TYPOLOGY / research / material-tectonic testing / housing
LOCATION / Rogaland county, Norway
DATE / aug. - nov. 2025
STATUS / academic work at ntnu, semester 9, self programmed course
WITH / Kine Tingstad
KEYWORDS / architecture as process of building, reciprocal landscapes, material study, biogenic approach
The project examines the relationships between landscape, resource, tectonics, and house, aiming to develop an architecture rooted in site-specific resources, material logic, and construction processes. Combining theoretical reflection with practical investigation, it ultimately proposes an architecture that is concrete, processual, and reciprocal. The work is presented in a 400-page book compiling extensive research, essays, drawings, and material studies.
The theoretical foundation draws on object-oriented ontology and dark ecological philosophy. Materials are not passive means to human ends, but active participants in shaping the built environment across scales and landscapes. Materials are not inert means to human ends, but active participants in forming the built environment. Architecture becomes a dialogue between matter and extraction landscape; between what is given and what is made.
Fieldwork, material experiments, and two architectural projects (one rural, one urban) form the practical core of the investigation. The landscape is seen as a field of extraction and renewal; the raw material, a study of occurrence and potential; the tectonic, an articulation of material behavior; and the house, a synthesis - a temporary state in a longer material continuum.
The exploration concludes with two projects: Røys (a cairn with a roof) at Håtangen, built from local landscape materials, and Rede (a biogenic box in a steel scaffold) in Stavanger, where oil industry meets agriculture. Together, they show how one method can yield distinct architectures, each deeply rooted in context and resource.
