2023 Høst

Start semester

60 533 Mediterranean Botanical Garden

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

Mediterranean Botanical Garden

Emnekode:

60 533

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2023 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2023 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2023

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Luis Callejas

Gro Bonesmo

Forkunnskapskrav

Autocad. Adobe suite. 3d modelling. Model making skills.

The course is open for Landscape architecture students and Architecture students.

Om emnet

The studio will engage with the design of a botanical garden (the landscapes and its main associated buildings) in a high altitude tropical location in the middle of the Colombian Andes.

The studio will challenge the botanical garden as a museum of plants, by attempting to return to the origins of the typology, which was about a space for botanical research rather than a space for hosting collections brought from exotic locations.

The studio is part of the "International studio series" and focuses on the implementation of the tools and techniques developed through studios in the past six years, which allow students to address the design of remote locations by creatively working with constructed site surveys. These techniques empower students to use landscape as media for design that can also inform architecture.

The studio has the support of the newly founded Rionegro Botanical garden.

Expenses are conmesurate with regular studios at AHO (model making materials, a study trip to be discussed with teachers, regular supplies) there will be a collective model to be made as a group.

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge:

Advanced design competence in preparation to undertake independent projects such as landscape architecture and architecture diploma at AHO.

Different landscape architecture's spatial principles applied to the task of designing a botanical garden (landscape, gardens and associate buildings and structures)

Capacity to translate cartographic and geographic material into formal principles

Form making at different scales. And capacity to establish links between formal decision taken at different scales.

Detailed design and capacity to design details that embody the discursive aspect of the project.

Organising botanic collections according to formal principles

Architecture in relation to landscape architecture and their shared botanic tropes

History of tropical architecture and landscape architecture

Knowledge on the history of the spatial decisions and principles behind canonical botanical gardens, their approach to museography, large scale landscapes and associated buildings with botanical themes.

Knowledge on the history and evolution of landscape and architecture aesthetic codes that have emerged from the study of plants, mainly thought the aesthetic view on herbarium and different ways to collect and classify botanic material

Knowledge on the history of how botanical tropes have informed and continue informing architecture.

Knowedge on the evolution of tropical architecture through references and application of principles in buildings that do not require tight thermal insulation.

Knowledge and capacity to apply the specify aesthetic that emerge when working in a context without seasons and stable year around climate, which contribute towards the blurring of distinctions between inside and outside and the distinctions between landscape architecture and architecture.

Skills:

Capacity to solve complex landscape and architectural programs with a high degree of creativity and inventiveness. Pattern recognition in high resolution surveys, pattern development, composition.

Spatial composition for landscape architecture and architecture, while exploring which aspects of spatial composition can be shared between both disciplines.

Formulating spatial principles useful for future projects outside the scope of the course

Capacity to manipulate form in order to design both landscapes and buildings simultaneously

Capacity for formulate independent arguments to sustain spatial ideas and relate them to both history and theory.

General competence:

Landscape Architecture and Architecture

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The course meets two times per week with deskcrits at least once per week depending on project advancement. There will be lectures organised for some studio session. It is expected that students work independently outside of studio time in order to fulfil 24 ects of design workload typical of studio at AHO.

There will be a mid review with internal guests before the excursion and and a final review with guest critics.

Most of the desk crits will be organised around the advancements in the physical models, with drawings serving as support for what can not be effectively expressed or explore in models.

Evaluering og kvalitetssikring

Students will be evaluated according on the following variables:

Commitment
Development/ Synthesis of Concept
Design Skills
Verbal Communication
Graphic Presentation
Application of Technologies

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav	Påkrevde arbeidskrav	Oppmøte påkrevd	Kommentar
Oppmøte til undervisning		Påkrevd	Wednesday and Thursdays The course is 24 ects, therefore attendance and independent work commensurate with this workload is expected. We will not enforce attendance, but the workload demands presence. It is required to contribute to the collective model and individual / groups must complete at least one large model, one detailed plan, one constructive detail, high quality model photographs and a dossier documenting the process. These different elements will also be evaluated in the mid review in a preliminary state.

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Prosjektoppgave	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått	The students work on a given/selected project throughout the course and the assessment is based on an assignment that counts for 100% of the grade. The students present the final project work orally to the examiners and the oral presentation itself is not included as part of the assessment.

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Ekskursjon	There will be an excursion to visit important botanic spaces in Europe or Latin America. The excursion will be planned with the students when the course starts. The studio is open for different arrangements agreed with the student group.

Start semester

60 526 Edge Landscape – The role of Parks and Park Systems in the contemporary city

Full course name in English:

Edge Landscape – The role of Parks and Park Systems in the contemporary city

Studiepoeng:

Emnekode:

60 526

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2023 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2023 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2023

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Karin Helms

Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO’s Master programme in Architecture or Landscape Architecture.
The course is mandatory for master students in Landscape Architecture, and open for Architecture students.
Basic knowledges in architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture are is required.

Om emnet

The aim of the studio course is to explore how to design new landscape typologies at the EDGE of the city through a quite classic park structure process. The course will explore the contemporary role of parks in connection to their ground, to the existing urban landscapes and linked to the actual social demand at the site.

