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ØSTMARKA THERAPEUTICAL LANDSCAPES
The project tries to approach the landscape as a transformative element, capable of providing…
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Østmarka Re-enacted
The proposal will treat the site as a park, keeping the hilltops open and strengthening the…
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Without borders
The concept of original wooden houses standing on a solid foundation is standing behind the main…
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Where one fares through
WOFT is a proposal that aims to develop different routes that join the borders among the elements…
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Weaving a future
Making courageous and clever decisions today will make it the obvious hub of skill and competence…
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Way to care
In the beginning comes The Path. It meanders through the forests, fields and backyards of Østmarka.…
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Voroscopia
Grensen should not only become a new meeting point for everybody but a true place of…
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Vivre ensemble
The housing situation is pressured. The percentage of people owning their own dwelling is low,…
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Village people
Small-scale housing blocks form cosy, human-scaled quarters with communal courtyards.
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Vanguarden
Fagerstrand is in its time of evolution in the wake of post-industrial phenomena and amidst climate…
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Utmark
This project proposes to explicitly reverse the haphazard way that exemptions to the freedom to…
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Urban soilution
Our project aims to treat the under- used or poorly used public spaces with three minimally…
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Urban Intersections
The project proposes a deep renewal of the waterfront and the central area of Kirkenes to create a…
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Urban By Nature
An intensified natural setting that creates urbanity, enhances the shopping conditions and attracts…
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Untitled
Urban meets suburban. Redefining the city centre.
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UNO MESSUNO E CENTOMILA A LINE
"Uno, Nessuno e Centomila" arises from a line. A line that is not just a line but becomes a…
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Undulate
The sense of the actual border with the see has to be changed using two simple principals: undulate…
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Ubegrenset
Embracing preservation, we honor Grensen's qualities with the integration of new structures that…
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Trojan
With simple additions to the existing atmosphere, the project proposes a strategic plan to…
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Treehouse-Living in an Edible Forest
Treehouse-Living in an Edible Forest provides a model for gentle densification of this wooded…
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TOPOGRAPHY FOR LIFE
Our design emphasizes sustainability, heritage respect, and community participation.
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Today and Tomorrow
Norway is well known as one of the wealthiest countries in the world and Norwegians live in…
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Tip Top Tip
The project does not deny the past of the place. On the contrary, its educational purpose allows an…
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Tilkoblet
The proposed solution for the Fagerstrand development tackles all three main issues – densification…
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Thunder road
"What would it be like...if space were understood more playfully, more freely, if movement and…
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Through The Looking Glass
The project aims to generate a similar experience for the citizens of Kristiansand to the one Alice…
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This Must Be The Place
As the future development of Raufoss requires a city centre that can accommodate an expansion of…
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The white
Could we imagine an economically sustainable future for Vardø other than a touristic resort,…
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The third space
The Third Space brings these users and functions together in the heart of the island and divides…
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The Rim
The development of Strandveikaia adapts to the growth of the whole Nyhavna, constituting a…
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The portal
The Portal is a thoughtful redevelopment project for the university campus Grensen, aimed at…
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The open cultural center
The proposal titled: “The Open Cultural Center” reconsiders the relationship between cultural…
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The Living City
The goal of the project is to develop a neighborhood where modern manufacturing processes,…
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The Leaf
For ages the facades of this buildings were the edges of this enclave: to open them and give to the…
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The ideal city
Nobody likes car-orientated big-box urbanism. Its cheap architecture and unthought urban fabric are…
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The gatehouse
The proposal works with ideas of integration, merging old and new, merging local and student…
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The Five Conditions
We propose the development of New non-saturated regulations: regulations that would not harbour a…
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The False Mirror
The false mirror sets up a coherent strategy able to inform a new hybrid between the persistence of…
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The Ecology of Making
The Ecology of making is a holistic vision for a development of the technical quarter in Narvik.
