AGRICULTURE OVER BOARD

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Sequences of jæren

The tendency in urban planning is that each municipality forget to focus on whats on the other side of their municipality borders.
This means that every place have many of the same functions and a lack of identity. Each municipality look to its neighbour wanting what they dont have. This might strengthen the political borders and the collaboration between the borders will be weaker.

By making the essence and identity of each municipality stronger and link them along the railway to transport goods and people, both internationally and regionally.

Then introduce a new infrastructural network and compress the time between Sandnes and Egersund, a new way of living will evolve and generate a more sustainable future.

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Greenhouses-S-L-XL

Greenhouses S, L, XL

A journey across the pixelated landscape

In order to improve the striated landscape of Kviamarka, and develop its possibilities, I want to start a transformation of the weaknesses into strenghts.

By utilizing the existing knowledge, Kviamarka can be developed in a more sustainable way, with a production adapted to the natural qualities in the landscape, with a variety of scale and use.

The start of a future transformation is making new connections to the systems surrounding Kviamarka, and let them guide Kviamarka to new positions of production and habitats.

My strategy is to let the smooth space become a symbiotic part of the striated space.
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AFTER THE MIDNIGHT-SUNSET

the studio projects as a network of openings on the appearing Jæren

(thanks to Henriette for the hand-drawn icons and to Maya for the birds)

(credits to Nicholas Felton for the graphic inspiration)

Welcome to the final critics of this semesters course!

The presentations will take place in grupperom 1 and 2 and will be scheduled as follows:

wed 26
10:00 intro
10:15 Kemppe
break
11:15 Emilie
12:00 Snædis

13:30 Henriette
14:15 Simona
break
15:15 Adam
16:00 Jin


thu 27
10:00 Betsey
10:45 Rong
break
11:45 Bita

13:30 Yu
14:15 Maia
break
15:15 Liucijia
16:00 Trude + Mads

The appointed external sensor will be Marianne Skjulhaug, Rektor of Bergen Architecture School and vice president of Europan Norway.

Then the audience will be composed by Knut Eirik Dahl, Ellen Braae, Alice Labadini and Anders Hus Folkedal, teachers at the course.

We have also invited to join Alf Haukeland, Geir Nummendal and Thea Kvamme Hartmann.

We are all looking forward to see the final outcome of your projects!

Rough Version of Jaeren Mosaic

I use culture as a clue to explore the urbanization in Jaeren while injecting my discovery with the knowledge from interview and other source. The pdf is not the finished version. I will follow the line like this:
1. Culture and art as a metaphor ever appeared and disappeared in Jaeren's natural and social landscape.
2. Take Sandnes for example, the Silobygget intrigued huge discussion on whether this high-rise culture center will bring out Bilbao effect.Various debate can be reviewed concerning urban development. Silobygget is also a clue to look at all those proposed high-rise architecture projects in Jaeren(some are suspended, some are in construction, they all in some way appeared or disappeared on Jaeren's scenario map). From municipalities' enthusiasm for new high rise projects, can see a fierce competition is on air.
3. Bryne also took part in this battle with Bryne Forum. What kind of urban identity a traditional agriculture area is looking for? and during this process, a series of conflict between tradition and modernization shall be discussed also in terms of culture phenomenon.
4. As economic competition is going more and more strong, to attract young talents back is a key way to find possibility for future. The factors lure young talents back Jaeren is another consequent topic, which is not solely concerned on culture.
The words in the Jaeren mosaic is not the final version, also the images need editing. Infographics may need my oral explaination:) I hope they will raise wider discussion.
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WEEK 18

Hello!

week 18 will start with a very intensive individual tutoring on your projects, that now have to become precise designs able to open for you larger strategies!! (see coming text later ;-)

We will discuss with you how to finalize your works as follows :

mon. 10 may

9:30 - ... individual tutoring with Knut Eirik, Alice, and Geir (from 12:00)

tue. 11 may

9:30 - ... individual tutoring with KE, A, and Anders

please sign up for reviews so we can follow a list :-)

double reviews both days are possible and welcome!

