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"HYPHEN" SUPERMARKET BASED ON LANDSCAPE

Location: Oslo. Norway Architect as a recorder Instructor: Sabine Muller, Elisabeth Sjodahl Individual work Extract taste of a territory, envision architectures of water within greater Oslo

Hyphen Supermarket is a spatial development model for a Landscape Supermarket situated in Oslo. The Norwegian polder landscapes, once the icons of our food production. Can these areas play a new role in food and recreation need of in the Oslo population which today knows 170 different nationalities, food and culinary traditions?

The Park Supermarket balance has been set up around food and its consumers and is projected in the agrarian park landscape.It based on underlying soil types, new climate zones and raised water levels an entirely new landscape is introduced where the contents of a contemporary supermarket are cultivated and sold. Each department knows its characteristic growing conditions and product types. The climate household of the outdoor supermarket is supported by old techniques such as warmth accumulating snake walls and more contemporary solutions as insulating water spray 'roofs' and f loor heating on the basis of thermal warmth. Hyphen Supermarket is able grow with the need for diversity of food of the consumer and the renewing insights in agrarian techniques. The inhabitants will in this way be able to consume and recreate in a new Park landscape for the 21st century.

Nominated for AHO Annual Excellent Work Published in AHO Year Book 2018