Landscape Architecture Portfolio by Maria Thoner

THE ARCHITECTURE OF LANDSCAPE

Portfolio of Maria Thoner

Master studies in International Landscape Architecture

Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Member of Norwegian Association of Landscape Architects (NLA)

Arkitektenes Fagforbund (AFAG)

28.06.96

Oslo

Phone: 46544465

mail: maria.ch.thoner@ gmail.com

EDUCATION

2022-2023:

2021-2022:

2020-2021:

2016 -2019:

MARIA THONER

Motivated architecture graduate and landscape architecture graduate. Skilled in researching and interpreting ideas through digital and physical media. I hope for an career focused on research-based design and appreciate unconventional yet sensitive and analytical approches to the field of architecture and landscape. I look forward to learn, discover and get inspired together with other within a studio and in conversations between different disciplins and fields.

International Master in Landscape Architecture

Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Master in Architecture

Bergen School of Architecture

1 year Master in Architecture / 1 year Master of Landscape Architecture

Oslo School of Architecture and Design

3-years Bachelor in Architecture

Bergen School of Architecture

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCES

2023

Landscape / Vega Landskab

Internship in an landscape office, Copenhagen. Responsible for site analyises and site visits to prepare future projects at DTU ( det tekniske universitet). Proposing approach and analytical work of Høstet, and touristic routes of Stensrup in Sjællland. Client meetings and plannings of backyards in Copenhagen.

2022

Architecture and landscape / Lamprecht & Thoner

Atached structure and a garden; Lillehammer, Norway

2020

Architecture and landscape / Hallstein Arkitekter

Internship in an architect office, Oslo. Typical work as an intern; drawing construction drawings and building physical models. Also joined with proposals and concepts during the first phase of projecting. Prepared site-analysis.

2019

Landscape and urbanism / UNDER BROEN / Bergen

School of Architecture / K31

Project leader together with Helene Sørland, development and implement of an urban project and event, as "urban archipuncture" in the city of Bergen.

Urbanism and Landscape

Architecture

Architecture

Urbanism and Landscape

Architecture

Software

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Autocad

Archicad

Rhinoceros

Vray

Escape

Qgis

Instant Terra

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustraitor

Adobe Indesign

Microsoft Office

Model Making

Hand Techniques

3D printing, cnc, laser

ACHIEVMENTS AND AWARDS

2023

Nominated / Best Landscape Diploma of AHO 2023

Diploma Project published in the magazine +KOTE vers. 18

2022

Pre-diploma in International master of landscape architecture

2021

2020

Exhibiting ”deep sea” project at Lisbon Architecture Triennale/ Terra

Shortlisted/ included in the 7 finalists for the 6th edition of the Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Universities Competition Award.

World Water Day; presentation of waterprecedent analysis and research of Tyrol watersystems (online event)

2019

2016

Winner of the Urban Life Prize during the Bergen City Conferance, with the urban project; Under Broen

Developed and built an ice-construction / musical instrument with supervision from ice-musician Terje Isungseth

Nomineed to Peer Gynt talent-prize for classical musical composition

Cellist in IYSO: International Youth Symphony Orchestra Bremen, Germany

Cellist in Cello Ensemble- Oslo, Praha, Berlin

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English Norwegian French (beginner)

INTERESTS

Drawing

Cello / Piano

Running

Skiing

Mountain randonee

Diploma / River Tracings / aho Studio / If the rivers played the leading role / aho

