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Initial ideas › Development and detail

› Construction and occupation

Kjetil Thorsen

For this project we were more specific at the beginning:

developing it through negotiations and discussions with

a lot of different people and that was a mindset.

Craig Dykers

I think the only way you can do that is to have a balanced

capability of architectural skill and skills in human relations.

They are able to talk to us. That doesn’t mean we don’t have

strong opinions but at least we can find constructive ways

to move forward.

Kjetil Thorsen

Where the cultural differences are big, we try to look for

similarities rather than the differences; it makes it easier

to move forward but it doesn’t devalue the issues at hand.

Craig Dykers

We also function generally within the office in the same

way. At a smaller scale in the design process we’re already

dealing with those same issues; so someone sitting across

the table and someone sitting next to you are going to

have occasionally conflicting ideas and we’re trying to work

that out.

What techniques do you use to cope with complexity

while you’re designing?

Kjetil Thorsen

Having a great idea, and being afraid of ruining it by creating

it, is maybe the biggest and most difficult jump of all creative

processes. Sort out the correct tools. Hand sketches,

drawings, computers, models, digital model-making, hand

model-making, music, reading, dance, performances;

whatever you have. I think to get a grip on these things is to

bridge between carrying, being pregnant with something and

then actually giving birth.

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