HEGDEHAUGSVEIEN HARMONIFYSIKALSKE LABORATORIUM
Hegdehaugsveien 14
0167 OSLO
This project is about a restructuring of the Priary school of Oslos eastern inner city. The area is struggeling to meet the demands of it´s rappidly growing population, due - primarely - to the lack of appropriately sized plots in where to build new “traditional schools”.
The present school structure is split into a series of small neighborhood schools, that are able to adapt and find it´s place in the dense urban fabric.
The current school buildings are partly redeveloped into central “resource centers”, to complement the smaller local units.
The strategy intends to aid some of the alarming social and academic challenges in these parts of the city, wich have a high level of finacially challenged families and immigrant children.
The “Neighborhood school” adresses both the childrens need for a safe and inspiring learning environment and the local communiy´s need for a “people´s house” and a sense of affiliation.
We developed five Naighborhood Schools to explore the potential of this new typology.
You can read more about this project here: http://kvartalskolen.wordpress.com/
You can find articles on the rising challenges of young schoolchildren in Oslo here: http://kvartalskolen.blogspot.no/
( the project was developed in close collaboration with the great architect Hans Bjørn Holther).
The attention to details
My experience from working as a cabinetmaker/designer has given me a much appreciated, hands-on knowledge of materials and crafting techniques. Trough my collaboration with Uno Interior I´ve worked on a vide range of projects ranging from private kitchens to large scale interiors like the Oslo Opera, the Museum of Defense and, like these images show, the Grims Grenka Hotel in Oslo, designed by Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter.
Community dwellings Oslo
This project originates from an idea of “the extraordinary space”. It aspires for a dwelling that offers something more than what is usually expected both in terms of sencory space and functionality. Each of the functional aspects of dwelling is isolated, explored and refined and then arranged in an alternative organization.
Museum, Jøssingfjord
competition
competition
This building is housing a large and coplex program that includes a research centre, a museum and a restaurant. It is located by a historic stone quarry in a steap valley running into the sea at Jøssingfjord in the south of Norway. The centre is to be serviced by a small staff. The presence of its body seeks to complement its dramatic, rough surroundings and the areas industrial herritage.
Library, Oslo
“The garden - the dream - the cloud in between”
This building is formed by an understanding of the complex world of the book and its relation to us as individuals and as society. It encloses three different moods related to the program of the contemporary library:
The ground floor is a social garden, open and flexible. Able to take on the task as a local community centre.
The enclosed “book-cloud” , mysterious and endless. Cultivating serendipity and the search.
The calm messanine, airy and light. A place for the individual dream and exploration.
Photography in practise
This is the result of an exploration on how photography can be used as a tool in the creative project of architecture. The spatial artifact produced was inspired from the photographic process and is a first step towards architecture.
Beyond the threshold
(reflections upon a sensuous void)
I´ve taken pictures of my home. Following my intuition;
Looking.
I´ve explored the contrasts and moods of light and darkness.
I´ve been fascinated by reflections and shadows, and the disorienting and surreal effects it can convey.
In many of my photographs, I´ve attempted to create a “cinematic tension”; The experience of an onlooker.
In seeking an “architectural generator” through the act of photography, my process has culminated in a fascination with the experience of the threshold and the distance behind. A distance perceived either directly; as an infinite void of light and darkness, or indirect; as a surmise of a hidden faraway.
Through the making of the artifact, I´ve explored further how a sequence of spaces and light-filtering surfaces can create this experience of distance, light and air in an otherwise limited architectural space.
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