2017 Høst

Start semester

2017 Høst

40 515 High-Density, Climate-Adapted Urban Housing

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

High-Density, Climate-Adapted Urban Housing

Emnekode:

40 515

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2017 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2017 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2017

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Sissil Morseth Gromholt

Forkunnskapskrav

Preliminary skills in 3D CAD drawing is advisory, but not compulsory. It is desirable that part of the group have some knowledge of Rhino/Grasshopper or similar, hence students with skills in the field are encouraged to apply.

Om emnet

The course will offer an investigation into available techniques to inform, design and communicate architecture and area developments with a sustainable ecological footprint. Based on an integrated understanding of our natural and built environment, we will this semester particularly explore the benefits of solar access to optimize energy harvesting and quality in urban housing. Exact calculations given by climatic data will continuously be subject to qualitative and intuitive investigations based on the quick crafts of the hand. An idealistic and innovative approach merges with a commercial scenario, on a real site in Oslo, and within the current planning regime.

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge:

of reducing the ecological footprint of architecture
of optimizing architectural design to a specific contextual and climatic situation
of what tools are available to assist the design of sustainable and climate-adapted architecture
of the role of materials in a climatically informed design
of the stages, tools, rules and actors at play in an urban housing development
of best-practice examples of high-density urban housing and
of best-practice climatically informed architecture

Skills:

To ensure the “right to sun” by making and using a “solar envelope” according to Ralph Knowles
To use simple 3D CAD modeling in the conceptual development of a neighborhood
To 3D print models for use both as sketch-models, analysis and presentation models
To use 2D projection drawing as a tool for planning housing and housing units
To refine techniques for communicative visual presentations

Competence:

To develop a sustainable conceptual design
To plan and design high-density housing
To make and argue for decisions on sustainability and architectural quality
To realize the sustainable design through form, materials and details
To develop a position to the questions of sustainability and architectural quality

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Pedagogy:

The learning approach is project-based. The students develop architectural projects, with tasks given and advised by the staff. Lectures and workshops focusing on selected themes will contribute to knowledge and skills relevant for the project.

The course will include (preliminary plan):

Introductory tasks that generate a common knowledge base for the studio
Introductory masterplan competition focusing on context and climate, groups of 3-5 students
3D printing workshop
Workshop on tools and methods for climatic analysis and design adaption
Main task: Work in couples or individual on sub-projects within the masterplan
Weekly tutoring in the studio
Lectures by staff and invited architects and specialists
Study trip to a European city
Perspective/presentation workshop
Public reviews

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Vurderingsmappe	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått

Start semester

40 507 Embedded Architectures

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

Embedded Architectures

Emnekode:

40 507

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2017 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2017 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2017

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Søren S. Sørensen

Michael Ulrich Hensel

Forkunnskapskrav

Completed Bachelor Studies

Working Knowledge in Rhino

Studio participants are required to take the elective course ‘Information-based Design’

Om emnet

This project-based studio offers practice oriented design assignments focused on designing new environments for human habitation. This implies architectures that are closely embedded into their context. Together we will seek to address societal and environmental dynamics through the medium of architectural design in response to locally specific conditions and circumstances, and societal and environmental changes that require architectural designs that go beyond current standard practice. The work will be conducted in close collaboration with the renowned practices Snøhetta and Kieran Timberlake.

During the fall semester 2017 we will focus on locally specific spatial, programmatic and environmental criteria. Our process will involve the study of existing architectures and constructions and related data-collection. The collected data will serve as an input into the design process. Students will be working individually or in small teams and participate in specific research and research by design activities, as well as design projects. The design project will be located in Italy, where we will be going as an excursion. In addition there will be shorter visits to existing projects that are likely designed by the collaborating practices.

Læringsutbytte

To develop an understanding of and a response to the increasingly complex design requirements architectural designs have to meet and therefore to be prepared for practice in architecture and the challenges architects need to meet.
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;
Students will gain detailed knowledge of the architectural and computational design themes pursued by the studio and develop skill in computational design in architecture;
Students will gain 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;
Knowledge in associative modelling and generative systems;
Knowledge in use of advanced architectural and design visualization;

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Research-by-Design Project

Weekly studio tutorials and project discussions with regular participation of the collaborating practices

Lectures by staff with participation of the collaborating practices

Seminars by staff with participation of the collaborating practices

Computational methods workshops

Study trip with participation in research seminars and activities

Public reviews with participation of the collaborating practices

Pensum

Core thematic foci include:
• Performance-oriented Architecture;
• Information-based Design;
• Embedded Architectures and New Environments;

The methodological approach encompasses:
• Performance-oriented Computational Design;
• Integration of data-driven Methods, Processes, Information and Analysis;
• Data-collection and utilization in computational design;

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav	Påkrevde arbeidskrav	Oppmøte påkrevd	Kommentar
Oppmøte til undervisning		Påkrevd	90% Attendance at lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials is required.
Øvinger		Ikke påkrevd	Alle tre innleveringer må leveres for å få lov til å levere prosjektoppgave

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Prosjektoppgave	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått	Presentasjon av oppgaven muntlig et krav for å bestå.
Delinnlevering	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått	Delinnleveringene vil kunne telle på sluttkarakteren.

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Ekskursjon

Start semester

40 513 Studio Positions_Distant Mandate

Full course name in English:

Positions

Studiepoeng:

Emnekode:

40 513

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2017 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2017 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2017

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Lisbeth Funck

Forkunnskapskrav

Passed level bachelor in architecture

Om emnet

Studio Positions offers in depth studies of the fundamental structures that make up architecture and how these structures relate to an architectural program. The studio draws on established knowledge but also challenges our understanding of historical and existing buildings. What we know about things is not always corresponding to what we perceive and experience. We are preoccupied with not only how architecture is made but also the presence of architecture and the affect (aesthetic experience) it produces.

