Architecture and Nature
Architecture and Nature is the line for those of you who are curious about architecture and outdoor life.
Join us for a year filled with exciting projects and great trips. On the course we will work on projects inside the classroom and outside in nature. In the classroom we work with drawing, scale and model building. Outside we explore how architecture is not just four walls, but that it can also be living in a snow cave, a tent or a tree house.
The fall begins with basic training in scale, drawing and measuring. We will also work on how you can find your own style to draw with different media and materials. Carpentry and lathing are also on the program. We take this knowledge with us and use it in the field. The projects we will work on vary greatly. Some are quick sketch projects. Some are larger projects where we go through all the phases from idea to a finished construction.
Architecture is more than just the buildings around us. On trips we explore what architecture can be and what provides spatial experiences. For example, have you thought about what a campfire can do to the experience outside?
Throughout the winter we alternate between being out skiing or hiking, and in the classroom working on projects.
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Practical information
The year is divided so that we have three curriculum days a week, except for 4 weeks (the curriculum weeks) where we work with curriculum subjects.
Price for the school year 25/26:
Price full-year study: NOK 145,000
The loan fund provides a loan of NOK 151,690 for the school year 25/26 . 60 percent of this sum is a loan, 40 percent is a loan that will be converted into a scholarship when you are approved for your year at folk high school. To have a loan converted into a scholarship, you cannot have undocumented absences that exceed 10 percent.
Compared to a year of study, a year at a folk high school is cheaper. Everything is included; food, electricity, internet, rent, academic activities and travel. On some line trips you buy your own lunch.
Start: August 24/January 3
Ends: mid-May
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Join us for great experiences with Architecture and Nature
This is what you will learn
- Scale and drawing training
- Idea development and process
- Model building
- Full-scale construction
- Lathing and carpentry
- Hiking in the autumn mountains
- Sleeping under the open sky
- Skiing in Hallingdal's fantastic ski resort VU
- Make a snow cave, snow cave, igloo
- Transformation/renovation of one of the school's premises
- Using different artistic media
- Finding your own style of drawing
- Learn about national and international architecture
- Playing with the boundary between outdoor and indoor spaces
- Create your own sketchbook/journal
- How to create design in nature
Study trip for the line
For the big line trip we head towards the Alps. Here we visit towns and villages of all sizes and study the architecture. Spas are a must on the list, and of course we can't go to the Alps without skiing.
Teacher
Pernille Landro
Pernille is a teacher of architecture and nature. She grew up at the school, and is thus a true folk high school child. She has also been a student and fellow at a folk high school further north in the country. Pernille is a graduate of NTNU in Trondheim. She has a strong interest in most things that involve being outdoors, and especially freeriding, long-distance mountain skiing and climbing.
Teacher
Liv Storla
Liv has worked as an architect in Canada, Vietnam and Norway with both architecture and landscape. She has a heart for creating a bridge between architecture and nature, preferably by working with wood, whether bamboo or birch, and has also attended a woodworking course. She also has a master's degree in art and has had several exhibitions in Dublin, Ireland.