Final projects

Finally! The final projects have been completed, in the shape of six websites. The class has been working with two sites near the Chinese city of Xi'an. Although the two sites are extremely different they both have in common that they are localized around a metro stop on the newly opened metro line. The assignment text can be found in the previous post.

Daminggong:
The Daminggong split up in two different groups with two different concepts for the site.


Dragon, by Veslemøy Grindvik, Alexandra Klein and Aprigio Chavez
Beiguan hybrid, by Anette Rudshaug, Fatima Farran, Moritz Kerschbaum

South Weiqu:
The South Weiqu team worked more individually, but all the projects are more or less related to one main concept or idea called "over//under". They are collected here. And to make things simple, her are the individual links:

Flow city, by Line Myrenget and Marie Sætre
The layer project, by Julien Papaud
The Upperworld, by Helder Matos
The Underworld, by Tarjei Zakarias Ekelund

Assignment text

Here's the assignment texts, as requested:

Tomorrow´s run-through

Regarding tomorrow´s (tuesday) pin-up: Ole will join us at 13.30 for a run-through similar to the one we had the last time, followed by individual guidance the rest of the day (and wednesday if necessary).

Julien in Shanghai

Julien's unforgettable video from Shanghai!

Economy lecture / Flash course part 2

Quick update:

• The economy course held by Svein Bjørberg can now be found in the literature column to the right.
• Because of the delay last thursday the third and last part of the Adobe Flash course - the important and very cool part where we start designing our websites - will be held tomorrow, wednesday 2nd, at 09.15 sharp. We'll do it in our studio the same way as last time. This is also a good time for questions, so I hope you'll all spend a little time in Flash on your own before we meet. Try out the different tools and try to get used to using the animation timeline. It's all about the training. If you run into problems that you're not able to figure out yourself, write it down and we'll go through it tomorrow. All questions are good questions. :-)

Design project critique - thrusday 27th of october

Thursday the 27th of October the different groups presented the current statuses of their design projects.

The class is now split between two different sites which both are related to metro stations on the newly opened metro line: South Weiqu and Daminggong West.

The students working near the Daminggong West station have split up in two groups and are developing two different concepts for a complex building that connects to the metro station:

• Dragon, by Veslemøy Grindvik, Alexandra Klein and Aprigio Chavez
• Unnamed project investigating complexity and density, by Mortiz Kerschbaum, Fatima Farran and Anette Rudshaug

The students working on the South Weiqu station are working separately, but with a main concept (temporarily named "The Pancake") for the site connecting them loosely - similar to a think tank:

• Zero Emission Hub (and introduction to concept), by Line Myrenget
• Cross Hub, by Marie Sætre
• The Underworld, by Tarjei Ekelund
• High tech caves, by Julien Papaud
• Life between layers, by Helder Matos

Anthropology- and travel presentations in Xi'an

During our stay in Xi'an we presented three short anthropological studies conducted in Trondheim. The theme was "Gates and Thresholds":

• Initmacy in public spaces, by Aprigio Chavez, Marie Sætre, Line Myrenget and Tarjei Ekelund
• Trondheim's cemetary, by Julien Papaud, Heldes Matos and Veslemøy Grindvik
• Bakklandet, by Moritz Kerschbaum, Fatima Farran, Anette Rudshaug and Alexandra Klein

We also made presentations of our first week in China. We split up in four groups and travelled from three different cities (Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong) towards Xi'an:

• Exploring China (Beijing - Xi'an), by Line Myrenget and Marie Sætre
• Chinatripping (Beijing - Xi'an), by Anette Rudshaug, Fatima Farran, Moritz Kerschbaum and Tarjei Ekelund
• Shanghai, by Alexandra Klein and Julien Papaud
• Hong Kong, by Helder Matos, Aprigio Chavez and Veslemøy Grindvik