AHO WORKS StudieS 2011-2012
Elective
Small-scale Architecture:
Experimental Building,
Follow-up Production
Professor Marius Nygaard
This course consists of two parts. Part one
is dedicated to principles and details of
building envelope design. Part two follows
up and documents full-scale production of
a building module selected from the studio
course on small-scale, experimental build-
ings in autumn 2011.
Wood Logics: researching,
Designing and Making of
Detailed Prototypes
Professor Michael Hensel
The course introduces methods of research-
ing wood as a multi-functional and construc-
tional material in architecture. Students
analyse selected traditional or contemporary
buildings made from wood in detail. They
learn how to model these projects and their
design-specific details digitally in associative
modeling software that enables the para-
metric variation of design. The findings are
utilised in the design of the studio projects
for the Open City in Ritoque, Chile.
Urban challenges in the South: Slums,
Sprawl and Design Interventions
Professor Edward robbins
In this course we examine the nature and
growth of cities in the South; the challenges
this poses; the different efforts at address-
ing these challenges; and the role of archi-
tects, urban and landscape designers as well
as planners. Particular emphasis is placed
on cases from East Africa as examples for
analysis and discussion.
Soft Urbanity
Associate Professors Jonny Aspen
and Erling Dokk Holm
Soft Urbanity
explores contemporary ur-
banity through readings of urban theory
and conducting empirical case studies in
Oslo. Special attention is given to new ways
of using urban space, reflecting changing
interrelations between public and private,
individual and collective, global and local.
The final case studies deal with topics such
as the use of urban benches, training cen-
tres, back yard bars, regular pubs, city bikes,
ferry cultures, safety in public places, and
playlands.
