2014 Høst

Studio B3 fortsetter å søke mot en arkitekturforståelse som bevisst etablerer et bærekraftig forhold mellom Natur og Kultur og der den erfaring, oppdagelse og nytenking som de tre siste "Det nye kollektiv" kursene har oppnådd, aktivt vil bli brukt og videreutviklet.
Det nye forholdet mellom Natur og Kultur som studio B3 søker mot, er en videre forståelse, utvikling og oppdagelse av arkitekturens grunnleggende egenskaper der rommet og dets spesifikke egenart som arkitektur både skal oppdages og formes.
For å nærme oss dette nye samspillet vil kursene innledningsvis trenge dypere inn i de sosiale/kulturelle forandringer og utfordringer som kjennetegner vår tid, og hvordan disse forandringer på ulike måter har påvirket vårt forhold til det arkitektoniske rom og bruken av det.
Levemåter/grensen mellom det private og det offentlige, det lokale og det globale vil bli debattert for å demed å skape et innhold der individet igjen inntar en bevissthet til arkitektur og en klar holdning til natur.

Det nye kollektivet: Nettverk (høst 2014)
Hver student skal definere og argumentere for sine egne programintensjoner, og det vil bli lagt vekt på hvordan disse intensjoner arkitektonisk når programmets visjoner i forhold til ideen om det nye kollektive. Oppgaven er å tilvirke et ønsket forhold mellom; et sosialt konstrukt, et bygget konstrukt, og et omgivelse/milieu.

Hver av konstruktene har sine egene "Nettwerk". Utfordring ligger i hvordan disse arkitektonisk kan forholde seg til hverandre of skaper et nytt ønsket "Nettverk", det nye kollektivet.

Changing urban spaces

The industrial city with its heavy traffic machines is dead! The citizens of Oslo are growing vegetables on rooftops and city squares. Cycling, public transportation and densification of the city are all themes on the political agenda. This creates a huge potential of a rich city life! The questions are: which strategies and design principles should create the new urban spaces? Should we continue developing our cities based on the logic of cars or learn from the historical cities?

During the course “Mixmasterplan” we will investigate and illustrate the potential of the future city and the future public urban spaces. Oslo is our case and the students will work with relevant and specific urban spaces to reveal how these can act as catalysts of urban development both in the short and long term. Thus, both temporary and permanent strategies will be discussed. We will debate a new city mix where the classical, modern and post-modern city can be turned into something new, something else – but what will it look like?

The city consists of combinations of landscape and buildings that merges to become a cityscape with different transitions of public and private, inside and outside. The course will focus on the urban space as a whole, and does not draw boundaries between landscape architecture and architecture as buildings. Students with different academic backgrounds from architecture, urbanism and landscape architecture are therefore invited to participate. The starting point is an interdisciplinary one: we assume that the best solutions happen in the thresholds between disciplines. A good example of thinking of the city as a whole is clearly stated in Giambattista Nolli, the Pianta Grande di Roma from 1784.

An illustrated future
A large amount of today's architectural production occurs in the visualization process. Throughout the course we will focus on the visualization of future urban spaces. The urban public space affects everyone and should therefore be visualized for everyone. This is perhaps most important for drastic changes to be able to get popular support. Plan, section and 3D perspectives are the conventional methods, but there are perhaps others? The entire design process should continuously be developed through model work, either digital or physical.

The design research studio will begin with a critical reading of key sections of the 2013/2014 Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change Report (IPCC 2013/ 2014). The focus will then be on a selective number of deltas—which host more than half of the world’s population and produce the lion’s share of global economic value. Deltas are amongst the earth’s most inherently vulnerable territories with regards to climate change and man has yet to figure out how to appropriately respond to the predicted consequences of increased vulnerability, which includes storm surges, sea level rise, both increased flooding and drought, and extreme rainfall. The hazard-prone areas threaten water and food security, human settlement and transport. Clearly the stakes, in terms of human and financial capital, are extremely high and need urgent attention. Design attention and creative thinking is part of the necessary ‘game-changers’ that must figure into a paradigm shift for such deltaic landscapes.

The design research will investigate the evolving relationship between environmental concerns and rapid urban growth by focusing on deltas, which are facing tremendous challenges regarding the interplay between culture/nature and city/water. It will parallel work being carried out in the Institute on the Mekong Delta in Vietnam and studio participants are to choose a delta—for instance the Ganges-Brahmaputra (Bangladesh), Mississippi (US) Nile (Egypt), Indus (Pakistan), Irrawaddy (Myanmar), Yangtze (China), Zaire (Congo)—in which they would create interpretive maps and projective cartography.

The main objective is to develop maps in order to first understand, by way of critical comparison, the challenges facing development and the opportunities to re-edit the existing urban and rural environments of deltatic cities and fertile lands. Thereafter, landscape urbanism scenarios, across scales, will be made to restate the balance between city and nature, consumptive and productive space, impermeable and porous surfaces, urban and rural.

This design research studio-atelier is different than a normal studio in the sense that it does not meet regularly/ weekly, but instead is designed around intensive workshop sessions and independent work of studio participants. It is intended as a very small studio-atelier for maximum 6 students who are highly motivated and primarily for students who have followed the landscape urbanism studio in the 2nd semester of the master course.

Fordypningskurset er knyttet til og vil støtte 'Advanced Computational Design Studio' og 'Scarcity and Creativity Studio'. Organisert som to parallelle løp hvor studentene kan velge enten assosiative modellering eller digital fabrikasjon. Hvert løp består av tre konsentrerte ukesøkter med fokus på læring og eksperimentering.

Komponenten 'assosiative modellering' vil introdusere nybegynnere i assosiativ design, og de som allerede kjenner Grasshopper til en serie av programvarens generative verktøy. Nybegynnere vil bli gitt et valgt arkitektonisk objekt å modellere, mens mer avanserte Grasshopper-brukere vil undersøke muligheten for utvikling forskjellige typer kontinuerlige strukturer.

Komponenten 'digital fabrikasjon' vil introdusere ulike digitalt drevne fabrikasjonsmetoder . Studentene skal individuelt utforske en av disse metodene, og enten produsere et paper eller utforske relaterte metoder og verktøy .