The studio will explore policies such as Park systems of the past, the idea of Green and Blue infrastructure, as well as landscape as a prerequisite for the urban and ecologic urbanism. The course activates creative design research for urban landscapes trough a landscape process.

The site will be in the nearby suburban area of Oslo combining a macro perspective and local area development. The edge park should provide a space for recreation, and should be productive and pedagogic for sharing activities for the local community. The overall objective is to enable the parks at large scale to answer to the long-term demand for biodiversity in towns, and contribute to the development of new mobility axes.

Læringsutbytte

Knowledges:

Knowledges in the field of design, analysis and methods and social competences. Knowledge of key concepts for designing and evaluating interventions in public spaces and large–scale urban landscapes.

The studio presents the students with a theoretical framework for assessing and understanding the landscape issues in an urban and suburban context. Upon completion of this course the students will be able to demonstrate an advanced level of design, based on clear analytical and conceptual thinking at different scales.

Students will acquire an understanding of large scale landscape dynamics. They will learn to observe, investigate and transcribe landscape data into maps, and learn to use geological maps, geographic maps and layers.

The studio will support the students in developing their landscape architecture general competences in:
Understanding the ground and soil fertility in towns; Providing the practical and theoretical tools to design and specify the plantation and the initial maintenance of a public space; Simulate over a period the development of a community of plants and understanding the notion of landscape structure.

Skills

The coursework relies on basic tools, hand drawing and software within landscape design to represent spatial and material conditions. Examples of these are AutoCAD, Adobe package, 3D modelling programs (Rhino), and others.

We will apply various tools for mapping, analysing, and assessing sites, and capture insights about needs, challenges, and opportunities for design. Through the creative group process of integrating insights from mapping into feasible designs, you learn key principles and tools for designing and running creative processes: Both individually and in groups.

General competence

The course aims to develop the students’ ability to combine and integrate insight about the landscape in a creative process, leading to a specific design that can convincingly contribute to achieve specific development aims for the area. We aim to guide the students to find their own vision, to be creative.

Completing the course, students will have developed awareness of how various aspects and factors affects a specific site, and will be able to describe these factors from a theoretically informed perspective. Using mapping tools, they can derive insights about the specificity of the site, and review those insights in both a theoretical and an applied perspective. Finally, using a conscious creative process, they can integrate theoretical and applied perspectives to device designs that take site specific aspects into account, and design meaningful interventions.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The studio is organised around three phases:

1 Group work: Large scale analyse and diagnosis stage, mapping on landscape and urban dynamics. References and big data research with support of methodologic lectures. Study trip: Park and garden as well as green infrastructure visits in town and suburban sites of Oslo. Draw while walking! Evaluation of precedents. Guest lectures. Learnings of digital tools and mapping at large scale. This stage ends with an interim presentation.

2 Individual work: Selection on an area within the large-scale study area for scenario development. Elaboration of a clear concept for a comprehensive special design operating at variety of scales base. Design research and visualisation. Tools: Drawings, digital or hand drawing, conceptual models, idea expressed in words. Theoretical discussions and debate on the role of parks today. This stage ends with an interim presentation with guests.

3 Individual work: Work through scales, incidence of the landscape long term project on the urban development, proposal for future urban expansions. Small scale design elaboration and details until planting construction. Final presentation of the results to experts and target group.

Pensum

Click here for reading list in Leganto.

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Prosjektoppgave	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått	Project assignment: Each student works individually with a project in three phases during the whole semester. Deliveries from all three phases are required.

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Oppmøte	All studio days are mandatory, students are expected to be in class on Mondays and Thurdays throughout the semester.
Gjennomgang	Attendance and work for all three work stages are mandatory. Work and discuss the on going work with the other students thanks to attendance at the studio is part of the studio learning.
Ekskursjon	Excursions are outdoor teachings and there will be several of them around Oslo. One outdoor teaching will take place in Sweden. We will visit the Forest Laboratory of the University of SLU Alnarp by bus – it is a two day excursion in Malmö. The bus is payed by the course, students have to arrange and pay the youth hostel, maximum two nights. In case a student cannot take part due to, for example Visa problems, we will give a research work on “creative urban forests.

Start semester

60 302 Themes and Concepts in Landscape Architecture

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

Themes and Concepts in Landscape Architecture

Emnekode:

60 302

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2023 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2023 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2023

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Miguel Hernandez Quintanilla

Forkunnskapskrav

The course is mandatory for master students in Landscape Architecture, and open for students in Architecture.

Om emnet

The course will study a selection of landscape architecture projects from the late 19th century and onwards.

We will discuss the spatial qualities of these projects and the link between spatial qualities and the intellectual context in which projects are developed. By redrawing, 3D-modelling, reading, and writing, we will investigate them in order to understand how they have been created through design choices and the evolution of design techniques. This explorative work will allow us to also determine how they relate to and learn from past work and contribute to renew traditions, as well as how projects in themselves are a form of knowledge and derive into principles.

The projects will be placed in a historical and theoretical context, but we will also explore the role they play in the dynamic interplay between design and theoretical and historical interpretation.

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge:

Knowledge of the spatial qualities of a representative selection of landscape architecture projects designed since the late 19th century until today.

Knowledge on the design techniques that were employed at the time the selection of projects were designed and built.

