2011 journal: trondheim

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BUILDING TRADITION

This journal is made by four students architecture working in and investigating Norway, Trondheim and the possibilities of a new sustainable neighbourhood in Trondheim. This journal shows all the decissions and progress made and the reasons why these decissions were made.

Sharon Bauwens, Joris Cauwenbergh, Yann-Ee Yau and Jan Swiatczak

Foreword:

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Y A N N E E Y A UBUILDING TRADITION

borders &NETWORK

borders &NETWORK

easyly forgotten, relations between peoples, short meetings on street corners, stories that are related to a place that has changed over time,...

Light/ hide, moods, gradient, transparant/ translucentpositive imperfection/ attraction, human <> machine strive <> mass producttransformation/ sentimental-sensorial, personification, evolution

GROWTH, the small line between succes and failure

existing networks with visible focal points,... and underlayer only the experience remain as a image in your head, and can change or adapt in the future,...

MEMORY

Looking at Trondheim, the first thing you notice is the city having no connection to the surrounding fjord or hills. Yet this fjord was the main reason Trondheim became a successfull and rich city in the history and still is today. It was the combination of the river Nidelva, that formed a natural valley and the connection to the entire world via the fjord that made the city as important as it is today.Today we see the city lost all contact with its precious fjord. The industral island between the fjord and the city cuts of the city and its inhabitants. But today this island isn’t of use anymore, the city lost its main industry (the shipbuilding industry) and today focus is shifted to an intellectual industry or economy with its famous university.

The former industryland creates scar tissue in Trondheim today. This land is unusable, unavailable land but still very precious land. This industry tissue takes in the most exclusive land (and also possibly the priciest land), situated next to the fjord.We want to restore the connection between the city and fjord.

FRAGILITY / connection of the city to the fjord & surrounding nature





MEMORY





MEMORY

Looking at Trondheim, the first thing you notice is the city having no connection to the surrounding fjord or hills. Yet this fjord was the main reason Trondheim became a successfull and rich city in the history and still is today. It was the combination of the river Nidelva, that formed a natural valley and the connection to the entire world via the fjord that made the city as important as it is today.Today we see the city lost all contact with its precious fjord. The industral island between the fjord and the city cuts of the city and its inhabitants. But today this island isn’t of use anymore, the city lost its main industry (the shipbuilding industry) and today focus is shifted to an intellectual industry or economy with its famous university.

The former industryland creates scar tissue in Trondheim today. This land is unusable, unavailable land but still very precious land. This industry tissue takes in the most exclusive land (and also possibly the priciest land), situated next to the fjord.We want to restore the connection between the city and fjord.

FRAGILITY / connection of the city to the fjord & surrounding nature

_Generatives_Layers of Experience_Spatial experience with ambiguity in the conscious mind and grasp of the unconscious mind.. Fragility silently shapes processes and relationship + Cultural, Social & Economical Dimensions_Today’s idealization is strong strategy with direct intentions to control. It opposes the formation of weak principal and hapticity into the notion of fragile living and non-institutional networks + Architectural and Non-Architectural Perception_Architecture with visual and virtual qualities, holds strong image and structure. Fragile architecture holds weak image and structure but interacts with the senses.

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resources &DENSITY Future...

Trondheim could be sustainable when it follows a development path where the present progress does not take place at the expense of future generations (i.e. bad planning, debt, environmental degradation, etc. does not export present problems to the future). There should be an equilibrium between different issues. In other words, the goal is an across-the-board development, instead of handling issues one by one.

u r b a n s p r a w l , waterurbanisme, the use of local resources,...

ENVIRONMENTAL

SUSTAINABLE

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Sustainable Materials

Health & Wellness

Transport

Renewable Energy Ecological Value

Whole Life Costs

Passive Strategies

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN


Health & Wellness

Transport


Whole Life Costs

Passive Strategies

A CREATIVE SOCIETY with a sound framework and a favourable climate for innovation. We must have high regard for inquisitiveness, thirst for knowledge and the creative urge. A creative society allows people to attempt something and fail, while also appreciating those who succeed. The norwegian welfare state provides a good starting point for a creative society with a significant capacity to restructure and innovate.

CREATIVE HUMAN BEINGS who develop their resources and competences, while grasping the possibility to apply them. Creative human beings share knowledge with other people, and use their creativity to produce new and better solutions. The authorities will help to release the creative impulse by offering sound education, research, and adaptation of working life, as well as by working to bring about a culture that encourages creativity and entrepreneurship in society.

