Andrew Norskog Architecture Portfolio

ANDREW NORSKOG2008-2014

ANT316 1/2 W Addison ST. # 308

Chicago IL 60613

(505) 795 8306

[email protected]

http://cargocollective.com/atnorskog

RIDGE CREST HOUSE

TESUQUE VALLEY HOUSE

CIRCLE HILL COMPOUND

EL CERRITO SLEEPING CABIN

COLIBRI GARDEN

BISHOPS SPA

OWENS LAKE WATER TREATMENT FACILITY

STABILIZING THE FAVELA

SHADOWLANDS LIBRARY

ASCLEPIUS MACHINE(Spontaneous Mutations)

CALDERA

UNDER WATER OPTICAL NETWORKS

LIST OF PROJECTS

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Entry Courtyard

FLOOR PL AN

The 160 House is custom contemporary

house that combines the regional style with

classic modernist elements. The house has

been an evolving project that has adapted

to the clients desires with the help of the

renderings done throughout the design and

construction. Under the direction of the

project Architects and working closely with

the client and consultants, I developed a

series of renderings to illustrate the options

and design possibilities. In addition I helped

with many of the architectural details that

emerged from the renderings.

RIDGECREST HOUSE

S I T E P L A N

RIDGECREST HOUSE

West portal and library

W E S T E L E vAT I O N

S O U T H E L E vAT I O N

Kitchen dining area

Media room

RIDGECREST HOUSE

Spa and master suite

Spa and suana

The Tesuque Valley house is private residence

that is to be built north of Santa Fe. The house

is intended to be a place of refuge for the

family where they can come together and

have fun. The house is planed out with larger

family gathering areas both indoors and out.

The orientation of the house is towards the

Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

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TESUQUE vALLEY HOUSE

F L O O R P L A N

Main House Entrance

Circle Hill Compound is a self sufficient

compound. It extends throughout the

entire property. Pavilions and garden

intertwine between the sleeping quarters

and party pavilions. The compound

provides an ideal oasis. It take in the

panoramic views the Mountains and the

City of Santa Fe while providing all the

amenities of a resort.


S I T E P L A N

Outdoor Pavilion Fireplace

Lower Pavilion with compound above


Entry gate

Kitchen in main house

Entrance to the Party Pavilion

South East perspective of the Party Pavilion



This sleeping cabin is a 400 sq. ft. box with a flying

shed roof. Completely clad in 1/8” plate steel the

cabin locks up tight. The custom built windows and

doors all integrate with the steel skin. As it ages

the hot rolled steel will rust it will blend with the

reddish brown sandstone that it is built upon. It is

located on top of a 80 foot cliff over looking the

Pecos River in northern New Mexico. This simple

program has a king sized bed, water closet and

shower with an outdoor kitchen on the deck. This

was my first commission out of Graduate school.

East Elevation

F L O O R P L A N

Pecos river


South Elevation with the canyon beyond

S I T E P L A N

Interior looking South

Weathered Steel with Local Sandstone

Vanity with Clerestory above


Roof Detail

Custom Steel Shutter

Interior looking North

MATERIAL PALETTE PL ANTING RECOMMENDATIONS

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COLIBRI GARDENThe Colibri Garden is an exercise in Layering space. The

actual area of the garden is relatively small. Though,

through creating a series of transitions spaces and

setting up screens the space feels much larger.

The Different layers establish zones with out creating

serious physical boarders. Working with The screens

are both for the public and private but also from the

natural elements, specifically the summer sun. And

through the use of the Japanese concept of Borrowed

landscape the garden feels much larger.

Lighting into the space in three layers. Up lights on the

existing Pinon trees that define the garden boundary

at night. Small LED down lights embedded on the wall.

And lighting on the Pergola for outdoor dining and night

reading.

Then to focus on the micro aspects of the garden to

create a closer read and points of interest small water

elements both active an passive to draw local wildlife

and humidity to the air.

North perspective

N E W M E x I C O P R I v I T

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South Perspective

Bishops Spa is small private spa that takes

its queues from the traditional Japanese

style bathhouse mixed with contemporary

aesthetics and southwestern material

palette.

Sitting on a hillside overlooking the valley

below the spa is small and intimate in

the expanse of the hillside. The space is

complete with Sauna, warming room and

hot tub.

