3RW architects

A small housing project with some skylight-solutions that I found very interresting. Maybe I'll use similar lightings in my current project in school. Haven't gotten very far yet, but will post things as soon as I've got something to "say"...

http://www.3rw.no

banksy

one of my favourite artists ...

banksy.co.uk

spank the monkey

a large street-art exhibition in Baltic, Gateshead, UK.

check-out baltic mill and spankthemonkey

street-art in bergen

oslo skyline

Norwegian candidates for the Mies van der Rohe-award

The Norwegian Architects Assosciation has nominated the following buildings for the Mies van der Rohe-award:

1 - Svalbard Forskningspark, Jarmund og Vigsnæs AS
2 - Tautra Mariakloster, Jensen og Skodvin AS
3 - Utsiktspunkt, Aurland, Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen
4 - Høgskolen i Østfold, Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS
5 - Boligblokk i massivtre på Svartlamoen, Trondheim, Brendeland & Kristoffersen arkitekter AS

oslo + architecture

some pictures from today's excursion in oslo.

colour in your face!!!

even dull social housing projects can look good, just add colours!!

"lambretta twist"

what an incredible lambretta commercial

atelier bow-wow

atelier bow-wow are a japanese architecture office who are giving a lecture at AHO 2. november. Unfortunately, I can't be there cause we're on an excursion to trondheim that day. I checked out their website, not to many interresting projects, but this one looked kinda kool.

http://www.bow-wow.jp/

amor fati

a "heads-up" to Olve who we are loosing to litterature these days ...

Amor Fati

Ikke som en Cæsar gjorde,
skal du med et sverd bevæpne
deg mot verden, men med ordet:
Amor Fati - elsk din skjebne

Denne formel skal du fatte
som din sterkeste befrier:
Du har valgt din sti i krattet.
Ikke skjel mot andre stier!

Også smerten er din tjener-
Lammet, sønderknust, elendig
ser du at den gjenforener
deg med det som er nødvendig.

Også fallet, også sviket
hjelper deg som dine venner.
Dine nederlag er rike
gaver, lagt i dine hender.

Engang skal du, tilfredsstillet
av å bli din skjebne verdig,
vite: Dette har jeg villet.
Alt som skjer meg, skjer rettferdig.

Si da, når din levegledes
grønne skog er gjennomvandret:
Intet vil jeg anderledes:
Intet ønsker jeg forandret.

"Home Grown" - Boligen om 100 år

This is a competition I did together with Andreas Kalstveit and Jakob Pettersen the summer of 2005. The competition was "describe the way of living in 2105", a part of the celebration of Norway's 100 years of independence from Sweden.

We made a system of building that used DNA-technology in the making of new materials that would grow and be "alive". They would therefore reproduce the cells and maintenance would happen by simply making new cells. Plans of new houses could be incorporated in the DNA-structure.




We got a third place, and here follows the jury's comment (in Norwegian):

"Utkast nr. 10 ”Home grown”

Utkastet beskriver en utvikling der kvaliteten på det vi bygger blir stadig dårligere og byggenes levetid stadig kortere. Dette skaper et økende problem knyttet til riving, restavfall og gjenvinning. Forfatterne ønsker å belyse mulighetene for å utforme en bolig som krever lite høyverdig energi ved produksjon, er nærmest vedlikeholdsfri og som er gjenvinnbar i ordets videste forstand.

Løsningen er basert på en avansert nanoteknologi der man ved hjelp av DNA-manipulering er i stand til å produsere et “superorganisk materiale”, og lar dette materialet vokse frem som en vanlig organisk vekst. Dette i motsetning til dagens byggevirksomhet der alle materialer er ”døde organismer”.

Dersom det skulle være behov for å rive et slikt hus, er det bare å kutte energitilførselen. Som enhver annen organisme vil dette huset ”dø” når det ikke får tilført næring, og en naturlig forråtnelsesprosess vil inntreffe.

Juryen er fascinert av de tanker forfatterne presenterer, og den innsiktsfulle og klare måte dette er beskrevet på. Etter juryens mening er imidlertid selve den fysiske løsningen for knapt dokumentert til at utkastet kan fortjene å bli rangert blant de aller beste.

Riktignok ligger det implisitt i selve ideen at de bygningene man tenker seg vil vokse frem nærmest helt fritt i amorfe, naturbaserte strukturer der behovet for design i vanlig forstand ikke foreligger. Likevel burde det vært mulig å visualisere tankene langt bedre enn det forfatterne her har vist."

The Norwegian Whalekiller

This is a cocktail-glass I designed for the "Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition 2006". The glass "The Norwegian Whalekiller", inspired by the proud Norwegian tradition of killing whales and small seals, made it to the Norwegian final.

Model of Floral Street Bridge

this is a model of Floral Street Bridge, originally made by Wilkinson Eyre Architects (http://www.wilkinsoneyre.com/main.htm). we made it the 3. semester at AHO, in the Technology-course.

Benny's Wall of Death

This is the latest project from the 5. semester at AHO. We are working with a block at Grønland in Oslo, called Hollenderkvartalet. I made this garage / motordrome for Benny, a guy who is working in a garage in Hollenderkvartalet. One of the reasons Benny got his new garage is that I think it is important for a city to have activities during the day, not just quiet dwelling with no friction. So, there he can fix cars on the first floor, and in the evenings he can do his motordrome-show (riding a motorcycle on the inner walls of a giant barrel, as seen on top of the model).

The whole project is based on a fictional person, and during the whole process I related to him and presented him as a real person. No-one of either the teachers or the other students knew that he didn't excist, but accepted the whole story around him. In a way the whole project is based on a lie, and I found the whole process quite interresting.

Running Dog

this is the first part of the Katrin Lahusen-workshop: "Find a personal space"

Points of Transition

this is a project I did together with Olve Sande (www.poolve.com), a visualizing of three peoples lives troughout one day... The project was completed within one week and was a part of a workshop with Katrine Lahusen from AA in London (www.aaschool.ac.uk).

Gondola for Opera-Fanatics

Here's a little thing I did the first year at AHO, a gondola specially designed for Opera-fanatics. This was a group-assignment which I did together with Søren Brandt and Knut Karlsen.

happy things

well what do you know, there are still nice things happening out there ...



















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