Neighbourhood Index
Explore the selected projects, perspectives and practices from Oslo Architecture Triennale’s Open Call for submissions contributing to the mission: creating more diverse, generous and sustainable neighbourhoods.
Selected for exhibition
A collaborative craft production initiative that aims at reviving Zagreb’s main street identity through crafts-design knowledge exchange activities.
A vision of what could be a radically different space from a car oriented metropolis, where people live and work immersed in nature.
How to “preserve & tranform" the urban fabric of Barcelona ? How to create a flexible urban system reflecting the diversity of the city?
It aims to revisit the idea of the neighbourhood not through its administrative boundaries or urban form, but through a multi-scalar approach
The project explores the struggle to expand communal activity within small housings in Seoul and proposes an assessment platform.
The Opportunity Districts are identified as strategic areas of development in Guatemala City that promote investment, innovation and sustainability.
This is one office’s introspective study about their own choice of neighborhoods and how this corresponds to the neighborhoods being made today.
An oral and visual history project on the politics of making, traditions, and the future of public (play) spaces, through the lens of 250 playgrounds.
Perspective on reading Oslo’ neighbourhoods from the bottom up – how might geology and topography inform the ambiance and identity of neighbourhood.
A visual ethnography documenting and exploring the potentials for recommoning the residual space underneath the Hardturm Viaduct in Zürich.
A shared timber farming framework for socio-economically resilient and environmentally-restorative development for the Hudson Valley's communities.
The project pioneers a transferable planning vocabulary for embedding ecologically-based watershed management principles into neighborhood design.
Document and show the qualities of the industrial area of Fagerstrand before it is transformed and discuss what to keep, why and how.
What experiential values can we observe from the collective pandemic, and how might we leverage these to envision our future for better neighborhoods?
A speculative look into the upgrading of existing public housing by weaving function with an infrastructure for community formation.
Spatial patterns for communities & designers aiming to catalyse sharing culture in urban neighbourhoods
A framework for neighborhood pedagogies of an undergraduate architecture thesis program in Santiago de Chile
Reusing floodwater as a catalyst to regenerate green and blue neighborhoods through urban agriculture and creating greater public amenities.
We confront 320 students each year with the “missing link” between what we know as suburban agglomeration and “stacked living” in residential blocks.
A book providing inspiration as well as theoretical and practical knowledge on how to design public space for people of all ages.
This publication explores informal architecture and urbanism, analysing practical actions in three different continents (Africa, America, Asia).
Natural Landmarks is an illustrative guide and map that reframes ubiquitous street trees as significant monuments, sparking curiosity and stewardship.
This perspective offers speculative scenarios on port neighbourhoods embedded in infrastructural landscapes, community spaces and circular materiality
Thoughtful planing for both natural and artificial light is the key to regenerate our neighbourhoods and and give new life to existing buildings
We explore how local materials and makers improve our climate and neighbourhoods for the better with circular and sustainable production.
A series of “walkable” city inspections that shape a community of neo-futurists who collectively re-imagine our urban coexistence.
Studies and analysis already carried out in more than 60 neighborhoods of 19 different countries that can make a good contribution to Oslo Triennale.
Project is based on a comparative analysis of two building complexes, trying to find out influences between social organization & space organization.
A design proposal for street libraries as living and movable personalities in the central urban 'theater' in Skopje
Together we matter; diversity forges the communities that hold our collective power to accelerate change and elevate the quality of our environment.
A knowledge based analysis with inspirational examples of housing with new qualities for better neighborhoods.
This project explores spatial practices that have emerged in Beirut after the Civil War (1975-1990), and in response to the 2020 port blast.
Uma intervenção urbana pautada no caminho dos corpos no espaço público
We search and research patient methods to approach the demolition of decaying modern neighborhoods and document them by photos and concrete models.
BLCE showcases methods, models and policies of local ecosystem building, backed by case studies and a 4-year research and knowledge exchange process.
A building catalog exploring the effect of the consolidation of physical artifacts and culture Oslo’s Fjord City development on neighborhood identity.
an architectural inquiry into the future of microrayons in former socialist states
What is real? When i move do environments change? Questioning what the physical or digital limits of our spatial consciousness are today.
In the midst of green, lined by two canals, yet close to the city centre, a new, green and sustainable quarter will be created: Wasserstadt Limmer.
Permanent is a practice-based research to develop a mixed-use infrastructure for affordable and embedded cultural, educational and social space.
Neighbourhood scale frameworks and demonstrations for energy and resource-efficient, climate positive circular communities in Norway and Europe.
...is an artistic examination of key locations in open space concerning neighbourhood.
The project explores how TKB´s physical and social structures has been influenced by societal changes during 100 years and discusses lessons learned.
‘Model of Jamaika’ is a 1:10 scale, walk-in model of the neighbourhood’s recently demolished Bloco 10, in the outskirts of Lisbon.
HAMBURG 2100 is a project that aims to inspire dreams, revitalize forgotten places and explore opportunities to create a human-friendly environment.
Neighbourhoods as Networks of Care is a body of work investigating the neighbourhood as both a site and a material for creating participatory artworks
The project seeks to readdress the privatisation of domestic labour by reimagining historic communal practices of labour in the public realm.
We use the concept of landscape transect as a means to document the everyday journeys in Wah Fu Estate—a modernist public housing estate in Hong Kong.
The approach to the Casa de la Asegurada of the Unidad Independencia complex seeks to analyze its impact in the neighborhood from a gender perspective
A speculation of a neighborhood where “waste” becomes a property of individuals, and legacy of ‘’waste’’ registered on a collective network.
The Halle of Calais is a modular multipurpose covered hall on the Place d’Armes in Calais, France.
Participatory Action Research could aid in creating sustainable & thriving communities/cities engaging the most prominent users & observers -Children.
‘Down the Hill, To the Rivers’ is a drawing book about the life beyond the Godown arts centre in the neighbourhood of Kuala Lumpur city, Malaysia.
Meeting areas at the threshold. By neighborhood we fill the space with relationships and experience of creative community including what is next to us