Lala Tøyen. Lala installed a bicycle pump outside the gallery as part of their contribution: encouraging people to cycle, and planners to give priority to cyclists in city street planning.

Lala Tøyen. Lala installed a bicycle pump outside the gallery as part of their contribution: encouraging people to cycle, and planners to give priority to cyclists in city street planning.

Element arkitekter. Element want to increase the minimum ceiling height in housing from 2,4 metres to 2,6 metres, as a contribution to the debate about quality in housing.

Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk. House. Hølmebakk’s contribution consisted of a text, a drawing and a model. Here site model with tennis court.

Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk. House. Lower plan with tennis court.

Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk. House. Main plan.

Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk. House. Elevations.

Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk. House. Long section.

Space Group. Visions. A topology of voids.

Rintala Eggertsson Architects. Snakes and ladders for architects.

Eriksen Skajaa Architects. “The architecture of the future is local”. Eriksen Skajaa used Snapshot to make a booklet that presents one architect from each of the counties in Norway, except for Oslo.

3RW Arkitekter. Grønneviksøren Student Housing, self-build Lego model.

Tyin tegnestue. Architects’ toolbox.

From the exhibition. In front Tyin’s toolbox, behind it Ghilardi + Hellsten, then right Lala Tøyen, and Pir II’s suspended project archive.

Ghilardi Hellsten Architects. From Aker Brygge.

Atelier Oslo. House projects under development.

Lala Tøyen. Lala’s cycle street, where cyclists are given priority over cars.

Helen & Hard. Sketches for the development of the Vindmøllebakken housing project, which is based on people wanting to share more of their everyday life. See www.gainingbysharing.no.

Helen & Hard. Sketches for the development of the Vindmøllebakken housing project.

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter. The Romsdal Museum in Molde, represented by a model and a copy of the entire project correspondence.

Rodeo Arkitekter. Map of Oslo showing the average price per square metro for housing in different neighborhoods.



What is the most important task for architecture today? What is the potential for architecture in the future? With these two questions, the Oslo-based gallery ROM for Art and Architecture hoped to engage a selection of architecture practices in the construction of a picture of contemporary practice in Norway. However, the wide range of reactions to these two questions seems to suggest that individual observations, rather than the possibility of identifying tendencies, are the real points of interest.


Facts:

Participating architects:

3RW Arkitekter

a-lab

Atelier Oslo

Biotope

Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk

CODE

Element arkitekter

Eriksen Skajaa Arkitekter

Ghilardi + Hellsten Arkitekter

Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter

Helen & Hard

Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter

Jensen & Skodvin Arkitekter

Lala Tøyen

Pir II

PML Arkitektur

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter

Rintala Eggertsson Arkitekter

Rodeo Arkitekter

SAAHA

Saunders Arkitektur

Space Group

Superunion Arkitekter

Tyin tegnestue


The exhibition Snapshot was produced by ROM for arkitektur og kunst. It was on show from 23rd April to 21st June 2015.