Project description Current version of this text is published at https://diploma.trulsslevigen.no/project-description scattered clusters - or how to live closer together and closer to nature Truls Slevigen For more than fifty years the de together and helping each other The diploma proposes a site strategy The private dwellings include all facto model for new homes in rural achieve common goals through that includes restoration of elements necessary functions, while at the same Tutors: Sverre Sondresen (APP), Norway has been single-family homes sharing of spaces and resources. of the cultural landscape, mainly time benefitting from multiple shared Hedvig Skjerdingstad (DAV), in housing developments in or close the meadow - and it becomes the spaces. They have a defined private André Fontes (TTA), to rural centers. This rural suburbia The project’s context is the municipality most important shared space of side in the forest and a public side Frode Jacobsen (social science). has been criticized for being planned of Krødsherad in Viken, and as a the community. A meadow must be towards the open meadow. An inner mainly for technical infrastructure with possible input to the local debate, a maintained to keep its biodiversity, solid services core inspired by the stone the large fenced in plots with large relatively realistic scenario has been thus becoming an important fences of the site defines this border. isolated houses without community. conducted regarding the degree of common project. I believe that The public side is further clarified implementation. The intention is that active participation in restoring through the use of natural stone of the Recently urban densification of the project could be an example of a and maintaining a productive site as a common, shared material. rural centers is being presented as realistic alternative to the expansion cultural landscape will create a a viable alternative model. In some or densification of the rural centers. stronger sense of belonging. Although not a self-build project as situations, and through carefully per-see I suggest active participation planned interventions this might be The chosen site sits on the border of My architectural response to this from the residents in all phases, the case. But it is always a danger the forest and former farmland. situation reflects the rural aesthetic including the transfer of knowledge that the urban becomes just as alien A common situation in rural areas, of the surrounding agricultural to facilitate the residents to in the rural setting as the housing where much arable land has been vernacular, utilizing a simple wooden further develop both their private developments was decades ago. going out of use as farming has construction, where columns meet dwellings and the shared spaces. been rationalized. This is most often the ground and adapt to it rather The diploma proposes a third meadows and species-rich grasslands than the adaption of the ground so alternative through scattered that support a huge range of wildlife, common in housing developments. clusters. The project draws including the important pollinating inspiration from clustered farms, insects, like bees. The loss of these not mainly as a typology but as a habitats is the main factor for many model for social interaction, social species of bees becoming endangered. inclusion, and residents working The following diploma program is unaltered from February. Diploma program Truls Slevigen scattered clusters intentional hamlets as an alternative to subdivisions in rural centers Abstract In my diploma project I want to explore an Inspirations for this Wood is a natural I will be working alternative typology typology stems material based on with the small rural with hamlets from the historical renewable raw municipality of dispersed outside the klyngetun (clustered material and has Krødsherad in the rural centers. I believe farms), the ideas little negative impact east of Norway where this could have of cohousing that on the environment the majority of new multiple benefits; started to evolve Wood is one of the homes built after among them less land in Denmark in most environmentally 1970 is single-family use, lower ecological the late 60s and friendly building homes in subdivisions and climatic today’s sustainable materials we have in the rural centers. footprints and better intentional available today. social interactions communities. among the residents. Concept model (for presentations January 31.) 3 Key terms Klyngetun Byggefelt Økogrend Intentional community Wood Clustered farm Subdivision Ecological hamlet A planned residential community designed Increased use of wood in buildings will be a The word klynge translates directly to cluster An area of housing planned with common A defined area characterized by the fact from the start to have a high degree of social simple and effective means of reducing the in english. The word tun has the same origin as infrastructure such as roads, electricity, that residents want to live sustainable cohesion and teamwork. The members of CO2 emissions. Wood is our only renewable english town - as a spatial term it is mostly used water and sewage. Subdivided into plots lives and that the buildings are built and an intentional community typically hold a building material. Unlike other building where farm buildings stands so close that they for individual houses. Most often approved maintained with a focus on climate-friendly common vision and often follow an alternative materials, wood products are produced create a common space. Grew organically from by the municipal authorities through a material and energy use. A distinction lifestyle and often share responsibilities resource-efficient, with low consumption of single farms that through centuries where split zoning plan. The detail design is left to is made between økogrend which is an and resources. Intentional communities fossil energy and a high proportion of climate- multiple times. Many similarities with european the individual builder, who often is the independent part of a local environment and include cohousing and ecovillages. The friendly bioenergy in production. Wood also villages. Common all over Norway until most future occupant himself (self-builder). an økolandsby (ecovillage) that strives to be purposes of intentional communities vary binds CO2, and the carbon is stored in the were dissolved in the second half of the 1800s. an independent and self-sustained village. in different communities. They may include wood product until it is released through sharing resources, creating family-oriented decomposition or combustion. The use of neighborhoods, and living ecologically wood in buildings give a real climate benefit. sustainable lifestyles, such as in ecovillages. 4 5 Where Hemsedal Gol Ål Hol Nesbyen Flå Hurdal Nore og Uvdal Eidsvoll Ringerike Jevn- Krøds- aker Lunner Nanne- herad stad Ullens- aker Sigdal Nitte- Nes dal Gjerdrum Rollag Hole Modum Oslo Lillestrøm Bærum Flesberg Løren- Lier skog Rælingen I grew up in the After a dramatic Until 1970 most Zoning permits The population Is it necessary that Nes- odden Aurskog- Øvre Eiker Nordre Enebakk Høland Asker Follo rural, on a farm by population drop homes were spread have not been of Krødsherad is all these new homes Frogn Ås Drammen Kongsberg Indre Østfold a lake surrounded following the out at farms or close given for housing estimated to increase be built in housing Vestby Skiptvet by forest and close mechanisation of to farms, but from developments outside to 2654 by 2040. developments in Våler Marker Moss Råde Rakke- stad Sarps- to a mountain, agriculture and then on almost the centers. This is With an average the centers, or can borg Fredrik- stad Are- 100 kilometres forestry in the 1950s, all new housing based on national of 3 persons per new technology Viken county mark Halden west of Oslo. Krødsherad saw a became centralized and regional policies household this and transportation Hvaler new rise in population to new subdivisions saying that new translates to a need innovation like 0 10 20 30km The municipality of in the 1970s as a result in the two centres zoning for housing for 146 new homes autonomous buses Krødsherad has of local authorities’ of Noresund and should be within safe in addition to those and car sharing Noresund 2216 inhabitants, efforts to attract Krøderen. With their walking distance new homes needed allow for more 1061 detached secondary industries. generously sized plots of schools and just to maintain the dispersed housing, houses, for detached houses, center functions. current population. and bring humans 6 apartments these developments closer to nature? and 1542 cabins have come to occupy as of today. an ever increasing area, as they have been expanded during the last five Krøderen decades to keep up Krødsherad with the demand for new plots. municipality 1:200000 6 7 Why The past three An aspiration to live I believe the increased More dispersed Perhaps these new decades has seen a greener life has focus on sustainability housing will not communities can a trend where been a significant and the climate crisis in and of itself be be placed in the urban inhabitants motivational factor will make green more sustainable transition between want to move to for rural migration. values important for or eco-friendly. wild forest and more rural areas. Until now most the majority of the However, if units are cultured forest on Even though this people wanting to population, supported grouped in smaller former