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education of architects is often synonymous with focus on digital

design and scale modelling. in this course, full scale building

for a client is incorporated as an educational tool. the intention

is that by developing their own architectural design and then

constructing it in full scale, the students achieve an in-creased

insight in the inherent properties of materials, structures,

workmanship, production and erection of structures, as well as

collaboration and communication. the project in 2015, presented

in this book, is a stargazing structure located in rindal.

the courses worked out this year where almost full-time and

16 weeks in duration. during the first 6 weeks, the 17 students

attending the course designed their own individual concept pro-

posals as “paper on the wall projects”. this period included sem-

inars with lectures both by students and teachers, three short

excursions, meeting with the client and a site visit. during the

subsequent 2 weeks, the teachers selected 5 of the proposals for

further development by student groups. the students could not

work on their own project and had to switch to another selected

project. both in the beginning and at the end of this period, the

5 concepts were presented to the client. after the last presenta-

tion a discussion was held between the client and the teachers

resulting in one project being chosen to be more modified and

built. the working phase with the chosen project lasted for six

weeks. three weeks were allotted for ordering components and

project modification and completion; after which, the building

process began. the trusses, the cladding and the platforms were

then prefabricated. during this week the client produced the

foundations at the site using student drawings. the stargazing

structure was then built on site throughout the subsequent week.

introduction

during the final week, the students produced a report

and a video documenting the projects and processes. the

report which remains unchanged follows this introduction,

and describes the 3 phases in the course.

the project chosen for realisation this year looks simple to

build from the outside, however when studying it further,

you discover that most of the intentions to achieve the

increased insights mentioned in the beginning of the intro-

duction are challenged. let us read the book and listen to

the student’s experience.

we wish to thank the municipality in rindal for their sup-

port and collaboration. special thanks to sivert dombu,

bjørnar nordlund and bård magne sande for their involve-

ment and excellent way of following up. without them, the

stargazing structure would not have been build. we also

wish to thank all of the 17 students for their achievement.

the project would definitively not exist without them. our

colleagues carla carvalho and Filippo Frontini have given

an invaluable contribution by establishing the blog for the

course and assisting with the structural design – thank

you. at last but not least we want to thank our sponsor tal-

gø and our suppliers who have sold us affordable materi-

als and components. You are indispensable for rindal and

us in making the project possible to carry out.

trondheim 2015

Jan Siem, Bjørn Otto Braaten and Arnstein Gilberg