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The culture access
The project transforms the park axis to a continuous public space with holistic design where…
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The cultivated path
Rather than proposing a single gesture to overcome the obstacles that separate the town centre from…
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Techno Monks
By proposing a model based on productive monasteries, the bound- aries between production, display,…
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Tanca
We fill the big container with materials by improving industrial and artisanal production, ideas by…
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Tales of the unexpected
We propose to set up a gameboard. An active planning department and public participation may over…
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Symbiotic Landscape
The project Commonizing the daily Landscape focuses on a series of elements of the city that ask to…
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Strips - Beats - Breaks
By combining, stretching and relating the given urban programmes and maximising the public facades…
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Straight Line
Our scope has its roots in a clear and simple idea; city building is based on the public realm, and…
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Stitching Together
Addressing Åkrehamn’s unclear urban structure and lacking a discernible centre we proposed a…
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Standing Stone to the Sea
To activate the port and connect it with the center of Larvik, the first question to raise is how…
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Spirit of simplicity
The redefined city centre can be a spark for the positive transformation of the whole area.
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Social Riverscape
Built environment and nature come together, with a weave of green connections, establishing a new…
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Shuffle
We propose to shuffle the existing programme in the study area to enhance the quality of life and…
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Sharing time
The goal is to create a lively central street and urban center with diverse greenery where…
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Sharing is caring - commoning Åkrehamn
This project aims to reestablish and give a foundament for Åkrehamn to grow into a lively city with…
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Sewn Heart
Sewn Heart is a systemic approach that allows for an incremental, yet holistic, transformation of…
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Self nurturing city
The Self-Nurturing City proposal will rely on renewable energy, and renewable and recycled…
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Seedenergies
Overlaying by the theme of metabolic and inclusive vitalities, the big questions we asked ourselves…
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Sea you in Krøgenes
Our ambition is to develop Krøgenes into a vibrant local centre, where public spaces connect…
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Sansevandring
The design strategy focuses on the creation of a cycle-pedestrian path from the city to the sea.…
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Sammenvevd
The proposal weaves and stitches together the interconnected needs of the Ostmarka site and its…
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Risøyfest
Risøyfest acts as an open-ended process, which allows for an organic development of the island…
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Risøy-Gateway to Symbiosis
Risøy suffers from the needs of actions in regenerating architectural and environmental qualities…
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Risøy sleeping beauty
The project tells a story of how the potential of the island is used to create a place with the…
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Risøy Rejuvenated
We depart from two apparent opposite points of view: to preserve and promote the industrial…
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Risøy green grid
Imagine Risoy as the entry door to the Region. Imagine Risoy as an important hub for industry and…
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Rise Of Nature
A basis for the future of the Green Axis based in nature, clean technologies, agriculture, rural…
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Ripples in the water
Through a series of scenarios, the project investigates how developments at Risøy can contribute to…
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Ri-torn
A defined, yet open, framework for growth.We propose Risoy’s revitalization as a model for urban…
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Reveal/relink/rebuild
Revealing what was already there is the core concept for the urban revitalisation of the town of…
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Repositioning the remote
Vardø is intrinsically linked to the Barents Sea. The future of the Arctic waters will drive either…
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Reimagine Levanger Reveal the hidden geometries of the city
How can we regain the park to Levanger's citizens while solving the parking problem?
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Regenerating Østmarka
Regenerating Østmarka, presents a transformative proposal that encompasses revitalization,…
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Reforest - reconnect - remember
The future of Fagerstrand and its developments encompasses three key ambitions at its core:…
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Redefinition
The concept, redefinition is to update and redefine the function of the city center.
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Reconciling the city with the sea
The proposal includes revitalizing the city center, reducing car usage, and catering to residents'…
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Rebuilding with biomes
A master process approach combines fixed infrastructure with flexible infills, adapting to complex…
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Re-søy
Due to the physical and mental separation of civil society and industrial activity, the growing…
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Re-Meaning
The project proposes a diagonal, overlapping connection between the local center and the harbor.
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Railtown City
The “Railway Bridge” is the urban prosthesis. Its aim is to restore and improve the existing…
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Radical Reimagining
The Sámi of Guovdageaidnu carry a collective inheritance of enforced staticity and centralisation.…
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PULS Medusa
The PULS_medusa project focuses on the strengthening of local movement, environment and identity,…
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Proscenium
The master plan suggests a series of carefully placed interventions, to be implemented in phases…
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Preparing Density
The site will end up with a strong urban character provided mostly by local resources,…
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Planting Seeds
“Planting Seeds” proposes a mechanism for increased development in a ‘re/covering’ landscape.…
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Past forward
Our proposal considers Krøgenes’ industrial heritage, while embracing sustainable progress.
