WS17 / SS18 | LV-Nr: 848104
Aqua- Agriculture and Touristic Infrastructures | Desgning a NATURE 2.0
Typ/Stunden: EP 5 ECTS-AP 10
LV-Betreuung: Marjan Colletti; Marc Ihle
FIRST MEETING: Mittwoch 11 Oktober um 10:00 am Hochbau Institut
zum mitnehmen: Portfolio digital/papier lt. mail
Brief_ARCTIC-Studio_nature_2.0-007 (download pdf.)
Arctic Studio - Building
and Cultivating Nature 2.0
Designing a Nature 2.0 with reinterpreted vernacular
design solutions for infrastructure and architectural settlements on the
Lofoten Islands.
1. Introduction
The steep- and rawness of the granite walls which
form the Island of Moskenes (Lofoten Islands, Norway) can simply be breath
taking.
They reflect both, the sublime forces of geologic
influence, which have acted on these impressive formations for more than over
3.5 billion years, as well as its raw nature of atmospherical context, which has
exposed the matter to multiple forces of erosion, such as some of the strongest
currents of the oceans and flows of water.
What we can read in this dramatic and sublime
landscapes, extends far below this veil of appearance into the depth of its
masses. These granite formations, which tower in almost vertical direction into
the sky, penetrating low-lying clouds and fog, have been inspiration to many
landscape painters and poets.
"Even while I gazed,
this current acquired a monstrous velocity. Each moment added to its speed – to
its headlong impetuosity. In five minutes the whole sea … was lashed into
ungovernable fury… Here the vast bed of the waters seamed and scarred into a
thousand conflicting channels, burst suddenly into frenzied convulsion –
heaving, boiling, hissing…"
Edgar Allan Poe | A Descent into the Maelstrom
However,
they don't just meet a flat surface at their bottom, they extend far below the
line of Water into the very deep of the Norwegian continental shelf forming a
very diverse and lively marine topography.
The Lofoten Islands, can be compared with a set of
big stones lying in the middle of a torrential river, altering velocities of
water streams and creating multiple eddies, leading to almost silent waters in
the downstream side of the object, short reverse flows on the upstream side of
the object and even more torrential velocities between the objects.
This unique location and exposure of the Lofoten
Islands results in many diverse micro climates with highly bio-diverse and
differentiated habitats. The enormous supply of nutrition transported by the
gulf-stream makes these habitats to the spawning grounds for many species and
also permanent home to one of the biggest remaining concentrations of coastal
fish around the globe.
1.
Brief
Although The Lofoten Islands represent an important
and highly valuable future human source of nutrition, they have become more and
more threatened by human intervention, leading already to the disappearance of
some once local spices, and to a drastic fall in numbers in many others.
Two of the very ongoing threats to these still very
diverse and wild flora and fauna, are the increase of aqua-cultural-activities,
and the increasing number of visiting tourists every year. Both interact as
open systems and leave traces of their presence behind, spreading, extending
and densifying in this Nature, altering the natural into cultural landscape.
In this studio we will try to find ways of
designing a vision of a cultivation of natural landscape, which fits better to
both, natural and human necessities as well as local and global interests of
the future, by using methods of terrain analysis and GIS data sets as initial
input, to gain a better understanding of local topography and environment.
However, the challenge will be how to translate
these deeper readings of nature into semi-artificial architectural settlements,
showing a negotiation in form of a more symbiotic coexistence of the projected
built environment, into the existing natural space, as well as providing
architectural responses to a future more sustainable touristic - and aqua-cultural
use (cultivation) of the Island of Moskenes, by using state-of-the-art
technology and digital artistic creativity.
text: Marc Ihle
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