We are very happy to present the book - fresh from printing and vernissage in Bergen!
You can order it from us by mailing firmapost@70n.no or buy it from BAS by contacting line@bergenarkitektskole.no for 200,-. It is also possible to download as low res pdf here: City as Biotope PDF (44,5M).
Thanks to all the students and contributors!
City as Biotope - the book!
happy expo
Happy students and teachers at the master studio expo at BAS. Learn more about the three studios: Architect in a foreign culture, Eco Urbanism and our City as Biotope.
seismo berlin
The Seismograph City exhibition has now moved to Berlin. Nordhavnen / Excentral Park - Edge Dynamics is exhibited together with other projects under the the title Sustainable Strategies in Dialogue.
Eröffnung/Opening: Freitag, 22. Januar 2010 um 18.30
Ort/Location: Studio bei Aedes am Pfefferberg, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Ausstellungsdauer/Duration: 22. Januar - 4. März 2010
The City not only defines itself as a generator of cultural, social, economic and ecological processes, but also as a seismograph of global developments. Climate change and its impacts, present new challenges for cities, which in Hamburg have guided a re-evaluation of necessary activities in this regard. In 2011, as "European Green Capital", Hamburg will be designated Climate Capital of Europe. The Seismograph City exhibition gives a fascinating view of the current status of the architectural and urban planning development of this Hanseatic city, in dialogue other cities and countries worldwide.
thursday is sun day
January 21 marks the day for the return of the sun to Tromsø, after two months of its absence.
To celebrate this Tromsø Film Festival invited the whole city to a public projection of the classic silent movie Nanook of the North at the snow cinema on the main square. To make it less silent they also invited Matti Bye ensemble to play their custom composed music to the film - from the shoe shop window.
Besides the fact that the event was really stunning, we're lucky to have a really good
friend amongst the musicians - so now we're off to play with him, in the sun, before their return to Stockholm.
City as Biotope - book and exhibition
City as Biotope: the exhibition will open January 22 at
BAS. 9.00-10.30 the students will go through their proposals and present the studio together with Gisle.
We've spent some weeks after christmas preparing the book City as Biotope - mosaïc::reading // mindfield malmö, that is now being printed and will be presented at the exhibition opening.
opera team
We're prequalified for the
Kristiansund Opera competition together with winning team Mestres Wåge arquitectes, Barcelona, and
Nordplan, Førde!
Our competitors are: Brisac / Gonzalez with Space Group, Jarmund / Vigsnæs with Wingårdhs, Snøhetta and CF Møller..
on peri-urban landscapes
Gisle and Magdalena have contributed with an article, Om framtidens landskap (On future landscapes), in the publication Landet utanför edited by Carola Wingren and published by the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA).
Landet utanför contains articles by among others Gunilla Kindstrand and Mustafa Can; journalists, writers, landscape architects, planners and it is downloadable here (it's all in swedish).
Professor Carola Wingren writes in the foreword:
Några som också uppehåller sig vid det skånska landskapet, och som givit förslag på hur planeringen av det ska gå till i en framtid, är Magdalena Haggärde och Gisle Løkken, två arkitekter verksamma vid arkitektkontoret 70°N arkitektur i Tromsö. Deras vinnande förslag i RealDanias tävling om Öresundsvisioner 2040 som gick av stapeln 2008, antyder tillvägagångssätt som är mer öppna än dagens planeringsmetoder. Deras idéer om en ny planering möter på många sätt de värden som Mattias Qviströms forskning lyfter fram, med komplexa landskap fyllda inte bara av bostadsbebyggelse eller jordbruksaktivitet utan landskap fyllda av en biotopliknande mångfald och där territoriella gränser inte är de exakta värden som olika företeelser har att anpassa sig till.
Haggärdes och Løkkens förslag Mosaïc, upprättat i samarbete med Dahl & Uhre arkitekter samt två handfull gäster och forskare, bygger bland annat på Deleuzes och Guattaris texter där de liknar området mellan den typiska staden och den typiska landsbygden vid en ”folding” eller ett veck fullt av möjligheter, där allt kan hända.