‘SELF-ORGANIZATION and DEVELOPMENT ’

CREATIVE UNDERTAKINGS that develop profitable innovations. innovation is an important part of enterprises day-to-day efforts to develop better products for their customers and generate greater value for their owners. no undertakings today escape the demand to make continuous improvements.The authorities must provide enterprises with more possibilities to be innovative, and must provide support and regulations where the market fails to provide the necessary impullses.




ENVIRONMENTAL

SUSTAINABLE

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN


Health & Wellness

Transport


Whole Life Costs

Passive Strategies

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN


Health & Wellness

Transport


Whole Life Costs

Passive Strategies





SUSTAINABILITY / LIFE OF BUILDING & LOW IMPACTToday we live in a “throw-away” society. Products aren’t bought necessarily any longer for long term use. With buildings (or housing) it’s almost always the case that they are purchased or built for extended use. However, the buildings take over their life multiple users and multiple functions in their house. A couple might like the small townhouse at first, but when the children arrive and the little boy wants to play outside, they are more likely to move to the cityside and buy a detached house with plenty of space for a garden. That is why a house should be designed so multiple lifestyles are possible and that it can handle multiple functions (a shop, office, ...). Or that the house is designed so that

it gets fused with its surroundings. So people choose a setting, they will accept the lifestyle that is imposes by the house.

Sustainable design also implicates a balance between different factors, such as sustainable materials, renewable energy, transport and health and welness. Sustainable architecture attempts to reduce the collective environmental impacts during the production of building components, during the construction process, as well as during the lifecycle of the building. The challenge suggests architects and planners design solutions that can function without pollution rather than just reducing pollution.

Most of the freight terminal is abandoned. New freight terminal location now considered with 7 possible solutions including Brattoraand Tolla.

Trondheim is a university town & Norway’s capital of technology. High demand of housing and developmental plans wasn’t based on sustainability until later parts. Local inhabitants take long hikes as the recreational activity.

Red = University Grounds




ENVIRONMENTAL

SUSTAINABLE

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN


Health & Wellness

Transport


Whole Life Costs

Passive Strategies

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN


Health & Wellness

Transport


Whole Life Costs

Passive Strategies









SUSTAINABILITY / LIFE OF BUILDING & LOW IMPACTToday we live in a “throw-away” society. Products aren’t bought necessarily any longer for long term use. With buildings (or housing) it’s almost always the case that they are purchased or built for extended use. However, the buildings take over their life multiple users and multiple functions in their house. A couple might like the small townhouse at first, but when the children arrive and the little boy wants to play outside, they are more likely to move to the cityside and buy a detached house with plenty of space for a garden. That is why a house should be designed so multiple lifestyles are possible and that it can handle multiple functions (a shop, office, ...). Or that the house is designed so that

it gets fused with its surroundings. So people choose a setting, they will accept the lifestyle that is imposes by the house.

Sustainable design also implicates a balance between different factors, such as sustainable materials, renewable energy, transport and health and welness. Sustainable architecture attempts to reduce the collective environmental impacts during the production of building components, during the construction process, as well as during the lifecycle of the building. The challenge suggests architects and planners design solutions that can function without pollution rather than just reducing pollution.

Most of the freight terminal is abandoned. New freight terminal location now considered with 7 possible solutions including Brattoraand Tolla.

Trondheim is a university town & Norway’s capital of technology. High demand of housing and developmental plans wasn’t based on sustainability until later parts. Local inhabitants take long hikes as the recreational activity.

Red = University Grounds

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Lot of small flats is build in the city that lacks general housing qualities because of high demands for student housing. Because of high demand for housing, 87% of students seek private accommodation

“Hyblifisering” the inconvenience it brings to the neighbors when bigger flats are divided to smaller units or smaller flats combined to bigger units in the order to rent it out as dwellings for more students and the negative effects this may have on stable residential environment

1/6 total population of Trondheim is student. Main Universities includes NTNU, SINTEF and St. Olav University Hospital.

Competitive educational destination improves local economy and diversity in culture. Following images is Student villages by Student Wellfare Organization.

