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Torgeir Norheim

The second submission of "EN BY Å LEVE I" comes after reflection and with the excitement to spread our work one more time. As Recent graduates of a Masters program of Architecture, led by a Norwegian architect, we're fighting for one more chance to share our work; even if we are spread across the United States of America at the moment. The competition was to redesign the Strømso district in Drammen Norway. Below are the principles we formulated to guide us on this lofty task. However, our clarified and most central goal was to offer opportunities for those who follow our path into the uncertain. To try our best to ask the right questions. How should your city live?

We should be given this chance, because we gave much to be part of an ongoing process of cities. Our other work can be found for free on lulu.com. Search for Roasted duck and sugar coated potatoes to see more of our work...

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Concepts and Strategies

Cities are a collection of unstable systems shaped by events, values, and actions that are leaving imprints, representing cycles of genesis, growth, breakdown and disintegration, continually rearranging and reorganizing. At the transition from disintegration to genesis, paradigm shifts occur.

The City of Drammen and the community of Strømsø, currently in the midst of such transformation, articulates goals that insist on the rights of humanity and nature to co-exist in a healthy and sustainable condition, incorporating transportation and energy efficiencies as well as responsible use.

In view of articulating increasingly complex social affiliations, the PHIDA concepts have been deliberated upon to assure the precise formulation and the execution of intricate correlations between systems and sub-systems. These 5 concepts aim to construct new fields of logics that organize the new level of dynamism and complexity of contemporary society:

1) Permeability
The concept of permeability articulates the ability of the urban environment to navigate different sets of information, challenging that which is familiar. Depicted as a dynamic interchange of typologies, the urban environment is correlated with nature both in spirit and matter, creating a system of nodes, flows and networks, conscious and unconscious, extended through space. Nodes are places of intersection, places of interaction and the melding of activity, people, and space. Flows are the energies or the paths, the connections that make navigation possible. Everything is connected. To be permeable manifests fluid universal access.

2) Harmony
The concept of harmony elaborates upon relations between utilitarian, aesthetic and ecological considerations that are executed to their full potential. In the context of space and time the responsibility towards future generations is fully comprehended and integrated within the consciousness of the culture.

3) Imagination
Imagination provides meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge. It is a fundamental facility through which the individual makes sense of the world, playing a key role in the learning process. Any individual, of any age, should have the privilege to participate in the works of the imagination expanding cultural identities and innovation. As one of the major social and political factors of our time, imagination is the representative of the human capital.

4) Diversity
The ambition is to move from single system differentiation to the association and articulation of multiple systems and subsystems. All knowledge communication is extended to the global village context. In a collaborative future the values and symbols of a heterogeneous culture and environment have to generate and communicate information that celebrates the continual transformation process towards capacity for meaning and wholeness.

5) Adaptability
We propose that sustainable principles are a frame of mind, promoting an urban fabric with an built in kinetic capacity that allows those environments to reconfigure and adapt to the prevalent patterns of use and occupation.

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