Norway • 11-12 MAY
Hustadvika Tools by Rever & Drage Architects
11-12 May 2022
IE Tower: P.º de la Castellana, 259E (Torre Caleido) 28046 Madrid
HUSTADVIKA – At just 15-sq-m, this small-scale project was carefully-designed to support a wide range of applications and functions. Hustadvika Tools suits the client’s needs for a shelter to withstand severe rain and wind, a simple toolshed and a place to occasionally spend a night or two, as close to wild nature as possible.
Dreamt up by Norwegian architectural practice Rever & Drage Architects, the modest construction has a rather quiet demeanour – thanks to its dark and glossy wooden cladding – and is nestled among a scenic and lush environment. Located at the utmost of Norway’s stormy north-western coast, the project establishes a straight aesthetic parallel with the region’s emblematical nautical tradition, in an effort to latch a locally-inspired design vocabulary onto a geometry formally speaking to the delicacy and sharpness of contemporary architecture.
Hustadvika Tools deploys its sliding doors, depending on the temperature and allows for its users to articulate, via playful means, the setting or configuration befitting their most utmost desires. At the rear, is a glass wall, framing astonishing ocean views. As if this was not enough, the architects crafted a retractable roof, which unfolds to reveal a glazed ceiling – a feature which may come in handy as it helps with registering the sky and the changing daylight, even on a rainy day.
Oslo-based architects Martin Beverfjord, Tom Auger and Eirik Lilledrange prove themselves to be proficient and reliable in providing creative design solutions and high-quality projects. Their approach is all the more interesting as it tends to stand at the intersection of practical realisation and human occupation. Regardless of its size, the Hustadvika Tools project remains a dynamic intervention that skillfully shapes the users’ action and activities.
Photos Tom Auger
PROGRAM
11 MAY
10:00
Robert Thiemann
WELCOME
The ambitions of The Next Space
10:15
Juan Prego
Introducing Design Thinking
Our lead facilitator pictures the two-day journey
10:30
Kick-off
11:00
Talk 1 - Jenny Lee
People first
Why homes should be designed with people to make them sanctuaries for people
11:30
Miguel Oliveira (pCon)
Think, visualize, order
How software can support interior designers and architects to make the most of their creative design process by saving time to specify furnishings
11:45
Make-a-thon
Talk 2 - 13:00
Jaime Gonzalo
Seamless convenience
How tech can make residences more responsive to changing needs and circumstances
13:30
Gudy Herder (Eclectic Trends)
Leave No Trace
A hands-on introduction to material trends: how to make spaces tactile, inhabitable and future-proof?
14:00
Lunch at IE Tower
15:00
WOW concept Madrid
Site visit
16:30
Roca Gallery Madrid
Site visit
16:45
Talk 3 - Cara Eckholm: (Nabr)
Revolutionizing Ownership
Can the process of customizing, financing and purchasing a home be similar to buying a car – including post-purchase upgrades through an app?
17:15
Talk 4 - Lekshmy Parameswaran and László Herczeg
Caring communities
How our homes can empower us to connect, self-organise and care for each other as we live, work and age
17:45
Make-a-thon (continued)
19:30
Cocktail and day closing at Roca Gallery
12 MAY
09:30
Talk 5 - Beatriz Jacoste
Transformative food
How a revolution in food production will transform the way we design habitats
10:15
Make-a-thon (continued)
12:00
Talk 6 - Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño
Adaptive architecture
Why spatial fluidity and ambiguity can make houses future-ready