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Bergen International Festival / Festspillene i Bergen
Background
Bergen International Festival is a music and cultural festival to be held in Bergen in late May and early June each year. The festival is the largest of its kind and contains a wide range of events in music, theater, dance and visual arts at the national and international level. Concerts are held in the Grieg Hall and Haakon's Hall, in the four composer homes on Siljustøl, Trolhaugen, Lysøen and Valestrandsfossen as well as in a number of city churches, streets and squares. The first festival was held in 1953.
Concept: workshop / behind the scenes.
The festival's former premises were in an older bank building with large individual offices and for their new offices wanted open plan offices for increasingly project based work.
We have therefore prepared a project with a high degree of flexibility. The use of the premises changes during the year with a shift from planning period to the festival period in which both the activity and number of employees increases. It requires flexibility both in the workforce and in the use of the premises. We also proposed to facilitate the ability to organize small concerts and exhibitions in the new premises and that way linking the festival as an organization closer to the events they hold.
The festival offices are imagined as workshops where the festival is made, but also as the activity behind the scenes of what's happening in front of the curtain. We have focused on a production logic where it must be clear that this is a place where you make something. Hence the element of wooden framework which can give the feeling that the project is not fully completed, and glass walls with frames and profiles hidden from the outside so that the boxes rather look like open spaces.
Project Team: Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa, Julia With
Status: Completed May 2013
Client: Gjølanger Bruk / Festspillene i Bergem
Location: Bergen, Norway
Photo: Rasmus Norlander
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Pollen No 2 - Bofellesskap
This issue of the fanzine Pollen created by Eriksen Skajaa Architects is about shared housing (in norwegian). Interviews with Dorte Mandrup, Svanholm Gods, Ormsundveien 14, Lange Eng, Friis gate 6 and much more. It was released june 19th 2012.
Team: Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa and Oda Ellensdatter Solberg. Illustration shown by Clara Terne.
Pollen no 2 Online: Issuu link
Pollen Facebook: link
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Neufert Variations: The Janus House
A reading room based on measures and guidelines from both the Neufert 1936 and the 2000 edition for the exhibition Neufert Variations at 0047 curated by Martin Braathen.
Project Team: Vendula Urbanova, Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa
Status: Completed
Client: 0047 / martin Braathen
Location: Oslo, Norway
Photo: 0047
Inspection towers,Oslo, Norway
After a massive public outrage about the billboard-covered and massive inspection towers that can be seen all over the city Hafslund Nett decided to have some new inspection towers designed. That the former towers was designed less than ten years ago didn't seem to matter much.
We felt this competition was yet another chance to address a matter we cared about: birds! We proposed to keep the towers, to replace perfectly good inspection towers was not a very sustainable move, and instead equip the towers with some soil at the bottom, a wooden rack for plants to grow along, and some bird houses behind it.
This way the existing towers would introduce new habitats for the city birds. In these times of marble landscape architecture bushes are hard to come across.
Team: Joakim Skajaa, Nora Aursand Iversen, Arild Eriksen
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Proposal for the idea competition Man Made Reformulate. We proposed a study of the Aker river as an infrastructure for urban food production as well as an apiary at the Vaterland Park. Awarded Runner-Up
"PALYNOPOLIS directs our attention towards the biosphere and the subtle eco-systems that play a direct role in the structure of our cities. By suggesting a series of beehive harvest units to be placed in the green belt around the Aker River, which runs north-south through Oslo, the authors want to show the importance of counter-acting the decline of biotopes in and around our cities today. PALYNOPOLIS distinguishes itself by its friendly form of activism and the use of animal-architecture to tell a story in the context of the Triennale. The authors could have chosen more problematic places in the urban fabric and thereby delivered the message more forcefully. The authors propose their Triennale exhibition as a first step for a new type of urban gardening, inviting the public to bring flowers and plants for pollination into these urban beehives along the Aker River in Oslo...The beekeepers in their white protective suits could be envisioned as shadows, urban ghosts, that follow any architectural event, perhaps even any project. A new type of awareness is then positively raised through this proposal". Quote from Jury Report. See the competition page for a full description. - Link
In collaboration with Christina C. Tolfsen.
Hus WE, Askøy, Norway
A single familiy house at Florvåg on the Askøy island outside of Bergen. Pending planning permission. To be built 2012.
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Hus FJ
A small house in Telavåg on the west coast of Norway. The house winds down a hillside and consists of simple gabled volumes connected by a continuous staircase: you enter at the top and follow the stairs down through the house, out the door at the bottom and further down a path to a small jetty by the sea.
Project Team: Joakim Skajaa, Trine Vårbo Fanghol, Arild Eriksen
Status: Building application
Client: Christer Fasmer / Hanne Jones
Location: Telavåg, Norway
Render: Mir
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Segalstad Bru is a small community in the eastern parts of Norway. We propose to change the town centre from a car based to a pedestrian friendly urban space by using the principles of sprawl repair. The new town centre has a mix of housing and shopping combined with spaces for temporary programs.