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MATTER

ROW housecourtyard/ light yard

GREEN enclosedIn and around

BUILDup area

ROW house GREEN border + point

BUILDup areaSMALL large fully build

PACKEDhouses GREEN center shared

BUILDup area / claimed squares

VILLAobjects on fenced plot

GREEN center shared


STACKEDhouses GREEN Functional shared

BUILDup area small strips in between

MORFOLOGY

HOUSE: today

HOUSE: today

HOUSE: today

HOUSE: today (modern arch.) - what remains/MAIN ROOM (recreation)+ FIRE IN THE CENTRE OF THE HOUSE

WINDOWS + LIGHT! (foreign architects)

TYPICAL + SIMPLE SHED SHAPE

FREE NATURE SPACE IN THE NBH+ PRIVATE SUNSPACE NEAR HOUSE / APPARTMENT

TO SHARE / LOWER COSTS: HOUSES ARE DIVIDED IN APPARTMENTS (community feeling)

USE OF LOCAL (WELL-KNOWN) BUILDING MATERIALS

HOUSING: ON OFFICEMATTER



BUILDup area






GREEN center shared




MORFOLOGY

HOUSE: today

HOUSE: today

HOUSE: today







HOUSING: ON OFFICEWhat matters eventually is how people live in Norway. Following, is a research to the lifestyle of Norwegians and their tradition of living and a comparison between their current lifestyle, housing and modern architecture.Traditional Norwegian houses always had one common room used for living, sleeping, eating, working. The fireplace was centrally placed in the dwelling and heated up the entire house. Windows were small and scarce due to the cold climate. A lot of local and logical materials were used for building. They used local stone as a foundation to protect the house from snow and used massive logs of wood to build up the walls. The roof was made of slate shingles or tree bark with turf and grass on.

Today, the idea of the common nature, “almening’ is most interesting. Norwegians have their own land but don’t define it as theirs. The nature in Norway is for everyone, so you can pick a flower in someone else’s garden. This does not mean Norwegians don’t have an outdoor space of their own. Mostly all Norwegian houses have an outdoor balcony or south-orientated terrace close to the living area. This is usually cozy and decorated with flowers during sumer time.

I also researched modern housing architecture in Norway today and found interesting projects in regard to the free nature and open space.

ON Office did a project in Norway that shed new light on Norwegian housing. It’s a housing block with 4 different dwellings, the dwellings are shifted according to the slope of the hill. With this shift, space is made available on the roof of the appartment below to make an own little private garden or sundeck. The architects made sure the green nature is still available for everyone on the roofs, referring to the “almening” idea, but at the same time each family has its own private outside space.

MATTER / MICRO SCALE: HOUSING

St Olavs gate

Nedre BakklandetGeneral Buddes gate

Nonnegate

Rosenborg gate

MATTER



BUILDup area






GREEN center shared




MORFOLOGY

HOUSE: today

HOUSE: today

HOUSE: today







HOUSING: ON OFFICEWhat matters eventually is how people live in Norway. Following, is a research to the lifestyle of Norwegians and their tradition of living and a comparison between their current lifestyle, housing and modern architecture.Traditional Norwegian houses always had one common room used for living, sleeping, eating, working. The fireplace was centrally placed in the dwelling and heated up the entire house. Windows were small and scarce due to the cold climate. A lot of local and logical materials were used for building. They used local stone as a foundation to protect the house from snow and used massive logs of wood to build up the walls. The roof was made of slate shingles or tree bark with turf and grass on.





St Olavs gate


Nonnegate

Rosenborg gate

What matters eventually is how people live in Norway. Following, is a research to the lifestyle of Norwegians and their tradition of living and a comparison between their current lifestyle, housing and modern architecture.Traditional Norwegian houses always had one common room used for living, sleeping, eating, working. The fireplace was centrally placed in the dwelling and heated up the entire house. Windows were small and scarce due to the cold climate. A lot of local and logical materials were used for building. They used local stone as a foundation to protect the house from snow and used massive logs of wood to build up the walls. The roof was made of slate shingles or tree bark with turf and grass on.





St Olavs gate


Nonnegate

Rosenborg gate

_Mollenberg_ is an old working-class district on the east side of the Nid that retains much of the wooden houses built in the 18th & 19th century. 50% of the urban neighborhood is students. Families moved because of the environment. School children is now either from well-off families or families living in social housing. This means smaller and more expensive apartments, lots of area with segregation, closing properties, increased prices, noisy and bad conditions.

