My diploma project

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CRICELAND

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Diploma finished

I´m sorry for a very long time of "noblogness". But I was very focused on my project towards the end and the blog got the worst of it....

But now I´m finished. I am an architect and the project went very well!

Here are some images from my CRICELAND exhibition. I will put more info on the project soon.

Olafia, the architect :)

Comedy, Ash and Concrete

Now Reykjavík has a new mayor.... Comedian Jon Gnarr took over the keys of the city today after his comedy party won the local elections two weeks ago... People claim they are tired of how things have been run and want new blood into politics.....

I hope the new party will take the problems of the city seriously and will be open to solutions and alternative actions!

http://euobserver.com/843/30169

In the meantime...ash blows from the Eyjafjallajökull area and colours the city even more grey......

Local and foreign scientists + engineers are now researching if the ash can be used in production of cement.... .... welcome GREEN CONCRETE!

http://www.cowi.com/menu/news/newsarchive/generalnews/Pages/volcanicasheyedasbindingagentingreenconcrete.aspx

Very relevant in a country where almost everything is built out concrete!

and some pics from my sisters balcony......

Slowarchi-interview

I don´t know about the sweater Gundersen.... but there´s not so much stuff on this on youtube. Some in Italian....but I´ll keep on looking.

Poor but peaceful

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9G6T1G84&show_article=1

Project Manifesto

After third conversation and time with tutors this week and last it was time to look over my project and start making a clearer frame around it.

Starting with a manifest of intentions and goals.

And to accompany the manifest, some pics of site nr. 5 - the empty building site that became a little square.

Found this.....

..... picture of when I was in Reykjavík last autumn.... Just found it again and I loved it. The movement in it. The one high element sticking up from everyting else, the tremendous paste....

maybe it´s a "so 2007" image ?

Post eruption tourism campaign

Inspired by Iceland Video from Inspired By Iceland on Vimeo.

3rd confrontation

Last Thursday we had our third confrontation. The last one before handing in our project in august.

Tips and comments on my project (short notes).

Go more into models, research each site, go closer into situations you find interesting. Human scale and materials.

Goal is to connect sites again to the Icelandic situation.

Dealing with slow architecture (origin in slow food movement, opposite of fast food). -you build because you need.

The space I don´t touch is equally important as the space I do touch.

Confronting my own culture, beware of coming too emotional.

Juxtapositions.

Vernacular Culture.

Emphasizing the voids.

Questioning sustainability.

People are given more power to participate.

Registrations, walk"a"map, site-sketch books

1:10 000 10-site models. (one to the right is upside down....)

1:1000 landscape born... some earlier analysis on top.

My workspace

The golden circle.....

From Wikipedia.

The Golden Circle is a popular tourist route in South Iceland, covering about

300 km looping from Reykjavík into central Iceland and back.

The three primary stops on the route are the national park Þingvellir,

the waterfall Gullfoss (meaning "golden falls"), and the geothermally

active valley of Haukadalur, which contains the geysers Geysir and Strokkur.

Other stops include Kerið volcano crater, Hveragerði greenhouse village,

Skálholt church, and the Nesjavellir geothermal power plant.

96% of all the tourists in Iceland visit the city of Reykjavík and it´s centre. Tourism is now providing for around 18% of the national income after the crash and that seems to be the main reason for all the hotel focus in the city. This is where investors are looking these days to invest their money.

But over time this unstable economy will change. Become more stable, even more unstable, who knows. Putting too much power in the hands of investors should really not be the way to go and the evidence of that are everywhere.

Build to last-not build on a whim.

A little sketch I did some time ago.... the "fools golden" circle...