The conference deals with the redevelopment of the Tjuvholmen area, near the Oslo city centre, designed and completed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop between 2006 and 2012 within the guidelines of the masterplan designed by Niels Torp in 2005.
The Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed three buildings and part of the surrounding landscape.
Site of former shipyards, the area was transformed in a new vibrant part of the city. Integrating art and leisure, the complex combines the Astrup Fearnley Museum and an office building, with a new public sculpture park, swimming beach and waterside promenade. Three timber-clad buildings shelter under a single swooping glass roof in a newly landscaped public sculpture garden.
A promenade along the waterfront links Tjuvholmen back to the city centre. The cafe, a beach for swimming, and the sculpture park are all designed to attract a diverse range of visitors and create a truly public space.
The many stories behind this project will be narrated integrating the different and complementary points of view of the developer Olav Selvaag (Selvaag Gruppen) and the architect Emanuela Baglietto (Partner in charge of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop), introduced and moderated by Prof. Lorenzo Ciccarelli (University of Florence).
Emanuela Baglietto is a partner at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and she is currently responsible for a large residency project in Sydney and a project for a contemporary art museum in Istanbul.She is also in charge of experimental projects such as the “zero-carbon” greenhouse complex in Alassio, Italy, and a floating island electrically propelled through photovoltaic cells.
Lorenzo Ciccarelli is Research Fellow in History of Contemporary Architecture at the University of Florence, and member of the Scientific Committee of the Renzo Piano Foundation. His studies are devoted to the Italian modern and contemporary architecture in a global perspective, with special attention to cultural migrations and labour organization strategies. His research has been recently published in the edited books Post-war Architecture Between Italy and the UK. Exchanges and Transcultural Influences and Largest Architectural Firms. Design Authorship and Organization Management.
Olav H. Selvaag is an active owner of the real estate company Selvaag AS. Olav is the chairman of the residental development company Selvaag Bolig who has built nearly 60.000 homes in Norway since 1948. Olav was in charge of the Tjuvholmen project in the initial phases, and was actively involved in the development of the Astrup Fearnley Museum in cooperation with RPBW until completion. Olav is currently involved in several large urban developments in the greater Oslo area, ex. Snøbyen, Løren, Fornebu, Union Brygge, Fredrikstad (FMV). Olav is the chairman of the architecture and design firm Snøhetta, and he is currently on the board of the Nationaltheateret.
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The event is part of the project Architecture: Projects, Territory, Relations, a series of conferences and seminars organized by IIC Oslo.