Haggärdes och Løkkens planeringstankar är i vissa avseenden lika de tankar som Tomas Germundsson och jag själv utvecklar i vår artikel om en planering baserad på andra begrepp än gräns och territorium, där vi istället föreslår en planering grundad på begrepp som förloppslandskap, handlingslandskap och värdelandskap.
Förloppslandskapet, ett begrepp som myntades av kulturgeografen Torsten Hägerstrand, innefattar det föränderliga landskapet över tid som beskrivs i flera av de tidigare artiklarna. Det är på sätt och vis en vägran till förenkling som griper tag i det Haggärde och Løkken skriver, när de betonar vikten av att arbeta med komplexiteten istället för att förenkla.
Google DAV
Our students Miia-Liina, Mathias, Tone and Kristian did a very nice project while in Malmö: A sunny day at Fredriksberg.
Knowing that Fredriksberg is a huge traffic junction their activities of pic-nic, romance, badminton and others could really be seen as an act of détournement.. or in their own words:
Through a series of evocative actions, we examine the hidden qualitative layers of the traffic junction in Fredriksberg, Malmö. The mono-programmatic appearance of the site is questioned by occupying it with everyday activity unfamiliar to it. The actions, documented in photos and film, form a loose narrative of a day trip to the site and are to be found in Google maps and Youtube.
It is now all published and clickable in both Google maps and Google Earth - take a trip to Fredriksberg!
18xMalmö
Here are our
City as Biotope students at the final presentation: Kristian, Tone, Zlatan, Tove Helen, Herman, Kolbjørn, Mathias, Miao, Kuo-Chen, Stine, Roberto, Tove, Ragnhild, Christian, Martin Johannes, Miia-Liina, Laura and Gaute
Bergen again
We're at BAS for the final reviews at the City as Biotope studio. See the students' work at www.cityasbiotope.blogspot.com.
julebord
This year's christmas party was thrown at the office - with lots of nice people and delicious
bacalao!
green, grand paris
The second of Gisle's articles, Learning from french presidents?, appeared in Nordlys this week. This time it is Paris, where we traveled together with our BAS students, that is under the search light, from projects launched by presidents to more rhizomatic ones, for instance from aaa.
fantasía y subjectividad
In the article Territorios de la infancia in spanish magazine Arquitectura Viva #126 our kindergartens are used as one of the examples.
Arkitektur i Norge - årboka 2009
The yearbook
Architecture in Norway, edited by the National Museum for art, architecture and design, presents our kindergartens and Brinken Terrasse.
read mosaïc::reading
mosaïc::reading - the city as biotope is a master studio at Bergen Arkitektskole run during the autumn term 2009 by Gisle Løkken, Magdalena Haggärde, Kjerstin Uhre and Knut Eirik Dahl. Under the themes of new hierarchies, imbedded information, elasticity, dynamic of small cultures, points of departure, vulnerability and charging the landscape with new energy different aspects, ideas and possibilities of planning have been discussed and discovered - at the school in Bergen, on study trips to Malmö and Paris, and on the blog
cityasbiotope. The blog has grown throghout the autumn with the students’ work, the presentation of new themes and comments.
Here, in this little textbook: mosaic::reading, the collection, we have gathered the introduction texts for each theme.
KED, KEU, GL and MH
Collection: Landscape Architecture
Our National Tourist Routes projects in Lofoten are presented in Collection: Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture creates and shapes open spaces for human beings. It combines nature and architecture and links grown and planned environments. It depends on local factors such as the climate, type of soil, as well as varying local traditions much more than structural design.
Collection: Landscape Architecture presents the whole wealth of this fascinating sector featuring 180 projects around the world – from the classic fields of horticulture and park design, to LandArt and urban outdoor design, which make do without grass and trees entirely, up to the current ecological themes of interior gardens and façade greening.
arquitectura y madera
This publication, both on the web and printed, assembles wood architecture from all over the world - Lofoten for instance.
Fab in Førde
Mestres Wåge arquitectes and
Nordplan have won the
competition for a new town hall and more in
Førde - well done and congratulations to them!
We're happy to be part of the team, as advisors.
lively or deadly conditions
Our proposal for Nordhavnen is being discussed in the latest issue of Conditions magazine. Under the interesting label Dead or Alive the uncertain futures of winning competition proposals are being researched.
and the winner is..
Gisle is in Graz this week-end together with the Europan jury, to make the final decision..
