Students at this new Snøhetta-designed Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in Bergen are invited to use the inner walls as a canvas for their work.
The Norwegian architecture firm won a competition to design the faculty in 2005 and completed it earlier this year. The students have just moved in to their new space in the Kunst Musikk Design (KMD), part of the Bergen Academy of Art and and Design.

Each student is assigned a studio-cubicle on a termly basis, to use how they see fit. Snøhetta was delighted to see how quickly they took over the space, with one student already occupying an empty shower stall with a piano.
"Before architecture is used it is just a monument," Snøhetta co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen told Dezeen during a tour of the building on Wednesday. "It needs people to become a tool."
The recycled aluminium facade reflects the changing light throughout the day and responds to the changeable weather of Bergen, on the west coast of Norway.
A project hall has been placed at the centre of the building on the first floor overlooking the foyer, with a bridge running along the large glass windows in the facade.

The building is designed in accordance with PassivHaus standards and the hall regulates its own internal climate, which fluctuates between 15 and 25 degrees depending on the season.
The interior surfaces of the school remains unfinished and available for students to work on and with. The project hall floor is made from 140,000 ...