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.
Selected for exhibition
A collaborative craft production initiative that aims at reviving Zagreb’s main street identity through crafts-design knowledge exchange activities.
Honorable mention
This project examines the power of an informal, spontaneous, low-tech spatial gesture: a ladder built to straddle a fence between two properties.
Honorable mention
Frizz23 and the five pioneering participatory processes behind it have charted a new approach to community focussed urban development.
Honorable mention
Building community resilience and offering neighbourhood wellbeing in a temporary affordable rental housing in a sustainable semi-urban environment
Groma aims at defining the guidelines for the design of a Cultural Hub in Ivrea able to strengthen the sense of community.
Let’s go to Lonja – a promenade with designed urban furniture along the river
A local attraction that combine modern architecture with natural landscapes, with the goal that residents can participate in their community.
An oral and visual history project on the politics of making, traditions, and the future of public (play) spaces, through the lens of 250 playgrounds.
Jonas - a new concept for a mixed-use residential building, designed to enhance social cohesion by creating a sustainable, inviting heart for the area
Gyaw Gyaw is small non-profit organization, utilising sustainable architecture as a tool for development in the Karen areas on the Thai-Burma border.
Project displays how neighbourhood is socially and physically crucial for post-disaster recovery with an idea of a floating, post-disaster settlement.
Co-Carts are multifunctional vehicles whose forms and functions stimulate collaboration, encourage experimentation and transform collective spaces.
The old Urania cinema was reconstructed into an office space that integrates a cultural centre open for public into the existing historic fabric.
Spatial patterns for communities & designers aiming to catalyse sharing culture in urban neighbourhoods
Transform a historical farm in a communal agri-cultural area based on circular economy, to project a better future for people, communities and nature.
Competition win in 2017. Situated in Fornebu, Bærum. 65 000 m2 dwelling, 750m2 commercial, 500m2 community space. Area: 37000 m2. Futurebuilt pilot.
The idea of “neighborhood terraces” is a response to changes that are occurring and to needs of inhabitants in a highly urbanized environment.
Together we matter; diversity forges the communities that hold our collective power to accelerate change and elevate the quality of our environment.
A speculative look into the upgrading of existing public housing by weaving function with an infrastructure for community formation.
Turning a neglected urban environment into an exciting mixed-use neighbourhood with adequate housing, commercial spaces and functional public areas.
The NVM is a social and economic initiative that seeks to share tools in the community thus reducing consumption and unessential spending.
The hospital area is well integrated into the city structure and has become an attractive neighborhood in the city Trondheim
The urban development concept "Hello Future?!" shows positive visions of the future of a residential neighborhood in Kiel (Germany).
Community festival mobilising citizens and fostering urban stewardship through raising awareness for built heritage to decrease social isolation.
Focusing on creating urban platforms consisting of sky gardens, elevated parks, and fixing urban behavior of humans.
A building catalog exploring the effect of the consolidation of physical artifacts and culture Oslo’s Fjord City development on neighborhood identity.
The project pioneers a transferable planning vocabulary for embedding ecologically-based watershed management principles into neighborhood design.
A speculation of a neighborhood where “waste” becomes a property of individuals, and legacy of ‘’waste’’ registered on a collective network.
This project explores spatial practices that have emerged in Beirut after the Civil War (1975-1990), and in response to the 2020 port blast.
A community on Ammerud with industrial kitchen, rental premises that the neighborhood can borrow cheaply, youth club and library
Our proposal for a permanent restaurant is a neighbourhood driven initiative, presenting the ideas and needs of daily users in the public discussion.
In the period 2013-2020, an area improvement was carried out in the Saupstad-Kolstad district. Broad approach has given the district new energy.
The Opportunity Districts are identified as strategic areas of development in Guatemala City that promote investment, innovation and sustainability.
The project aims to build a residential quarter with the goal of climate-adapted, sustainable planning and construction in lively neighbourhoods.