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Past forward
Our proposal considers Krøgenes’ industrial heritage, while embracing sustainable progress.
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Our City, Our Collective
What is public and what is private? We think some of the magic of the city happens when we are not…
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Osurbia
The project advocates a redefinition of the concept of "suburbia" in the context of a new scenario…
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Open minded
The proposal promotes the idea of a diverse commercial and residential quarter enhanced by a…
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Once upon a time in Forestrand
Form doesn’t follow function anymore. Forestrand is the reality that already exists, but it…
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Once upon a field
The task to re imagine the area like Hjertelia it’s an effort to re imagine the rapport between…
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On weaving
On Weaving encourages the coexistence between architecture and nature through the continuity and…
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On the grid
Overcoming some of the limitations of conventional developments of public and private housing, we…
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On Reflection
On Reflection is a rich and complex architectural micro-cosmos in the center of Narvik.
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Ola K Asker
We propose a new self-sufficient city where tradition and technology co-exist. Inhabitants’…
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Odda Lace
Odda has a surrounding path along the shore. the path is a promenade, an embankment and green space…
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Norwegian Rhapsody
As industrial sites are being preserved as a symbol of human achievement, Grønmo may be considered…
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Non-stop Larvik
The project features a new bridge connecting land and sea, promoting biodiversity and well-being.
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Naturally public
meet, play, walk, talk, fly and float.
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N.E.W. (NEW ERA WHARF)
Jury remarks: The New Era Wharf offers an alternative to projects that propose multiple discrete…
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Møllendal West
What would a housing model look like if it was based on the social conscience of the co operative…
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My Space
A temporary residential program contributes to the public space by dissolving part of its program…
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Music to my ears
Our project in Lade integrates music as a tool for care, therapy, and leisure, fostering a vibrant,…
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More Trondheim!
For a fair, inclusive and lively urbanity, towards the post neoliberal city!
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More than human
‘More Than Human’ is a pilot project for a town undergoing large-scale changes.
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Middle earth
The proposal has an infrastructure system divided into 3 networks: road, path and trail. The…
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Microclimates feral development at Fagerstrand
We aim to achieve a wild and urban development at Fagerstrand by looking in to the existing…
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Metabolism of the elements
Our world is composed of all types of elements: they shape our environment, and they shape us.
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Meet + play + learn
A car-free town centre, a reinforced and continuous green-blue infrastructure from the fjord,…
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LOOOP
loOop improves the traditional concept of a roundabout, without loosing its advantages and…
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Living with my friend Mr. Fox
Four urban typologies will foster a functional relation to central Hønefoss, healthy communities,…
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Living on the edge
To become sustainable is not necessarily about attracting those who already live in the cities, but…
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Living in Levanger is reason to be proud
You can't just snap your fingers and make 13,000 car owners give up their cars.
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LIVING COMMUNITIES
We propose to gradually create complex, adaptable and diverse neighborhoods based on a strategy of…
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Living city, living sea
'Living city, living sea' proposes a new Fagerstrand where urban development, value creation and…
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Linking Squares
Urban countryside is a battleground for demographic, economic, ecological and political challenges.
