an inner city ecological culture square, based on ecology and local governance
Hausmania Ecological Pilot Project, Oslo
Client: Hausmania West Bank
The artists wished to produce a counterplan to show the value of the maintaining and developing the area. For one week, the users of Hausmania participated in a workshop with GAIA architects, municipality employees and politicians to agree on a common proposal for the development.
The outcome was the Municipality giving the green light, to the development of Hausmania square including the rehabilitation of rehearsal rooms, cheap apartments and new stages indoors and outdoors.. Hausmania has since become a living part of Oslo's cultural scene. The complex contains the Theatre of Cruelty, galleries, a cinema, a multifunction hall, a café, dark rooms, indoor skate hall and the Culture Working place Humla. Cheap studios, rehearsing rooms, recording studios and other facilities are rented out.