Neighbourhood Index
Explore the selected projects, perspectives and practices from Oslo Architecture Triennale’s Open Call for submissions contributing to the mission: creating more diverse, generous and sustainable neighbourhoods.
Selected for exhibition
Reimagining how a mixed-use cooperative housing development could be conceived at a neighbourhood scale.
Selected for exhibition
The Croydon ‘Urban Room’ is a shopfront for public participation, fostering meaningful connection between people & place; past, present & future.
Honorable mention
Frizz23 and the five pioneering participatory processes behind it have charted a new approach to community focussed urban development.
Honorable mention
Transformative Densification is a design programme with the aim of rethinking densification models within the changing conditions of nowadays society.
We needed to change perspective on the meaning of our own practice and present what might be inspiring in a contemporary situation
The proposal questions inherited domestic spaces through the implementation of a basic set of retroactive tools for communal reset.
The aim of the project has been to look at the potential for future development of a district of Kristiansand with a focus on social sustainability.
This publication explores informal architecture and urbanism, analysing practical actions in three different continents (Africa, America, Asia).
A book providing inspiration as well as theoretical and practical knowledge on how to design public space for people of all ages.
BLCE showcases methods, models and policies of local ecosystem building, backed by case studies and a 4-year research and knowledge exchange process.
We aspire to impact policies, disciplines, hearts & minds by exemplifying vibrant green spaces, striving for ecological restoration.
We develop a participatory methodology utilizing a data-driven digital tool. The aim of is to deliver policy outcomes at the neighborhood scale
Jubileumsparken is an example of a long-term place-building process where a neighborhood is created years before the first residents move in.
A research pamphlet evaluating the under valued success of South London's urban mutualism and establishing alternatives for neighbouring development
Integrated approaches for public spaces to overcome conflicts and make them drivers in developing inclusive neighbourhoods.
Rolling Radio is a tool for Artists and Activists. A biketrailer that fits everything that is needed to hold a talk or performance in public space.
The value of creating a “Playable City,” as an ecosystem of multiscale playable opportunities intertwined within our existing infrastructure.
A year-long pilot project for a place-based data trust for the benefit of the coastal community of Brixham, a fishing town in South West UK.
This project maps the history and present of the Swedish gemensamhetslokal with the aim to understand its function in a sustainable future.
ecovillage Hannover is a future-oriented urban development which is guided by sufficiency and highest ecological standards
A knowledge based analysis with inspirational examples of housing with new qualities for better neighborhoods.
The project aims to create a neighboorhood, which seemingly created itself through many back and forths and in many years, unique at every corner.
How to “preserve & tranform" the urban fabric of Barcelona ? How to create a flexible urban system reflecting the diversity of the city?
Participatory Action Research could aid in creating sustainable & thriving communities/cities engaging the most prominent users & observers -Children.
Plugin Architecture is a form of practice that argues for a nimble and adaptive architecture ensuring housing is inclusive and accessible.
Self-initiated public realm project in Tallinn, functioning as a garden, a playable space and as material laboratory for outdoor use of rammed earth.
Project displays how neighbourhood is socially and physically crucial for post-disaster recovery with an idea of a floating, post-disaster settlement.
Reconversion of a derelict working-class “ilha” neighborhood into longterm affordable rental housing, in the historical city center of Porto,Portugal
Data is the new resource. We proposed to move from large data centres to small, diffuse data centres that feed neighbourhoods with their energy waste
an architectural inquiry into the future of microrayons in former socialist states
Semipublic network of ‘living-working as a service’ shared spaces spread throughout the empty shops of the city center of Geleen.
We search and research patient methods to approach the demolition of decaying modern neighborhoods and document them by photos and concrete models.
Turning a neglected urban environment into an exciting mixed-use neighbourhood with adequate housing, commercial spaces and functional public areas.
A speculation of a neighborhood where “waste” becomes a property of individuals, and legacy of ‘’waste’’ registered on a collective network.
Neighbourhoods as Networks of Care is a body of work investigating the neighbourhood as both a site and a material for creating participatory artworks
Modernist Neighbourhoods’ Preservation is an education project to inform people about values of Modernist housing estates and ways to preserve them.
