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Marco Casagrande (1971) is a Finnish architect, biourbanist and social theorist. From the early stages of his career Casagrande started to mix architecture with other disciplines of art and science landing with a series of ecologically conscious architectural installations around the world. «There is no other reality than nature». He views architects as design shamans merely interpreting what the bigger nature of the shared mind is transmitting.

Casagrande views cities as complex energy organisms in which different overlapping layers of energy flows are determining the actions of the citizens as well as the development of the city. By mixing environmentalism and urban design Casagrande is developing methods of Urban Acupuncture in order to create an ecologically sustainable urban development towards the so-called Third Generation City.

Casagrande has been teaching in 65 academic institutions in 25 countries and realized more than 70 works in 14 different countries. The widely published works have been exhibited five times in the Venice Architecture Biennale (2000, 2004, 2006, 2014 and 2016) and in Havana Biennale 2000, Firenze Biennial 2001, Yokohama Triennial 2001, Montreal Biennial 2002, Puerto Rico Biennial 2002, Demeter Hokkaido 2002, Alaska Design Forum 2003, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial 2003, Taipei on the Move 2004, London Architecture Biennial 2004, Sensoria Melbourne 2004, Taiwan Design Expo 2005 and 2014, Urban Flashes Mumbai 2006, 7-ELEVEN City 2007, World Architecture Festival 2009, Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennial 2009 and 2012, Victoria & Albert Museum 2010, Beaufort Triennial 2012, Austrian Museum of Contemporary Art MAK “Eastern Promises” 2013, Buenos Aires Architecture Biennale 2013, China Central Academy of Fine Arts CAFAM Biennale 2014, Habitare Helsinki 2014, Tallinn Architecture Biennial 2015 and Moscow Urban Forum 2016.

World Architecture Community Awards 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015, World Architecture Festival Award 2009, Architectural Review House Award 2010, Red Dot Design Award 2012 and Union of Architects of Russia annual “Zeleny Proekt” Award 2012. Marco Casagrande is the laureate of the European Prize for Architecture 2013, Committee of International Architecture Critics CICA Award 2013 for conceptual and artistic architecture and UNESCO & Locus Foundation Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2015.

Marco is the principal of the Casagrande Laboratory, internationally operating architecture and innovation office based in Helsinki, Finland and Vice-President of the International Society of Biourbanism.

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Diploma project

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Finse-Krækkja, Hardangervidda, Norway

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2019

Introduksjon

Sheltering from the elements of a rough climate in a remote area at Hardangervidda, Norway

Norway has long traditions of hunting and fishing, exploration and an extensive use of nature around us and the resources it brings with it. The interest in what Norway has to offer has increased in recent decades with new records of visitors to the various tourist cabins and the famous destinations that offer exotic nature experiences. This also leads to an increasing amount of rescue missions year by year. In a report from Red Cross in 2017 they list up 225 missions only for missing persons on foot or skiing.

The possibilities of seeking shelter in such situations are still inadequate especially with the increasing amount of people who use the mountain, and the need for emergency shelters is therefore, more relevant than ever. This applies not only to the most popular attractions but also to the more remote areas of the mountains.
Through research and conversations with The Norwegian Trekking Association and Norwegian Red Cross I chose to focus on the trail between Finse or Krækkja at Hardangervidda for my project. This is a location which is a popular trekking andskiing destination, but also has challenges in distance and weather conditions which lead to dangerous situations and a discovered need for shelter.
On this stretch I found two situations close to the trail appropriate for planning a shelter. My main focus has been on one of these sites, designing a site-specific emergency shelter that will provide for the most basic needs, as well as a smaller intervention at a second site.
The main shelter has been designed in a way that makes it possible to connect several modules together, as an idea to accommodate different uses, however on this site it should only accommodate for an emergency purpose and not make a large intervention on the landscape.