AHO WORKS StudieS 2011-2012
Master Studio
Architecture
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Medium-scale Architecture:
Territory: Human, Area and
ownership
Professors Per olaf Fjeld and rolf
Gerstlauer
Architecture owns the space that it creates.
The architectural construction is able to
generate and develop different ownerships,
internal and external. To challenge owner-
ship while acknowledging that new needs
formed by our own time, and architecture’s
capability to spatially affect the ownership,
will be the main focus this semester.
Scarcity and creativity in Latitude 33
Professor Michael Hensel
This studio involves a collective design
and build task in which three buildings, for
lodging, collective cooking and eating, and
bird watching, were designed, detailed,
and quantified in Oslo and then built in the
Open City, Ritoque, Chile in collaboration
with the local E[ad]. The projects respond-
ed to very particular seismic, climatic and
environmental exposures.
Housing for Special Needs
Håkon Vigsnæs
Universell utforming
is an ambition,
declared by law, which so far has achieved
architectural results limited to accessibility
and security. Can housing projects designed
for special needs, inspire architectural solu-
tions that also have a greater general quality
than the average housing project in today?
redesigning Kariakoo: Scarcity,
creativity and Transformation
of Urban Place in the South
Professor Edward robbins
This studio focuses on the architectural
and urban design challenges posed by the
transformation of Kariakoo, Dar es Salaam.
While Kariakoo’s transformation has cre-
ated one of the most vibrant and exciting
African cities it also confronts the city with
many urban challenges, including: lack of
adequate water, pollution, congestion and
inadequate urban services. Students were
asked to map the morphology and social
characteristics of Kariakoo. They divided
into groups to develop planning and/or
design strategies responding to the many
challenges confronting the city.
New Urbanized Fields in the
South-East corridor, oslo–Ski
Professor Alf Haukeland
The course unveils operative parameters for
landscape architecture based on contextual
and site-specific characteristics. Individual
projects are encouraged to develop new
landscapes, infrastructural and architec-
tural structures. The objectives are to sup-
port growth in the number of inhabitants,
enhance quality of living through quality
housing and improve recreation facilities.
Several projects focus on the transforma-
tion areas at Gjersrud–Stensrud in Oslo and
Myrvoll in Oppegård.
