Miniature Megalopolis - Stories, Structures and Strategies for the Valley

Stokke, Eirik Mikal; Heggertveit, Espen Robstad

dc.contributor.advisor	Bonesmo, Gro
dc.contributor.advisor	Müller, Sabine
dc.contributor.author	Stokke, Eirik Mikal
dc.contributor.author	Heggertveit, Espen Robstad
dc.coverage.spatial	Groruddalen, Oslo, Norway	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2020-04-21T08:22:45Z
dc.date.available	2020-04-21T08:22:45Z
dc.date.issued	2019-12
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2651800
dc.description	Miniature Megalopolis considers an urban and geographic entity in the north east part of Oslo - the valley usually referred to as Groruddalen. Sitting as a hinge between Oslo and its hinterland, the area is a complex jumble of industry, cars, noise and messiness, interrupted by slender chimneys and the massive banana slabs, superlamellas and pyramid blocks of the satellite cities. Green patches of sport fields, agriculture, lawns and meadows provide breathing space. A place with a long history of housing workers and migrants, of social and cultural diversity, of freedom and coolness, but united mostly by its bad reputation. A goal of the project became to provide an understanding and a narrative for the urban condition of the Valley. Is it possible to identify an underlying logic in this chaos, to discern the outlines of a city in the urban noise? Could this condition of messiness be celebrated and provide a sense of autonomy and resistance, in stead of being swallowed by the planning logic of central Oslo? As an approach to this intergrown condition, the urbanity of the valley is understood as a product of a Norwegian planning tradition. In the post-war era, the valley became the most important testing ground for radical urban experiments, and key to understanding any decade of Norwegian urbanism. This urban approach is understood through five principles which are used as entry points for analysing the valley: nature, views, center, church and fields. Critically reflecting on the development of the satellite cities, a new urban project is proposed. Five parallel strategies are developed, playing out all levels of urbanism, from top-down to bottom-up. The speculated implementations reveal new models of production and life, emancipating the Valley from central Oslo.	en_US
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
dc.rights	Navngivelse-Ikkekommersiell-DelPåSammeVilkår 4.0 Internasjonal	*
dc.rights	Navngivelse-Ikkekommersiell-DelPåSammeVilkår 4.0 Internasjonal	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.no	*
dc.subject	Byutvikling	en_US
dc.subject	Urban development	en_US
dc.subject	Groruddalen	en_US
dc.title	Miniature Megalopolis - Stories, Structures and Strategies for the Valley	en_US
dc.type	Master thesis	en_US
dc.description.version	submittedVersion	en_US
dc.rights.holder	Espen Robstad Heggertveit & Eirik Mikal Stokke	en_US
dc.subject.nsi	Architecture and design: 140	en_US