The metal trellis structure is act as the

framework for the wisteria to grow upon

and provide shade during the spring and

summer with fragrant blossoms. The

project is around 560 sq. ft. and is under

constriction

BISHOPS SPA

F L O O R P L A N

R U S T I C R I v E R R O C KF L A G S T O N EW A L N U T P AT I N A S T E E L

B ISHOPS SPA

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OWENS L AKE DESALINIZATION PL ANT The Owen’s Lake Desalinization and Water

Treatment Facility is a speculative project that

addresses the city of Los Angeles’ ever growing

need for water. Since the completion of the Los

Angeles aqueduct in 1913, the once fertile valley

of Owen’s Lake has become a dry and toxic

hyper-saline playa.

The facility would use the drained lake basin as

a water reservoir, holding water pumped in from

the Pacific Ocean while restoring the ecosystem.

Using future technologies, the facility would

achieve a zero net energy by using bio-batteries

and halobacteria water filters. Through the use

of halobacteria (the microorganisms responsible

for the red color) a steady flow of drinking water

would be produced at low costs while correcting

the damage done by the original aqueduct.

The facility would be both sublime and grotesque.

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Water cooling tower with Observation Deck

Owens Lake

Water is pumped in from the Pacific Ocean through the

Owens Aqueduct (A) to the proposed Owens lake Hyper

Saline Reservoir (H). At the Reservoir the water will be

processed through a series of desalinization processes

and water treatments (B, C, F, G) before going back

to Los Angeles (D). Steps D and E are byproducts of

electricity and salt which are used locally.

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As depicted above the halobacteria have

augmented the water treatment and desalinization

process. The halobacteria’s has a unique function

to take hyper saline water and with the use of sun

light generate electricity. The chemical process is

known as the ATP cycle. The waste products of this

chemical reaction are fresh water and Salt. The

most important addition to the traditional water

treatment facility is the halobactieria brine ponds

(A). From the brine ponds the water goes through

the fuel cells where the electricity is generated and

the waste is desalinated water (B). The water goes

into Ionic tubes and the salt goes to a collection

area where is added back to the brine ponds to

maintain Halobacteria health.

LEGEND

A. Brine fly harvesting pools

B. Salt shell fuel cell housing

C. Bridge

D. Pinkhalcite rock garden

E. Hanging gardens.

F. Water Management Station

G. Salt collection area.

H. Birding observation tower.

I Night Time Slow sand fields

J. Saline adapted orchards

K. Salt marsh (migration bird habitat)

Concept Diagram of Desalinization Process


Rendering of the halobacteria in the brine ponds with the cooling tower beyond

The Owens Lake Water Treatment plant

Control Center is where the monitoring of

the desalinization happens. The Facility

is divided into three main areas - The

research laboratories, the common areas

and the server and records.

In order to properly monitor the Lake’s

Microbiom there will be a full staff

used to study and map the changing

water conditions as ocean water mixes

with the existing species with in the

reservoir basin. The lab is complete with

gas chromatograph equipment and

Bacteriological sequencing. The facility is

completely self-sufficient being powered

by a compliment of solar technologies

and from the fuel cells developed from

the Halobacteria found naturally in Owens

Lake.

Control Center Roof Plan

Control Center Perspective


Rendering of the control center with the floating desalinization plant beyond

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system diagram of water treatment process

sketch of water cooling tower with bird watching deck above

sketch of floating desalinization plant

sketch of Owens lake aqueduct terminus waterfall

LEGEND

1. Halo Bacteria Brine pond

2. Fuel cells

3. Ionic Filter Tube

4. Salt collection area

5. Evaporation houses

6. Water Management Station

7. Salt collection area.

8. Cooling and aeration tower.

9. Night Time Slow sand fields

10. Fresh Water storage tanks

11. Main pipeline.


Rendering of Owens lake after the it has been filled

STABILIZING THE FAvEL A

In the favela of Acaba Mundo over crowding is problem. Migrant

workers coming from rural villages, to find work, move into the

favelas where the terrain is unstable. Over crowding on steep

slopes contributes to erosion and landslides. Because of the lack

of infrastructure residents tend to dump their trash up the hillside

and release disposal water down. The homes are constructed of the

cheapest materials are often built on unconsolidated terrain, they have

no foundation and are cut vertically into the slope which all contribute

to unstable conditions.

