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EuroPan 10 workshop

Anders — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:40:29 +0000

Monday last week at DogA the winners of the Norwegian EuroPan 10 were announced and my course was lucky enough to get a 2 day intensive workshop with the winning teams. I signed up for the team that won Haugerud, Oslo with the project ‘Shuffle’. Eriksen and Skajaa are both graduates of Bergen school of Architecture BAS and gave us an introduction to how they work there and especially their class called ‘the other world’ (DAV). We all visited a possible site for this semesters assignment with the aim to map out the area in a specific way to see if we could approach the area in a way we didn’t expect.

My team set out to map the variation of smells around Grorud Senter and found ourselves fumbling around with a tiny map trying to get to our pre-pinned grid points.

Of course this exercise led us to explore the area both at an odd time and get local knowledge of the urban fabric we only knew from plans, however, as far as smells go, -10 degrees and winds doesn’t really make it much of a work collaborator at 2AM. Well back at Uni we tried to synchronize our experiences and arrange our descriptions categorically. Some smells were specific to certain typologies while others stemmed from people or nature.

The concept of bringing in smell and materials actively to create an atmosphere and a idea of space through proximity might be something to pick up later in the semester, but the mapping itself gave more of an idea about the variety and defined zoning that makes up the Grorud valley at the moment.

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Masonry Workshop

Anders — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:02:00 +0000

Last week we had a masonry workshop with class and visited Maxit Leca and Bratsberg, Norway’s only tile factory, owned by Wienerberger. It was set up for us by Bygg Uten Grenser.

A bit of all

Anders — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:16:00 +0000

Yesterday and today we had presentations of thoughts around the program of our buildings in Nordhavnen. Everyone contributed with their thoughts on a given part of the basic program requirements or themes like sustainability, both in ecological and social sense. The class will collect our joint effort into a compendium that we all can share and work off our collective diagrams and written material.

I’m working myself with establishing my understanding of the site in its greater context to make sure I can make a contribution that takes on a conscious role in several scales. I’ve sorted some of the material made available at nordhavnen .dk for the competition and tried to find some points that are relevant to me on a single building level. The material presented in Excentral Park (EXP) reflects on a lot of the material already and I believe it is important to try to further strengthen some of those points. I will also keep in mind that the project will stay on a theoretical level. This will let me make some ideological points, being aware that their existence is made possible through the theoretical means of the assignment given.

A group of students also participated in a workshop with Marius Nygaard over the weekend. It was a brainstorm for round 2 of the competition in Nordhavnen. Bakgård has several photos from the work and also got linked from 70N‘s blog. Dahl &Uhre are also actively blogging about the projects progress.

I’ve decided to write on the topic of the diagram as a tool in contemporary architecture for my essay this semester and have started to read source material and taking notes for that. Other than that we have weekly tutorials in groups discussing the history of architectural theory. The discussions usually turn out to be a really nice arena for critique and discussion of how we see our future roles as architects.

This post still got quite long and full, so I’ll promise to hold off posting until I have some graphics to share.