Forest-Timber-Suburban Housing
SPRING 2015
Course description:
Through the studio assignment, the course will examine opportunities for better utilization of timber. The course will have focus on the cultivating, sourcing and processing timber products. As part of this the students will select and cut trees from the forest first hand. The selection may comprise a number of species including spruce and pine, as aspen, ash, oak, birch, elm, etc. We will emphasize what the timber will be used for when we decide what to cut and how to saw it. The logging and sawing will be carried out in cooperation with Svenneby sawmill. The students will be offered training in the use the chainsaw and protective equipment. The design assignments will be oriented towards material quality and structural potential and must be accompanied by a model study in which a segment / detail of the building is shown in large scale.
A more indepth description of the course and a collection of course work is available in this booklet:
SKOG-TRE-BYGG villafortetting i Oslo (pdf)
Tutors: Børre Skodvin, Lars Hamran
Students: Kristian Refshal Vea, Eskil Frøyen Nybø, Shohreh Kheirati, Åsa Maria Elisabet Johansson, Gustav Mattias Jitzhak Tellqvist, Ona Katrina Flindall, Gro Krüger, Nora Ingeborg H Mørch, Halvor André H Saga, Eirik Stiansen, Siri Idland, Signe Henriette Ludvigsen, Kamilla Merete Kristiansen, Ole Fredrik Kleivene, Haris Ramic
Selected student projects:
WOODEN JOINERY HOUSE - by Kamilla Merete KristiansenThe project proposes densification of an existing residential area at Grefsen, Oslo. The wooden structure of the housing project is based on a old japanese joinery system, where columns meet beams in a fourfold joint. The system requires no metal fasteners, and appears as a continuous structural grid with a clean look.
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IN-BETWEEN - by Shohreh KheiratiThe concept is built upon reusing the spaces in between the existing houses, with are today used as big gardens. The project has open rooms towards the road and the exiting houses so that the new houses have good view to the surrounding. In order to maintain the privacy between the new houses, the facade is more closed in between the new volumes.
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9 IN TIMBER - by Eskil Frøyen NybøInstead of the conventional stacking of floor-height walls this CLT structure consists of half-height elements that are assembled as a CLT "log" construction. This breaks up the typical spatial division of the terraced house. Openness and visual connections are created between rooms and between the main facades.
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