Title of course: Studio Positions_Distant Mandate
In the fall semester 2017 the studio will continue to investigate the relationships between the four fundamental architectural categories; substructure, structure, space and material. Starting out from a historical building reference, the palace of Alhambra in Spain, the focus of the discussion will be on 1. How ideas of structural and material assembly, are inseparable from the formation of spaces with character / spatial qualities and 2. Learning from history – how we position ourselves as architects relative to the history of architecture.

Architects have always sought inspiration and knowledge from other cultures and from the history of architecture, be it Sverre Fehn, influenced by his travels in Morocco, Ferdinand Poullion’s strong connections to Algeria, Corbusier’s travels in Greece that had a decisive influence on his future work, or Frank Lloyd Wright’s strong affinity to Japanese building traditions. In this way places and time influence and enrich architecture, opening new insight into our present condition or situation.

The palace of Alhambra is said to be founded about 1250 on the ruins of a roman fortress. The building complex consists of several structures and gardens erected over a period of hundreds of years. The experience of the richness of the palace structures, materiality, surface ornament and spaces will serve both as an immediate inspiration and as a case study to be analyzed according to the categories substructure, structure, space and material.

The semester task will be to develop a series of autonomous structures that together form a whole.

Parallel to the main task the students will produce a reflecting text.

Læringsutbytte

Pedagogy:
The studio has a research-based teaching, with focus on in-depth individual research into a given topic. The student is encouraged to develop an individual formal language, and through different medias investigate fundamental architectural issues/questions. With a practice-based research and a sensual approach to technical challenges, we aim at a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of architecture and thus position oneself in the continuous architectural discourse.

Knowledge:

Practice based research
Awareness and ability to gain knowledge from own sensual experience of existing buildings and use this subjective experience in the making of architecture.
Knowledge and reflection on architecture fundamental elements; substructure, structure, material and space, and how they are assembled. Abstract geometry versus individual and intuitive design decisions.
Historical layers. What to continue and what to leave behind?

Skills:

Ability to deal with issues of construction and thematic intent
Increased knowledge and skills in: Investigation methods, architecture programming, architectural properties
Revisit history of architecture – by being inspired by, interpret anew, to further develop by clarification.

Competence:

Ability to reflect on own work verbally and in writing
To develop an architectural position

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Architectural design. Individual investigation. 20 weeks semester task including individual written assignment and group reviews.

Pensum

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav	Påkrevde arbeidskrav	Oppmøte påkrevd	Kommentar
Oppmøte til undervisning		Påkrevd	Attendance and participation in reviews, lectures and announced meetings is mandatory.
Ekskursjoner		Ikke påkrevd	Participation recommended

Start semester

40 508 Scarcity & Creativity

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

Scarcity & Creativity

Emnekode:

40 508

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2017 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2017 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2017

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Christian Hermansen

Solveig Sandness

Forkunnskapskrav

To have completed 3 years of architectural education and not to have taken the SCS studio before. Students selecting this studio will have to take the In-Transit elective course whose subject is the condition of displaced people.

Om emnet

This project is part of Greening Bourj Al Shamali, an initiative by the local committee of Bourj Al Shamali, a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon. The project aims to improve living conditions in the camp and to create its first public green space and community garden. AHO’s Scarcity and Creativity Studio has been invited to support this effort and to collaborate on creating the green space and, within this, a workshop cabin for the community garden. AHO studio students will be joined by a group of youths from the camp who have been trained in construction work by Beit Atfal Assomoud, the vocational centre in the camp. Together they will work in coordination with the local committee. AHO students will learn about the situation in the camp. A series of talks at AHO will contextualise the work in Bourj Al Shamali and representatives from the camp will also visit AHO and contribute (in person and online) to the design process.

Bourj Al Shamali was founded as a temporary camp for Palestinian refugees coming mainly from the agricultural regions of Tiberias and Hawla in 1948. Over half a century later, it now houses 25,000 people and is an overcrowded, unplanned, permanent city, with five times the intended number of inhabitants occupying the original site leased by the UN.

Though the inhabitants of Bourj Al Shamali regard themselves as an agricultural people – as evidenced by the many painted murals of farming scenes in the camp – there are no public green spaces there, nor do they plant crops that might supply some of their food needs and thereby sustain their link to the land.

The Public Square In the center of the camp a family who migrated to Germany left the site they lived on for community use. The site is bounded by four streets/alleys, which make it uniquely appropriate to provide the first and only public space in the camp.

At present the site contains two large, old olive trees at its center, and a fig and ornamental tree in the perimeter. On the site there are two buildings, a stone hut, 3m x 4m, which is one of the few remaining first generation buildings in the camp, and which should be rehabilitated for community use. The other building, of around 40 m2, built from thin concrete blocks is falling apart and could be demolished or rehabilitated as a community facility.

The whole site, which extends to around 220 m2, is to be developed as a public square. It is possible that neighbors will demand that the square be fenced to control its use at night.

The Community Garden and Workshop At the edge of the camp there is a plot of land containing 15 olive trees that has been donated to the Local Committee for a community garden and workshop cabin which will serve as a space for meetings and lessons on agriculture, gardening, and food processing. It will contain a basic kitchen for the women’s cooperative, as well as a space for meetings and group activities, such as the citizen science club. Standing on the border between the refugee camp and the surrounding Lebanese community, the community garden also aims to be a bridge between the two communities as the local Lebanese population also lack green spaces.