Studio / Ocean space / bas

Studio / Ocean space / bas

Studio / Make do water do / aho

Studio / Klientkurs / bas

Construction / Material / Music

Musical career

Chapter 1

River Tracing

Chapter 2

Ilinger

Chapter 3

Patchwork landscape

Diploma Landscape Architecture

Fall 2023

Diploma Architecture

Spring 2022

Master studio

Spring 2021

Supervision

Sabine Muller Proffesor, International Master in Landscape Architecture, Aho

Karin Helms Proffesor, International Master in Landscape Architecture, Aho

AHO: Diploma project/ International master in landscape architecture / 2023

CHAPTER 1: River Tracing

RIVER TRACING

providing land for future water events

The project proposes an accumulating copperhancing planning of landscape through scales to handle flooding and future water events in the riverways of the Norwegian mountain landscapes, based on the logic of water and topograhy. Through digital water accumulations and tracings of the valley and river in Hemsedal, the project challenge the act of separation of land and water. This seperation”line” has come into sharp focus during extreme floods, with proposals of walls, levees, natural defenses, land retirement schemes and recomendations for retreat. These responses raise questions on where this line is drawn, but they also raise questions on the separation that this line facilitates. Is this separation found in nature or does nature follow from its assertion? When people see flood, they see water tragressing this line.

Tracings of wateraccumulations function as a method to find the underlying landscape and propose a siteplan of potential waterflows and escapes if the water were let free from its predicted wayes of the river and into the landscape. The micro topography still speaks about the dynamics and logic of water. This becomes a landscape which can take the floods, give the water its space and propose an organisation of water and land due to the logic of water; a landscape design embedded from the present geological and climatic record, erasing the line seperating land and water.

PART 1 - adressing the water strategy

PART 2 - site description

PART 3- design proposal / a

- method

- space and intention

- function

PART 4 - design proposal / b

- method

- space and intention

- function

avalanche avalanche

warmer tempratures

snow sharger weeks with snowfall

sudden heavy rain

snow sharger weeks with snowfall

sudden heavy rain landslides

sudden colder tempratures

sudden warmer tempratures

DRY COLD WINTER

VERY WET

AUTUMN

sudden heavy rain

VERY WET SPRING

sudden warmer tempratures

earlier snow melting

heavy spring flood

sudden heavy rain

DRY SUMMER

dry soil

weeks without rain

sudden heavy rain

increasing evaporation in the valleyfloor

Seasonal moments of the present norwegian mountain landscape

Hemsedal valley

Hemsila watershed

Hallingdøl watershed

Drammens watershed

Nesbyen / ekstremværet Hans 2023

The water flow through the watersheds due to the logic of water and topography, raising the question of who has the responsebility of the water. Should the upstream places hold the water to buffer the downstreamplaces?

flooding in Glomma / Gudbrandsdalen 2011

Nesbyen / ekstremværet Hans 2023

Holding the water in the upstream places

Buffering the downstream places

One of the upstream places that could hold the water is Hemsedal, placed on the ”beginning” of the waterflows, on the ridge where the rivers devide to east and west.

Hemsedal ca 600 m a.s

HEMSEDAL / THE UPSTREAM PLACE ON THE RIDGE

A landscape for holding water

20 km2

the draineged fields and memory of water

gravel placed by the water flows

revealing the underlying landscape through digital water accumulations / qgis

revealing the underlying landscape through digital water accumulations / qgis

Tracings of water accumulations, extracted into digital models, function as a method to find the underlying landscape and propose a siteplan of potential waterflows and escapes if the water were let free from its predicted wayes of the river and into the landscape.

125 m 250 m 500 m

The micro topography still speaks about the dynamics of the water and the past wet landscape. The flood distributes these spaces, proposing its space during spring-flood and demanding its space during extreme flood. This becomes a landscape which can take the floods, give the water its space and propose an organisation of water and land due to the logic of water.

LOGIC

Providing land for future water events

EXISITNG PLOTLINES / DISTRIBUTING THE LAND

inserting the provided land within the social and production landscape

cultivated land

gravel and moraines deposits with high inflitration abilities

mower 10 m worklength runoff infiltration

water ”gates”

On a day of heavy rains the water arrives. From the mountains it comes as runof into the river, some of it infiltrated in the soil. The ground water is raising and the soil of the valleyfloor is filled with water. The moraines deposists appears as repetative sequences under the surface, becoming ””watergates” with their high infiltrationabilities, tranfering and infiltrating water between the surface and the deepsoil. These watergates appears as gravelbeds.

runoff

waterlevel raising

river / Hemsila bedrock

river room/ secondary river arm

groundwater groundwater

some infiltration water transportation

568 m.a.s.l

573 m.a.s.l

surfacewater

gravel beds / water”gates” transportation between gravelbeds

floodlevel 500 y

heavy rains

river

groundwater

trees holding water and soil

gravel and moraines deposits with high inflitration abilities

573 m.a.s.l

571 m.a.s.l

569 m.a.s.l

568 m.a.s.l

<567 m.a.s.l

surfacewater

groundwater

The flows hints to different functional units which could take the water in different ways and systems.

