AHO WORKS STUDIES 2012-2013
Courses
Architectural Studies
Venice Asylum – Orphanage for the
displaced
Beate Marie Hølmebakk
and Andrea Pinochet
In this studio course students are expected
to design a building to serve as an asylum
that will provide protection to displaced
children in Venice. Since the project is
organized around the idea of displacement
and migration, architecture is examined in
relation to temporary inhabitation and the
way in which it can empower an individual
in his/her journey and become a vehicle for
change.
Farmlife
Erik Fenstad Langdalen and Siri Moseng
The Norwegian countryside is changing
rapidly. Traditional agricultural production
is subject to pressure from a progressively
more globalized market. Migration leads to
abandoned farms and overgrown fields, and
our building heritage is deteriorating. The
studio called for new ideas for the future
countryside, and encouraged the students
to pursue radical ideas and concrete archi-
tectural solutions, taking an existing farm,
Nordre Tallerås at Dovre, as the point of
departure.
Casino Restore
Espen Vatn and Andreas Angelidakis
The site for RE-STORE 2013 is the derelict
Casino of Mont Parnes in Athens. The Casi-
no was built with funds from the Marshall
Plan, as a way to promote the American-
ization of Greece after WWII. In a way
the Casino was a dual billboard building,
for politics and for finance. The history of
the casino is simultaneously studied, tran-
scribed and laid out as a non-chronological
library of fragments, decisions and failures.
By combining, modifying and merging
their own library of objects with that of the
history of the Casino, the students were to
produce alternative scenarios for the life of
this building Mont Parnes.
