Portfolio Jørgen Ekerhovd
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Dear Reader This portfolio contains a selection of work produced during years of studying Architectural Design at The University of Edinburgh, both educational projects and professional. After finishing a four year undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh including a one year placement with Opera Design Matters I finished my Part II MArch this year. Throughout my studies at the University I developed an increasing interest in the ability for architecture to critically question society and its communities. With a critical stance as a point of departure I believe architecture can act as an integral agent in how we construct our world. Particularly the ramifications of architecture in a broad understanding of the term landscape and as a major component of construction. A construction that concerns both our imagination and experiences as well as the tectonic nature of architecture.
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Climbing Coat
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Bolstad Cabin
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Tømmerrenna
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The Buckthorn Machine
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The City of the Hand
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Skipping Stones
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Ephemeral Energies Borrowed Landscapes
Jørgen Ekerhovd All of the work is the created by the authors unless otherwise stated.
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Corporeal Species
Incorporeal Species
Extension
Chalk, Climbing and Storm coat.
Extension
“Ulv i fåreklær”
Book & Blueshouse
Incorporeal Movement -Floating timber
Retreat
Retreating Atmospheres -Apparatus of living
Satellite Learning -Royal Blind School Edinburgh-
Sense of the city Touching the invisible -Urban Handrail
Visitors center
Skipping stones Geode
A House
The Singing Ringing Tree
Loving Metropolitan Landscape Thesis: Borrowed Landscapes:
Architecture as [Cultural] Landscape
Technique Memory Edge
MArch Thesis
Technical College
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Freelance
Freelance work “Climbing Coat ” Lokøy, Norway Year: 2013 - ongoing I was appraoched in 2013 and asked to convert a family summerhouse on the west coast of Norway. Situated on an island in the archipelago of Sotra the weather can at times reaches extreme conditions. The island of Lokøy is also one of transformation; historically being known for being the last port before the oceans whereas it is now becoming a place for recreation and living. Another special conditon of Lokøy is its geological topography which is defined by a northern platou protecting the lower southern parts where most of the properties and boathouses are positioned around the port bay. The norther platou is not only protecting agains the hard winds but it is also characteristic in its rocky formation that apears in long strands of rock walls and has now become popular as climbing walls.
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Freelance
Freelance work “Bolstad Cabin” Kvamskogen, Norway Year: 2010-2011- ongoing During the summer of 2010 the Bolstad family approached me to design an addition to their existing mountain cabin. Situated in a ski-village close to Bergen the challenge was to combine the clients wish for a traditional architectural expression with the comforts of modern cabin living. The project was a challenging task dealing with local bureaucracy and legal requirements while still keep within the intents of the design. The main aim was to open for more natural light into the cabin in the new part provided by the double height space with windows providing an incredible view to the east.
Eksisterenede hytte i landskapet
Tillbygg vinkelrett på hytten
Tillpassing av landskapet
Plan 1st floor, Attic space and Roof plan
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Perspective Illustrations
Elevations Øst Sør Målestokk 1:100
Nord Vest
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Placement
Opera Design Matters Book & Blueshouse Competition “Tømmerrenna” Notodden Year: 2011 Design Team: Carlos Infantes, Daniel de Reparaz, Andre Mario Kong Samuel Martin and Jorgen Ekerhovd.
View from the waterfront: Model by design team and rendered by Samuel Martin
During the placement year I undertook work with Opera Design Matters in Barcelona. In my time there I was given the responsibility to create a proposal together in a team for a competition in Norway designing a Book and Blueshouse. The project emphasized the history of Notodden as an industrial town and the importance of the river that was previously used to float timber down to the mills. The building developed from the concept of a morphed movement from the river and the existing pitched roof on site. This formed a new roofscape where the program was injected and distributed under. Web Site: www.opera-projects.com/ www.opr.net
Siteplan
Concept Diagrams
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Siteplan: Drawn by Opera Design project team
Diagram of the site
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Perspective illustration rendered by Samuel Martin
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A Birdwatchers Retreat “The buckthorn machine� Aberlady Nature Reserve Year: 1st Year (2007)
As part of a first year design project we were asked to design a birdwatchers retreat in a nature reserve outside Edinburgh. The design was inspired from the experience of the wild shrubs on site, with its many thorns. Noteworthy was how smaller birds used the shrubs to hide or retreat from the wide and open areas. The design proposal was to create a simple structure starting from the shrubs and projecting towards the wetland and the view to the north sea. Built around a concrete core the spaces of the building was divided into levels of living, from the backside surrounded by shrubs to the fireplace in the middle and the observation patio. This created spacial thresholds between the territory of the shrubs and the wetland providing varying levels of exposure and intimacy.
Elevations
Site panorama
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Top: Plan and section Bottom: Model Render
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3rd year
Softspace “The City of the Hand” New town, Edinburgh Year: 3rd Year (2009) Although softspaces are never defined by architecture alone, the project presumed that architecture hold the possibility to frame and articulate public spaces and express the opportunities and actions in the linage of time. The design proposed a softspace that allowed for the city to be read in a new pace, emphasizing the nonvisual aspects of the city. The program was an extension to the curriculum at the Royal Blind School of Edinburgh where the students learn to operate within the city.
