characteristic.

 

Outcome, phase 3: large scale printed axonometric detail drawings and models of building details at scale 1:1 – 1:5. Oral/visual presentation.

 

Phase 4:

Phases 1–3 will together result in an exhibition, Broadcasting NRK

 

The studio is part of the research project “Provenance Projected. Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity”, run by Mari Lending and Erik Langdalen.

Curriculum

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Mandatory courseworkCourseworks requiredPresence requiredComment
Presence required RequiredA series of research assignments will be submitted on Moodle and presented throughout the semester, in addition to the collective work going into the final exhibition. Attendance of lectures and presentations is mandatory.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Mandatory coursework:Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:Required
Comment:A series of research assignments will be submitted on Moodle and presented throughout the semester, in addition to the collective work going into the final exhibition. Attendance of lectures and presentations is mandatory.
Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)IndividualPass / fail Assessment folder and presentation
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Portfolio assessment (Vurderingsmappe)
Grouping:Individual
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment: Assessment folder and presentation

Start semester

40 666 ACDL; Climate Response II

Emnenavn på Norwegian Bokmål: 
ACDL; Climate Response II
Credits: 
24
Course code: 
40 666
Level of study: 
Master
Teaching semester: 
2024 Spring
Assessment semester: 
2024 Spring
Language of instruction: 
English
Year: 
2024
Maximum number of students: 
16
Person in charge
Søren S. Sørensen
Required prerequisite knowledge

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Preliminary skills in computational design is advised.

Course content

The ACDL studio is part of a series running since 2014, placing a strong emphasis on computational tools as part of the design process and communication of ideas. The studio is research and practice based, with an experimental approach to environmentally-conscious architectural design, design processes and methodologies.

 

Assignment for the spring studio: an off-grid cabin complex in extreme climate conditions on the west coast of Norway.

 

Central themes for the spring studio will be performance oriented; site specific climate analysis as part of the research and basis for design, - and various simulations to analyze and optimize design for solar access, daylight factors and wind performance as part of the architectural design process.

 

Associative computational modeling will be introduced, and used in an iterative manner incorporating design generation and analysis to refine the associative model that defines spatial organization, required building program and activity distribution.

 

Keywords: Solar radiation, Energy analysis, Daylight analysis, Outdoor Comfort, Airflow analysis, Visibility analysis, Water run-off, Real-time rendering.

 

 

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

- of the architectural and computational design themes pursued by the studio.

- of associative modelling.

- of tools for analysis and simulation relating to climate and building performance.

- of successful built examples of equivalent projects.

- of advanced architectural visualization.

- of digital to physical fabrication process.

Skills:

- in utilizing associative modelling systems for architectural design.

- in utilizing analysis tools, simulations and advanced visualization as part of the  

  design process.

- reflective thinking and evaluation as a tool for developing design ideas within the design process.

General competence:

- the ability to develop designs based on specific performative criteria in an integrated manner, from the conceptual stage to the material articulation through computational design.

- the ability to set up and follow through a design process that leads to the desired result.

- the ability to utilize design as a method of research in architecture that facilitates the conception of novel architectural designs.

 

Working and learning activities

Project studio; lectures and studio supervision. Toolbox series of seminars introducing relevant computational analysis, simulation and design systems.

There will be no major study-trip due to budget restrictions.

 

Curriculum

Link to course literature registered in Leganto

Mandatory courseworkCourseworks requiredPresence requiredComment
Presence required RequiredIntermedia deliveries / presentations and attendance at workshops are compulsory.
Obligatoriske arbeidskrav:
Mandatory coursework:Presence required
Courseworks required:
Presence required:Required
Comment:Intermedia deliveries / presentations and attendance at workshops are compulsory.
Form of assessmentGroupingGrading scaleComment
Project assignmentIndividualPass / failA combination of Project assignment, Presentation, Assessment folder and Report.
Vurderinger:
Form of assessment:Project assignment
Grouping:Individual
Grading scale:Pass / fail
Comment:A combination of Project assignment, Presentation, Assessment folder and Report.

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