The two main ‘clients’ of this project are:

Mahmoud Al Joumma

Mahmoud Al Joumma is the Head of Beit Atfal Assomoud vocational center and a founder of the Al

Houla Association that runs the library in the refugee camp. Since 2012, he is a member of the Bourj Al

Shamali local city council, where, standing on an independent civic platform, he became the first

elected representative from the refugee camp. In 2016 he was re-elected and appointed as the

local council member responsible for culture and environment. He has worked extensively to increase

opportunities for youth setting up the first scout group and music band in the camp; to empower the

local community to be more active in shaping their living environment; and to build ties with the local

Lebanese community.

Claudia Martinez Mansell

Claudia Martinez Mansell is a humanitarian worker and independent researcher. She has worked for

over ten years with the United Nations, and has lived for extended periods in Kosovo, Lebanon, the

occupied Palestinian territories, Sudan and Yemen. Her research interests are concerned with

protracted crises, urbanization and critical examinations of the landscapes created by

humanitarian crises and interventions. She first visited Bourj Al Shamali in 1998, when she volunteered

at the vocational center in the camp. She has returned regularly and with Mr Al Joumma is

spearheading the current effort to green the camp.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE SEE: http://scs.aho.no/Bourj%20Al%20Shamali.htm

Læringsutbytte

On completing the course, the student will have acquired the following knowledge, skills, and competences:

Knowledge:

will learn about the socio-economic characteristics of a Palestinian Refugee camp in Lebanon
will learn about designing for the needs of a local refugee community in Lebanon
will learn about detailing and specifications of small community space and community building, built in locally available materials.
will learn about local building regulations and building practices.
will learn about the basic climatic requirements buildings in the local setting.
will learn about building costs and budget management during construction
will learn about designing and building in conditions of scarcity and for local needs

Skills:

will have acquired the skill for using manual and mechanical tools for building
Will develop negotiating skills regarding negotiation of architectural ideas in groups
Depending on which group they work on during the production phase, they will develop skills in structural calculations, construction detailing, construction scheduling, fund raising, digital media publication, project costing, and/or testing innovative details at 1:1.
Will develop skills in particular construction practices.
Will develop skills regarding client relations, client needs and requirements, client communications.

Competence:

Increase competence in taking conceptual design ideas to a stage where they can be built.
Increase competence of the relationship between architectural representations and real buildings.
Increase competence in construction scheduling, costs, site organisation and management.
Increase competence in structural characteristics of materials and their application to building structures.
Increase competence of time management in terms of designing, detailing and building in a limited time period.
Increase competence in understanding local conditions, including climate, construction practices, local building materials and local building regulations.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The course includes:

· Introduction to the local setting
· Contact with project ‘client’
· Designing for a specific site and specific uses
· Influence of local climatic conditions on architectural design.
· Local building regulations
· Structural calculations
· Logistics of construction
· Staff presentations relevant to student’s design development
· Student Presentation of work done, with defense of concepts
· Building innovative 1:1 details, to be later used in the building
· Working individually at first, and then in groups
· Construction practice
· Fund raising
· Presentation of project in web and in exhibitions

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Prosjektoppgave	-	Bestått / ikke bestått	The assessment will be on the basis of submissions, performance and participation in the studio. Students will be asked for specific submissions during the semester. These submissions are part of the development of the project in Kenya and Oslo. As much of the work is done in groups, participation is of the utmost importance. The final assessment will be made by the sensor and will be based on: 1. The individual submission for stage one of the projects. 2. The level of participation and contribution to the collective work. 3. The assessment of the work achieved by the studio as a whole. To approve the studio students need to get a PASS mark in each of these three requirements. The minimum attendance to the studio activities is 80% of organised events. The final decision as to the performance of each student will be taken by the external examiner (sensor) on the basis of group performance, the report on individual participation done by the teachers, and a portfolio showing the extent of individual and collective contributions to the studio. The assessment of participation and contribution of each student to the studio will count for 60% of the final mark while the submission of the group and individual work will count for 40%.

Start semester

2017 Høst

40 517 Tektoniske øvelser

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

Tectonic Exercises

Emnekode:

40 517

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2017 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2017 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Norsk

År:

2017

Maksimum antall studenter:

Om emnet

Kursansvarlig:

Jan Olav Jensen

Kurset har to hoveddeler:

Utvikling av konsept. Denne fasen er delt i tre, hver på to uker, der et lite bygg (enebolig el.) skal tegnes tre ganger på samme tomt, men kun ett materiale hver gang.
Gjennomtegning av ett skisseprosjekt. Ett av skisseprosjektene detaljeres videre og gjennomtegnes. Ett materiale skal være hovedingrediens (minst 90 %). Mest mulig av innredningen skal også bygges av det samme materialet.

Læringsutbytte

Oversikt over:

sammenhengen mellom materialer, konstruksjoner og form
måter å bearbeide ulike materialer på
hvordan materialer settes sammen

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Kurset bygges opp omkring individuelt prosjektarbeid med:

fast korrektur
forelesninger
gjennomgåelser
ekskursjon

Pensum

Det er ikke et obligatorisk pensum. Det vil bli gitt individuelle litteraturanbefalinger tilpasset hver enkelt students interessefelt og prosjekt. Noe felles litteratur vil bli anbefalt, bl.a. asBUILT.