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LINK+
LINK + proposes to activate the urban region between Skien and Porsgrunn by a strategic injection…
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Limelight
The importance of the multicore planning policy lies in generating a mutual relationship of…
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Life in all its settings
We propose to implement a new recreational connection on the edge of Risøy. The Risøy Route has…
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Library of things
The Library of Things will unlock the potential of the Wooden Town and nurture the environment of…
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Levanger reborn
Levanger has suffered car dependence at the cost of life in the town centre. Now Levanger will…
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Levanger green is the new grey
The approach followed studying Levanger aims for a more livable, greener, healthier, and…
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LarvLink
A sequence of spaces, both natural and artificial, linked together by the Bøkkerfjellet bridge,…
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Larvikterassen
We propose the creation of an elevator that will improve access and create continuity with the city…
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Larvik lines
We have designed aerial cable car line whitch bring people directly to the seaside. Upper station…
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Larvik folkepark
The Larvik Folkepark is a visionary project for Larvik's harbour area, aiming to create a…
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Lanterner
The Lanterner project articulates the incremental and uncertain development of Rødberg over time,…
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Land(m)Åkr(s)
Åkrehamn is a characteristic example of an informal developed city, as it continues to expand in…
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Lab City
The public space’s new role can emerge if we abandon the established paradigms of urban design.…
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L.A.R.S Linking Åsane
L.A.R.S. linking Åsane - a re-mastering strategy - formulates a new town centre for the Bergen…
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Kystbyen
The project takes aim in two parts: to extend the town to the waterfront, Bøkkerfjell-connections,…
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Kultur-hub-set
Our project builds upon these ideals to transform the old town into a future-proof, vibrant and…
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Krøgenes peninsula
We propose to reestablish the old lake, creating a lush lake meadow as an entry point to Krøgenes.
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Krøgenes accretion
The idea of accretion is that something is added onto or next to something that already exists, it…
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Koble: enhancing human and natural connectivity
The development of the cities and the expansion of the metropolitan area of Oslo poses a big threat…
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Knitting Krøgenes
The proposal envisions a patchwork urbanism as a kind of needlework, involving sewing together…
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Kaleidoscope
The Kaleidoscope introduces a set of rules for flexible growth. By following the rules, new layers…
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Join up the dots
JOIN [UP] THE DOTS creates a forested promenade from Bøkkerfjellet park to Larvik’s coastline.
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Isle of juxtaposition
How can an industrialized island transform into a living city?
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Inside out
Building upon the existing knowledge base and a rapidly developing creative industry, and combined…
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Innovative vitality
Our project illustrates a long-term vision for the development of Risøy into a thriving, vibrant…
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Infrastructural Archaeology
Strategies to boost the hidden manmade landscape on the territory.
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Infranature
The re-colonization of the Urban Sjofront is based on a fictional approach for the whole territory…
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Indigo
The potential of smart place-making activities to reinforce the mixture of uses is significant in…
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Inclusiensen
An elevated footbridge will allow linking the park with the opposite side of the city, previously…
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In-Between Lab
By leveraging the benefits of informal settings and embracing the charm of heritage buildings, NTNU…
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In the right tracks
The town is designed for / by man and conversely a significant part of man is designed by the town…
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In Return
In Return proposes a new cycle for Grønmo area and a link with the bigger scale. 5 layers of…
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I love Krøgenes
Behind the project lies the followed methodology to do so: the main land has been divided in 10…
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Hygge
HYGGE explores a possible scenario to steer future developments towards an efficient and cohesive…
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Hydro-Therapy
It’s time to focus back on the sea and find a symbiotic relationship between tourism and maritime…
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HOST THE PEOPLE MARK THE SITE
he project aims to connect to the urban fabric following the transversal direction towards the…
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Hortus Conclusus
Our main objective is to transform Ås into a “knowledge city” by strengthening the Cooperation…
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Hortus
Our vision is to create an inclusive GARDEN FOR EVERYONE, encompassing people, animals, plants,…
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Home in the fields
Østmarka’s green areas and open fields act as a sanctuary for biodiversity, boasting a rich and…
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Hjertelia sustainable community
The project follows the topology as green terraces of urban space are created in between the houses.
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Hjertelia is APP to you!
The premise for Hjertelia is App to you!
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Hip Hubs
In the next 5 years we expect Haugesund to become a key cultural centre at national level and an…
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Her har eg mitt hjerte, her har eg mitt ly
We propose the Pilot project to be founded on values of ownership and community feeling, taking up…
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Hello Woods
Hello, Woods! welcomes a new era for Levanger. The future of the city is circular, accessible and…
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Haven Hjertelia
How do we create communities which valorise natural elements and landscapes? To us, this was the…
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Haugerud Rearranged
When almost all of the area within the project site is owned by the municipality, there is an…
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Hamang Riparian Zone
The urban form of Hamang will adapt to the river geomorphology, rather than the more typical urban…
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Grønn og Glad
We try to preserve as much as possible for sustainable and respectful city planning.
