STUDIO BRIEF:

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Although The Lofoten Islands represent an important and highly valuable future human source of nutrition, they have become more and more threatened by human intervention, leading already to the disappearance of some once local spices, and to a drastic fall in numbers in many others.

Two of the very ongoing threats to these sill very diverse and wild flora and fauna, are the increase of aqua-cultural-activities, and the increasing number of visiting tourists every year. Both interact as open systems and leave traces of their presence behind, spreading, extending and densifying in this Nature, altering the natural into cultural landscape.

In this studio we will try to find ways of designing a vision of a cultivation of natural landscape, which fits better to both, natural and human necessities as well as local and global interests of the future, by using state of the art methods of terrain analysis and GIS data sets as initial input, to gain a better understanding of local topography and environment. However, the challenge will be how to translate these deeper readings of nature into semi-artificial architectural settlements, showing a negotiation in form of a more symbiotic coexistence of the projected built environment, into the existing natural space, as well as providing architectural responses to a future sustainable touristic – and aquacultural use (cultivation) of the Island of Moskenes, by using state of the art technology and digital artistic creativity.