It aims to revisit the idea of the neighbourhood not through its administrative boundaries or urban form, but through a multi-scalar approach
Through Ficciones Compartidas, the old Tobacco Factory of Alicante became a new meeting place for neighbors, ecologies and cultural policies.
This housing building gets significant collective spaces-facilities and consists of a C shaped body with a glazed full-height atrium.
Living The Future rehabilitates a dismissed urban fragment in Milan introducing social dwelling spaces and new public services for the neighborhood.
'Das Kooperative Haus' is a master thesis by Danny Liu and Kai Pieper at Bauhaus University Weimar developing a vision of sustainable city planning.
The project aims to build a residential quarter with the goal of climate-adapted, sustainable planning and construction in lively neighbourhoods.
Urban redevelopment of the historical heart of Forest (a municipality of Brussels, BE) and transformation of its abbey into a regional cultural centre
TAKING PART showcases new creative methods of involving young people from vulnerable social housing in the planning of their own neighbourhoods.
An exploration of how the large-scale infrastructural project Missing Link 12 can be reprogrammed to better fit the context and needs of residents.
Studies and analysis already carried out in more than 60 neighborhoods of 19 different countries that can make a good contribution to Oslo Triennale.
Giving people a chance to integrate, create and celebrate the common environment
The value of creating a “Playable City,” as an ecosystem of multiscale playable opportunities intertwined within our existing infrastructure.
Permanent is a practice-based research to develop a mixed-use infrastructure for affordable and embedded cultural, educational and social space.
ETICity’s practice acts on urban collective/public space as citizenship and welfare devices to support the social infrastructure and situated politics
OPEN Garage is a research-driven proposition for a community equipment, situated in the context of post-socialist collective housing estates.
A research pamphlet evaluating the under valued success of South London's urban mutualism and establishing alternatives for neighbouring development
Urban Space for Physical, Mental and Social Health is a study for activating inter-block spaces and their untapped potential in Burgas, Bulgaria
Tourism Suburbia is a post-growth perspective on tourism, a framework for collective infrastructures on a neighbourhood level.
The project uses participatory placemaking to create safe, accessible and vibrant urban commons in marginalised public housing neighbourhoods.
Brainport Smart District is a future-oriented urban district that promotes sustainable, smart and productive living and working.
AUA is an experimental, participatory youth project on the cross section of urban pedagogy, sustainability education, action research & placemaking
CO-Scape is a community-driven approach to densify and inject mixed-uses into residential neighborhoods, adapting to the post-pandemic lifestyle.
This project maps the history and present of the Swedish gemensamhetslokal with the aim to understand its function in a sustainable future.
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
Lambertseterportalen is newly built interactive public sculpture installation located in the center of Lambertseterparken.
A model of how education, sustainability and design merge to harvest a bright future that attend the needs of the community and our neighborhoods.
'Claiming Space' is an architectural intervention, exhibition, and public programme produced in collaboration between Skeiv Verden and Fotogalleriet
Ten tests to develop new methods to involve residents and local actors in the development of existing and future public spaces of Gottsunda in Sweden.
I will propose many places in the city where people can gather in a relaxed atmosphere.
En Torno al Vergel–Around the Garden – is the winning proposal for the construction of a public housing block comprising 42 units in Seville, Spain.
Winning proposal for the transformation and future-proof development of a former Paper Mill industrial complex in Patras, Greece
'Let the sunshine in' is prospective research proposing 3 scales of actions for a better relationship between housing and the metropolitan city.
An alternative to demolition of social housing that reuses the unused, invites the collective over the sole, and shapes the community as a main core.
Integrated closed-loop technologies make public buildings profitable and community-friendly. Their daily use provokes ecological thinking in the city.
To rethink, reuse, and retransform slum disadvantages into advantages
Natural Landmarks is an illustrative guide and map that reframes ubiquitous street trees as significant monuments, sparking curiosity and stewardship.
A framework for neighborhood pedagogies of an undergraduate architecture thesis program in Santiago de Chile
Designers are doulas responsible for supporting communities through the co-creation of places that center the joy, wellbeing, and dignity of all.
