complicated things.

It’s around 8 pm, and I’m preparing for yet another all-nighter. Thinking about how often I’ve been doing this since I started studying architecture, I tried to make an estimate of the total amount of nights spent awake. For this semester it’s been 6 nights(that’s nights completely without sleep). The count for the earlier semesters are probably even higher, but let’s just say 6 nights per semester times 6 semesters. That’s 36 nights. Which means that, in the last 3 years, I’ve spent over a month’s time awake at night. That’s a bit crazy.

When the semester is over I’m going to spend days staring at a brick wall. oh yes, days, just staring, doing nothing, wasting time. Just because I can.  And I will enjoy it. (I need a vacation, bad.)

Oh well, back to this mess:

On the friday before easter Simen, Amund and me decided to take a little trip to Toten, and visit our assigned site for the current pilgrim church project. We’ve been there once before, but that was before the snow melted, so we didn’t really know much about the site.

Spirits we’re high, even after we managed to drive in the wrong direction for 45 minutes.

Spirits were lowered after a while, when we found out that we:
a) didn’t have a map to the site
b) didn’t have the address either
c) actually didn’t know which town the site was at
(We had been in the pub the night earlier -> the trip was a bit lacking in the planning department)

Luckily, Simen had his laptop with him. By guessing our way using a 3d-landscape model on the computer and comparing it to the scenery while driving, we arrived at the site around noon.

The site actually belongs to a private farmer, which made us a bit unsecure about taking many photos. But after a while we figured, what the hell, we’re architects (students) so it’s okay

Quite a big difference from last time..

I also made two panoramas, click the photos below for larger versions:

Back to boring architecture.. (All new posts in this blog will hereafter be written in English. Why? Because I’m so internasjonåll.)

So, the main design project for this semester(Studio 6) at AHO is to design a pilgrim church in Norway. To start things off, three mini-projects have been developed:

1. Action painting (More on this will come in a separate post once I get to take photos of the paintings)
2. 3d light study of the church interior

3. 3d study of the church exterior and its relation to the site

These projects were developed independent of each other and in varying degrees of abstraction, to act as inspiration and conceptual ideas to be incorporated in the formal design of the church.

4. The last assignment of the first “design phase” was to draw plan and sections of the church, in an attempt to force ourselves to transform and test out concepts and ideas already at an very early stage of the design process.

Stay tuned for more projects, old and new…