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25

ZEB

annual report 2014

A meeting between an architect and a

social anthropologist has resulted in the

work “Net-Positive Office Buildings and

Dialogical Form Finding”. Andreas Eggertsen

Teder is practicing architect at Snøhetta

and PhD fellow at the Research Center

on Zero Emission Buildings. Håkon Fyhn

is social anthropologist and post-doctoral

fellow at NTNU. Together they have set

out on a journey to answer the question;

How can Appreciative Inquiry (AI )and

dialogue stimulate co-creative morphological

development of Zero Emission Buildings?

The purpose of the study was to gain insight

into critical elements of a design process

that stimulates integration of new knowledge

and innovation in buildings. The findings

derive from the case study Powerhouse

(PH) Brattørkaia in Trondheim, a pilot project

for the Research Centre on Zero Emission

Buildings. PH Brattørkaia is planned to be

Norway’s first newly built Plus-energy and

Zero Emission office Building, i.e. it should

locally produce more renewable energy

than it consumes including energy bound

in materials, energy used for construction,

operation and deconstruction. The main data

collection for this study was done through

participation and observation by the first

author, who had double roles throughout

the schematic design phase; as a practicing

architect and an observing researcher. The

second author contributed with reflections

on the nature of interdisciplinary dialogue

and provided a theoretical framework for

understanding dialogical development of form.

The data from the participating observation

were furthermore triangulated with a series

of in depth interviews performed by the

Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings,

NTNU (Meistad and Strand 2012) as well as

targeted interviews committed by the authors

themselves.

The study focus on collaboration in early

stage design development of Plus-energy

office buildings. Crucial for collaboration

was a consortium agreement where the key

stakeholders formed an Integrated Design

Delivery Solutions (IDDS) contract that

stimulated work in-between the alliance

partners. The consortium agreement made

it possible for the design team members

to collaborate across organizations and

disciplines. The design process was structured

in line with the Integrated Energy Design

FINDING FORM IN DIALOGUE

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DIALOGBASERT FORMGIVNING

Buildings can have a positive impact

on the climate and the environment

Andreas Eggertsen Teder (NTNU) and Håkon Fyhn (NTNU)