INSPIRED BY PLACE - WHY WE BUILD - Bergen School of Architecture

INSPIRED BY PLACE – WHY WE BUILD

by Rolf Magne Bjørnevik

tutors

Sverre Sondresen

Eva Kun

course

Diploma project

location

Norway Region: Vestlandet/Bergen Endelausmarka - Bjørnafjorden_Municipality

Tags

Alternative Community housing Landscape Lifestyle Nature place Rural Development Self-build Social Sustainability Temporary time

years

2023

Introduction

A self-build project as an alternative to todays single family housing and plot development model. The project is an empathic way to develop a self-build community in relation to nature as a site specific and subtile architecture.

CONCEPTUALIZATION: A HOUSE, INSPIRED BY NATURE

An exploration into what a contemporary Norwegian house could be in relation to a self-builder. An emphatic take on nature and landscape with a vernacular inspired structure. Both socially, and in terms of a construction. The project came to be about user integration. To partake in the act of building, as this phase have a lot of unused potential. It could be a good phase to integrate the user to allow for an ownership, while establishing a socially sustainable living environment. Why we build, can be understood as a need for a holistic approach towards residential development.

Link to book: INSPIRED BY PLACE WHY WE BUILD

Other tutors/consultants: Andre Fontes (TTA), Kim Christensen (TTA), Frode Fadnes Jacobsen (Anthropologist), Vibeke Jensen (1:1), Nancy Couling (Sustainability), Trond Oalann (making/workshop), Pavlina Lucas (writing), Emma Nilsson and Tom Chamberlain (diploma coordinators)