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Growing a community
In Hjertelia, we want to develop a new form of neighborhood where agriculture, manufacturing…
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Grounds for coexistence
Imagine the farmland surface of Hjertelia should rise by 6 meters, and under this elevated ground,…
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Green linked
The intervention on the historic and industrial island of Risøy, located off the coast of the city…
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Green ahoy!
Land Ahoy! With that yell, the sailors throughout history have warned the rest of the crew of the…
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Gardenurbia
GARDENURBIA is public space by working as an interface between urbanity and nature. The public…
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Gardens of Grønmo
All of Grønmo's apparent weaknesses can be turned to strengths through urban farming. Grønmo…
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Garden firkanttun
The idea behind the project is to redefine the forest opening of Hjertelia by planting a new forest…
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GARD ING LADE
Our project approaches Lade as a coherent unit, where urban development is directly linked to the…
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Født i skogen
We want to change that and propose a rethink of the relationship between humans and animals. Our…
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From up to app
Nowadays we live a social, economic, and even health, global crisis.
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From Trondheim, with love...
What if art could be spread worldwide like a postcard? Would art go back to something unexpected…
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From Backyards to Courtyards
We identify a great potential, we search for an intensification of existing places and the…
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Forus LABing
Our goal is to propose a new model of society linked to a new urban model and promoted by a new…
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Flotmyr is back on the postcard
The city centre has been increasingly abandoned, and it is therefore important to provide…
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Fjordfront
The imagined city is freed from the obsolete elements of modernity to rediscover potential…
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Fixing the axis
The project describes how it is possible to solve traffic and urban viability problems in the…
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Fictions
The project aims to recognize and highlight the reality of these three main actors: nature,…
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Feels like home
The proposal revolves around three main actions: create new connections, preserve and enhance…
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Fagerstrand Intertwined
Our vision is to cross connect the commercial center, nature and the sea side, so that the city's…
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Fagerstrand forever
Fagerstrand Forever is a proposal that facilitates a dense expansion of the town while establishing…
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Fagerstrand Boundaries
Proposal "Fagerstrand boundaries” envisions the post-oil era Fagerstrand as an area with…
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Equalines
EQUALINES explores Fagerstrand’s densification and revitalization through a simple principle:…
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Enjoy Risøy
As the anthropologist Ulf Hannerz once said: “the city is a place where you find one thing, while…
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En, To, Tre...Rødt Lys!
Rather than being subjected to the volatile desires of the market, architecture can be used as…
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Elastic System
The aim of this project is to make Kirkenes capable of adapting to different scenarios,…
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Elasti-City
The main goal in this project is to bind together a rich but complex milieu: the different city…
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Eco mmunity
Eco_mmunity starts with the premise of returning lost land to nature.
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Double Loop
Green, ecologically diverse corridors shape and organise the settlement structure of Fagerstrand.
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Do It
Other than its memory, Grønmo does arguebly have some features that makes it interesting to…
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Det koselige Hjertelia
Den Koselige Hjertelia proposes an alternative and immediately viable development strategy, focused…
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De grønne knutene / the green knots
Fagerstrand's development challenge presented an opportunity to reflect on the dramatic situation…
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Datarock
Tomorrow’s city is not an impenetrable partitioning of activities, inherited from functional…
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Cumulus
Cumulus is a proposal for Grorud that believes in the latent potentials of the site: its latent…
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Coral
To create sustainable living conditions, the proposal is offering a solution for creating a drawing…
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Connecting Ørsta
The main concept of the project is to establish clear connections and identities in Ørsta.
