PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURAL
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KRISTINA HABBESTAD
REDEFINING A LOCALCENTRE THROUGH ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN WITH LIGHT AND COLOUR
URBAN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE AT GREFSEN
MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS
TECTONICS
REDEFINING A LOCAL CENTRE THROUGH ARCHITECTURE
Team Project: Elisa W. Aadland
10. Semester - Diploma Thesis
Supervisor: Stuart McLeod Salway Dickson
Year 5 - 2023
Our chosen location is Bømlo, a small island between Bergen and Haugesund. It is 246 square kilometres and has approximately 12.000 inhabitants. There is a current debate about the development and infrastructure of the local centre. We want to explore how we can develop better strategies for the local centre, and plan new sustainable housing and living situations.
The project aims to redefine a local centre using architecture. We have designed a speculative proposal that refines, transforms and densifies an existing local centre through urban strategies. The project transforms an important site to connect the surrounding urban development to achieve a more holistic and vibrant local centre.
The combination of programmes creates a dynamic, lively, and sustainable living situation. As architects, we want to explore opportunities for future neighbourhoods and sustainable environments, highlighting and framing good qualities for everyday life. The strategies for refining, densifying, and transforming Svortland will strengthen local identity and re-assemble a community and a local centre that seems to have been forgotten.
Conceptual section
Groundfloor plan
Firstfloor plan
Secondfloor plan
URBAN STRATEGIES
Strengthening the main local centre axis
Connecting spaces for social interaction
Walkable local centre; 5 & 10 min walk
Linking public spaces and nature
APARTMENT PLAN
Section East- West
Section North - South
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN WITH LIGHT AND COLOUR
Colour registration
Project in context
First-third floor plan
Section East- West
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN WITH LIGHT AND COLOUR
INTERIOR CONCEPT
INTERIOR CONCEPT
EXHIBITION SPACE
WORKSHOP
EXHIBITION SPACE
Doors and windows: S 6010-G30Y LRV = 16, C<0.4 in all interiorspaces
ATRIUM
BEDROOMS
WORKSHOP
APARTMENTS
BATHROOMS
C = 0.2
C = 0.3
NCS S 2005-G10Y Polished concrete
NCS S 2010-Y30R Polished concrete Staircase: 8005-B20G C = 0.8
NCS S 4010-G70Y Oak floors
NCS S 2020-Y20R Forbo marnoleum terra weathered sand
NCS S 1005-Y10R Oak floors
NCS S3010-Y10R Forbo marnoleum terra weathered sand
URBAN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE AT GREFSEN
Team Project: Elisa W. Aadland 8. Semester - Urban Design and Architecture
Tutor: Stuart McLeod Salway Dickson
Year 4 - 2022
Situated in the neighbourhood of Grefsen, northeast of the city of Oslo. We aim to develop a speculative architectural design proposal that reappraises and densifies the existing neighbourhood through urban strategies. Our intentions for the architecture of our neighbourhood are to design seamless thresholds to highlight great frameworks for everyday life.
During the 24 hours a day, everyone does their daily routines, a list of tasks and chores that simply must be done. Like going outside, going to work, waiting for the bus, riding a bike, picking up their children, making dinner, doing the dishes, taking out the trash and doing the laundry.
We believe that with a little care, through good architecture and urban strategies, we can manage to do all our tasks with a little more comfort and even a little more pleasure. By designing the architecture of the neighbourhood with a little more dignity, and a seamless urban situation we aim for a gentle urban symbiosis.
An ever-evolving neighbourhood presents several opportunities to achieve a more enjoyable, healthier, and sustainable neighbourhood. Celebrating the endorsement of more meaningful relationships, and great frameworks for everyday life by being neighbours.
CONCEPT
Everyone must go to work, go out in the winter cold, ride their bikes, wait for the bus, pick up their children, make dinner, do the dishes, and take out the trash. We believe that with a little care, we can do all these things with a little more dignity, a little more comfort and even a little more pleasure. The result of that is spending less time travelling and doing everyday chores, and more extra time to do the things you like.
ILLUSTRASJON AV KONSEPT
Concept sketch
Shared spaces for the apartments
Inhabited walls for flexibility and seamlessness
Following the same axis through the building
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Good sightlines and lighting conditions
I have = We have
URBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD
By designing the architecture of the neighbourhood with a little more dignity, and a seamless urban situation we aim for a gentle urban symbiosis. An ever-evolving neighbourhood presents several opportunities to achieve a more enjoyable, healthier, and sustainable neighbourhood. Celebrating the endorsement of more meaningful relationships, and great frameworks for everyday life by being neighbours.
Co-working = Less traveltime
Life inbetween
Multipurpose-space
Communal nursery
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MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS
Individual project
6. Semester - Thesis
Project Tutors: William Gottelier & Lena Emanuelsen
Year 3 - 2021
The project started in Woolwich, South East London. The city has been slowly changing, developing and growing. The collage of building materials, the mismatch of architectural styles and the strange programmatic junctions are all part of what makes Woolwich so special.
