TO INFINITY AND BEYOND: focusing on historical an future architecture
Abstract
This project will be focusing on the old Laboratory Building for Apothekernes Laboratorium, a
central production company of pharmaceuticals from the 1920 to 2006. The building is found at
Skøyen in Oslo. Through this project, there will be a focus towards how interior architecture can
transform this building into new platforms of learning and social networking; creating an inspiring
environment for learning natural science as well as unifying different generation in a social
environment.
By gathering informality through interviews, sections and theory, this assignment has developed a
proposal answering the thesis. The project holds a conceptual and functional focus, using creative
inspiration combined with a solution for best use of space. Colours, materials, form and light is used
to create a functional space with more than just sestet aspects. A combination of built in furniture
and free standing objects are used in order to fill a larger open space.
The project will be focusing on the 1st. and 2nd. floor where a Café is represented on ground floor
and a Newton room for science is created on the 2nd. floor. On behalf of two different themes, the
project will also hold two different concepts that works together as a whole.
This project includes a project description, theory whom the project is developed upon, research and
creative thinking for concept development as well as a justification of the final result.