The main goal of the TAP - Building for Art studio is to give students disciplinary training as well as design skills.  The studio will be oriented towards professional practice, focusing on the architectural design of a specific brief within a structured schedule. During the semester, students will develop an individual project of substantial size and complexity.

The brief for the fall semester is to make a proposal for a new concert hall in Oslo.

Plans for the project have been in the making for several years, however no design has yet been made.

The students will be presented with a program and a site at the beginning of the semester. Studio work will concentrate on conceptualization, spatial and structural organization, and architectural form.

Throughout the studio we will be in dialogue with the Oslo Philharmonic. We will also have input from acoustic consultants.

To handle scope and workload the semester will be divided into three distinct phases of varying scale, focus, and output. Each phase will be reviewed at the end of the project period. Thus, the studio will demand intensive work throughout the semester.

The three phases will be:

I: Context and building physiology      

II: Spaces for sound and music                                                

III Architectural character and tectonic logic