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Architects + Creativity

This fall I've been taking a course called "Exploring Creativity". Related to that I've written an essay about creativity among architects. You can find it here, in norwegian...

3D-sketch

the first rough 3D-rendering of the sketch-model. the building is the same size as yesterday, and houses a total of 12 persons in 8 units. the materials are in-situ concrete in the longitudinal walls and prefabricated massive wood-elements in the short walls, floor and roof. windows and staircases are coming, hopefully tomorrow...

volume sketches

some very rough volume studies for the present project. the whole idea is that the size of each person's apartment is based on the person's income * 3, which is the normal maximum limit of how much one can get in a house-loan in norwegian banks. since the people in my project (real persons taken from a random newspaper on the web) have different incomes, the sizes of their apartments vary from 14 m2 to 153 m2.
the total size of the project is 10 apartments, and the site I've chosen is roughly 20 by 6 meters. the boxes in the model are 3 mtrs high and 6 mtrs deep. the length is given by the total square meters per apartment, which again is depending on the inhabitants income.

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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

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.

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/