Knowledge of the dominant design history and theory that influenced and frames the development of a selection of projects from the 19th century until today.

Knowledge about the cases in which certain projects derive into principles and design theories.

Skills:

Capacity to read and synthesize texts related to the landscape and architecture disciplines and use it as part of the precedent study research.

Ability to conduct historical research through designers’ methods.

Capacity to reconstruct and model the main spatial qualities of a landscape architecture precedent.

Capacity to translate a concept from design to text.

General competence:

The history of landscape architecture through the study of precedents.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The course will alternate between sessions where the projects are discussed and sessions where the projects are re-drawn and re-modeled.

The discussions will be accompanied of lectures and reading workshops.

Re-drawing and re- modeling will be partially done during the elective time and independent work.

Evaluering og kvalitetssikring

Written assignment, oral presentation of the assignment, and participation in discussions throughout the semester.

Pensum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav	Påkrevde arbeidskrav	Oppmøte påkrevd	Kommentar
Oppmøte til undervisning		Påkrevd	Students are expected to be at class every Tuesday

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Prosjektoppgave	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått	Project assignment: Each student works with study precedents during the whole semester individually. The projects will be assigned at the start of the course. Assessment folder: The student will make an assessment folder for each project that will be delivered following several stages during the semester. The elements included in the folder will be stated at the start of the course. Presentation: Oral and/or visual presentation of the work carried out during the semester.

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Forelesninger	Compulsory work requirements: Re-drawing and re-modeling research on landscape architecture precedents

Start semester

2023 Høst

40 327 The Art of Collecting Architecture: Events!

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

The Art of Collecting Architecture: Events!

Emnekode:

40 327

Undervisningssemester:

2023 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2023 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2023

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Ingrid Dobloug Roede

Alena Beth Rieger

Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: OCCAS: The Art of Collecting Architecture

The course is open to students from: Architecture

Om emnet

Events!

A car bomb explodes outside an exhibition venue raining glass on a display; a raging party takes place during a paused building demolition; a group of illustrious architects toast champagne as they celebrate the end of constructivism; a galvanized public protests the destruction of a contested monument. Resounding applause, scandalized gasps, widened eyes, awe, shock, excitement!

Architecture is more than static structures. Its development hinges on events – brief or long moments in time when people meet, decisions are made, and buildings are designed, erected, or demolished. An event is singular and unpredictable in its own present, but typically demarcated as history is written. Similarly, its significance is unclear until post-conceptualization, when meaning is extracted. Often canonized, these narratives can result in feedback loops and derivative takes. We are interested in how the same piece of evidence can be used to tell different versions of “what really happened,” coloring our perception of the event in question.

Events are ephemeral and uncollectable. The missing subject poses challenges for historical research but opportunities for novel forms of writing architectural history. This course aims to explore creative ways of reporting architecture and its constituent events. Absent of the thing itself, our research must rely on fragments of evidence found elsewhere – in advertisements, archives, radio tapes, popular magazines, and others. Working with specific and temporally delineated events, ranging from minutes to years in length, students will unpack and document lost moments. We encourage experimentation with research methods, storytelling, and representation techniques in the crafting of factual, compelling and exciting architectural histories.

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge:

The course offers critical knowledge of architectural history and historiography. The students will be trained in conducting archival research and in piecing together fragments from a variety of unpublished and published sources.

Training in academic thinking and communication
Critical reading and discussion of texts, buildings, and visual materials
Formulate relevant questions in response to lectures, readings, exhibitions, and discussions
Become familiar with the history of architectural collections and theories on collecting architecture

Skills:

Identify relevant archives and sources
Conduct archival research and organize source material
Pair archival research with historical and contemporary sources, objects, and documents
Become familiar with tools for academic writing
Peer-review and editing

General competence:

The aim is to turn students into confident researchers able to command, apply and present contemporary perspectives on a historical material.

Articulate original ideas through writing and image processing
Use concrete and specific evidence to make broader historical arguments
Communicate ideas through creative curation, publication, and presentation formats
Clearly disseminate to both peer and public audiences

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

An exhibition, a congress, a demolition, and a protest will form the basis of our research. Students will work on assigned case studies, both individually and in groups. They will be introduced to archival studies, visual analysis, textual interpretation, and curatorial work. Lectures, reading seminars, and presentations will frame and inspire our work with archives, models, drawings, publications, photography and digital collections. The course will result in an exhibition and accompanying publication.

Pensum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Vurderingsmappe	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått	The course is assessed on the basis of seminar presentations, case studies, and contribution to the final exhibition. It must be stated in writing at the start of the course which elements are included in the folder, when they must be delivered and what is required for them to be approved. One overall grade is assigned to the folder.

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Oppmøte	Students are expected to attend all course days and be active participants in the seminar activities.

Start semester

80 416 Re-Store: Values

Full course name in English:

Re-Store: Values

Studiepoeng:

Emnekode:

80 416

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2023 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2023 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2023

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Erik Fenstad Langdalen

Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: Re-store

The course is open to students from: Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Om emnet

Normally, we valuate buildings as singular and confined entities, naming their architects, concepts, forms and functions, and securely fixing them in time and place. Consequently, their components (construction, materials, colors, products, technical systems i.a.) gain value only by being parts of the whole, in place to support our conception of the work. Similarly, in historic preservation, valuable buildings are turned into monuments as wholes, leaving the components as servants to a grander idea.

