Voices from Stovner

av Antonio Barbin

lærere

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.

kurs

Diploma project

sted

Stovner, Oslo, Norway

Tags

local identity Reuse Sustainable adaptation

år

2019

Introduksjon

Investigating future city development and placemaking through social and architectural transitions.

In this Diploma the focus lies on the amount of different cultures and nationalities that lives in Stovner district, in total over 140 different nationalities. The project takes you in to a social investigation on how qualities of an area from an inside perspective can be a basis for future development. Both analytic research and personal experience are combined to solve the idea to think new of an area.

The architectonic interventions is to work with a site and three existing buildings that are not in use anymore and make space and flexibility for different kind of use that are open for cultural innovation as a place for everyone.

Local values are implemented in the landscape such as a buried stream that is recreated to bring in history, forest life and atmosphere to the site. The buildings flexibility and the new actions that are been done makes them a part of the nature instead of just a static object and reused materials are combined to bring in new architecture.
Placemaking is an important part for the project to give ownership and responsibility to local people. Local programs will therefore be implemented and activated by the people who want to take part of a local startup business.

Stovner has been seen from an outside point of view with big articles and front pages of how bad this place is in the media, my part as an architect is to work with the stigma from an inside point of view and have focus on the positive meeting points in Stovner and work with peoples needs and local values. Another important part of this Diploma is to keep the architectonic interventions under sustainable control and this is connected to how this project will be developed.
The idea is to reuse the buildings as they are and work with the existing structure, implement and add elements and structure from Galleri Oslo that are considered to be demolished in the future.
Elements such as curtain walls, fasades, constructions, glass structure, interior, windows and ceiling are being reused as an economically and environmentally way to work with future city development.