The area where the river meanderings are visible, has been chosen to further explore how this landscape of waterflows can appear. The meanderings of the river organise water and land depressions and elevations in certain ways which vizualise the forces, flows and the slow but demanding movements of water.

Extracting the site from the digital model into a model of elevations and depressions, filling it with sand to pronounce it more

Providing

Salix Alba

Salix Alba

Poplus Tremula

Salix Alba

Salix Alba

Betula Pubesces

Betula Pubesces

Poplus Tremula

Betula Pubesces

Betula Pubesces

Poplus Tremula

Poplus Tremula

Poplus Tremula

Poplus Tremula

Poplus Tremula

Betula Pubesces

Betula Pubesces

Fraxinus Excelsion

Fraxinus Excelsion

Fraxinus Excelsion

Fraxinus Excelsion

Tremula

Salix Alba

Betula Pubesces

Poplus Tremula

Fraxinus Excelsion

Poplus

repetative flow radiuses

20 m

40 m 80 m

The meanderings of the river, are pronounced through vegetation, soil and gravel. The flows and dynamics of the river becomes visible through lines of vegetation and water. When the river escapes is predicted wayes, during heavy rain and springflood, it enters this stage and fills in the meanderng tracings. when the water arrivesit runs into the site, pushed by the descreasing alltitude, downstreamdirection and from the valleysides

GRAVEL

Poplus Tremula

Poplus Tremula

Tremula

Betula Pubesces

Salix Alba

Fraxinus Excelsion

Betula Pubesces

Poplus Tremula

Excelsion

Salix Alba

Within this landscape the vegetation lines create sequences of narrow and wide spaces where the meanderings almost meet, and where they move apart.

-Making this landscape "act" or function by removing the topsoil and place it aside and revealing the moraine deposits and gravel underneath, with high infiltration value. The removed soil placed aside, becomes soil bands of raw earth, with cultivationvalue

Through this act of moving the topsoil aside the original infaltration abilitites of the landscape is reactivated: The geological record of moraindeposits and gravel and the present climatic record of water events meets.

Topsoil

Glacier deposits

Groundwater

Bedrock

The water will infiltrate through the gravelbeds which becomes watergates between the surfacewater and groundwater.

floodlevel 500 y

heavy rains

river

573 m.a.s.l

571 m.a.s.l

569 m.a.s.l

568 m.a.s.l

<567 m.a.s.l

The tracing of waterflows, and the meandering echos finds a lansdcape were the water can escape the riverbed into the provided land.

Within this landscape the river as a dynamic element becomes visible and preformative, leaving reminders and traces of its forces and wayes.

Supervisor

Jokim Skajaa Professor Architecture, Bas

Hedvig Sherdal Professor, Archtiecture, Bas

BAS: Diploma project/ master in architecture / spring 2022

CHAPTER 2:

Ilinger / Hemsila Tributaires

HEMSEDAL CENTRUM / TRØYM

Can the mountain village also become a river village?

Trøym is a typical norwegian mountain village in the valley of Hemsedal. The skiresorts in the valley sides attracts people to the mountains of Hemsedal.

The project is set in the riverscape of Hemsila, where the river meets the village centrum. The project envisions the vitalisation of the Hemsedal center and the valley floor by placing multitudes of architectural landscape structures within typical spaces of the riverscape. The structures will facilitate river activities and offer common spaces where the locals and tourists alike can host and gather.

Can the mountain village also become a river village?

