À la petite ferme / My World / Promenade
Á la Petite Ferme The client wished to transmit the rustic atmosphere of Madiran in South-West France which is a simple countryside area as opposed to surrounding wine departments, often characterized by chateau´s and castles. The idea was to transmit …
area 116 – Norway
presentazione/introduction Nature and Tradition testo Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Strategies for living between heaven and hearth text by Nicola Flora, Gennaro Postiglione saggi/essays The Tectonic Form of Sv …
Nature as tradition
From the uniform scenarios of an international panorama grown tired of spectacular performances with foreseen and foreseeable results, we are witnessing the emergence of local realities favoured by geographic, cultural and socio-political contexts wher …
Strategies for living between heaven and earth
Strategies to live between heaven and hearth That architecture is a phenomenal instrument of political and economic promotion is clear to all ruling countries, and this phenomenon becomes even clearer if we consider the growing attention on the part of …
The Tectonic Form of Sverre Fehn
Fehn often emphasized tectonic form as a motif encompassing the entire building as in his brilliant Nordic Pavilion built for the Venice Biennale in 1962. He was also as much attached to the articulation of the joint as Carlo Scarpa, as is evident in h …
The Nansen park
The park has been designed as a dynamic dialogue between the uncompromising linearity of the airport and the softer, more organic forms of the original landscape. The former terminal building and control tower is the starting point for the water featur …
Housing in the Arctic
Svalbard, an archipelago sited in the Arctic Ocean halfway between Norway and the North Pole, is a special and magical place. Brought in to popular consciousness through Phillip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” and now more widely known as a frontier of …
Arena Bekkestua
Arena Bekkestua is a multi-purpose culture facility for young people at Nadderud sports centre outside Oslo, Norway. The facilities consist of approximately 1000m2 interior and 3000m2 outdoor activity areas. Since its opening in autumn 2006 it has prov …
The geopark
Stavanger, the administrative centre of the Norwegian petroleum industry, has during the last 40 years accumulated significant physical and knowledge-based resources around the harvesting, processing and distribution of oil and gas. The urgent challeng …