_Elgeseter_ is a middle class residential area on the south side of the river, built around the 19th century, dominated by NTNU on its east side and the Regional Hospital of Trondheim on the west. Planning order & neighborhood renewal is deemed for children’s needs as they struggle for open spaces in competition with cars, controlled garden and in-fill construction.

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scaleIntensity

PermeabilityLandmarksSpace to Building RatioStock (adaptability and range)Vertical grain

Public realm (space system)

diversity, vitality, street life, people watching, cafe culture, events and local traditions/

pastimes, openinghours, flow, attractors, transaction

base, fine grain economy

symbolism & memoryimagineability & legibility

sensory expierience & associations

knowledgeabilityreceptivity

psychological accesscosmopolitan/ sophistication

fear

form

activity

image

place

claimed &DENSITY

MATTER

scaleIntensity

PermeabilityLandmarksSpace to Building RatioStock (adaptability and range)Vertical grain

Public realm (space system)

diversity, vitality, street life, people watching, cafe culture, events and local traditions/

pastimes, openinghours, flow, attractors, transaction

base, fine grain economy

symbolism & memoryimagineability & legibility

sensory expierience & associations

knowledgeabilityreceptivity

psychological accesscosmopolitan/ sophistication

fear

form

activity

image

place

claimed &DENSITY

MATTER

In Norway, there is a tendency of single people living alone in normal familiy housing. Single people don’t have a single person lifestyle, they live the same life of a couples or family person. Singles also want their own personal well-sized kitchen, living room and if possible 2 bedrooms, even if they can only use 1. This has an effect on energy and land consumption, because all these rooms have to be heated and built up for only 1 person. For example: the energy used for 1 house with 3 inhabitants sharing communal space (kitchen, living room, corridor) is per person much less than the energy used for 1 house with only 1 inhabitant who has to heat the same amount of rooms and space, only used by this one person.

This single lving also affects social problems. Single people who can afford a bigger, more luxurious but mainly also a more isolated place to live will live in this area.

The paper “one person households” by K. Gram-Hanssen discusses this topic : ‘On one hand it implies increased housing consumption as well as increased energy consumption as those who can afford it chooses to live alone in big houses or apartments. On the other hand there may also be a social problem associated with living alone, if less wealthy singles are obliged to live in less attractive dwellings compared with people living as couples that typically have two incomes.’

Since several years the single topic isn’t new anymore in Norway. Fantastic Norway made an architecture project that created a communal house for single mothers. It consists of several single ‘houses’ with one big communal space combining them. Also the crown prince of Norway married a single mother instead of a traditional princess. This is a sign that singles and single mothers are becoming a new social group that should be taken into account in Norway. Singles and single mothers are becoming “a hot topic”.

MATTER / MICRO SCALE: PEOPLE & HOUSING

View from South View from North 5 Ostre Ila

_Hospitalslokkan_22_A loose tie between the city Centre and the west exist. The buildings that lies within the indirect boundary have more recreational spaces and parking as it is on the outskirts.











Through the progressive lines of development within the city centre, the southern region have squares surrounded by the built up area. Neat axis lines and landscape defines the network towards the city centre. A line revolving the Nidelva river appear as a separate network. One particular area with an intended outdoor space is found at Tykrisveita.

A reconfiguration of the network to pursue the continuity of the city centre is ideal for the regeneration towards the industrial area of Ila. Building around Kongens Gate have a different typology as it is not developed along a specific axis.

To incorporate squares within each compartment of the grid lines instead of a entire compartment would spread the recreational areas inwards as the regeneration of the city centre spread outwards to create a balance.

Newly-invested parks with outdoor facilities is seen through the area that have a loose tie between the two region. A new identity would bring different affects instead of remaining it.

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rough oas i s i n the c i t y

The impact of natural resources and energy on humans as well as the relationship between urban and rural areas. With most of Norwegian cities being close to the sea, forests, or mountains, Norway wants to show, how these cities incorporate nature to improve the quality of life of their inhabitants.

rough oas i s i n the c i t y

The impact of natural resources and energy on humans as well as the relationship between urban and rural areas. With most of Norwegian cities being close to the sea, forests, or mountains, Norway wants to show, how these cities incorporate nature to improve the quality of life of their inhabitants.

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‘DAYLIGHT, TRANSPARENCY and FLEXIBILITY’

‘green hill for activities and recreation’

Trondheim has many pleasant and quite different neighbourhoods. In the centre of town you'll find the special wooden houses of Bakklandet, terraced flats along Nidelven and the classic wooden town houses from the 17th and 18th centuries.