This seminar explores alternative ways of valuating buildings by taking their components as points of departure: where they are from, how they have been circulated, who their producers and distributers were, how they age and accumulate value over time, and how they can be recycled in new forms of architecture.

The task is to investigate a number of existing buildings, using the conceptual framework of provenance to explore their reuse, transformation and preservation. The concept of provenance is normally used to document the chronological history of ownership, legitimacy, and display of artworks, manuscripts, and antiquities, but is also regularly employed in relationship to production of food, clothing, jewelry and building materials (fair trade, food miles, child-labor, etc.) To transpose this concept into architecture releases unexpected aspects of architecture traditionally not accounted for, like the histories of fluctuating ownership, dramatic events, political controversy, and social history. Triggering this potential might alter the way we reuse, transform and preserve our buildings.

The seminar is part of the research project “Provenance Projected. Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity”, run by Mari Lending and Erik Langdalen

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge:

The course will familiarize students with the history of preservation and its current discourse.

Skill:

Students will develop analytical, interpretive, critical, and creative skills essential to work with preservation projects.

General competence:

Through individual studies and group discussions, participants will be encouraged to examine their own disciplinary position, and be equipped with the critical and communicative abilities necessary to participate in the public discourse on the field.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Drawing from a diverse pool of canonical, experimental, academic, poetic, speculative, contemporary, and historical texts, the students will be assigned readings relating to the week’s topic for discussion. Each student will be given one building as the focus of their research, and will through a number of assignments be asked to explore its alternative pasts and futures.

Students are encouraged to take a critical stand towards the discipline of architecture and preservation and to develop new methods of working through an experimental practice involving archiving, survey procedures, writing, drawing, physical model building, computer modelling, representational techniques etc.

Pensum

Selections of texts from:

Otero-Pailos, Jorge (ed.): Historic Preservation Theory: An Anthology: Readings from the 18th to the 21st Century, Design books 2022

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Vurderingsmappe	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått	The final grade will be based upon weekly deliveries and the final review, as well as the quality and logic of the uploaded material to the platform Sanity.

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Oppmøte	Students are expected to attend all course days and be active participants in the seminar activities.

Start semester

12 400 Pre-Diploma

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

Pre-diploma

Emnekode:

12 400

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2023 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2023 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Norsk/Engelsk

År:

2023

Emneansvarlig

Ute Christina Groba

Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO and successful completion of 270 ECTS.

Om emnet

The pre-diploma semester at AHO is an independent research task on a theme chosen by the candidate. In consultation with an supervisor, 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 semester.

Læringsutbytte

An understanding of the complexity of a chosen architectural program
An ability to frame artistic and scientific research
An understanding of the given natural, social, cultural and technological conditions that govern architectural work
An awareness of the topic’s historical, societal and theoretical 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 pre-diploma semester is an independent study, undertaken in consultation with an supervisor, whose result is a program for the following diploma semester.

Read more about the program here: Pre-diploma | The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (aho.no)

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Rapport	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått	The report (diploma program) is assessed by supervisor and course responsible. The program should contain: 1. abstract 2. architectural program 3. functional program (if applicable) 4. strategy/working method 5. schedule diploma semester 6., formats/specifications of material to deliver

Start semester

12 802 Diplom design

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

Diploma Design

Emnekode:

12 802

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2023 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2023 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Norsk/Engelsk

År:

2023

Emneansvarlig

Steinar Killi

Forkunnskapskrav

Bestått pre-diplom og 270 studiepoeng totalt.

Om emnet

Diplomprosjektet ved Institutt for design er det endelige prosjektet i masterprogrammet. Instituttet har en bred tilnærming til designprofesjonen som omfatter produkter, tjenester, systemer og interaktive opplevelser. Utdanningen knytter sammen estetikk og teknologi, kreativitet og designmetoder, kultur og forskning. Programmet har sine røtter i industridesign, men omfatter i dag også interaksjonsdesign, tjenestedesign og systemorientert design. Dette gjenspeiles i bredden av våre studenters diplomprosjekter og de varierte temaene de tar for seg.

Diplomprosjektet avslutter det femårige masterstudiet i design og gjennomføres i det siste semesteret. Diplomprosjektet iverksettes og organiseres av studentene selv og foregår over en periode på 18 uker. Studentene utvikler og definerer sine egne prosjektbeskrivelser (diplomprogrammet) i et pre-diplomkurs i semesteret før diplomprosjektet. Studentene har en hovedveileder på instituttet mens diplomprosjektet pågår, men kan også innhente ytterligere innspill og veiledning fra hele AHO og også eksternt. Diplomprosjekter gjennomføres vanligvis individuelt, men kan også gjennomføres i grupper.

Diplomprosjektene ved Institutt for design kjennetegnes av variasjon og bredde. Prosjektene iverksettes og utvikles vanligvis av studentene, og de står fritt til å utforske ulike temaer og formater. Dette kan være kreativ utforskning, produktutvikling og teoretiske prosjekter, eller samarbeid med kommersielle selskaper, offentlige tjenester eller forskningsprosjekter. Diplomprosjekter kan også være diskursive designprosjekter som har som mål å reise spørsmål eller utfordre samfunnsmessige eller kulturelle problemstillinger. Diplomprosjektene er ofte “hybrider” som forener ulike metoder og aktører, eller som går på tvers av de ulike designspesialiseringene.