see you tomorrow!

alice

ALAN BERGER DESIGNED WETLANDS FOR PURIFYING THE PONTINE MARSHES IN ROME

Using plants to purify canal water

Researchers outline a natural way to clean Italy's polluted Pontine Marshes
Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office

Just south of Rome lie the Pontine Marshes, a vexed part of the Italian countryside. In ancient times, Roman emperors tried unsuccessfully to drain the marshes, something only achieved in the 1930s through a system of massive pumps and canals that removed enough water to turn the area into productive farmland. Yet today those canals have become heavily polluted, endangering the area’s agriculture and the health of its residents.

Read more here

(thanks to Hettie Pisters for the link)

week 16 - hit the right dynamicsand open for your appearing landscapes

Hello -

as anticipated, and ashes permitting, Knut Eirik will be in the studio from wednesday to Friday.

We have planned the week as follows:

Wed. 21 April
10 am – 11 am : introduction to the week structure and the rest of the semester
11 am – 3 pm : you will be divided in two workshops

ON SUPERMAPS AND MATRIXES OF INFORMATION (AL + KED)
ON LANDSCAPE SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES (GEIR + ANDERS)

the intent of the workshop is to define together a structure for finalizing your strategies into projects able to hit the right dynamics and open for your envisioned appearing landscapes in Jæren. That is to say, the workshop tries to group into a common discussion the singular communication and strategic challenges highlighted by your projects in midcrit. A list of the groups will be put out early tomorrow.

WHAT WE ASK YOU TO DO BY WEDNESDAY : to produce a key drawing for your project, able to explain its implications and complexities , to be simple the drawing that in your final presentation could be printed large in the middle and keep all the threads of your strategy together. Can be a supermap, a diagram, the key to your storyboard, a detailed section of your transformed fragment of Jæren landscape. From this drawing we will start building upon our discussion, and we will decide together an assignment running for the three days which will aim to refine this drawing until it becomes super-communicative (thus sharpening your strategy, and if not becoming a project in itself, setting the conditions for a project to start taking form from monday onwards)

So please come with your key drawing, any reference / unprocessed information you have found during easter, and – of course – a lot of energy !! :-D

thu and fri we will keep on working interchanging between individual tutorings and common discussions.

Alice

Topos 70 - Sustainability

The new issue of Topos is out in the library. I recommend you to have a look at it : especially, it shows some interesting projects dealing with water management and increasing stormwater in the cities, one on energy landscapes, and a very interesting reading of the "city as biotope".

:-)

Enjoy!

Alice

invaders of the invisible landscape

"Invaders of the invisible landscape" is my little update to the "charging the landscape with new energy" part of our course. I made this pdf because I have my midcrit tomorrow, and I wanted to share my new information and thoughts about Kviamarka (my area of focus).

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week 15 - Kumiko Inui lecture is on wed!

Hello!

here is the plan for the coming week:

mon 12.04

13:00 - 16:00 individual tutoring (AL)

tue 13.04

10:00 - 13:00 individual tutoring (AL)

wed 14.04

14:30 - 15:30 Henriette and Bita midcrit - grupperom 1 and 2 (with Alice, Alf and Geir)

13:00 lecture by Kumiko Inui - big auditorium

thu 15.04

10:00 - 17:00 3D crash course by AHF - computer lab

fri 16.04

10:00 - 12:00 individual tutoring (AL)

12:00 - 15:00 individual tutoring (Alf Haukeland)

See you!

Alice

3D WITH SKETCH UP CRASH COURSE

Anders will hold a 3D crash course on thursday april 15th from 10 am in the computer lab. He will teach you the way of working in 3D he is mostly using, which is Google Sketchup Pro combined with Autocad.