TIME LINE

FORCE OF ATTRACTION

Valley floor Valley sides

1700-1990

Farmland

The river and fields in valley floor

Animals grazing in the valley sides

1900-2020

Ski resorts

The river and Trøym centrum in the valley floor

Future scenario

The river and Trøym centrum in valley floor

The ski resorts in the valley sides

The ski resorts in the valley sides

The importency of the river, Hemsila, has been lost in modern times. The ski resorts in the mountain sides attracts people, and leaving Trøym centrum in the valley floor empty.

How can the spaces and the riverscapes of the valley floor become a force of attraction in the future scene of Trøym?

COUNTER FORCE

Adding valuable activities into the valley floor, facilitated by the structures, or the tributaires of Hemsila. This gesture becomes a counter force to the attraction to the skiresorts in the valley sides.

HEMSILA TRIBUTAIRES

Placing landscape structures within the riverscape to provide new public spaces

The architectural structures within the riverscape are designed to their spesific placemenT and the spacial qualities of each plot. These qualeties are found and selected through different analytical tools and methods, collected into a toolbox for designing.

The architecture appear as objects, commenting, extracting and enhancing their state and position within the riverscape. Three of these plots are in the fields, the forest, and the river edge

The room by the river

The chambers in the forest

The hall in the field

The chambers in the forest

Another structure

The river

Landscape furnitures

CONCEPT LONG SECTION / THE FORCE OF THE RIVERSCAPE / HEMSILA TRIBUTAIRES

Adding landscape structures within the riverscape

Landscape furnitures

The room by the river

The river

The river edge

The hall in the field

THE HALL

The hall works like a community house. Kids from the elementary school walk through the field in rows leaving long thin trails in the grass leading to the big hall by the river. They concur it with leaps and screams and open all the doors to let the wind from the field through. After gym class the children jump straight off the floor into the cold, slow moving river. Later in the evening a whole orcherstra fills the room to have a rehearsal.

The room in the field is an expansive space in an expansive landscape. It can appear completely silent and enclosed, blinding into its sorrounding landscape of the field and the river. A moment later be filled with action and screams of children playing dodgeball or having a gymclass.

Photo / physical model

-Roterende dører

-Roterende dører

-Oppbevaringsrom 5m2, - Takkonstruksjon i bindingsverk for materialbesparende og bæreevne.

-Oppbevaringsrom 5m2, - Takkonstruksjon i bindingsverk for materialbesparende og bæreevne.

swimming fishing performance consert theater

commmunity house sports

yoga

paddle tennis classes

kayak course workshops

The room by the river is a place to shower the canoe, rinse river mud off you body after diving and step inside the warm sauna. It is a hub for canoes and diers. Two friends are holding onto a rope lifting a canoe out of the river. They shower it on the wooden floor with glips letting the water through, and stack it in the racks. After hanging their wetsuits in the sun to dry, thay take one bath in the river.

The whole river is frozen and a family from the village goes to the room by the river edge to take a ice cold bath in the river. Then they go to the very hot sauna. In the summer the room is full of people busy showering, bathing and preparing for river activites. In the autumn and spring the sun will warm up the room through the glassdoors.

place for canoes

fishing

showering

bathing

sauna

iceskating

chaningroom

The room by the river

The chambers in the forest

Supervisor Sabine Muller Professor Intitute of Landscape Urbanism, Aho

Miguel Hernandez Assistent Professor, Institute of landscape Urbanism, Aho

AHO: Master studio / make do water do / spring 2021

CHAPTER 3: Patchwork Landscape

PATCHWORK LANDSCAPE

The water structure enables a green structure to emerge, becoming the framework. The matrix connects the hilltops and bridges the different areas of ecology to enforce ecological succession and increase diversity. On the hilltop, there are satellites of clearings connected to the gridded structure on the valley floor.

The green structure divides the plains into spatial chambers with different characteristics depending on the trees, hedges, shrubs.

By working with the different types of vegetation as walls, we create various combinations of spatiality between the sky and the ground plane.

