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values in the near surroundings. The course will
discuss how global and local understanding can
enrich one other in a dualistic relationship. The
meaning of “the local in the global and the global in
the local.”
RESEARCH
The involvement of NTNU in the Hensåsen housing
area development, is strongly integrated in the
3 – year FoU research program TRE I VALDRES
2018 – sustainability as a function of the
development of regional social conditions and local
wooden based enterprises.
The overall research questions to be investigated is:
1: The impact of constructing in a local society when
it comes to value a traditional building culture in a
industrialized production of today.
2: The impact of constructing when it comes to
value local raw materials, local competence in
handcraft and industrial construction.
3: The dilemma between applying existing materials
and the possibility to invent new products.
4: The impact on local economic, social and
cultural life when construction of houses and
the architecture is based on local materials and
competence.
PARTNERS
For the ‘Leikegøta’ project, as well as TRE I
VALDRES 2018 PROJECT, the investigation is
founded on three parts and interaction between each
of them:
A: Vang
Local partners: The local Development Organization
Innovangsjon SA and the Municipality in Vang
B: Industry
Local partners is Norsk Massivtre AS, producing
solid wood elements, and the Begna Bruk AS
sawmill, delivering high quality spruce.
C: NTNU
NTNU – Department of Architectural Design,
History and Technology. Research team on
“Materials and constructions”.
– marius waagaard, arnstein gilberg
and finn hakonsen
NTNU
VANG
INDUSTRY