This self-initiated proposal investigates how to upgrade post-war residential housing buildings to meet current environmental and social standards.
Bridging the gap between community & public space:Placemaking+Guatemala City´s Opportunity Districts
Three action-oriented practices to produce real outcomes in public space starting with temporary interventions and working toward long-term change.
It aims to revisit the idea of the neighbourhood not through its administrative boundaries or urban form, but through a multi-scalar approach
Living The Future rehabilitates a dismissed urban fragment in Milan introducing social dwelling spaces and new public services for the neighborhood.
Neighbourhood scale frameworks and demonstrations for energy and resource-efficient, climate positive circular communities in Norway and Europe.
Use of alternative and artistic methods to emphasise and investigate planning, participation, ecology and urban development at the Tromsø waterfront.
Together we matter; diversity forges the communities that hold our collective power to accelerate change and elevate the quality of our environment.
Youth-led Transitions is an urban transformation project seeking to make degraded spaces in northern Norway more liveable, vibrant and sustainable.
Miniature Megalopolis radically reimagines what a neighbourhood can be, through the lens of one of Oslo’s most complex urban areas - Groruddalen.
This is one office’s introspective study about their own choice of neighborhoods and how this corresponds to the neighborhoods being made today.
The Star Homes project explores ways to develop low-cost and insect-proof housing to enhance the health of people in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa
Transformation of a former industrial area into a new urban neigbourhood
Cohousing project with owner-occupied and cooperative apartments, artists’ studios and space provision for social associations and commerce
Gyaw Gyaw is small non-profit organization, utilising sustainable architecture as a tool for development in the Karen areas on the Thai-Burma border.
Groma aims at defining the guidelines for the design of a Cultural Hub in Ivrea able to strengthen the sense of community.
Expanding the possibilities of design by galvanizing power, amplifying the voices of everyday people, and activating shared visions for place.
TAKING PART showcases new creative methods of involving young people from vulnerable social housing in the planning of their own neighbourhoods.
A meeting place/plays for the neighborhood, with the neighborhood of Rudshøgda
Parkly is modular and circular outdoor furniture that creates green and happy public places for more friendly neighborhoods and liveable cities.
The entry conceptualizes the key neighbourhood principle of “sharing” through regulatory structures specific to Western Norway’s land division and use
A worn down nonplace, absent on the locals mental city map has been transformed into a modern urban space with a luminous landmark.
Neighborhood planning platform and practice focused on the environments supportive of early childhood and caregiver wellbeing
Designers are doulas responsible for supporting communities through the co-creation of places that center the joy, wellbeing, and dignity of all.
Civil society and the public sector are jointly turning a vacant building complex into affordable spaces for art, education, housing & administration
Taking small steps, collectively, towards a respected and lively neighborhood
The project explores how TKB´s physical and social structures has been influenced by societal changes during 100 years and discusses lessons learned.
Co-Carts are multifunctional vehicles whose forms and functions stimulate collaboration, encourage experimentation and transform collective spaces.
Proposal for a novel air rights management platform and structural strategy to develop housing with lasting benefits for residents through co-owning.
NABO_Lab is a pop-up platform for research and a neighbourhood laboratory .
Magnete is a community driven innovation hub, a place of care and culture, of relationship and plurality in the northeast metropolitan area of Milan
retouch™ any neighbourhood for more health & less stress.
AUA is an experimental, participatory youth project on the cross section of urban pedagogy, sustainability education, action research & placemaking
'Let the sunshine in' is prospective research proposing 3 scales of actions for a better relationship between housing and the metropolitan city.
...is an artistic examination of key locations in open space concerning neighbourhood.
‘Model of Jamaika’ is a 1:10 scale, walk-in model of the neighbourhood’s recently demolished Bloco 10, in the outskirts of Lisbon.
Community festival mobilising citizens and fostering urban stewardship through raising awareness for built heritage to decrease social isolation.
The Opportunity Districts are identified as strategic areas of development in Guatemala City that promote investment, innovation and sustainability.