Diplomprosjekt
Vår 2020
Institutt for arkitektur
More then ever we are demolishing our built environment and obliterating our nature in the sake of progress. This attitude towards the existing environment has high costs on many levels. As a coming architect I am inspired to think and see value in what we already have around us, both the built and the living. In the design process words like securing, preserving and maintaining has gained new strength. And only when needed, additions are made.
This diploma work explores aspects of preservation of architecture and ecology through a existing example; Kristiania Teglverk at Bryn in Oslo. At-tempts to discover and seek correlation between these two fields are tested. Kristiania Teglverk, a former brick factory from 1898 had and have a intertwined relation to the surrounding nature and the Alna River passing by.
I have approached and learned about the building and the surrounding ecosystems taking different paths. These paths or branches are organized in five delivery documents. They can be seen as separate documents or all together feeding in to my attempt to get closer to the relationship be-tween Architecture and Ecology, with old Kristiania Teglverk as the centre of attention.A major focus of this delivery has been the search in finding a program and a proposal for the building that can inherit the discussion of the rela-tionship between Architecture and Ecology. This search of program was not linear and can be seen in fragments in the different documents at-tached, more or less highlighted. The conclusion of the search for program ended in two levels - The Landscape and the Building. The two levels are connected by the existing path D10 following the Alna River from the Fjord almost to the source in Marka. This path enables the visitors to explore and discover the diversity of nature, the collection of old industrial buildings along the river and their mutual relation. The path is broken at the Bryn area with Kristiania Teglverk in the centre.
The program
Landscape level: The aim is to reconnect the path at Bryn area with the reintroduction of a Flowerfield, whom historically dominated the area.
Building level: To make a annex to Nature Vocational School located at Furuset further up the valley of Grorud. This annex would explore a new topic - developing and running a Flowerfield.
Together this process have given me insight in the importance of observing and discover the quality of what we find in our environment and how these qualities can be included in the design process.
Jacob Emil Klingen Borg / Jacob.Emil.Klingen.Borg@stud.aho.no
This diploma work explores aspects of preservation of architecture and ecology through a existing example; Kristiania Teglverk at Bryn in Oslo. At-tempts to discover and seek correlation between these two fields are tested. Kristiania Teglverk, a former brick factory from 1898 had and have a intertwined relation to the surrounding nature and the Alna River passing by.
I have approached and learned about the building and the surrounding ecosystems taking different paths. These paths or branches are organized in five delivery documents. They can be seen as separate documents or all together feeding in to my attempt to get closer to the relationship be-tween Architecture and Ecology, with old Kristiania Teglverk as the centre of attention.A major focus of this delivery has been the search in finding a program and a proposal for the building that can inherit the discussion of the rela-tionship between Architecture and Ecology. This search of program was not linear and can be seen in fragments in the different documents at-tached, more or less highlighted. The conclusion of the search for program ended in two levels - The Landscape and the Building. The two levels are connected by the existing path D10 following the Alna River from the Fjord almost to the source in Marka. This path enables the visitors to explore and discover the diversity of nature, the collection of old industrial buildings along the river and their mutual relation. The path is broken at the Bryn area with Kristiania Teglverk in the centre.
The program
Landscape level: The aim is to reconnect the path at Bryn area with the reintroduction of a Flowerfield, whom historically dominated the area.
Building level: To make a annex to Nature Vocational School located at Furuset further up the valley of Grorud. This annex would explore a new topic - developing and running a Flowerfield.
Together this process have given me insight in the importance of observing and discover the quality of what we find in our environment and how these qualities can be included in the design process.
Jacob Emil Klingen Borg / Jacob.Emil.Klingen.Borg@stud.aho.no
