JÆREN AGRICULTURE OVERBOARD

OIL IS THE MONEY MAKER IN NORWAY. EXPORTING FARMED FISH IS A GOOD NUMBER TWO. JÆREN WORK AS A GOLDEN GATE TO THE BLACK GOLD. THEY HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE TO BENEFIT FROM THE NATURAL RESOURCES IN BOTH OIL AND AGRICULTURE AND HAVE DONE SO AS LONG AS WE KNOW. BUT NOW WE FACE THE END OF THE OIL ADVENTURE. IT MEANS THAT NORWAY NEED TO FIND A NEW INDUSTRY TO LIVE FROM, OR TO DEVELOP THE SECOND BIGGEST INDUSTRY, FISH FARMING. MONOCULTURE HAS BECOME A PROBLEM IN NORWAY'S SECOND BIGGEST INDUSTRY. THE NATURAL ECOSYSTEM IS OUT OF BALANCE, THIS GIVES DISEASES AND PEST OUTBREAKS.

EXTINCTION OF BIOTOPES IS A RESULT OF CLIMATE CHANGES DUE TO HUMAN BEHAVIOR. SEA TEMPRATURES IS RISING AND THE CO₂ EMMISION THREATENS BOTH OYSTER AND KELP. 40% OF THE SUGAR KELP AT THE NORWEGIAN WEST COAST IS EXTINCT. AGRICULTURUAL WASTE RUNS OFF FROM THE FIELDS AND IN THE RIVERS, THIS IS LEFT OVER NUTRIENT KILLS BIOTOPES AND SHOULD BE REVERSED TO A POSITIVE RESOURCE.

CULTIVATION OF KELP CAN BE THE ANSWER TO MANY OF JÆRENS CHALLENGES. 70 000 HA CAN MANAGAE NORWAYS 5% BIOFUEL GOAL THAT THE GOVERMENT PUT UP FOR 2010. 60 OOO HA OF OFFSHORE CULTIVATION ONLY FOR BIOFUEL PURPOSE AND CO₂ CAPTURE. AND 10 000 HA CULTIVATION AT THE COAST FOR INTEGRATED AQUACULTURE. THIS AREAS IS ALSO FOR BIOFUEL PRODUTION, BUT MOSTLY FOR TAKING CARE OF NATURE BIOTOPES AND BETTER THE QUALITY ON THE EXISTING FISH FARMING INDUSTRY.

THIS IS THE REALISTIC BALANCE BETWEEN ECONOMY AND NATURE. THIS BALANCE IS A IMPORTANT SYNERGY BETWEEN THE ELEMENS IN THE NATURE THAT WE WANT TO EXPLOIT.

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A present at the opening of the studio exhibition

When I am in Oslo I have found some pleasure being present at OAF meetings debating with the different lecturers coming in from all over the world. The latest occation brought me into a dialogue with the architect and professor Markus Schaefer of Hosoya Schaefer Architects in Zürich. The topics was on the aspects of masterplanning in cities under the impact of financial brakedown, and what informed the firms projects. A really interesting discussion that continued after the meeting and into the night. Markus Schaefer started out his education in biology, then in architecture and finished his master under Rem Koolhaas at Harvard, worked at OMA and was for some time the Director of AMO.
He has just sent me an interview which I find very interesting. Here he comments on studio works, as we have been through in this semester. This interview is then the gift to you.
Marcus opens another text with this quotation, that I find relevant to our studio:

“Mans ability to participate intelligently in the evolution of his own system is dependent on his ability to perceive the whole”
Immanuel Wallerstein
In World System Analysis: An Introduction. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004

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AGRICULTURE OVER BOARD

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The agripark leads the flow

The exploitation of the agricultural land is becoming bigger and bigger, following the request of more food and as soon as possible, but something has to be done to protect or at least keep what we have now for the future generations.
Six strategies have been tested in the Orre shed tring to reorganize the agriculture, according to the soil and products quality but also according to the creation of a new public space that "lives" in a private context.

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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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Final presentation - Urban Wetland Park

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Final presentation - Secret Garden

A secret garden for endangered species.

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