The Stabilization project envisions a sustainable intervention by

creating a Bamboo Park on the adjacent hill, Sion. Using a verity of

bamboo species the Park would provide a thick ground cover that

would slow the rate of run off, allow greater water absorption and

percolation thus reducing erosion and its potential for landslide.

The bamboos will not only help stabilize the surrounding landscape

but will provide a natural resource that will replenish itself. As an

example of how to use the bamboo integrated with the local building

systems is the multi family building that works in conjunction with the

maintenance of the bamboo park.

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GARBAGEVERTICAL CUT SLOPE

FOUNDATION OVER UNCONSOLIDATED TERRAIN

Anthropogenic actions such as the man-made horizontal and vertical cuts to set up houses in this unstable geological area, associated with high precipitation rates were considered to be the main causes responsible for the landslides trig-gering.

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ROSCK SLOOPE

FAVELA

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accumulated precipitation rate reaches or exceeds the threshold rate of 100 mm.

RUNOFF

EVAPORATION

TRANSPIRATION

INFLITRATION Deeper failures that reaches the rock mass occurs when the rock discontinuities are filled with water and the weathering degree of rock mass is high. Topography is usually being modified and heaps of garbage and waste material from constructions are daily thrown along the slopes and drainages, creating piles of waste deposits placed in unstable conditions,

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Diagram of the slope conditions of the favela

Season 1 Bamboos

Season 2 Bamboos

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Bamboo has been used all over the world for many diverse uses from the giant timber bamboos that grow to be

up to a foot in diameter and more than a hundred feet tall to the erosion bamboos that are also good for eating

and for arts and crafts. These two are the primary types that are to be used in the proposed bamboo garden.

Set up into two seasonal planting groups the large timber bamboos work with the smaller bamboos to create a

pastoral garden for the city of Belo Horazonte and potential work for the residents of the Favela as gardeners and

bamboo farmers.

B A M B O O G A R D E N A N D S E A S O N A L G R O W I N G A R E A S

Bambosa Membranacea Bambusa dolichoclada ‘Stripe’

Bashania Fargesi

Phyllostachy humilis

The Sion Mountain Bamboo Garden is intended to slow the precipitation through the use of dense

bamboos such as the Phyllostachys aureosulcata as know as yellow groove bamboo and pleioblastus

humilis with its dense rapid growth would line the pathways defining the edge with the larger timber

bamboos behind. During the rainy season the path would act as over flow for the natural drainage

streams.


Rendering of bamboo garden pathway

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BAMBOO SCREENGREEN WALL

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BAMBOO COLUMNWALL

TREATD BAMBOO MICRO PILES

COLD WATERAQUIFER USINGCHARCOLED BAMBOO

WATER PIPEAETS SYSTEM

BAMBOO BEAMS AND JOIST SYSTEM

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SHADOWL ANDS LIBRARY (vESSEL FOR THE WESTERN CANNON)

The Shadowlands Library is to be a discrete

addition to the town of Marfa. To be among the

art collections of Chinati foundation and the

Judd foundation it is to be a place of reflection

that evokes a deep sense of place.

The Library is to hold the western cannon,

approximately 25,000 volumes with subject’s

encompassing friction, history, mathematics

and any treatise that has shaped the way we

think and live throughout recorded time. The

volumes are to be held in series of rooms .

100 rooms that hold 200 books and those

rooms will be with 4 larger rooms. Each of the

larger rooms represents an age of thought.

Beginning with the Theocratic Age to the

Aristocratic Age then to the Democratic and

finishing in the Chaotic Age. There will be a

public reading room and plaza facing the main

street.

