Landscape architecture
In HAV we encounter what Elin T. Sørensen calls diversity-promoting marine landscape architecture, which she has developed in collaboration with marine biologist Eli Rinde at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research.
Diversity-promoting marine landscape architecture
“The problem when we create functional and rational residential areas near the fjord is that the natural coast is straightened and flattened,” says Sørensen. This way, the qualities of the natural shore zone and important ecological functions are erased. Man-made, smooth materials and right angles provide little opportunity for marine life to attach and take up residence.
To physically accommodate underwater life, a diversity-enhancing marine landscape architecture helps reclaim these qualities by listening to and shaping itself around the needs of local marine life, then introducing shapes, textures, materials and colours that have a positive impact on marine life. In this way, landscape architecture and artistic elements can contribute to increased well-being and diversity in the urban shoreline.
Technology, biology and art
Together with marine biologist Eli Rinde, creative technologist Ivar Kjellsmo, plasterer Jean Waldemar Hoff and others, Sørensen is working on various proposals for diversity-promoting marine landscape architecture that will be displayed in HAV. The proposals take on the role of art and sculptural architectural elements for the public, as housing for marine life, and as research surfaces for marine biologists.