CREEK URBANISM: OSLO’S CENTRAL HOVINBEKKEN
Ingrid Aas, Annabel Danson, Linn Riise Handal, Kari Havnevik, Nils Henrik Jorde Henningstad, Irene
Crowo Nielsen, Chiara Paone and Patrycja Perkiewicz
Master studio
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One semester
The collective studio developed three visions to addresses the shift in Oslo’s relationship
to water, landscape, infrastructure and the built environment: 1] From Sacred Meadow to
Managed Basin (reopens the creek, cleans polluted waters, restores ecologies and importantly
integrates storm water management into the water system of the basin); 2] Unclogging the
Waist (quite literally ‘unclogs’ the mid-section of the Hovinbekken Basin by removing the
area’s largest post-industrial buildings, while at the same time taking care of the polluted
territory and developing a cut-and-fill strategy to mold the terrain and create a new artificial
landscape); 3] All Season Urban Playground (capitalizes on the basin as a topographically
rich landscape that is imbued with a varied legacy of recreational arenas and activity areas).
Strategic projects, developed primarily in section, strengthened the vision and focused on the
creation of new natures in the transformation of Trondheimsveien , Økern, Ensjø a stretch of
land between Botsparken and Bispevika.