LOCAL materials that reflect the historic use but also the rather simple way, easily perceived or understood, clear or apparent, as could be refered to as a scandinavian style

MATERIAL LIGHT+

NATURAL BORDERS low designed, just creating oppurtunities to get people to meet, and invent activities on their own

For the tryptich “Fragility - Sustainability - Matter” a comparison can be made with the 3 qualities of architecture, made by Vitruvius. According to Vitruvius all architecture should consist out of these 3 features. These 3 main characters are Venustas or beauty, Firmitas or firmness and Utilitus or functionality. We can compare these 3 qualities with the 3 terms we had to discuss in the introduction to this exercise being: Fragility, Sustainability and Matter.

This being said, the venustas or beauty could be compared to fragility, it’s an aspect that strikes you, that gives strength to architecture but also makes it breakable or vulnerable at the same time.

Firmitas could be seen as the sustainable feature, sustainability is eventually what gives a solid or firm foundation and future for all architecture. This is what is important today and what should be the starting point of every architect and all architecture today. It’s not just about giving architecture a firm base or foundation today but as well in 10, 100, 1000 years.Utilitas is eventually what matters, what is important in each building or in all architecture. Architecture should be useful, practical and buildable.Fragility is also about nesting, a theme the Japanese architect Fujimoto has studied a lot. Fragility and beauty is about making a home and feeling at home.

Sustainability is about having little impact on earth and nature. It’s important to make sure that what you build doesn’t affect earth in a bad way. The most functional buildings are slumhouses made with easy and local found material. The houses are functional in the way that they often are the size the inhabitants want them to have. If the inhabitants need an extra room, they can easily go and get some more material and build the needed space.

FRAGILITY-SUSTAINABILITY-MATTER / COMPARISON VENUSTAS-FIRMITAS-UTILITAS

West-EastHospitalsgataTordenskiolds GateSt Olavs GatePrinsens GateJomfrugataNodrea Gata

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MATERIAL LIGHT+






FRAGILITY-SUSTAINABILITY-MATTER / COMPARISON VENUSTAS-FIRMITAS-UTILITAS3





MATERIAL LIGHT+






FRAGILITY-SUSTAINABILITY-MATTER / COMPARISON VENUSTAS-FIRMITAS-UTILITAS

_Shore_Line_

Top:Fjordgata to Sandgata

Bottom:Sandgata

A feeling to outreach onto the fjords and spaces in between buildings that lies on the north-most region doesn’t match together as the development appears as a supposed form of continuity.

A different scene along each opening should be relatable as one travels from one end to the other.West-East

HospitalsgataTordenskiolds GateSt Olavs GatePrinsens GateJomfrugataNodrea Gata

Arab Muslim writer named Ahmad ibn Fadlan:!orwegian chief or king died on an expedition. The dead king was put in a temporary grave for ten days. During that time

they arranged the funeral. When the time had arrived for cremation, they pulled his longship ashore and put on it a platform of wood, and they made a bed for the dead king on the ship.The king was put into his bed with all his weapons and grave offerings around him. Thereafter, the relatives of the dead chieftain arrived with

facilitates the voyage to the realm of the dead, but unfortunately, the story does not tell to which realm the deceased was to go. Afterwards, a round barrow was built over the ashes and in the centre of the mound they erected a staff of birch wood, where they carved the names of the dead chieftain and his king. Then

they departed in their ships.

FIREArab Muslim writer named Ahmad ibn Fadlan:

!orwegian chief or king died on an expedition. The dead king was put in a temporary grave for ten days. During that time




FIREBadekarpadlingenSince 1979, Badekarpadlingen or Bathtub race is organized for new students during September. Students built a boat that may or may not float and sabotage other floating devices to retrieve a Golden Chest

Arab Muslim writer named Ahmad ibn Fadlan:!orwegian chief or king died on an expedition. The dead king was put in a temporary grave for ten days. During that time




FIRE‘multi-functionality’

‘expresses movement’

‘informal atmosphere‘

‘a connection between the different activities and users’

SQUARE

Fire was important in the tradition and lifestyle of Norway (in tales, culture, mythology and everyday life, the house). Fire is good when ice and water suggest evil. Fire is life and makes life possible when ice threatens life and fire.