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Vurderingsmappe	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått	Det blir fem gjennomgåelser i løpet av semesteret, hver på en dag: • gjennomgåelser etter hver av de tre skisseprosjektene • en delgjennomgåelse i gjennomtegningsfasen • en sluttgjennomgåelse Sensor deltar på alle gjennomgåelsene. Kurset sensureres med utgangspunkt i alle oppgavene som er levert, men med hovedvekt på siste prosjekt. Kurset bedømmes til bestått/Ikke bestått.

Start semester

2017 Høst

60 515 _OSLO CIVIC

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

OSLO CIVIC

Emnekode:

60 515

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2017 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2017 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2017

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Gro Bonesmo

Om emnet

_OSLO CIVIC

Oslo is the City of Relocation.

The top down process of prime post industrial sites being replaced by cultural institutions for consumption - and production - is almost fullfilled.

In the neo liberal logic of the urban environment -

civic institutions – once forming the the representative layer in the city - are now on the move.

More often than not – escaping the city, leaving behind an increasingly monofunctional privatized city.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN URBAN CITIZEN today?

WHAT BELONGS IN THE CITY?

HOW CAN WE RETHINK THESE TYOLOGIES so they can still fit – and belong?

-and keep our city rich, diverse and civic.

Can we turn this city of abandonment into a city of reinjections and diversity?

How can we re-read and reintroduce these institutions and services back into the city with new spatial logics responding to new needs, technologies, forms of transportation and mobility, social demographics and density.

The Cloud liberates space in the city by absorbing programs – redefining post services, banking functions, media, shops, education, hospitals – making architectural typologies obsolete, atomized or replaced by an app. This new lightness, open for other interpretations of human interaction and transparency.

SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, institutions to inform, educate, keep us safe and healthy are all up for new logics of relocation and redefinition.

The Future City is to be found within the existing city.

POLYMORHIC TYPOLOGIES -

5 CASE STUDIES on the move – to be relocated and redefined.

NRK (broadcastinghouse), Veterinærhøgskolen (urban campus), Botsfengelet (prison/rehab centre), Firestation and Student Social Centre - rather than having outgrown their premises, is in need of a more compact, efficient, transparent and open spatial response – may be redistributed.

_MEDIA : NRK moving from Marienlyst…the redefined urban MEDIAHOUSE?

_EDUACATION_ Veterinærhøgskolen moving from Adamstuen…the new urban CAMPUS?

_SAFETY: _ Main Fire station moving from the Ring 1…the new FIRESTATION?

_REHAB_ Botsfengelet moving the new urban PRISON?

_SOCIAL _Chateu Neuf moving from Majorstuen…the new urban STUDENT SOCIAL CENTRE?

_HEALTH _ Ullevål Sykehus…the new urban HOSPITAL?

Læringsutbytte

LEARNING OUTCOME;

As a research based studio, the students will investigate the needs, potentials, and challenges of these processes of redistributions through collective mapping, and analysis phase learning both quantitative and qualitative research methods.

Lectures and reading seminar will run in parallel.

Each typology will be explored through its programmatic evolution by chosen references through timelines.

Alternative strategies will be developed into individual design speculations.

Each student will select one case study and develop alternative site selections

(or reuse strategies) and implementation, of new typologies for the Oslo Civic.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Group Work; Quantitative and qualitative research. Mapping, timelines, catalouge of typology evolution

Lectures and Reading seminar

Individual work; Development of urban strategy, siteselection and advanced architectural project through individual desk crits, pin ups, mid terms and final crit.

Study trip to be decided.

Pensum

1. Project Japan; Matabolism Talks - Koolhaas Obrist

2. Benjamin Bratton - the Stack; On Software and Sovereignity

3. Saskia Sassen; Expulsions; Brutality adnd Complexity in the Global Economy

more texts to be defined. for reading seminar.

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Vurderingsmappe	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Oppmøte	Oppmøte og deltagelse i undervisning, gruppearbeid, på forelesninger er forventet, og gjentatt fravær og lav deltagelse vil gi grunnlag for lavere karakter.

Start semester

2017 Høst

60 516 Ecology of place

Full course name in English:

Ecology of a place

Studiepoeng:

Emnekode:

60 516

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2017 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2017 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2017

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Joakim Skajaa

Forkunnskapskrav

Bachelor in Architecture

Om emnet

A one semester master studio that takes the concept of urban ecology as a starting point for urban and architectural proposals in the cross section between social and ecological transformations. How can we as architects take part in creating a just, inclusive and equal city?

The studio is organized by the research project Invisible Infrastructures and the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at AHO

Urban ecology is described as the study the interaction between society and its physical environment. In this course we will initially learn and develop methods for researching the urban ecology and finally use this research to define and develop urban “places” taking as a simultaneous starting point Christian Norberg-Schulz’s thinking of the characteristics of places and their qualities. The relationship between man and nature, he writes, is:

...a relationship that is at the same time practical, theoretical and poetic. Man cultivate the earth, acknowledge the laws of nature and sing about the beauty of a place. These enterprises walk hand in hand - because it's impossible to take care of something that one hasn't experienced and to some degree understood. When cultivation becomes exploitation it's not necessarily because of greed but of a lack of knowledge. … It is the poetic experience, the joy of being here, that is the defining moment in our relationship to the natural surroundings.

In creating cities that provide good living and working environments, and to paraphrase CNS - where the relationships between men, and between man and nature are legible, we face two major challenges. First, cities are confronted with rapidly growing social disparities along a broad range of dimensions, including socioeconomic, ethnonational, and occupational lines. Second,cities are scenes of ecological breakdown. Urbanization leads to fragmentation, isolation and degradation of natural habitats, impacting crucial ecosystem functions and services such as pollination, water retention management and cleaning of air. Such essential ecosystem services are not evenly distributed throughout the urban landscape.

