The Diploma of Prof. Olav Kristoffersen about Dora II

In his thesis Olav Kristoffersen transformed Dora II, he will come 08.10. at 14:00 to present his diploma for us. 

Homans Legat

As the field trip is not obligatory we suggest you try apply for funds for the trip after our field trip. Take care of the receipt and get up to 2500 nok. 

Homans Legat

Trains in france

We are not booking any trains for you in France. It is possible to travel at another time from Lyon to Nantes if you like. Elisabeth suggested to take the train from Lyon 15.39 for 15€ for those of you who want a cheaper fare. 

PIN-UPS 24.09.2019

We will start the walkthrough with your ideas of your projects tomorrow at 10.15 in our Studio.

Field Trip Program

Here you find the program for our field trip to France. You can find a better resolution on the server at: smb://felles.ansatt.ntnu.no/ab-stud/Kurs/AAR4500/2019/Field Trip France/Feltkort/Program/Field Trip France Program.pdf 

Pionen – White Mountain by Albert France-Lanord Architects. // Old anti-atomic bunker, Stockholm

Supervision 18.09 at the studio 312 14.30

At 14.30 Geir and I will be present at the studio 312 tomorrow, Wednesday, if you have any questions or need supervision.

Missing field cards, please upload / files from Atlas & History and Drawings

We are missing field cards from: 

Sander Koland
Julia Kapinos
Anne-Margrethe Lothe
Antoni Garcés Terme
Hilde Maråk
Oda Solum Sønstebø
Kimberly Wolf
Øyvind Eikestøl Lægreid

Also we are missing the content from the work of the drawing group, and the group with Atlas and History on the server. Please upload these files.

Upload your files to the server

Some of you have already uploaded the files for the first pin-up on the server, but we are missing the files from the reference group, the group with atlas and history and the drawing files from the drawing group. 

Field card (feltkort) for the field trip

To be able to join us on the field trip you need to sign a field card. For those of you who already signed for the trip, please find the field card form at:

smb://felles.ansatt.ntnu.no/ab-stud/Kurs/AAR4500/2019/Field Trip France/Feltkort/Form

And save it on the server at:

smb://felles.ansatt.ntnu.no/ab-stud/Kurs/AAR4500/2019/Field Trip France/Feltkort/Signed Form

Save the field card as given in the example:
amundkly_feltkort_13092019

Suggested readings from Olav Kristoffersen

For those of you who might be interested: Reiner Banham, The new Brutalism // Paul Virilio, Bunker Archeologie (1975) 

Updated nights in France

As most of you got to know yesterday we have changed one sleep-over, from Paris to Nantes. We are again very sorry for the inconvenience this has caused for those of you who have already booked in Paris.

Again: From Wednesday 02.10 to Thursday 03.10 we will sleep in Nantes and not in Paris(though the latter is possible, you will meet us in Nantes in the morning). 

Here is an updated schedule, while the details are coming (very) soon. 

01.10 Tuesday: We meet in La Tourette. We sleep in the Convent, this is booked by us.

02.10 Wednesday: We travel from La Tourette via Lyon to Nantes. We sleep in Nantes a first night. 

03.10 Thursday: We will visit La Rochelle and Saint-Nazaire. We sleep in Nantes a second night. 

04.10. Friday: We travel to Paris. Some of us travel home in the evening, some in the morning. End of program is in the evening, but me and Geir will be there Saturday if those of you who still are there wish to walk around.

The server is up (for real)

You can finally write on the server now, so please upload all the information that you have gathered so far. We will use this as our main storage platform. You can add relevant references and discoveries you do in the future. 

Please wait with the booking for accommodation in Paris 02.10

Please wait with the booking for accommodation in Paris 02.10. We might travel directly to Nantes. You will be informed during tomorrows pin-ups. We are sorry for the inconvenience. 

First Schedule of the Field Trip

Here is an overview in which cities we will reside in and visit during our field trip. More details in what projects we will see will be published later. This is given so that you can book rooms to sleep in, if it is abnb, hostels or hotels. 

01.10 Tuesday: We meet in La Tourette. We sleep in the Convent, this is booked by us. 
02.10 Wednesday: We travel from La Tourette via Lyon to Paris. We sleep in Paris. 
03.10 Thursday: We Travel from Paris to Nantes. We will visit La Rochelle and Saint-Nazaire. We sleep in Nantes. 
04.10. Friday: We travel to Paris. Some of us travel home in the evening, some in the morning. End of program is in the evening. 

Optional: It is of course possible to arrive earlier, and depart later that the program is listed to. 

Lecture tomorrow, Monday, 09.15

This is just a reminder of the lecture which will find place tomorrow at room 312. Time is 09.15. It will be about the Dora Facilities from a point of view of an archeologist.