The current model of collaboration between Greenwich council and large developer Berkeley suffers from an uneven power balance. Before the dust of construction has settled, the political and monetary forces at play, leave behind a generic city fabric that is void of affordable housing and social activities for the local communities. The above is evident in the redevelopment of the old Woolwich Arsenal, the privately policed, new residential towers and old Arsenal buildings redeveloped into shiny, but tiny flats.
My design thesis tackled a variety of political, cultural and heritage issues, including the loss of activities, the demolition of community spaces and minimal space standards. I aimed to accommodate growth and preserve local character by using an old heritage building that had been occupied by the arsenal and its history until the late 20th century. And reformed this building into a vibrant space for the neighbours to meet, gather and use for everyday activities and studied the importance of bringing people together to fight loneliness.
YOUNG ADULTS
INCLUSIVITY INCIDENTAL
”Unacceptable high density and development of the site. Heights of the proposed buildings will turn the site into a sunless concrete jungle.”
”Inadequate infrastructure and services within the Royal Arsenal area to support the scale of the development.”
”No provision for educational or communal facilities.”
”Adverse physical and psychological impact on residents.”
DETAILED DRAWINGS
Detailed section
EXOSKELETON CONCRETE STRUCTURE
3.
Tutor:
Year 2- 2019
Team project: Aiko Almeida De Souza Resende, Ala Al Saud, Shohab Wafa, Godwin de Leon
Semester - The Practice of Making Architecture
Matthew Phillips
HOTEL ATRIO
Team project: Rene Sandvåg, Warina Helland
5. Semester - The Processes of Making Architecture
Tutor: Alexander Gore
Year 3- 2020
NEW KADK LIBRARY AT HOLMEN
Individual Project
4. Semester - Reading building
Tutor: Tom Brisco
Year 2 - 2020
Observational sketches
A space to enjoy the art of literature. The joy of reading a book. A space to retrain all that literature has to offer. A space with one goal: become a characterful and harmonious space supporting both individual pursuits and communal gatherings.
A rib construction of timber relates to the local traditions of boatbuilding and gives a feeling of staying in a comfortable place. A relaxing atmosphere to kick off your shoes and spend your time either studying, relaxing, or attending different arranged events. With technology’s increasing impact on society, this must be taken into consideration in a modern library.
The library will be a place where the community of students in KADK meets and use the library for conferences and lectures or self-directed study time. The library is a peaceful and inspiring place to go and forget about everything else –at least for a while.
Interior collage
Site model
Ground floor plan
OTHER PROJECTS
Pavillion project, KSA, London (2019)
Reading furniture model, KSA, London (2019)
Trestykker, Bergen (2021)
WORK
Rogaland fylkeskommune
Plansaksbehandler, August 2023 - d.d.
Barnehage Assistent
Endrestø Barnehage, Juni 2017 - juni 2023
Student mentor
Kingston University London, 2019 - 2020
Sales Representative
Gullsmed Bernhard Hansen, Mai 2012 - Aug 2018
Restaurant
Sirdal Skisenter, Desember 2010 - Mai 2018
EDUCATION
NTNU
2-årig master arkitektur (2021 - 2023)
UiS
Grunnleggende HMS-ledelse (2021)
Kingston University London
BA (Hons) Architecture (2018-2021)
UiT- The Arctic University of Norway Kunsten å se, nettbasert innføring i kunsthistorie (2017)
University of Agder (UiA)
Byggdesign, ingeniørfag (2014 - 2015)
University of Stavanger
Realfagskurs, helårig (2013 - 2014)
University of Stavanger
Idrettsfag (2013 - 2014)
SKILLS
Vectorworks
ArchiCad
InDesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
Handdrawing
Modelmaking
Sketchup
Rhinoceros
WORKSHOPS
Praktisk bygningsfysikk
NAL (14.04.2021)
Eksisterende bygg - bervaring og fornyelse
NAL (17.11.2020)
Programmering - mer enn bare arealer
NAL (05.11.2020)
Grunnkurs PBL del 1 & 2
NAL (07.10.2020)
Boligbygging i bratt terreng
NAL (22.04.2021)
Dagslys i praksis
NAL (22.02.2022)
Estetikk i PBL
NAL (28.08.2020)
Hvordan lykkes med egen arkitektpraksis
NAL (04.02.2021)
Landskapsarkitektur i små prosjekter
NAL (27.01.2022)
Muligheter med geodata og kartverktøy
NAL (23.03.2022)
TreStykker Bergen 2021
ArchiCad Summercamp 2021
Arkitektstudenter i Hurtigpraksis 2020
LANGUAGES
Norsk Engelsk Spansk