Integrated approaches for public spaces to overcome conflicts and make them drivers in developing inclusive neighbourhoods.
An online tool for foraging in the city, identifying edible wild weeds and mapping public fruit trees.
An essential contribution to a conscious and convenient neighborhood is serviced laundry facilities. We simplify laundry and clean the future.
Startblokka is a temporary social project in Linderud Oslo, made possible through collaboration.
How to “preserve & tranform" the urban fabric of Barcelona ? How to create a flexible urban system reflecting the diversity of the city?
The entry conceptualizes the key neighbourhood principle of “sharing” through regulatory structures specific to Western Norway’s land division and use
The project explores the struggle to expand communal activity within small housings in Seoul and proposes an assessment platform.
Helhetlig utvikling av bykvartal i Ski sentrum med boliger, barnehage, skoler og bypark.
Youth-led Transitions is an urban transformation project seeking to make degraded spaces in northern Norway more liveable, vibrant and sustainable.
The use of voice, memory, and imagination as tools to create new ways to build and inhabit public spaces with our communities during COVID19 lockdowns
The approach to the Casa de la Asegurada of the Unidad Independencia complex seeks to analyze its impact in the neighborhood from a gender perspective
My practice is interdisciplinary, situated between art and architecture, research based, socially engaged and focused at trans-local neighbourhoods.
A distributed development strategy for the vitality and activation of the fragmented identity areas of a Neighbourhood.
A Tourist Trap? aims for the mediation between people and nature, connecting nature, places and culture.
Neighbourhoods as Networks of Care is a body of work investigating the neighbourhood as both a site and a material for creating participatory artworks
FWD is a landscape design collaborative based in Brooklyn, New York that empowers communities to share their stories in the built environment.
What experiential values can we observe from the collective pandemic, and how might we leverage these to envision our future for better neighborhoods?
KOMM’ RUM invites you to come together and share stories, memories and ideas in the neighbourhood of Johannstadt (Dresden, GER).
A meeting place/plays for the neighborhood, with the neighborhood of Rudshøgda
This perspective offers speculative scenarios on port neighbourhoods embedded in infrastructural landscapes, community spaces and circular materiality
Mereside Library/Laundrette combines essential services with opportunities to co-design, co-produce, adapt and share a local amenity.
This publication explores informal architecture and urbanism, analysing practical actions in three different continents (Africa, America, Asia).
It is a revitalization project of an industrial heritage site started and supported by the urban demand of a neighborhood.
By unlocking showroom space to more for less we make cities more inclusive & socially sustainable
A book providing inspiration as well as theoretical and practical knowledge on how to design public space for people of all ages.
The project seeks to readdress the privatisation of domestic labour by reimagining historic communal practices of labour in the public realm.
A worn down nonplace, absent on the locals mental city map has been transformed into a modern urban space with a luminous landmark.
Landscape fragment becomes dynamic suburban park: locals, travelers, workers, ecological zones share a new typology of a large-scale neighborhood park
In this master thesis Eva Storrusten researched the lost women ́s spaces of Stone Town, and interpreted the potential architecture to an infill-site
The project proposes an innovative, landscape-driven approach to renewing the community public space, reclaim those spaces that belong to the public.
BLCE showcases methods, models and policies of local ecosystem building, backed by case studies and a 4-year research and knowledge exchange process.
‘Down the Hill, To the Rivers’ is a drawing book about the life beyond the Godown arts centre in the neighbourhood of Kuala Lumpur city, Malaysia.
Modular er et modulbasert rehandelskonsept for bærekraftig handel og lokal verdiskapning — eller et slags sirkulært kjøpesenter om du vil
Deeply rooted in context and driven to repurpose a historical site for resilient communities through food security
Karlovac – a completely immersive experience for all your senses
This bottom-up initiative transforms the dense urban fabric of a 19th-century working-class area into a park and community centre.