PART 1 - site description / framework

PART 2 - infill / space

PART 3 - objects / patches

STENSRUD: FARMLAND

Whilst the landscape of Stensrud-Gjersrud is dominated by cobbled, pine-clad hills, the lower-lying areas are well fitted for farming. Indeed, Stensrud is one of the last remaining village societies and farming areas within the Oslo building zone. Loose finds of shaft hole axes, dating back to the Neolithic (6 000–3 500 BC) indicate that the area has been partially cleared and cultivated since thousands of years. Today, 70% of the area is forested, 12% farmland.

SYNCHRONIC LAYERS: WATERBDIES, FLOODRISK, WETLANDS AND INFILTRATION

FRAMEWORK: WATERSTRUCTURE

Forested hilltops: Rainwater harvesting, retention ponds

Valley floor: Water grid

FRAMEWORK: LAYERS OF FRAMEWORK

FRAMEWORK: VEGETAL STRUCTURE

Vegetation: matrix of connectivity.

The water structure enables a green structure to emerge, becoming the framework.

The matrix connects the hilltops and bridges the different areas of ecology to enforce ecological succession and increase diversity. On the hilltop, there are satellites of clearings connected to the gridded structure on the valley floor.

The green structure divides the plains into spatial chambers with different characteristics depending on the trees, hedges, shrubs. By working with the different types of vegetation as walls, we create various combinations of spatiality between the sky and the ground plane.

HILL + PLAIN + GRID

Riparian vegetation

Green bands

Green lines

Hills

FRAMEWORK: VEGETAL STRUCTURE, CLOSE-UP

The framework consists of hills, plains, and a grid. Waterbodies, expanding the network of wetness, adding ponds and channels based on drainage patterns and terrain. And lastly Vegetation, consisting of a riparian zone, bands and lines.

INFILL:

A BEGINNING OF AN ARCHITECTURE (ANTE-TYPES)

Patchwork landscape is a project that studies Broad-acre city of Frank Lloyd Wright as a precedent for urban organization and adapts the territorial gridded system as a tool of measurement to ensure equal and just land division.

In Stensrud-Gerjsrud, the gridded system reacts to its surroundings and applies differently on the valley floor than on the hills. The grid is rotated to follow the direction of the geology and is overlaid as a carpet with the hills pushing through. This creates two very different entities: the rocky hills and the soft plains, depicting sequences of different situations from the higher and dryer forested hills and the lower moistened valley floor.

A perspective of how the framework of vegetation transforms the open valley floor of Stensrud into fields of different characteristics, and dynamic spaces, affected by water, wind, and seasons. The spaces are composed from layers of vegetation as walls with different widths, densities, transparency, and heights.

INFILL: SECTION ALONG GREEN BAND.

The rain water collects in ponds in the hillsides and get nutrited by the soil of a decayed fores and grazing annimals. Then its led by channels along the steep hillsides and then into the fields of the valley floor

OBJECTS

Enforcing framework

Greenhouse

Walls / ante-types

Beggining of architecture

Roofs, catchment

Chimney

Earthworks

Free objects

Ribbon of accessibility

Water resevoirs

Spots with ommen functions, washing basins, sitting objects, ramps, etc.

Composting

PATCHES

The patches in the forest consist of clearings around ponds where the rainwater is retained. Areas of forest decay provide vital nourishments to the forest floor, locking up nutrients into the ground to be led down to the fields by the runoff. The patches of leaf forest and mixed forest create versatile habitats and help increasing biodiversity , improving the forest quality.

Ponds

Decayed forest

Mixed forest

Leaf forest

Orchards

Crops

Shrubby pastures

Peatland

A perspective of how the framework of vegetation transforms the open valley floor of Stensrud into fields of different characteristics, and dynamic spaces, affected by water, wind, and seasons. The spaces are composed from layers of vegetation as walls with different widths, densities, transparency, and heights.

Maria Charlotte Thoner

Oslo

Phone: +47 465 44 465

mail: maria.ch.thoner@gmail.com