Nordic Building Code; Past, Present, Future

Research Symposium
Wednesday 10. October 10.00 -1700
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)

The aim of the research symposium is to establish a space for conversation and networking for researchers working in the field and to give an overview of ongoing research on building regulation and close related issues, such as guidance and knowledge production connected to building regulation. What are the questions asked? What are the necessary questions to be asked?


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Symposium

The aim of the symposium is to establish a space for conversation and networking for researchers working in the field and to give an overview of ongoing research on building regulation and close related issues, such as guidance and knowledge production connected to building regulation. What are the questions asked? What are the necessary questions to be asked?

The symposium in October 2018 will be followed up by a larger conference on building code in spring 2019 that will focus on the Nordic perspective regarding the development of the building code.

Abstract:

In 1978 the Nordic Committé for Building Regulation (Nordiska kommittén för byggbestämmelser, NKB) presented a common framework for the Nordic Countries, which is based on a performance-based regulation. The transition from prescriptive based regulation towards performance-based regulation is interesting from a critical architectural history and theoretical perspective and constitutes a challenging and ongoing process that engages also various research communities. It also raises the question what the next step of development for the code might be. This symposium constitutes the first Nordic gathering of researchers focusing on architecture and nordic regulation from both a critical and operative perspective.

Challenges of performance-based regulation

A critical view of aims, effects and design of performance-based regulation.
The (ongoing) transition from prescriptive-based to performance-based regulation:

  • History of regulation & development (aims and effects)
  • Analysing the aims and outcomes of Nordic performance-based regulation
    (Interaction with and influence on architectural design and societal goals)
  • Challenges of performance-based regulation in order to reach the original aims (of freedom in solutions and design, a base for innovation etc, how can a performance-based regulation be formulated?)

Guidance, dissemination and knowledge production related to regulation

  • The role of visualization of performance-based regulation
  • Digitalization as phenomenon impacting the design of regulation
  • Legislation, guidance and dissemination to avoid uniformity and normalization


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Program

Wednesday 10. October 10.00 -17.00

Time Name Theme
10.00 Tim Anstey &
Michael Hensel
Introduction
10.10 Emma Street Regulating the built environment:
a (brief) history
10.35 Anders Kirkhus Non-functional aspects of performance-based legislation
11.00 Short break
11.10 Erik Sigge The rational era – 60s-70s initiating performance demands
11.35 Helena Mattson Towards Performance Based Regulation: Building Codes as a Site of Organizing Life
12.00 Lunch
Exhibition in the AHO hall:
Byggforskserien; Past, Present, Future
13.00 Marja Lundgren Performance demands in building codes conditioning architecture, exemplified through energy and daylight
13.25 Rob Marsh Exploring the paradox of Nordic passive solar architecture: on the negative consequences of changing regulative paradigms and architectural responses from 1970 to 2020
13.50 Short break
14.00 Jørgen Hallås Skatland Society’s blueprints − A study of the Norwegian building code’s modal descriptions of a building
14.20 Bjørnar Nørstebø A new role for visualization in knowledge dissemination?
14.35 Håvard Haukland Spacemaker – transforming the “blank sheet” industry with artificial intelligence
14.55 Short break
15.00 Tim Anstey &
Michael Hensel
Podium discussion
16.00 END


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Speakers

Emma Street

Dr Emma Street is Associate Professor of Planning and Urban Governance at the Department of Real Estate and Planning, Henley Business School, University of Reading, U.K.
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Anders Kirkhus

Anders Kirkhus, is an architect and senior advisor at  SINTEF Building and infrastructure in Oslo.
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Erik Sigge

Erik Sigge is an architectural historian and preservationist with a PhD in history and theory of architecture (2017) from the School of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Helena Mattson

Helena Mattsson, Professor in Theory and history of Architecture, KTH.
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Rob Marsh

Rob Marsh, Architect PAA PhD, Head of Sustainability, C.F. Møller Architects Copenhagen.
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Marja Lundgren

Marja Lundgren, Architect SAR/MSA, PhD candidate at the School of Architecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Jørgen Hallås Skatland

Assistant Professor / Department of Architecture and Planning
Faculty of Architecture and Design; NTNU
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Bjørnar Nørstebø

PhD Candidate AHO 2017-2020 :  [SINTEF Byggforsk].
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Håvard Haukland

Architect, Founder and CEO at Spacemaker AI
– The world’s first Artificial Intelligence for Property Development
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Tim Anstey

Tim Anstey is an architect and academic,  professor Institute of Form, Theory and History. He joined AHO as Chair of PhD Programme in 2013.
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Michael Hensel

Michael Hensel is professor at Institute of Architecture, Oslo.
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