S I T E P L A N

Rendering of the Shadowlands Library

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SHADOWL ANDS LIBRARY

L I B R A R Y Z O N E P L A N

THEOCRATIC AGE2000 BCE - 1321 ACE

ARISTOCRATIC AGE1322-1832

DEMOCRATIC AGE1832-1900

CHAOTIC AGE20TH CENTURY

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS

RECEPTION DESK

THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

ANCIENT INDIA

ANCIENT GREECEROMANSMIDDLE AGES

PORTUGAL

GERMANY

FRANCE

ENGLAND / SCOTLAND

ITALY

SPAIN

SCANDINAVIA

GERMANY

FRANCE

GREAT BRITAIN

ITALY

SPAIN / PORTUGAL

RUSSIA

SERBO-CROAT

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GREAT BRITAIN / IRELAND

UNITED STATES

LANTIN AMERICA

ITALY

SPAIN

CATALOINA

PORTUGAL

AFRICA

RUSSIA

CZECHPOLISHHUNGARIAN

GREEK

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zone 6 zone 7

READING ROOM

Rendering of the Shadowlands LibraryL I B R A R Y Z O N E D I A G R A M

Library cross section through exterior wall and hybrid columns

Reception Desk


Rendering of Reading area in the Chaotic Zone

Rendering of Hybrid Door / Column Sketch of Hybrid Door / Column

Plan of the Hybrid Door / Column

Library cross section through library and awning

Library section perspective through exterior awning


Library section perspective through interior courtyard

Wall detail on South Facade to reduce sound and improve cooling

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COMPOSITE SENSOR RAMP

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NOTE:WHEN A DISABLED BODY MOVES INTO ANY SPACE, IT DISCLOSES THE SOCIAL BODY IMPLIED BY THAT SPACE (Tobin Siebers. Disability Theory. 2008)

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The Ascelpius machine is an augmented

Wheel Chair Ramp. The Ramp has the

ability to be placed in any condition.

For this project the Ramp was placed in

Beijing. Located at the Fifth Ring Road and

Airport Expressway, the Ramp will bridge

the canal for pedestrian traffic of all types

and enabling the disabled. The Renderings

and the Technical Drawings done for the

Design for all Competition and where then

used for raising grant money.



The Scuba Art Collective is a group of young

artists that I have worked with in the past. I have

helped them with the production of many of they

works but the two that have received the most

attention I have shown here. The first “Inside

the Outside” and the second “Ice POP”. The

artist group works in self described as a folk art

Bauhaus.

SCUBA ART COLLECTIvE

Inside the outside is a mobius strip floating in air

with a paper sculptures depicting a daily narrative

as it flows in on its self. Made of laminated

Masonite and painted white the form was an

exercise in translating the digital into an actual

form with projecting hundreds of strings from

ceiling to floor in order to get the form correct. The

piece was shown in Santa Fe and in Dallas before

being acquired for a private collection.

Close up of inside the outside

Inside the outside with the lights on

Inside the outside with the lights off

The “Ice POP” is a recycled U-Hal Truck transformed into an

art gallery on wheels. It is themed on antarctic explorations

from the first explores of the most southern region to Kurt

Vonigets Ice-nine. The back of the truck was remodeled with

concrete light weight concrete floors, white walls and pickled

wood shelves and ceiling. It has its own lighting and sound

system for openings. It is to go on tour soon.

SCUBA ART COLLECTIvE

Ice POP on display at the center for contemporary art Santa Fe

Interior of Ice POP

A few of the ice POP team members

Underwater Optical Network Technologies or U.O.N.

is start up company developing small underwater

robots. The robots are designed to work in a network

to monitor the ocean and its changes. I did a series

of ministrations to help with articulating the ideas of

how the technology could be used. The image above

is intended to show how the network could be used to

monitor dredging and to prevent the polluting of natural

habitats during the process. The image to the right is

how the network could be used with divers in locating

and monitoring coral reefs with out the acoustical

problems. The image on the next page show its deep

sea application. The top image show how the robots

could detect a potential oil leek before it happens. The

two images below show how the robots could be used to

monitor the vertical change in ocean mixing in real time

with out data loss. The potential for the technology is

endless and these images are meant to help imagine

those uses.

UNDERWATER OPTICAL Scenic rendering of sensor bots in a dredging condition

Scenic rendering of sensor bots in diver communication

NET WORK TECHNOLOGIES

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Scenic rendering of sensor bots in deep sea pipe monitoring

Scenic rendering of sensor bots in vertical profiling pt. 2 Scenic rendering of sensor bots in vertical profiling pt. 1

1000 CANYONS

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