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This essay discusses the Oslo Opera House building designed by Snøhetta (inaugurated 2008) as one of three monumental buildings in EU's Eco Culture Program and a so called demonstration building for ecological solutions in architecture. The most visible result in the Opera building is a large-scale glass wall with integrated solar cell panels, producing electricity as well as providing sun shading. The real ecological values, however, are hardly to be measured in money or watt, nor in reduced emissions or climatic change. This solar wall is first and foremost putting a strong ecological intention on display.With its giant ecological footprint Snøhetta's building can never be defended with­in a rational, environmental discourse. It is a contradictory example of sustainable architecture measured up against crucial factors like situatedness, construction and materials, energy consumption and costs. But this spectacular monumental construction which presents a new urban space in a former industrial part of the city, needs to be studied in accordance with deep ecology theories like Félix Guattari's Les trois écologies (1989). Guattari's extended definition of ecology, including sociocultural conditions and human mentality, gives an opportunity to discuss ecology not first and foremost as a rational and ethical challenge in architecture but as an aesthetical.

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  • Det krever ikke primært en rasjonell og vitenskapelig tilnærming til økologikomplekset, men en “etisk-estetisk”, der intensivitet og sanselighet er verdifulle komponenter.[8]

  • Sosial og mental økologi Heller enn å teste operabygningen mot den ortodokse øko-arkitekturens krav til situering, materialer, teknologi, energi og økonomi, kunne arkitekturen prøves mot kvaliteter som går igjen i den nordiske økofilosofien, som kompleksitet og mangfold, velvære og takknemlighet, gjensidighet og respekt,[20] kvaliteter som er vanskelig å måle i kroner og kvadratmeter

  • Summary This essay discusses the Oslo Opera House building designed by Snøhetta as one of three monumental buildings in EU’s Eco Culture Program and a so called demonstration building for ecological solutions in architecture

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Økofilosofi og arkitektur I artikkelen “Fields of sustainable architecture” fra 2008 utdyper Kim Dovey og Ceridwen Owen konflikten innen feltet økologisk eller bærekraftig arkitektur, og de ser den med Pierre Bourdieu som en kamp om symbolsk kapital. Det er bare ved å erkjenne sammenhengen mellom dette menneskelige og det miljømessige at endring blir mulig, hevder Guattari.[7] Det krever ikke primært en rasjonell og vitenskapelig tilnærming til økologikomplekset, men en “etisk-estetisk”, der intensivitet og sanselighet er verdifulle komponenter.[8] Det er et perspektiv som ligger ganske langt fra dagens forståelse av bærekraft og klimakamp.

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