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Ocean Garden 

2019

“The recent interest in the ocean as a poetic and scientific space for inquiry, calls for an evaluation of how architects and landscape architects address this unfathomable space.

This course will propose landscapes and architectures for marine investigation. The project will be particularly informed by contemporary research techniques that involve the representation of the ocean as space and habitat. As an alternative to a centralized marine research space, this course will suggest a network of dispersed centers for marine investigation. Students will design a horizontal research space that unfolds as something between a garden and a building.”

excerpt from studio brief, written by Luis Callejas and Janike Kampevold Larsen. 

The starting point for each of the studio projects was to choose one points along the coastal lighthouse network. Norwegian lighthouses express a relationship with the ocean and land, while the outdated technology offers new possibilities of use and appropriation.

Studio Contributors:

Manon Mallard -
Editor Architectural Review

Ali Kamiri -
Partner Civil Architecture

Jason Rosenberg -
Artist

Christine Spiten -
Founder Blue-eye robotics

Per Arvid Åsen -
Researcher / Botanist

Jack Kohler -
Glaciologist

Jan Sundet -
Bentic recourse scientist

Geir Wing Gabrielsen -
Ecotoxicologist

Karl Otto Ellefsen -
Professor AHO

Final review critics:

Christoph Girot -
ETH Zürich

Ulrika Karlsson -
KTH Stockholm

Elise Hunchuck -
Independent reseacher