It is, or should not be, possible to work as an architect today and not discuss social exclusion and injustice as well as the impact we have on ecosystems. In Oslo the rapid urbanisastion of recent decades is followed by even greater differences within society.

In this interdisciplinary oriented master studio we will take the Gamle Oslo and Tøyen area in Oslo as a starting point for the development of urban research methods and urban design strategies. How can we describe the social, ecological and urban structures - and what is the relation between them? Is it possible to describe spatial strategies and methods that will produce a more just city. Tøyen, as a site for rapid gentrification as well as community organisation and urban poverty is an interesting starting point.

The outcome of the studio will be part of the research project invisible infrastructures:

http://www.oculs.no/projects/invisible-infrastructures/about/

INTRODUCTORY MASTER CLASS

The master course includes participation in an introductory masterclass held by Professor Alan Berger (Professor, MIT) and Fadi Masoud: Assistant Professor (University of Toronto) on resilient design and planning. In the master class we will use detailed data sets on the city as a resource and students will learn how to work with large scale data sets and developing proposals based on these data. The data will be made available by the data group in the Oslo municipality and is not generally available to the public so we expect this class to gain a quite exclusive view of the hidden structures driving the city.

Alan Berger and Fadi writes: In dealing with climate change-related urban design matters, notions of “resiliency” and “resilient design and planning” are becoming central pillars of education and practice. Yet this workshop will look at expanding the scope of these ideas through the establishment of “resiliency districts” and “flux codes”. These are terms coined at the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism in an effort to progress upon the agency of design in the deployment of resiliency strategies.

This intensive pre-semester workshop will look at the ideas “resiliency districting” and “flux codes” in the Oslo context. We will select three different types of water/coastal urban conditions found in the Oslo region to test novel forms of resilient landscape-based strategies.

The studio will be headed by Joakim Skajaa (Eriksen Skajaa) with guest appearances for various fields including urbanism, architecture, social science, biology, ecology etc.

http://oculs.designresearch.no/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/Ecolog...

RESEARCH TEAM/ GUEST TEACHERS

Marianne Skjulhaug( AHO), Astri Dalseide (Kåmmån), Bengt Andersen (Sociologist HioA), Victor Shammas (social anthropologist Uio), Hanna Bjørgaas (biologist), Arild Eriksen (Eriksen Skajaa), Zaccariotto Giambattista (AHO)

CONTACT: Joakim Skajaa, joakim@eriksenskajaa.no, 93204522, www.eriksenskajaa.no

Læringsutbytte

The course will provide a theoretical background for urban studies and design as well as practical methodology of urban research, urban ecologies, community organisation and bottom-up development. With that knowledge as a base the students will develop necessary skills and strategies to take part in society as architects making places. The course is founded in the dual belief in the important strategic role of the architect in society and the influence of the built environment and natural surroundings on society. This means the while at the start of the semester we will will delve into society, how to understand it and injustice between men and against nature - we will in the (longer) final leg of the semester spend the time discussing which architecture and urban design can lay the ground for a more just, less segregated and ecosystem-integrated development.

Knowledge: The will, through lectures, meetings and workshops develop knowledge and familiarity in the field of urban ecology, the concept of urban injustice and bottom-up development strategies.

Skills: Through field work and introductory tasks the students will gain necessary skills in urban analysis, sociological research and analysis of ecosystem resources.

General competence: Using the knowledge and skills the students will develop the competence needed to propose strategies and design proposals in a contested urban situation. The students will choose to work individually or in groups.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The studio will be divided in two parts. The first part will be a crash course in research methodology and community organisation. Students will be made familiar with methods ranging from analysis of public data sets to interviews, walk-alongs and observation. We will meet community organizers, local residents, representatives of the municipality to learn about bottom-up processes and the main ideas behind participatory development. In the second part of the semester students will use the analytical and theoretical framework to propose strategies and design proposals for a just urban development at Tøyen. Topics of the proposals could include urban development strategies, public space, housing projects, public buildings.

Study trip:

The study trip will take place in LA/ California where we will be researching the community organisation and visiting large scale ecological infrastructure.

Schedule:

August 14-26 Masterclass “Resilient design and planning”

August/ September:

Research methods, bottom-up organization and development

Study trip (dates set by school)

Defining tools and strategies

October- December

Design proposals

Pensum

Literature:

Aureli, Pier Vittorio etc. Real Estates: Life without Debt, London: Bedford Press, 2014.

Braathen, Martin. Alt er arkitektur! Neoavantgarde og institusjonskritikk i Norge 1965-1970. Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag, 2010.

Coleman, Nathaniel. “Architecture and Dissidence: Utopia as Method”, in Volume, 2 Issue 1, 44-59. London: Bloomsbury, March, 2015.

Eriksen Skajaa Arkitekter, Pollen, Issue 1-3, 2011-17. Oslo: Pollen Forlag

Falma Fshazi, Stefano Graziani, How things meet, 51N4E, Gent: APE, May 2016

Fløistad, Guttorm, Moe, Ketil, Thiis-Evensen. Thomas Christian Norberg Schulz - Et festskrift til 70-års dagen, (Oslo: Norsk Arkitekturforlag, 1996.)

Hansen, Oskar. Towards Open Form/ Ku formie otwartej. Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, and Warsaw: Foksal, 2005

Hatløy, Svein. Hus og miljø: arkitektur og planlegging. Oslo: Samlaget, 1991.

Hardingman, Samantha. Cedric Price Works 1952–2003: A Forward-minded Retrospective, London, CCA/ AA, 2016.

