ABSTRACT
Building practice in scale 1:1 as an educational tool has existed within Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the NTNU University for more than 15 years. This includes ten years of participation in Erasmus IP workshop “Tectonics in Building Culture”. This way of learning to become an architect is growing fast and today it takes place both in Norway and around the world. Among these educational tools, we find different directions. One is cases where a location and the regional materials is generating a 1: 1 construction with a minimum of planning on beforehand. Another is construction work based on already designed and planned project. Between these two practices, variations of educational tools are developed. The study is based on experienced knowledge leaning on theories from Plato (428–348 B.C.) and Aristoteles (384–322B.C.). This by a comparison between the two cases built in Norway: (1) a Protection Shed at the Erasmus IP workshop at 2007 at Hopsjø and (2) a Sauna at Vang in Valdres built during a master course in 2015 at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the NTNU. Based on the period between 2007 and 2015 the study will investigate the meaning of tectonic related to craftsmanship versus an experimenting approach, to industrial production versus the notion of local materials and to the question of sustainable development in a region in times of globalization.
