Helen & Hard Architects   Stavanger, Norvège

The exhibition focuses on five themes.

Offshore Culture : potential relationships between the cultural and cognitive heritage of the oil industry and urban planning/urban architecture, with an eye toward relevant forms of knowledge/resource transfer.

Process Design : open, self-organized or participatory processes that call into question the role of the architect, the design phase, and the final product itself.

Stavanger – the Historic Wooden-House Town : the values of a commission carried out within a historic, protected urban fabric caught in tension between commercial interests and heritage preservation.

House Occupation : transformation and repurposing of existing buildings. Innovative use of resources, atmospheric qualities and suggestion.

Housing in Transforming Neighborhoods, Strategies : integration within the urban planning framework ; development and composition of different housing typologies ; residential qualities linked to the passages between public and private domains ; integration of housing programs with other programs.

(Original text of 2005, machine translated in 2026.)