Kumiko Inui, Shin-Yatsushiro Monument

There will be a break at lunch time for attending a guest lecture from a very interesting Japanese architect working as a guest teacher in our school : Kumiko Inui (see www.inuiuni.com and www.japan-architect.co.jp)

week 14

Welcome back!

On Thu. 08/04, Anders and Alf will be in the studio between 09:00 and 15:00 for individual tutoring.

Charging the landscape with new energy- Betsey

In search for a new post-oil landscape, we are turning to the sea-scape hoping that, within it’s infinity, we can find new ways of energy, new food production and even the cure for cancer. It is not the first time we seak the oceans for survival, we have been living with and of the sea since the beginning of times. How have we been doing this and what impact has this had? In charging the landscape with new energy I unfold my actors, looking historically on how they have been acting and how they have influenced each other. Without oil, Norway might not be in the position it is today, many claime we too would be harshly hit by the financial crisis. How was this possible and what happens when it disappears? We are in times of transition and looking historically at how we have been using our ressourses will open reflections on how we can use our ressourses in the future and how this new post-landscape may look like.
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Horizontal Landscape Corridor

Horizontal landscape corridor

In Norway as a whole, the area of agricultural land in use is about 10 360 km2, or 3 percent of the total area of the country. In 2005/2006, the amounts of fertilizer used on agricultural land totalled about 104 100 tonnes of nitrogen and about 12 400 tonnes of phosphorus. These nutrients are an essential basis for increased agricultural production, but if they are lost from the nutrient cycle, they may cause pollution by eutrophication of lakes, rivers and coastal waters.
Jaeren was a land of lakes 100 years ago with high biological diversity, but today these lakes have disappeared.
The big change happened around 1960, the lakes were affected by sewage, fertilizers from agriculture and drainage. The result was a lack of oxygen in the lakes, the plant diversity changed and so did the animal species.
I would like use landscape method reduce the agricultural pollution.
Norway's terrain is long and narrow from north to south. So the coast line is vertical landscape corridor in Norway. I want to add new landscape structure in Jaeren by use water systems.
The new structure is: Horizontal Landscape Corridor.
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An alignment of self, place and worth

disappearing gap

'Charging the landscape with the new energy' could be understood as 'preparing the landscape for what is to come'....my interpretation was 'prepare the people - the inner landscape - society - for what is to come....people still do not feel the threat, they are too self confident..

Still trying to concentrate the information I have...the more I think, the more difficult it gets..
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Agriculture over board!

There are many benefits from kelp cultivation, but it is generally known that monocultures also bring consequences in time, for example lice in fish farming. Therefore I will in this project create an incorporated system of kelp cultivation in small scale, consisting of integrated farming which combines fish farming, mussels and other important contributors in the ocean life cycle. A big scale production off shore, maybe in connection with the soon leftover oil platforms, is also an interesting part of the system.

Kelp as CO2 collector, biofuel material, biotope savers, fertilizer, animal feed and research material, would be an industry that will improve agricultural Jæren in peak oil times to come.

My challenge is to look at the complete system and the consequences it will have on the future Jæren, and how to advance in each part of the system. Distribution, life cycles and suitable locations is first to come...

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Coexistence of two systems — Yu

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Today, the dominating crop in Jæren is grass (fresh by animal grasing or fermented and stored). Meanwhile, more other "grass" are disappearing quietly. I think we should return back some "habitat" to nature. If there is a place no body can go into, that would be perfect for the biotope. And I am trying to find and "make" this secret place.

It is important to ensure that biological diversity can continue to evolve. But the agriculture is also important too. Even Jæren is a main region for vegetables, mainly tomatoes and cucumber produced in greenhouses. The planting areas decreased year by year.
How to make good use of the limited resourse to product more food? Vertical farming!

In my mind, not just nature need species diversity, our agriculture also. Uniform variety cropping means lacking of resistance to plant disease.

This two systems seems in opposition. Now I find they have something in common. I am going to combine them. I belive they can "win-win and coexist".