Formålet med diplomprosjektet er sammensatt. Studentene må bruke alt de har lært gjennom utdanningen for å definere og utvikle sitt eget prosjekt. En utfordring her er hvordan prosjektet gjennomføres, hvordan det utvikles, og hvordan det utføres som et designprosjekt. I mastergradsammenheng er diplomprosjektet et relativt omfattende prosjekt som krever at studenten er selvstendig, organisert, strukturert og kreativ. Samtidig er diplomprosjektet en mulighet for studentene til å utforske sin egen identitet som designere, å forske på emner de finner interessante, eller utfordre sine ferdigheter og metoder. Diplomprosjektene bør derfor ses helhetlig som prosjekter hvor studentene får velge sine egne temaer, tilnærminger og prosesser, men hvor utfordringen også består i å organisere og utvikle selve prosjektet. Omfanget av og planen for prosjektet defineres og utvikles både i prosjektbeskrivelsen (diplomprogrammet) og i løpet av prosessen.

Det er viktig å merke seg at en helhetlig vurdering av diplomprosjektene betyr at fokuset bør være på selve prosjektet og ikke hvor nøye det følger den innledende beskrivelsen eller diplomprogrammet.

Læringsutbytte

KUNNSKAPER

Etter endt diplomprosjekt skal studentenes kunnskapsgrunnlag omfatte:

- designmetoder, materialer, teknologier og verktøy

- designhistorie på beslektede felt

- forskningsmetoder, designprosesser

- bruk av brukere og målgrupper i prosjekter

FERDIGHETER
- kunne utvikle designløsninger gjennom kunstnerisk og vitenskapelig forskning, konseptvisualisering, samarbeid og ferdigstillelse av et prosjekt.

- mestre designdrevne metoder, verktøy og uttrykksformer og kunne bruke dette i en kreativ prosess, på en målrettet, profesjonell og eksperimenterende måte.

- kunne reflektere over forholdet mellom innholdet i prosjektet og verden for øvrig.

- kunne presentere både prosess og sluttresultat på en god måte.

GENERELL KOMPETANSE
- kunne formidle verdier og konsepter og inspirere til dialog og tverrfaglige prosesser ved hjelp av en rekke ulike designmetoder og verktøy.

- kunne bekle ulike roller og samarbeide godt med andre yrkesgrupper.

- kunne reflektere over egen prestasjon og egne leveranser og utfordre egne grenser.

- ta ansvar for egen læring og faglig progresjon, og kunne overføre kunnskap til andre felt.

- ta hensyn til aktuelle etiske spørsmål i forbindelse med eget bidrag.

Evaluering og kvalitetssikring

Vurdering
Studentene leverer diplomprosjektet i form av samlet produksjon, en presentasjon og en rapport. Produksjonen kan bestå av modeller, prototyper, installasjoner, diagrammer, visualisering, kartlegginger osv. Diplomrapporten bør gi en oversikt over prosjektet, prosessen, mulige resultater (påvirkning) og studentens refleksjoner. Rapporten bør ikke vurderes alene, men som en oversikt over prosjektet. Studentene skal også gi en 20-minutters presentasjon av diplomprosjektet på vurderingsdagen. Sensorene skal vurdere diplomprosjektet som helhet, inkludert studentens samlede produksjon, rapporten og den offentlige presentasjonen.

Vurderingsprosessen
Vurderingen av diplomprosjektene gjøres av et eksternt sensorteam. Sensorteamet representerer de ulike designretningene studentene kan spesialisere seg mot. Alle sensorene er ansvarlige for helhetsvurderingen av alle diplomprosjektene, men hver enkelt sensor får et særlig ansvar for et utvalg av prosjektene. Sensorteamet mottar først diplomrapportene digitalt. Disse rapportene gir en oversikt over diplomprosjektene. Det fysiske resultatet av prosjektene presenteres for sensorene på AHO i form av en utstilling og presentasjon. På presentasjonsdagen får hver student 20 minutter til å presentere sitt diplomprosjekt. Sensorteamet har deretter totalt 15 minutter til spørsmål, diskusjon og tilbakemelding. Disse 15 minuttene bør også omfatte et kort sammendrag av sensorenes vurdering og generelle tilbakemelding. Dette er et offentlig arrangement for hele skolen, og intensjonen med presentasjonsformatet er å legge til rette for dynamisk diskusjon om diplomprosjektene og interessant respons, så vel som å gjøre det til en læringssituasjon for de andre studentene. Sensorteamets endelige vurdering gis som en skriftlig rapport for hvert prosjekt og leveres en stund etter den offentlige presentasjonsdagen.

Grupperprosjekt får 10 minutter ekstra.

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Prosjektoppgave	Individuell	Bestått / ikke bestått	Målet med vurderingen av diplomprosjektet er å vurdere hvordan prosjektet har blitt utviklet, inkludert tematikk, prosesser, resultater og refleksjoner. Diplomprosjektene bør vurderes med utgangspunkt i forutsetningene, problemstillingene og omfanget studentene selv har definert i prosjektene. Diplomprosjektet som helhet gis karakteren “bestått” eller “ikke bestått”.

