Project:
Her har eg mitt hjerte, her har eg mitt ly

About

• Project description

  BUILDING FOR THE COMMUNITY

  The pilot project at Gronneviksoren will take aim to establish an affordable alternative to the common housing developments. With the municipality's ownership of the lot, the responsibility is truly in the hands of the elected politicians and the city council to ensure that the development will be pursued with the aim of breaking fresh ground.

  We propose the Pilot project to be founded on values of ownership and community feeling, taking up qualities from both the dense urban scene and the countryside.

  The Pilot project will pursuit social diversity and identity by setting the scene for sharing, self build, and inviting the future inhabitants into the project in an early stage. In this way Gronneviksoren will truly be like the song; 'a place for my heart, a place for my shelter'.
  

  

  

• Jury remarks

  Her har eg mitt hjerte, her har eg mitt ly challenges the usual methods of construction related to affordability and typology. The project emphasises the concept of do it yourself and develops a construction system illustrated in a housing catalogue with a set of basic rules for how to put together your own housing modules. The raw housing module, easily transported to the site, allows for “creativity with predictability” and the inhabitants develop a sense of community and a set of shared functions through the process.

  The first step of preparing the site for development is cleaning the polluted ground with the use of Phytoremediation. The goal of “leaving the site in better conditions than we found it” intrigued the jury who could imagine this process going parallel to the planning processes. The project was discussed as an interesting method with a strong focus on self-initiated processes and communal city living. The plan however, shows a lack of density and hierarchy of urban spaces despite of many good intentions and analysis. The jury believes the strength of the project lies in addressing and pushing models of housing developments in Norway, and that a do it yourself strategy on a large site as Møllendall would be an interesting experiment.

• Team

  Team members:

  Bjørneseth + Lønning
  Anders Bjørneseth (NO)
  Kenneth Larssen Lønning (NO)
  Signe Helland Nyberg (NO)

  Collaborators:

  Eline Moe Eidvin (NO)
  Christopher Wilkens (NO)

  Contact information:

  office@bjo-lo.com
  www.bjo-lo.com