Ammerud x 2
5th semester - nominated for AHO awards’ “excellence in the use of graphics”
Assignment: Create plan for doubling the number of inhabitants in the old social housing area of Ammerud, whilst improving the overall quality of living there.
In collaboration with: DAG Ulrik Pettersen, Silje Loe, Are Hagen, Jon Erik Brekken, Maria Molden, Viola Svendsen, Kristoffer Oben Tørstad, Robin Utengen, Mathilde Viken
Teachers: Mirza Mujezinovic, Marianne Skjulhaug
The project treats the modernist era housing development of Ammerud as a preservable piece of social housing. As an approach to densifying the area we defined three parameters to guide the project.
1: Refine the existing area by removing the newer low density sprawl of housing and garage which over time has diluted the original concept of Ammerud: housing blocks amid farmland.
2: Preserve the belt of high quality soil along the river for posterity by denying all construction in this zone. It’s instead transformed to a public park which serves as a passageway from the subway to the Oslo forest.
3: Concentrate all new housing projects on the eastern ridge of Ammerud, close to the subway station, where it fuses with existing buildings, creating a new high density city in central Ammerud.
Ammerud in 1937 was simply farmland
Ammerud today
(preservable buildings in black)
River areas to be preserved
New street layout
Long section of protected river area and new city behind
Site plan
The new city lends its formal expression from the neighbouring atrium area and is structured around a series of connecting axes between old and new Ammerud
An old stone quarry site north of Ammerud is converted in to a looping landscape park with activity stations, which acts as an amphitheater to observe nature’s slow reconquest of the site.
Housing section 1
Housing section 2
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