Start semester

12 701 Diplom arkitektur

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

Diploma Architecture

Emnekode:

12 701

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2023 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2023 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Norsk/Engelsk

År:

2023

Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO and successful completion of 300 ECTS including 12 400 Pre-diploma (6 ECTS).

Om emnet

The diploma semester (18 weeks) is an architectural study on a theme chosen by the candidate. Program for the diploma has been prepared by the student in the pre-diploma course (6 credits).

Each student has one main appointed supervisor from AHO´s academic staff. In addition, the student can make use of the entire academic staff at AHO, and have the possibility to consult special expertise from outside of AHO, which is supported by the school by a limited amount.

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge

To make use of relevant knowledge in the production of an architectural project: architectural discourse, relevant project references, theory, history, technology etc.
To develop and complete a project within the framework stated in the program

Skills

To produce a diploma work with high architectural, artistic and/or theoretical qualities
To use relevant methods to develop and present the diploma work
To show professionality in craftmanship and presentation
To define the degree of complexity in the project, and be able to consider the type and depth of work accordingly

General competence

To be able to convey and discuss the content of the diploma work to an audience of architects with no special competence in the subject of the actual diploma.
To be able to reflect on the project´s relation to a wider architectural and societal context

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The diploma semester is an independent study whose methods and topics are to be outlined in an approved pre-diploma brief.

The diploma semester starts of with an information meeting where both administrative and academic staff is present. Main source of information and updates during the semester is Moodle, and as a diploma student you are obligated to familiarize yourself with the AHO's diploma regulations. The regulations outlines the frame work of the diploma semester, and describes details conceringin submission, reviews and assessment.

A diploma project may be withdrawn from examination by December 1st (Fall semester) and May 1st (Spring semester). Before the withdrawal date, AHO organizes an extra review of underdeveloped projects in risk of failing. A team of teachers, including the supervisors, will give a clear recommendation to these students on whether to withdraw or deliver.

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Prosjektoppgave	-	Bestått / ikke bestått	The diploma project should be evaluated on the terms, problematics and scope that the students themselves have defined in their project and in relation to the criteria given by the examiner´s guide to diploma evaluation and the required learning outcome.

Start semester

2023 Høst

40 558 ACDL; Climate response

Studiepoeng:

Full course name in English:

ACDL; Climate response

Emnekode:

40 558

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2023 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2023 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2023

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Søren S. Sørensen

Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Preliminary skills in computational design is advisory.

Part of course series: ACDL

The course is open to students from: Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Om emnet

The ACDL studio is a project studio placing a strong emphasis on computational tools as part of the design process and communication of ideas. The studio is research and practice based, with an experimental approach to environmentally-conscious architectural design, design processes and methodologies.

Through exploratory research and design we will look at novel ways to develop the project assignment for the fall studio, a medium to large architectural structure. Central themes for the fall studio will be performance oriented; site specific climate analysis as part of the research and basis for design, - and various simulations to analyze and optimize your design for solar access, daylight factors, wind performance, structural efficiency and material utilization as part of the architectural design process.

Associative computational modeling will be introduced, and used in an iterative manner incorporating design generation and analysis to refine the associative model that defines spatial organization, required building program and activity distribution. We will also look into how multi-objective optimization can be employed for design output generated by genetic and evolutionary algorithms, making it possible to negotiate complex performance requirements.

The digital tools form the starting point for being able to handle complex issues, large amounts of data, scenario-based work methodology and ultimately to inform your architectural design decisions.

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge:

of the architectural and computational design themes pursued by the studio.
of associative modelling.
of tools for analysis and simulation relating to building performance.
of successful built examples of equivalent projects.
of advanced architectural visualization.
of digital to physical fabrication process - digital to materialization

Skills:

in utilizing associative modelling systems for architectural design.
in utilizing analysis tools, simulations and advanced visualization as part of the design process.
reflective thinking and evaluation as a tool for developing design ideas within the design process.

General competence:

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.
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.

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

Project studio; lectures, workshops, studio supervision, excursion. Toolbox series of seminars introducing relevant computational analysis, simulation and design systems.

Excursion:

There will be a study-trip related to the theme and assignment for the studio project.

Pensum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav	Påkrevde arbeidskrav	Oppmøte påkrevd	Kommentar
Øvinger		Påkrevd	It is compulsory to hand in work on given dates stated in the semester calendar. Mandatory work requirements must be met for the project assignment to be assessed.

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Prosjektoppgave	-	Bestått / ikke bestått	The students work on a given/selected project throughout the course and the assessment is based on an assignment that counts for 100% of the grade. The students present the final project work orally to the examiners and the oral presentation itself is included as part of the assessment. The criterion for having the final project assessed is that compulsory exercises have been delivered. Final project can consist of, among other things drawings (sections and plans), models, illustrations and text. Final submission requirements are detailed on Moodle.

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Oppmøte	Participation and attendance in lectures, supervision at the desks in the studio, seminars and workshops is expected.
Ekskursjon	Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.