Hirsch, Nikolaus, Miessen Markus (Eds.) What is critical spatial practice. Berlin: Sternberg 2012.

Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Mellom Jord og Himmel, En bok om steder og hus. Oslo: Pax, 2. Ed. 1992.

Miessen, Markus. The Nightmare of Participation: (Crossbench Praxis as a Mode of Criticality). Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2010.

Wieder, Axel and Zeyfand, Florian. ed. Open Form: Space, Interaction, and the Tradition of Oskar Hansen. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014.

Tornow, Britta and Urban, Suzanne. “Cohousing in Norway” In Europe Co-operative Housing. 104-111 Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2015.

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Prosjektoppgave	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Oppmøte	Attendance and participation in lectures, weekly seminars and workshops is expected, and absence may result in a lower grade.
Individuell veiledning	Attendance at announced meetings and is expected, and absence may result in a lower grade.

Start semester

2017 Høst

60 517 Islands: Images of many natures

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

Islands: Images of many natures

Emnekode:

60 517

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2017 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2017 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2017

Maksimum antall studenter:

15 in Oslo (24 all together)

Emneansvarlig

Luis Callejas

Forkunnskapskrav

1. Intermediate to advanced Rhino 3d skills.
2. Adobe suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and Indesign)
3. Some fundamentals about garden history are desirable but not required, particularly for architecture students. (Previous to the course it is recommended to read through "The Course of Landscape Architecture: A History of our Designs on the Natural World" by Christophe Girot ISBN-13: 978-0500342978)
4. Refined visual education and aesthetic sensitivity
5. Interest or curiosity about the intersection of architecture and landscape architecture.
6. Architecture students interested in design with live matter.
7. Landscape architecture students with interest in objects and form.
8. Basic GIS is highly desired but not required.

Om emnet

Oslo:
Open to Landscape architecture and architecture students.
Instructors: Luis Callejas and Mattias Josefson
Introductory workshop with Fadi Masoud and Alan Berger (August 14 - 21)
Mid semester workshop with Kai Reaver (October 2 - 9)
Number of students: 15

Tromsø
Third-semester Landscape Architecture students
Instructors: Kjerstin Uhre and Biljana Nikolic
Introductory workshop with Biljana Nikolic (August 14 - 21)

As a geographic trope for designers the island represents at the same time total freedom and total constraint. When used as a metaphor to describe landscape conditions, it seemingly contradicts current environmental discourses that tend to advocate for relentless interconnection between natural systems. The island often describes bounded or framed nature, thriving or evolving due to conditions that often would be deemed undesirable in the mainland.
The island beyond the metaphor, when understood simply as bounded space, can also be used to re-vitalise the seemingly obsolete idea of the contained garden, particularly at territorial scales, a space where freedom and extreme beauty primes over ecologic performance.
When represented as physical frame rather than a metaphor, the island is the ideal laboratory to break the current conflict between beauty and ecologic performance; or more specific to designers: the conflict between fixed form and design with and for natural systems.
An island can be considered a small model of the world, in many ways not that different than the idea of an enclosed garden, a space of fantasy and simulation where what happens within the restricted boundaries of the island can not, and perhaps should not happen in the mainland.
Taking example of previous real and fictional gone-wrong experiments (like Invasive beautiful species in Australia, or the failure of the Jurassic park (2) we will drag and drop objects and living things, track their interactions and hopefully create beautiful and perhaps even perverse contained ecologies. The studio is equally interested in figures like Dr. Moreau (3), or the mastermind in Jurassic park, as in figures like O M Ungers and other architects that have already employed the island as a metaphor for curated exclusion when designing for cities.
The studio will deal with the islands as living confined laboratory rather than a metaphor useful for architects concerned with objects or monuments in abstract space.
The course will embrace the pelagic space of Norway and confront the students with the task of designing large objects and a contained ecology within the geographic constraints of an island condition.
We will operate along the full north - south coast, from Finnmark to Østfold, while each student will have a different island or group of small islands as a digital laboratory of form vs designed ecologies.
Students will research and explore the tropes of the readymade in art as well as past land art practices focused on large objects, also the wildest representations of contained nature and gardens in contemporary painting and contemporary environmental art.
We will explore the possibility of translating these methods into the realm of constructed ecologies by borrowing material from designers, digital artists and video game developers that have already created extensive libraries of autonomous models of animals, plants, unnatural creatures and climatic events. Results will give priority to aesthetic qualities over ecologic performance.
By taking the islands out of the ecologic contexts beyond the coast, designers will also be free to propose large objects and test their impact against disperse fields of creatures and plant material borrowed from digital libraries; all while testing the interactions with their primitive pre designed ecologies and behaviours.
Potential Sites:
(list to be expanded)
Giske
Tamsøya
Leka
Jøa
Vågsøy
Andøya
Husøya
Ålesund
Alden
Bulandet
Melkøya
Karlsøy
Bjarkøy
Røst
Træna
Vega
Dønna
Hitra
Sotra
Utsira
Veierland
Bastøy
Nesøya
Selja
Tromsøya
Arnøya

Læringsutbytte

1. Students will learn to design with live matter without loosing the capacity to design objects.
2. Students will learn that objectifying nature can be compatible with ecological performance.
3. Students will engage in playful yet serious experiments on how form interacts with fluid mediums like live matter, water and climate. Not for the sake of pure performance but rather seeking refined aesthetic effects.
4. Students will learn basic use of video game software for ecological simulation as a counterpoint and perhaps direct critique to the use of parametric software often focused in geometry.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Methodology