Collaboration with Feste Grenland Landskapsarkitekter As
Project Team: Joakim Skajaa, Arild Eriksen, Kristoffer Bilet
Status: Parallell Commission, sprawl repair
Client:Gausdal kommune
Location: Segalstad Bru, Gausdal
Image #2: Duany Plater-Zyberk
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House SAA is an addition on top of an older "Rødland house" on Morvik outside Bergen. A single volume of wood, with a single large window in each of the facades and an inner atrium.
Project Team: Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa, Oda Ellensdatter Solberg, Kristoffer Bilet
Status: Planning application
Client:Kenneth Syversen
Location: Morvik, Bergen
Illustration: Tegmark
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Bergen International Festival / Festspillene i Bergen
Background
Bergen International Festival is a music and cultural festival to be held in Bergen in late May and early June each year. The festival is the largest of its kind and contains a wide range of events in music, theater, dance and visual arts at the national and international level. Concerts are held in the Grieg Hall and Haakon's Hall, in the four composer homes on Siljustøl, Trolhaugen, Lysøen and Valestrandsfossen as well as in a number of city churches, streets and squares. The first festival was held in 1953.
Concept: workshop / behind the scenes.
The festival's former premises were in an older bank building with large individual offices and for their new offices wanted open plan offices for increasingly project based work.
We have therefore prepared a project with a high degree of flexibility. The use of the premises changes during the year with a shift from planning period to the festival period in which both the activity and number of employees increases. It requires flexibility both in the workforce and in the use of the premises. We also proposed to facilitate the ability to organize small concerts and exhibitions in the new premises and that way linking the festival as an organization closer to the events they hold.
The festival offices are imagined as workshops where the festival is made, but also as the activity behind the scenes of what's happening in front of the curtain. We have focused on a production logic where it must be clear that this is a place where you make something. Hence the element of wooden framework which can give the feeling that the project is not fully completed, and glass walls with frames and profiles hidden from the outside so that the boxes rather look like open spaces.
Project Team: Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa, Julia With
Status: Completed May 2013
Client: Gjølanger Bruk / Festspillene i Bergem
Location: Bergen, Norway
Photo: Rasmus Norlander
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Lialøkka, Hokksund
Proposal for a residential area adjacent to two conserved wooden house in Lialøkka, Hokksund, adaptation to historic architectural building tradition and living environment was the main focus.
Project Team: Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa, Kristoffer Bilet,
Collaborators: Bjørbekk & Lindheim Landscape Architects, Siv. Ark. Geir Helland
Status: Prequalified competition Completed May 2013
Client: Eiker Eiendomsutvikling
Location: Hokksund, Norway
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Hus SK
Semi-detached house in Hagan, Nittedal
Project Team: Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa, Siri Reisæter, Kristoffer Bilet, Oda Ellensdatter Solberg,
Status: Planning permission
Client: Private
Location: Hagan, Nittedal
Render: Tegmark
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Sørumsand 2040
A proposal for a future development of 1,700 new homes in Sørumsand. We had a focus on retaining some of the detached areas while adding a rich texture of new building typologies and a network of walkways to Glomma.
Project Team: Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa, Kristoffer Bilet, Oda Elensdatter Solberg, Runa Skeie
Collaborators: Norconsult
Status: Parallell Commission September 2013
Client: Sørum Kommune
Location: Sørumsand
An invited competition for a detached house in Son, Norway.
Project Team: Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa, Kristoffer Bilet
Status: Competition entry
Client: undisclosed
Location: Son, Norway
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D2, Dagens Næringsliv
Gingerbread house for the magazine D2, built by Pastry Chef Sværre Sætre. D2 Photo by Lars Petter Pettersen / scenography by Forest.
Project Team: Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa, Runa Skeie, Kristoffer Bilet, Oda Solberg
Status: Ferdigstilt Desember 2012
Client: D2, Dagens Næringsliv.
Location: Norway
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Tett, Ikke Trangt
Cartoon drawn by Esben Titland and written by Esben Titland, Arild Eriksen and Joakim Skajaa based on Pollen #3 about co-housing.
Status: Released February 2014
Publisher: Pollen Forlag
ISBN: 978-82-303-2556-8
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Boligbrakker
This report is our response to a parallel assignment initiated by the City of Oslo that will lead to new public policies for the development of temporary residential barracks. Our contribution proposes that the workers, who are often carpenters and other craftsmen, can participate in the design of such temporary residential complexes. We want a focus on what such temporality means for workers' ability to integrate into the local communities and will discourage that the focus will be on making such developments palatable with attractive facades and green outdoor areas.
Project Team: Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa, Kristoffer Bilet, Oda Elensdatter Solberg
Collaborators: Jon Guttu (NIBR) anf FLorian Kosche (Dipl. Ing)
Status: Parallell Commission December 2013
Client: Oslo Kommune
Location: Oslo