Start semester

2023 Høst

40 559 Ecoperformance in Architecture

Full course name in English:

Ecoperformance in Architecture

Studiepoeng:

Emnekode:

40 559

Studienivå:

Syklus 2

Undervisningssemester:

2023 Høst

Eksamenssemester:

2023 Høst

Undervisningsspråk:

Engelsk

År:

2023

Maksimum antall studenter:

Emneansvarlig

Rolf Gerstlauer

Forkunnskapskrav

Admission to AHO and successful completion of three years bachelor level studies (180 ECTS).

Part of course series: B&SM - Acting and The Acted in a More-Than-Human World

The course is open to students from: Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Om emnet

Body and Space Morphologies (B&SM) is a research-based teaching program in the Building Art department. Dedicated to Phenomenology in Architecture, the program offers Trans-Disciplinary master studios in explorative – architectural, pre-architectural and post-architectural - making, sensing and thinking.

We aim at preparing and enabling students to conduct their own interest driven investigation into Architectural Phenomenology understood as Research Creation; a working mode creating an inspired, process focused and reflective Material Practice. We consider this to be the Artistic Parallel to both Traditional Scholarly Research and Common Architectural Design Practice.

Based on performativity and affordance theories, performance and performance studies, disability and neurodiversity studies as well as phenomenology and perception theories, the B&SM Studio Works investigate primal and/or pre-architectural material/processes/phenomena/conditions and develop or perform a series of experienced distinct objects that behave relational, that inspire imagination, that provide new knowledge, strong architectural interests and/or architectural narratives or identities.

Spring 2023 marked the start of the second cycle of the B&SM course series on Acting and The Acted in a More-Than-Human World. The series is structured into spring and autumn modules:

Spring semesters are dedicated to the topic on Animism in Architecture - studied and worked through a discourse on the various ideas, movements and awareness created in current ecoperformance, ecopoetic, ethnopoetic and ethnofiction works.
Autumn semesters investigate actual Ecoperformance in Architecture – studied and worked through a discursive design practice that seeks to establish a porous architectural infrastructure understood as the environment, body, performer, process and/or vehicle the quote below talks of:

Ecoperformance understands environment and body as inseparable dimensions of performative creation. In an ecoperformance, the environment constitutes a living and interactive play of presences and forces. The performer is not the central agent, but one of the play’s components. At the same time as an ecoperformance experiments with environmental interactions as a performative event, it configures itself an environmental process. Ecoperformance can take place in any landscape, natural or urban, and may, among other possibilities, question, honor and reaffirm human being/environment interconnections. It may serve to raise the awareness of the harmful environmental impact of human actions, and, eventually, become a vehicle of political denunciation. (Maura Baiochi, 2009) https://www.ecoperformance.art.br/about-ecoperformance

Læringsutbytte

Knowledge of:

the basics in phenomenology of architecture and the various practices that exist within (and that can become part of) architectural phenomenology
the basics in affordance theory and the theories concerning objecthood and/or object relations as means to fuel and reflect upon a material practice and/or artistic research in the field of architecture
the basics in performance and performance studies that make body & space morphologies: ways of making, looking at, discussing and seeing/understanding qualia and perception in the working of architecture
the basics in disability studies and neurodiversity studies as the necessary activist movements working and re-defining the human condition from “all the world’s a stage” (Shakespeare) towards for all the human spectrum with its diverse behavior dwelling in a more-than-human world
the basics of performativity, language and speech acts as the tools that can add value to the making and a work – but that not necessarily must seek to replace the issues at stake in a work or a thing
the foundational preparations for an advanced haptic visual and experimental artistic research leading to a material practice and/or architectural phenomenology

Skills in:

finding, developing and/or embracing initiatives for the making of an inspired, explorative, and imaginative artistic research
manufacturing physical and/or visual (or otherwise sensible/perceptible) works and gaining a unique expertise in the craft(s) deployed in the making of these artifacts
conducting this artistic research with the desire to make or pursue a material practice containing, or inviting for, reflections in phenomenology of architecture / architectural phenomenology
deploying complementary ways of working and means of creative investigations that make, demonstrate, or narrate a dialogue between the works inherent qualities and how this connects to (or can become) issues, phenomena and/or subjects in the world
maintaining a personal diary of the making that can be worked into documents of the making aiming at a third-party readability
approaching environments, situations, and discussions phenomenological and applying and recognizing performativity in speech and action as productive means from which to provoke and receive social employed knowing in trans-disciplinary teams

General competence in:

developing distinct initiatives and choosing the craft in which to act or work them to partake in the discourse on the phenomenology of architecture
approaching and acting on impulse with all sorts of material, objects, environments and/or events and gaining valuable experience, artefacts and/or documents from this
conceiving of and presenting/communicating unique architectural content/research through a haptic visual material and the phenomena or conditions contained and experienced in it
understanding the mechanisms and rhetoric of systems of oppression, learned behavior, eugenics and stigma that are un-productive and unsustainable (in the field of architecture as well as in the systems we call architecture)
developing and/or pursuing life-long initiatives for a material practice in architectural phenomenology that is independent of, and/or adaptable to, any kind of professional commission
not knowing a thing, but having the passion, dedication, endurance, and imagination to wanting to get to know it

Praktisk organisering og arbeidsmåter

The studio meets for every Wednesday and Thursday from 9:30 to 17.00 for lectures, screenings, reviews, and worktable talks. Fridays from 13:00 – 15:00 are reserved for Studio Commons (student driven events or discussions etc.).

