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.