The legacy of land art, particularly in North America includes a generation of artist mostly working with mineral landscape media that created large-scale installations of striking yet delicate impact. (5)
Currently, there is an active critique in architecture and landscape architecture discourses that seemingly rejects the value and ethics of artistic practices focused on large-scale interventions in both landscape and urbanistic projects. The critiques are often justified by exposing the lack of capacity of certain interventions to go beyond the visual, incapable to meaningfully influence an ecology or produce works that behave as an ecology in their own. (6)
The studio will re-invigorate the relevance or large scale artistic interventions based on objects and live matter, claiming that the field can be renewed by taking advantage of simulation technologies not available to previous generation of land artists, landscape architects and architects.
Programming the interventions is to some extent optional, in case there is a specific program it should be capable to relate to the ecology of the island either as a building for experimentation with live matter or a space for scientific display within the garden.
For the context of the studio, each island will behave as a large experimental garden, deliberately free from the ecologic contexts and complexities of the mainland. Objects, buildings, and live matter will be inserted following principles of composition confronted with topography, while their interactions with creatures and artificial climate tracked, observed and presented as large-scale artworks of their own.
The studio will be as much about form and objects, as it will be about the interaction between form and environment. The contained limits of the islands will keep experiments controlled and hopefully derive in a contained form of environmental determinism.
Interpretation and judgment of results will assume projects exist beyond the traditional definitions of large scale artworks, gardens or buildings.

Techniques

The studio will work with 3d models of selected islands and half way through the studio will continue the development within a virtual space in UNITY 3d (6). There will be a two-week workshop led by AHO Instructor Kai Reaver to get into the tools and context of the software, also to understand its possibilities beyond the realm of video game design and representation.
After the workshop students will be asked to simulate and ecology within each island, species, and objects will be able to interact with rules defined by each designer or pre-established by the developers of each animal or climatic model.
Landscape architects and architects will be able to extend their design palette to storms, manipulate gravity, flocks of animals and design unnatural ecologies. With more freedom comes more responsibility as ultimately each island will reflect each designer’s position towards ecology, conservation, and environment. Students will be able to choose to assign more responsibility to objects or animated live matter.
Ultimately the studio is also an experiment to test the relevance and potential of ecological simulation derived from video game software beyond static representation. This software and virtual space will create a climate ideal for students skeptic about the apparent divergence or art and science in recent landscape architecture discourses.

Preliminary schedule

Stage I
Workshop with Fadi Masoud and Alan Berger
(August 14 - 21)

Stage II
Field trip Norway: Visit to islands in the north of Norway (3 days)
Launching the studio together with Tromsø students. Lectures by Luis Callejas and Kai Reaver

Research, data collection and island theory.

Students will be immersed in the extensive writings and production of artistic / architectural practices that have deal with the island as metaphor and space of investigation. Movies, texts and theories will be explored under non hierarchical scrutiny.

Stage II
Modelling. Gathering GIS and 3d data. Assigning islands to each student.
Island stories: Getting familiar with each island’s pre existing conditions.
Preliminary proposals.

Stage III
Unity 3d
1 Week workshop with Kai Reaver.

Stage IV
Field trip Sardinia

Stage V
The design of an island ecology: From Gardens to objects to fields

Stage VII
Final exhibition. Oslo and Tromsø

References:
Islands and atolls, Pamphlet Architecture 33. Luis Callejas
http://www.papress.com/html/product.details.dna?isbn=9781616891428
Florian Hertweck (Editor), Sebastien Marot (Editor) Oswald Mathias Ungers Berlin Green Archipelago
https://www.amazon.com/City-Berlin-Green-Archipelago/dp/3037783265
In: New Geographies, vol. 8: Island. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design:
“Philosopher´s Island” Robert Mackay
“Molten Entities” Timothy Morton with artworks by Olafur Eliasson
“On seeing and believing: Islands of chaos and the key questions of scientific visualisation” Nina Samuel
“A stroll between fields and objects” A conversation with Stan Allen
“On the limits of process” Anita Berrizbeitia
“The limits of limits: Schmitt, Aureli and the geopolitical ontology of the island” Douglas Spencer
“Gardens as migratory devices” Kees Lokman
“The island effect: Reality of metaphor” Stefania Staniscia.
“Desert Island: An atlas of archipelagic laboratories” MAP office
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9781934510452

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Prosjektoppgave	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Gjennomgang

Start semester

2017 Høst

80 508 Re-Store: Bodies and Architecture

Full course name in English:

Re-Store: Bodies and Architecture

Studiepoeng:

Emnekode:

80 508

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2017 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2017 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2017

Maksimum antall studenter:

Forkunnskapskrav

There are no prerequisites beyond admission to the program.

Om emnet

Growing from the lineage of Re-Store courses, this studio explores how to analyze and transform existing buildings through the lens of social experience. Current techniques for drawing, measuring, and preserving existing structures emphasize architectural and historical value over social value. But the key to sustaining a building is understanding how it has created social interactions in the past and can continue to generate activity in the future.

To probe these questions, the studio will look at the former prison Botsfengselet in Grønland, Oslo. This prison structure is remarkable not only for its grand architecture but also for its social organization, designed to isolate and observe prisoners. The closure of the prison in September 2017 poses a fascinating preservation problem– how can this historical structure be preserved through reuse? How can a prison be converted into another program? The reuse and reprogramming of the site must confront how the prison architecture shaped social and bodily experience. The course will have access to the prison both before and after its closure in September, providing the opportunity to analyze it both as a fully-functioning prison and a vacant structure.