Movement Diagram
As a satellite hub for the Royal Blind School a small classroom and cafe was proposed in the centre of Edinburgh. The idea was to develop the building from the gestures of the hand through the handrail. Performing as a urban handrail the facade contained a series of handrails guiding one through Edinburgh’s most busy district while at the same time acting as a visual screen to the city.
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Top left: Siteplan with circulation diagram Bottom: Sectional perspective
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Royal Blind School of Edinburgh
Model of Facade
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Facade Design: Grasshopper coding
4th year
Language of Stone “Skipping Stones” Cockburnspath, Scotland Year: 4th Year (2011) The task was to design a geological visitors centre in celebrations of James Hutton, a humanist known for being the forefather of geology. Hutton frequently used the Scottish landscape in arguing his theories. The most famous site called Siccar Point was the place Hutton used for how sediments move and act over time. The site is now a well known destination for geologist and hikers visiting every year. The project was set in Cockburnspath the nearest village to Siccar Point. In a boggy wetland the project proposed to articulate the existing landscape condition and create a series of stone pavilions seemingly thrown like a skipping stone out into the marsh. Frozen in time the pavilions are markers of time, like the red standing stones found in the local area. Connected with a pathway each ‘stone’ act like a geode, a stone that reveals crystals hidden inside. The pavilions are cut creating shards of light piercing the volumes.
Reference images
Existing condition
Flooded conditions
Constrained
Top: Siteplan Bottom: Section through the village
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Perspective Illustration of the ‘housing stone’
James Hutton Visitor Centre Left and top right: Section Mid Image: Detail Drawing Left: Render image
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5th year
The ‘Ecosophic-Object’ introduction
“Ephemeral Energies ” Orkney, Scotland Year: 5th Year (2011) MArch The Edinburgh MArch studio is a special two year integrated course with particularly focus in the city and the Metropolitan Landscape. In a six weeks introduction to the Masters of Architecture we were asked to form groups of three people to design a house, a lab and an archive. The project was initiated by chapter readings from “Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician” written by Alfred Jarry. The concept named “Pathaphysics” is what lies beyond the metaphysical and describes the possibility of creative ideas and solutions that extends that of the physical.
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Situated on the western shores of Orkney the project speculates with existing kite technology to form a large scale energy research facility. The project developed a promises of an architecture as suspended animation. In this promise lied a desire to create an architectural language that responds to the ephemeral energies that inhabits the territory of the West coast of Orkney.
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Top: Plan as reference Below:Section A-A
Interior Render
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House of the “Rining Singing Tree” LAB.
ARCHIVE.
HOUSE.
Plan Drawing A: Entrance B: Mainspace / Kitchen C: Bedroom
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Diagrammatic schemata: Drawn by Lousia Buttler
bed din g
The Rhythm of Living
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n View Horizo
Section
Selected elements of abstraction
Kit e Tr ace
Ent ran ce
Win d
Angular Rupture Vertical Order Horizontal Change
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Shadow study
6th year
The ‘Ecosophic-Object’ Thesis Borrowed Landscapes: -Architecture as [Cultural] Landscapes Olbia, Italy Year: 5th Year/ 6th Year MArch Olbia is today confined by the vast landscape that surrounds the city. There is however a lack of reciprocal exchange between landscape, urbanism and the architecture. This thesis project uses the device of framing/borrowing of the landscape to create an scaleless architectural language, and thus showing that urbanism and architecture in fact operates under similar modes of operations. The main program of the thesis is a Vocational Collage that expands on an existing program in Olbia, and further connects it to the cultural and economical development of the city. By understanding the city as a cultural landscape new territories are drawn from conversations about memory, edge and technique.
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PARERGON FRAME PARASITE
Technical College
Workshop
Window Maker Shop Longitudal workshop section
Parergon: A piece of work that is supplementary to or a by-product of a larger work. Parergon: literally - what is outside(par) and - the work(ergon). But Parergon is also what take-place through the work. Para (beside) arriving from the etymon *PER: To go through.
Detail Section : Workshop
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Structural Maquette - 3D Model
Sectional Models
Technical Collage
Plan
Sectional Models
Language Development
Skin Maquette - Skin Plan - 3D Model
Technical Collage: Plan Workshop
Main Body:
1_Entrance a_Entrance 2_Electro Labs b_Storage c_Water service 3_Study Space d_Double height workspac 4_Classrooms and 5_Staff rooms e_Service access f_Plantroom 6_Atruium 7_Library g_Machine tools h_Workbenches i_Finishing Area 8_Classrooms j_Paintroom 9_Open Study k_Service equipment 10_Study rooms l_Classroom m_Entrance mini auditorium n_Outdoor seating
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Plan 1st Floor
La Notta Italia- Cine Tavolrara
Tavolara Cinema - Siteplan, plan and Perspective
Sectional AA
Technical College: Main Campus
Technical Collage - Perspective and Plan
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