PIN-UP 12th of September

The "pin-ups" will begin 09.15 on Thursday 12.09. Each group will present their work in a presentation over 20 minutes. The location of the "pin-up"s will be at room 312 unless something else is informed later. It might be at Skippergata. 

New course for the wood workshop and the laser

There will be a new course for the workshop and the laser within the next couple of weeks. You will be noted with day and time in time. 

Access to AAR4870 on blackboard

You will receive access to blackboard shortly. This will happen without registering in the AAR4870 course. 

Access to the server

The server is up and the folder "2019" is created. From now on the course will use this platf☺rm for file sharing instead of OneDrive and Google Drive. Please give me a n☺te within this week if it is not working. 

Field Trip France: Time and location, arrival and departure

Here are som slight changes and fixed times for the trip.

We will meet in La Tourette during 1st of October. You are free to arrive when its suits you the best. Geir and I will arrive La Tourette in the afternoon. We recommend not to be there too late in the evening as we will leave for Lyon in the morning the day after. As mentioned earlier: we are going to sleep in the monastery of Le Corbusier from Tuesday to Wednesday - this I booked by us. 

You can either travel to France Monday 30th september or Tuesday 1. October, there are some cheap tickets directly from Trondheim to Paris 1st of October right now. Check out those tickets on www.finn.no. If you arrive in Paris 1st of October you can take the fast train with TGV from Paris to Lyon and take another train to La Tourette the same day. 

By train from Lyon to La Tourette: Stop at the train station called L’Arbresle, the convent is at 30 min by walking or you can call a cab (10€).

The train from Lyon-Gorge de Loup is every 15 or 30 min during the week and the train from Lyon-Part Dieu is every 2 hours.

We will end the program in Paris Friday afternoon so that it is possible for you to have a cheaper flight home Saturday morning. 

Regarding questions for the Theory Course AAR4870

You will keep the theory course in which you first registered(AAR4870). This course follows the same lectures series for the course AAR4851 Urban Triggers. In the end you will write an essay relevant to your project in AAR4500, this essay differs from the essay students in AAR4851 will write. The dates of the lectures have already been given, including schedule for the theory week. As you can see the lectures find place more or less every second Friday. You should go to as many of these as possible and more s☺. 

Program for your projects

Housing: 

Develop a number or even a singular hybrid building(s). 

Production, work and housing. Reinventing the medieval building. Live, work, play.

Art: 

Spaces for art, performance, exhibitions and music. 

Public: 

A public space and park. Add any number of secondary functions.

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Presentation of master thesis in archeology about Dora II

At 09.15 on Monday, 09.09.2019, Phd candidate and archaeologist Kristoffer Eliassen Grini will present his master thesis about the Dora facilities. This will be very relevant in understanding Dora II in its history and as a structure from a point of view of an archaeologist! 

Drawing files and other from Vibecke Solli

We were lucky to receive some of the research Vibecke Solli did in her Diploma transforming Dora II this spring. She will later present it to us in week 38.

Be sure to credit the noted material. It should be available to you via your facebook group/google drive. We will use the ntnu server when we have access. 

Groups for research and mapping

Groups and tasks as listed below:

1: Models	Øyvind, Anna, Gustav, Alex
2: Drawings	Hilde, Oda, Anne, Sander
3: Communal planning	Hanna, Karina, Julia
4: Parallell porposals	Kimberly, Margrethe
5: History	Julie, Elisabeth
6: Atlas	Sofie, Xavier
7: Refference projects	Toni, Sophia
8: Potential programs

Please let us know if you are not on the list. 

Calendar for the theory course AAR4851 Urban Triggers

Follow the link to get the Google Calendar for AAR4851 Urban Triggers

Follow this link to get the list of literature that you have to read in AAR4851.

You can follow this course on blackboard. 

Courses for the workshop

Course for the workshop and the laser is set to Thursday 05.09.2019 12.30 for those of you who signed up. 

We meet at the Studio at room 312 10.15, 03.09.2019

We will meet in the studio at room 312, tomorrow Tuesday. Geir and I will be present for any questions. 

Culture commemoration of Nyhavna

10.09.2019 there will be a very interesting opportunity for you at Nyhavna. There will be seminars from 12.00 to 20.00 as you can see in the program attached. The seminars will go into the history behind the Dora facilities, how cultural heritage from wartime can be used in the future and how they are used today. We highly recommend to participate in this event!

As the server is not up yet, the program is shared with you via NTNUs OneDrive server. Please follow the link

Intro for the group assignments / research & mapping fase

There will be an introduction for the group assignments Monday 2.09. 09.15 o´clock at room 312.