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Community of care
Our proposal aims to reintroduce and strengthen the identity and character of Østmarka and fill it…
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Community as centre
To resolve the physical disconnection between the city and the harbour, the project proposes an…
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Combinations
The overall strategy in Grenland should be one of combinations, where the twin cities and the…
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Coexisting habitats in post-oil Fagerstrand
„The oil-age is over!“ is the message, the deformed former oil tanks - natural monuments which are…
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Co-Krøgenes
The concept of co-krøgenes sees the solution in an approach that focuses on the community, the…
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Clairières
Clairières wishes to articulate and develop a contemporary adaptation of a particular individual…
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Circularity apparatus
Grensen 2030 places the synergy and continuous exchange between the existing and new at the focal…
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Circular shift
The CIRCULAR SHIFT is a visionary concept for the new Grensen neighbourhood, centered around…
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Catalogue of Ideas
Guovdageaidnu’s urbanity reflects its past and present, it is a hybrid manifestation of ancient…
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Canned heat
We have decided to plant the seeds for an invasion of a forest that can revive the site: each tree…
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CAESPITOSUS
This proposal explores the links that can be created between different areas and types of living…
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BUSY BOSSE!
This entry examines the importance of human interactions and net- works that comes with a diverse…
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Building up on values
The theme of metabolic and inclusive vitalities cultivates values and qualities and lets them grow…
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Building the ecotone
In Hjertelia, we want to develop a new form of neighborhood where agriculture, manufacturing…
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Building Levanger
Our proposal aims to map a path forward through the development of Levanger’s cultural centre by…
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Building between the lines
The project is divided in three phases, each with pivotal moments to fund and further develop the…
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Bryggefjellet
The vision is to create a transformative intervention that revitalizes the town, bringing the…
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Brighthood
Bighthood defines a new settlement pattern in which the way of living is strictly connected to the…
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Bridging the gap
The project "Bridging the Gap - Library as an Urban Connector" aims to restore the connection…
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Bordertown
Bordertown becomes a unique part of the city, an experimental Living Lab that is organised by…
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Blue Axis
Based on the theory that one of the problems of the modern urban strategy is the segregation of…
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Beyond The Horizon
A traditional saying has marked Stavanger’s history: “Looking beyond the horizon”. The sea as the…
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Between the lines
As a 'Fremtidens By' the twin city of Skien-Porsgrunn faces the challenge of combining growth…
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Between the city and the sea shaping a community at Risøy
There is a huge potential for further developing Haugesund and its identity as a coastal city by…
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Belong
The title of this project “belong”, that means "properly relate to”, contains the idea that guided…
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Becoming Risøy
The masterplan aims to reactivate the town with a step-by-step strategy.
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Back? to the roots
Our proposal reinterpret traditional Norwegian rural settlements that serve to as a reference for a…
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Back to the future
"Back to the Future" aims to revitalise and restore Levanger's metabolism through a participatory…
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Back to the core
The project proposes three scales of interventions.
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Back to nature
Back to nature is a project that propose to develop a sustainable way of living together.
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Aqua culture
The shoreline of Risøy once enabled the island to become an economically prospering and lively…
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And all that we see is double
The project `And all that we see is double` bases itself on place-building through the…
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Amongs the lawn and the forest
The main four strategies of the project are: to preserve and nurture the natural biotopes of the…
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Allemansratten
We propose to work on Risøy setting a framework for an inclusive place making trajectory,…
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All eyes on Ås
The planning vision for Ås future cannot miss the call to integrate and interbreed the city life…
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Åkra is almost alright
Our proposal seeks to pronounce the qualities present in the main axis of the downtown area and at…
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Active Edge
Active Edge is a radical strategy that specifically addresses the unitary dimension (spatial and…
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Abridged
A project about connection and expansion. connecting distributed independent hotspots and expanding…
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A whiff of pine, a hint of moose
How can one live in nature, still being in the city? What could be a sustainable alterna-tive to…
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A shared strait, a living strait
Th. This project proposes to make the strait a shared space by introducing a public boardwalk and…
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A place between the suburbs and the forest
This proposal for a new kind of dwelling infrastructure for Hjertelia is different in nature to…
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A new dimention
The beautiful town structure suggest the possibility of urban living, but without the neccessary…
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A Home for All
Imagining a bridge between the important past of Lade and its future should necessarily pass…
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A forest with clearings
Our proposal restructures Åkrehamn as a forest with clearings, rather than a collection of…
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59deg N 10deg E Fagerstrand Future
The project tries to be as little invasive as possible, taking advantage of what the site already…
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(Re)generate
An existing building transforms into a marine biodiversity research center, promoting awareness.…
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(Eld)itive Home
The proposal bring the idea of creating inclusive environment with local functions for…