The project is designed at the Oslo school of Architecture where I study at the moment. However the pavilion is built in South America, Chile, near Valparaiso in the open city- experimental architecture park.
A lucky coincidence was that we were asked to design a small housing unit for a single person to sleep in, however we ended up with a pavilion for bird watching. Coincidence or not, but that is what was needed for that particular spot.
Since the site is in a close proximity to the river which attracts many different species of birds, the pavilion shelters you and becomes a nest for social gathering. Anyhow we paid tribute to public and hopefully the pavilion serves this great purpose and is enjoyable for many people who come to experience it.
More information about the process and construction is coming soon.
A bird watching pavilion facing the Pacific Ocean, near Valparaiso de Chile
Pavilion for Valparaiso_Chile
my fascination and obsession with complex geometries _
The main focus of the book is towards the contemporary Scandinavian cities and landscapes. The book consist of the maps, brief descriptions, authors insights and photographs made in Reykjavik, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo and elsewhere
Norway_ Iceland_ Denmark_ Sweden_ United Kingdom_ Germany_ Spain_ Lithuania_ Latvia_ Slovenia_ Austria_ Japan_
The attempt of this book is to explore the human scale in various environments, from the architectural point of view. Starting from the waste Icelandic mountain ranges to a tiny grass roofed Norwegian houses.
Hand binded book using the classical British book binding technique_
page samples from the book_
Designing a housing unity for an Open city_ Valparaiso_ Chile
For the first time in my architectural education and practice, I am jut about to build something in scale 1x1. It is going to be a small wooden housing unit for an artists in Chile. Still a long way to go to the completion of it.
Tutors:
Michael Ulrich Hensel
Christian hermansen Cordua
Concept development_
Formgiving_
Wood joint development_
scandinvian city experiences_
_ it is time now to reflect on what kind of cities I lived in and what I have learned from them. I wish to finally write about it before 2012_06
Oslo_ 2012_ 01-06 _ _ _
Aarhus_2011_01-12_
Reykjavik_2010_ 08-12_
Copenhagen_2010_ 06-08_
Stockholm_ 2008_09-12_
Vilnius_ 2004_ _ _
This is a sticker design for the notebooks and sketchbooks I made out of the reused paper and cardboard material at the AAA_ (Aarhus School of Architecture)
Making these books made me think about the value of things and the symbols used to mark them.
Could the object have more value if it is a waste?
What is valuable after all?
_ book images are coming soon_
These are two experiments made to test how small and fin I can go with the paper material and the 3d print. Which also reflects my interest and first attempts to minimize the material use and optimize (make easy) the way of producing so called "complex" geometry.
The part of the experiments was also to experiment with the differentiation of the elements used for the single piece of the structure in order to have a bigger diversity and flexibility of the spatial formations.
The structure itself is generated by two lines representing two pedestrian traffics which are given the height parameters of the surrounding buildings and the with of the sidewalks. Next step in shaping the structure is pulling the formed space to the points where people gather and the mid point of both lines attract each other as well. In that way an invisible spacial formation emerges and is given the structural properties through the parametric mesh, which allows the abstarct shape to be produced in various scales by manipulating its mesh and the perforation.
The model itself is just a representational, inspirational one, it does not intend to suggest an building proposal at this stage.
The work flow for the paper model is:
grasshopper, rhino, pepakura, autocad, laser cut, hand assembling by folding and gluing here and there. DONE!