We have five public mid-term reviews and prepare at the end of the semester a work display. The exhibition allows for the students to display their complete works (all objects and artefacts – found or made) together with a book and/or film or video containing a written and/or otherwise illustrated experience of their making and that what the making had connected to. An external sensor team will study the exhibition and books and/or video/films and then give feedback and critique on the individual work but also on the studio as a whole.

The Body & Space Morphologies diploma thesis candidates are integrated in the studio and work in the same space. We recommend the master course students to attend the diploma mid-term reviews (between four or five during the semester).

Sustainability commons & goals of the B&SM studios:

The studio shares the responsibility to create an inclusive learning and working environment in which all of us seek to accommodate another, and in which we strive to reduce waste by ways of working circular processes.
Ecoperformance in Architecture is a topic that requires a creative discursive approach and/or advanced experimental architectural design practice that potentially can contribute to all the 17 sustainable development goals.
The students are aware that they take an active stance regarding the above stated two B&SM sustainability commons, thus they focus their design initiative & process accordingly.

Excursion:

If possible, we plan two trips to the Lista-peninsula in Southern Norway:

a 4-days-long workshop and fieldtrip in the first week of September
and a Lista-Event-Week during the regular excursion week (week 40).

Attendance & participation in your individual studio work:
20 weeks full-time study. The work must be conducted and performed in the studio (or at LISTA) - the working material is present at any time.

Presence & participation in the collective studio discussion:
You are expected to be present at: weekly talks, lectures, and studio discussions, frequent work reviews, workshop in book making, the final exhibition and a final review with invited guests-critics.

Pensum

Course literature will be available in Leganto.

Vurderingsform	Gruppering	Karakterskala	Kommentar
Vurderingsmappe	-	Bestått / ikke bestått	The course is assessed on the basis of: -Semester project Individual studio work on your own selected project developed throughout the course and critically reflected / presented on a final deliverable. This entails practical and theoretical exercises, visual and verbal project presentations, and the making of a final exhibition. -Process book with a text/essay. For each of the reviews, assignments are announced and students hand in visual and textual works which is complementary to the actual physical work made available and presented in the reviews. The final exhibition includes visual haptic project material and a final book (including an essay of ca 5-10000 words).

Aktivitet	Kommentar
Oppmøte	You are expected to be present at: weekly talks, lectures, and studio discussions, frequent work reviews, workshop in book making, final exhibition and at final review with invited guests-critics.
Ekskursjon	Those who do not have the opportunity to participate in an excursion will be given an assignment/a project that replaces this.

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:	Oppmøte til undervisning
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:	Påkrevd
Kommentar:	Wednesday and Thursdays The course is 24 ects, therefore attendance and independent work commensurate with this workload is expected. We will not enforce attendance, but the workload demands presence. It is required to contribute to the collective model and individual / groups must complete at least one large model, one detailed plan, one constructive detail, high quality model photographs and a dossier documenting the process. These different elements will also be evaluated in the mid review in a preliminary state.

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:	Oppmøte til undervisning
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:	Påkrevd
Kommentar:	Students are expected to be at class every Tuesday

Vurderingsform:	Prosjektoppgave
Gruppering:	-
Karakterskala:	Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:	The diploma project should be evaluated on the terms, problematics and scope that the students themselves have defined in their project and in relation to the criteria given by the examiner´s guide to diploma evaluation and the required learning outcome.

Obligatorisk arbeidskrav:	Øvinger
Påkrevde arbeidskrav:
Oppmøte påkrevd:	Påkrevd
Kommentar:	It is compulsory to hand in work on given dates stated in the semester calendar. Mandatory work requirements must be met for the project assignment to be assessed.

Vurderingsform:	Prosjektoppgave
Gruppering:	-
Karakterskala:	Bestått / ikke bestått
Kommentar:	The students work on a given/selected project throughout the course and the assessment is based on an assignment that counts for 100% of the grade. The students present the final project work orally to the examiners and the oral presentation itself is included as part of the assessment. The criterion for having the final project assessed is that compulsory exercises have been delivered. Final project can consist of, among other things drawings (sections and plans), models, illustrations and text. Final submission requirements are detailed on Moodle.

Språk

2023 Høst

Start semester

60 533 Mediterranean Botanical Garden

Start semester

60 526 Edge Landscape – The role of Parks and Park Systems in the contemporary city

Start semester

60 302 Themes and Concepts in Landscape Architecture

Start semester

40 327 The Art of Collecting Architecture: Events!

Start semester

80 416 Re-Store: Values

Start semester

12 400 Pre-Diploma

Start semester

12 802 Diplom design

Start semester

12 701 Diplom arkitektur

Start semester

40 558 ACDL; Climate response

Start semester

40 559 Ecoperformance in Architecture

Sider

Aktivitet:	Ekskursjon
Kommentar:	There will be an excursion to visit important botanic spaces in Europe or Latin America. The excursion will be planned with the students when the course starts. The studio is open for different arrangements agreed with the student group.