The simple construction of the open bamboo facades provided ample natural ventilation through out the whole structure. Iron wood make up the solid frame construction and serves as a comfortable floor for the children to play on. The bookshelves are a floor to ceiling height structure that runs the full length of the concrete wall and the floor remains unfurnished to give room different activities
Architects.- TYIN tegnestue Architects + Rintala Eggertsson Architects
Built by.- Students and Tutors from NTNU
Tutors: Sami Rintala and Hans Skotte
Students: Pasi Aalto, Jan Kristian Borgen, Mari Folven, Ragnhild Forde, Sunniva Vold Huus, Olav Faasetbru Kildal, Lene M. N. Kvaerness, Oda Moen Most, Orjan Nyheim, Karoline Salomonsen, Anne Sandnes, Ola Sendstad, Kristoffer B. Thorud, Caroline Tjaernaas, Anders Sellevold Aaseth.
Location: Ban Tha Song Yang, Thailand
Client: Safe Haven Orphanage
Project: Library
Cost: 29.000 NOK / 4.800 USD / 3.650 euros.
Building period: 12.–29. January 2009
About TYIN tegnestue Architects
TYIN was established in 2008 and has built projects in poor and underdeveloped areas of Thailand, Uganda and Sumatra. Solutions to fundamental challenges call for an architecture where everything serves a purpose, an architecture that follows necessity.
By involving the local populace actively in both the design and building of their projects, TYIN are able to establish a framework for mutual exchange of knowledge and skills. All materials used in TYIN´s projects are collected close to the sites or purchased from local merchants.
The studio is currently run by Andreas G. Gjertsen and Yashar Hanstad, and has its headquarters in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. TYIN has won several international awards and their projects have been published and exhibited worldwide.
METALOCUS-025 | José Juan Barba
published in: M-025 | p. 4
6 Sleeping Units. Noh Bo, Tak, Tailandia | TYIN Tegnestue. Pasi Aalto, Andreas Grøntvedt Gjertsen, Yashar Hanstad, Magnus Henrikaen, Line Ramstad, Erlend Bauck Sole
published in: M-025 | A.06 | p. 46
Community House. Bangkok, Tailandia | TYIN Tegnestue. Andreas Grøntvedt Gjertsen, Yashar Hanstad, Magnus Henrikaen, Erlend Sole, Pasi Aalto
published in: M-025 | A.05 | p. 42
Library. Ban Tha Song Yang, Thailand | TYIN Tegnestue.Hans Skotte & Sami Rintala
published in: M-025 | A.04 | p. 36
Bathhouse. Ban Tha Song Yang, Thailand | TYIN Tegnestue. Andreas Grøntvedt Gjertsen & Yashar Hanstad
published in: M-025 | A.03 | p. 32
TYIN tegnestue Architects (Andreas G. Gjertsen, Yashar Hanstad) was established in 2008 and has built projects in poor and underdeveloped areas of Thailand, Uganda and Sumatra. Solutions to fundamental challenges call for an architecture where everything serves a purpose, an architecture that follows necessity.
By involving the local populace actively in both the design and building of their projects, TYIN are able to establish a framework for mutual exchange of knowledge and skills. All materials used in TYIN´s projects are collected close to the sites or purchased from local merchants.
The studio is currently run by Andreas G. Gjertsen and Yashar Hanstad, and has its headquarters in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. TYIN has won several international awards and their projects have been published and exhibited worldwide.
Sami Rintala was born in 1969.He is an architect and an artist, with a long merit list after finishing his architect studies in Helsinki Finland 1999. He established architect office Casagrande & Rintala 1998, which produced a series of acknowledged architectural installations around the world during the next five years until 2003. These works combine architecture with critical thinking of society, nature and the real tasks of an architect, all within a cross-over art field using space, light, materials and human body as tools of expression.
Rintala had his first wider recognition in 1999 with the project Landescape, three abandoned wooden barns were raised on 10 meter high.
In Venice Biennale 2000 Sixty Minute Man was realized; A ship sailed to Arsenal with a garden inside. The park was planted on sixty minutes of human waste from the city of Venice, becoming together with the old boat a three dimensional collage.
In 2008, Rintala started a new architect office with Icelandic architect Dagur Eggertsson, called Rintala Eggertsson Architects. The office is based in Oslo, South Norway and Bodø, North Norway.
Important part of Rintala’s work is teaching and lecturing in various art and architecture universities. Teaching takes place usually in form of workshops where the students often are challenged to participate the shaping of human environment on a realistic 1:1 situation.