Læringsutbytte

This course will develop techniques for analyzing and drawing the relationship between the architecture and bodily experience. Students will develop experimental drawing techniques for mapping the movement of bodies in relation to the structure. These drawing techniques will be supplemented by research into the social history of the place and into other prison typologies. By analyzing the way the building has guided the movement and interaction of people, students will develop design proposals for how the building can be transformed both through program and new design interventions.

Students will develop individual design proposals for the reuse and redesign of the building, which will be resolved to a high degree of architectural detail. Students will deliver conventional architectural representations of their projects along with experimental drawings that capture social experience.

The course will also develop a public presentation of the work, ideally in the prison itself, which might take the form of an exhibition, event, or design intervention, to foster public dialogue about the site.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The teaching will take place in the form of pin-ups and critiques. Students are expected to be active participants in group conversations, to attend all pin-ups and to keep up with a rigorous level of production.

In combination with the studio meetings, the course will involve numerous trips to the Botsfengselet prison as well as related institutional buildings.

Pensum

Primary Readings:

Tabula Plena: Forms of Urban Transformation, ed. Bryony Roberts (Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2016)

Friedrich Nietzsche, “On the Utility and Liability of History for Life” in The Nietzsche Reader (Blackwell, 2006), 124-141.

Otero-Pailos, Jorge, “Creative Agents” in Future Anterior, III/2, Summer 2006: iii-vii

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav	Påkrevde arbeidskrav	Oppmøte påkrevd	Kommentar
Oppmøte til undervisning		Ikke påkrevd	Attendance: Students are expected to be present and working during all studio meetings, which occur twice a week. Students are also expected to be present during all reviews. Absences from studio meetings and reviews will affect the final grade and multiple unexcused absences will result in course failure.

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Vurderingsmappe	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått	The final grade in the course will be given on the basis of: Attendance and design production for twice-weekly studio meetings: 30% Midreview presentation: 30% Final review presentation: 40% Deadlines: Students must complete assignments by the given deadline.
Muntlig presentasjon	Individuell	-	The oral presentation is a part of the portofolio assessment. Midreview and Final Review: Work presented for both the midreview and the final review will be evaluated according to the following criteria: Conceptual Clarity:  Students should demonstrate proactive engagement with the material and self-motivated intellectual pursuits that enhance their own design ambitions. Students are expected to clearly articulate their ambitions and the intellectual underpinnings of their work in pinups and desk crits. Technique : Students are expected to execute all assignments with care and precision. Assignments will be evaluated not only on the basis of the ideas, but also to a large degree on the quality of the execution. Students are responsible for planning sufficient time for developing appropriate and thorough representation.

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Individuell oppgaveløsning	Design production for twice-weekly studio meetings: Students are expected to be self-motivated and ambitious in their development of their design proposals. During each twice-weekly studio meeting, students will discuss their work with the instructors. Students are expected to revise and improve their work for each session in response to earlier feedback from their instructors.

Start semester

Pre-Diploma Landscape Architecture (Tromsø)

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

Pre-Diploma Landscape Architecture (Tromsø)

Emnekode:

65 701

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2017 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Norsk/Engelsk

Forkunnskapskrav

Successful completion of 60 credits. Last Semester before diploma.

Om emnet

The pre-diploma semester at AHO is an independent research task on a theme chosen by the candidate. In consultation with the course teacher, fellow students and a chosen advisor, the candidate is to produce a report that details a topic to be studied, an approach or methodology, a spatial program and a plan of work. This report is the foundation of the diploma work.

Læringsutbytte

∙ An understanding of the complexity of a chosen urban or landscape site and topic
∙ An ability to frame artistic and scientific research
∙ An understanding of the given natural, social, cultural and technological conditions that govern urban or landscape design work
∙ An awareness of the topic’s historical, societal, theoretical and methodological ramifications
∙ An ability to communicate ideas and plan work
∙ An understanding of one’s own individual position with the discipline

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The course is an individual research assignment with group discussions and interim presentations of the different research components. It concludes with a pre-diploma report containing the following elements:
- Topic description
- Site presentation
- Maps of selected issues
- Reviews and discussions of relevant literature
- Summaries and discussions of interviews with experts
- Reference projects presentations and discussions

Oppmøte påkrevd
Ikke påkrevd

Vurderingsform:	Vurderingsmappe
Gruppering:	Individuell
Karakterskala:	Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:	Oppmøte til undervisning
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:	Påkrevd
Kommentar:	90% Attendance at lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials is required.

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:	Øvinger
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:	Ikke påkrevd
Kommentar:	Alle tre innleveringer må leveres for å få lov til å levere prosjektoppgave

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:	Oppmøte til undervisning
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:	Påkrevd
Kommentar:	Attendance and participation in reviews, lectures and announced meetings is mandatory.

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:	Ekskursjoner
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:	Ikke påkrevd
Kommentar:	Participation recommended

Språk

2017 Høst

Start semester

40 515 High-Density, Climate-Adapted Urban Housing

Start semester

40 507 Embedded Architectures

Start semester

40 513 Studio Positions_Distant Mandate

Start semester

40 508 Scarcity & Creativity

Start semester

40 517 Tektoniske øvelser

Start semester

60 515 _OSLO CIVIC

Start semester

60 516 Ecology of place

Start semester

60 517 Islands: Images of many natures

Start semester

80 508 Re-Store: Bodies and Architecture

Start semester

Pre-Diploma Landscape Architecture (Tromsø)

Sider

Aktivitet:	Oppmøte
Kommentar:	Oppmøte og deltagelse i undervisning, gruppearbeid, på forelesninger er forventet, og gjentatt fravær og lav deltagelse vil gi grunnlag for lavere karakter.