Fire is in hands of the god Loki, he is unpredictable, a little evil but he always outsmarts the Gods and saves them. He is often recognized as a culture hero, like the Greek Prometheus. The fire that Loki gives to people is an ambiguous gift: first, promoting culture (heat, light, cooking, metalworking...), secondly if it appears that man in fact can not control (guns, technology). People were afraid but at the same time fascinated by fire.

Fire is also embedded in Norwegians tradition of funerals. When a viking chief died, the clan made a bed of wood on his longship and set this ship on fire while sailing towards the endless ocean. The Arab muslim writer Ahmad ibn Fadlan described the funeral of a viking chief who died in battle and was put on his longship to be set on fire and sail towards Walhalla.

Fire has a central place in Norwegian houses and Norwegian tradition. The fireplace was used to warm up the whole house and its inhabitants. It also had a central place in the household for cooking, working or as a lightsource.Today fire is used as a way to make people come together.

The Norwegian architecture office made an installation near the Trondheim fjord where they combine the water and fire to create an environment that invites people to sit and come together. Today fire still has an attraction and a power that brings people together. This especially in Norway where fire is this important.

Fire has mystic, warm and inviting qualities and invites people to talk, think and be together or alone.

CULTURE / FIRE: IN HOUSING & CULTURE

‘multi-functionality’

‘expresses movement’

‘informal atmosphere‘

‘a connection between the different activities and users’

SQUARE

Fire was important in the tradition and lifestyle of Norway (in tales, culture, mythology and everyday life, the house). Fire is good when ice and water suggest evil. Fire is life and makes life possible when ice threatens life and fire.

Fire is in hands of the god Loki, he is unpredictable, a little evil but he always outsmarts the Gods and saves them. He is often recognized as a culture hero, like the Greek Prometheus. The fire that Loki gives to people is an ambiguous gift: first, promoting culture (heat, light, cooking, metalworking...), secondly if it appears that man in fact can not control (guns, technology). People were afraid but at the same time fascinated by fire.

Fire is also embedded in Norwegians tradition of funerals. When a viking chief died, the clan made a bed of wood on his longship and set this ship on fire while sailing towards the endless ocean. The Arab muslim writer Ahmad ibn Fadlan described the funeral of a viking chief who died in battle and was put on his longship to be set on fire and sail towards Walhalla.

Fire has a central place in Norwegian houses and Norwegian tradition. The fireplace was used to warm up the whole house and its inhabitants. It also had a central place in the household for cooking, working or as a lightsource.Today fire is used as a way to make people come together.

The Norwegian architecture office made an installation near the Trondheim fjord where they combine the water and fire to create an environment that invites people to sit and come together. Today fire still has an attraction and a power that brings people together. This especially in Norway where fire is this important.

Fire has mystic, warm and inviting qualities and invites people to talk, think and be together or alone.

CULTURE / FIRE: IN HOUSING & CULTUREArab Muslim writer named Ahmad ibn Fadlan:

!orwegian chief or king died on an expedition. The dead king was put in a temporary grave for ten days. During that time




FIREBadekarpadlingenSince 1979, Badekarpadlingen or Bathtub race is organized for new students during September. Students built a boat that may or may not float and sabotage other floating devices to retrieve a Golden Chest

Russfeiring

Tradition dictates that Russ wear their overalls from 1st to 17th of may without washing and interruption except sleeping. Russ also partake in crazy clothing.

The overalls includes their student cap that match their graduate line of study.

On the morning of National day on 17th May, a russ cap, russelue, is given with the christening of the graduate and award of a name by his or her fellow graduate.

The cap is also loaded with tiny figurines, called knots dangling from the strings that represents a prank played or a dare met during the month Students then compete for the most knots on their cap.

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BODY CULTURE IN URBAN SPACE Katie’s class “body culture in urban space” went on a field trip today to several sites in Copenhagen. It was a bicycle field trip, which added to the fun. There seems to be a lot of emphasis on sports facilities and community centers within the urban center of Copenhagen. I really like the connection between this and the Valle work that I’m doing. It was interesting to talk with her professor from the Danish Royal Academy — His studio does work in sports facilities, schools, and health. I like that combination.

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIESYou can enjoy fishing, riding, swimming, walks, skiing, skating, trotting and lots more...

SPORTSYou can join sportsclubs, atletics and orienteering,

boxing, martial arts, fencing, cycling, equestrian, football, handball, ice hockey, swimming, skiing,

snowboarding, watersports and lots more...