Congratulations to
Europan Norway for that new and good looking web page!
junior
Our kindergarten is one of the example projects presented in the article Too cool for school? in british glossy kids' magazine Junior #121.
bubblebuilding
One of our projects is on its way up. This is, we believe, Tromsø's first bubbledeck.
Meet (or eat) the Muskox
Greenland party this week-end with stories, pictures
and tastes from Kalaallit Nunaat.
PKN#7 - Polar Fokus
We are proud to present PechaKucha Night #7 in collaboration with the photo festival Polar Fokus!
It will take place Wednesday October 28, at 19.30 at Kjeller5.
The presenters, all photographers, are:
Kristine Nyborg - Kristine Nyborg
Ingun Mæhlum - Fotodama
Arvid Sveen - Arvid Sveen
Svein Sætre - C3
Arthur Arnesen - FotoFilm
Mari Karlstad - Tromsø Museum
Jens-Morten Øvervoll - JM foto
Ronald Johansen - Bladet Tromsø
Torgrim Rath Olsen - Nordlys
Adnan Isagic - Tromsø Museum
DJ Kozmas
NB! New ticket system!
This is how it works now:
Due to the legislation and permissions for our venue, Kjeller5, you have to be a member to get in. To become a member is really easy, if you already now receive our flyers by e-mail you are a member, and can just show up! If not, just send an enquiry here - this is also how you get updated information and invitations!
On the PechaKucha Night the doors will open at 19.30, and we will let members until Kjeller5 is full..!
Exploring the high north
70°N goes west to investigate the prosperous future of the city of Maniitsoq on the western coast of Greenland.
One week of traveling and exploration brought back strong impressions and exciting challenges.
A+U goes north
Some Lofoten projects in the latest issue of japanese magazine A+U, focusing on scandinavian architecture.
bring Bateson back
The first in a series of articles by Gisle appeared in today's Nordlys - Byer i endring (Changing cities) about urbanisation, with examples from our investigations in Malmö: new housing on old landfills as in Västra Hamnen, risks of gentrification in Möllevången, stigmatized Rosengård and the ressources and possibilities bound in the infrastructure areas and peri-urban landscapes - wrapping it all up with the words of Gregory Bateson: We are not outside the ecology for which we plan - we are always and inevitably a part of it.
away again
After spending last week with the students in Bergen and the Europan jury in Oslo Gisle has now left again. This time to Greenland - Kangerlussuaq, Sisimut, Maniitsoq.. - together with Berit who just returned from her asian trip - we have some travel stories to look forward to.
Seoul you!
Berit sends us some kim chi and patterns from her trip to Seoul and Tokyo - we want to hear all about it!
PKN#6!
We're happy to announce the presenters for PechaKucha Tromsø #6!
Erlend Mogård Larsen - Vulkana
Endre Skandfer – animator Storm Studios
Ingeborg Solvang – director Sonar Film
Jens Styve & Espen Sandberg -
Tank
Tone Lein & Herman Kristoffersen - globetrotters
Andreas Willersrud - student politician
Kristian Gundersen - Random gallery
Phillippe Gundersen - urbanist Tromsø/Praha
Øyvind Johnson - student recruiter
DJ Bendiks
NB! New ticket system!
This is how it works now:
Due to the legislation and permissions for our venue, Kjeller5, you have to be a member to get in. To become a member is really easy, if you already now receive our flyers by e-mail you are a member, and can just show up! If not, just sign in here - this is also how you get updated information and invitations!
On the PechaKucha Night the doors will open at 19.30, and we will let members until Kjeller5 is full..!
Back in Öresund
We're traveling and investigating the Öresund region and Malmö once again, this time together with the students - from discussions about the Louisiana exhibition (Fremtidens arkitektur er grøn!), vegetable market at Möllevången, visit in Rosengård to picking pears in the peri urban areas.. ..and
more.
BAS begins
We're in Bergen for the start of the autumn term since we're going to teach a master studio at the architecture school - follow us at city as biotope!
At the opening day a fantastic new space was revealed out of the fogs of that old BAS smell - the silo will contribute to the school, that has already many intriguing spaces..
London calling
Berit has left for London, where she has a secret mission - we'll let you know, of course..
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