The attitude of Norwegians towards the water and the waterfront is interesting. On the one hand they love using and seeing this water and love to be nearby the water, on the other hand there was and sometimes still is fear and awe for the scenery and beautiful environment.

On sundays you see a lot of Norwegian families hiking and playing nearby the fjord and water. They love being outside and love to be near the water and go on family outings towards the fjord. Edward Munch’s Scream, the famous painting made by the Norwegian painter, doesn’t express fear or a scream from the man on the painting. It expresses the usurpation

of the surrounding nature. Munch was walking along Oslo’s waterfront when he suddenly got overwhelmed by the scenery: “I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature.”So the person on the painting (representing Munch) isn’t screaming, it’s the overwhelming nature that is screaming and this person needs to shut his ears so he won’t hear nature’s screams.

CULTURE / NORWEGIAN RELATION TO WATER & NATURE











The attitude of Norwegians towards the water and the waterfront is interesting. On the one hand they love using and seeing this water and love to be nearby the water, on the other hand there was and sometimes still is fear and awe for the scenery and beautiful environment.

On sundays you see a lot of Norwegian families hiking and playing nearby the fjord and water. They love being outside and love to be near the water and go on family outings towards the fjord. Edward Munch’s Scream, the famous painting made by the Norwegian painter, doesn’t express fear or a scream from the man on the painting. It expresses the usurpation

of the surrounding nature. Munch was walking along Oslo’s waterfront when he suddenly got overwhelmed by the scenery: “I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned against the fence, feeling unspeakably tired. Tongues of fire and blood stretched over the bluish black fjord. My friends went on walking, while I lagged behind, shivering with fear. Then I heard the enormous, infinite scream of nature.”So the person on the painting (representing Munch) isn’t screaming, it’s the overwhelming nature that is screaming and this person needs to shut his ears so he won’t hear nature’s screams.

CULTURE / NORWEGIAN RELATION TO WATER & NATURE

Kosmorama 08 film shows the threat towards local films as it needs to be realized that there is hidden messages and trails of local identity in urban life. The picture film revolved around the town square as the locations is with passer-by and the ordinary.

Trondheim Kino 90 år picture film shows images of a local cinema that revolves around the changes of time. As the place remains the same, the thought of what should remain and what not becomes a theme.

_Existencial_Meanings_

NETWORKS

NETWORKS

Burying the railway would folds of opportunity to bring the waterfront to Trondheim. Keeping traces of the railway above ground can reflect a new cultural point.

The railway and industry became more apparent visually as we walk along history. At present time

Sight line of the Fjords will diminish alike the scenographyfrom Fjordgata but we can’t stop our city from developing. We need a principal of growth.

_Fragility Week_ W5

NETWORKS

NEW identity or added identity, should this harbour be something completly diffrent or should it join its existing, less important use with something new and exiting to bring life to both

+ =- expand areas for commercial useestablish planning policies which result in a more predictable planning procesmaintain a compact urban development pattern and stimulate urban regenerationreduce transport dependency through location policy and zoning regulationpreserve and develop existing green spaces

TRONDHEIM'S STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY

large scale building blocks

hard materials ( concrete, steel, …) with rough details

traffic wide roads and train tracks

industrial scales impersonal image

ground surface gray asphalt

large scale building blockshard materials ( concrete, steel, …) with rough detailstraffic wide roads and train tracksindustrial scales impersonal imageground surface gray asphalt

SVARTLAMOENNYHAVNA

The first thing of importance in Trondheim is that the Munkholmen island plays an important role. Space syntax did a studie on the city and found out Prinsens Gt, Munkegt and Kjopmansgt were the most used roads. After doing research I saw that these roads (the main structural roads in the city) head towards Munkholmen island. If you elongate the view axes, they always lead to the island.Munkegt leads to the fish market where you have a view on the fjord and the island. Kjopmansgt leads to the new swimming pool near the fjord where you also have a clear view on the island. It’s clearly that the connection with the fjord and Munkholmen played an important role during the building of Trondheim.

Another important thing is that the green strip along the border between the fjord and the land or hills is interrupted by the industrial waterfront of Trondheim. Yet this green strip is actually a valuable place and actually makes the real Norwegian waterfront. This green strip is often used as a place where people live with the most spectacular view and as a place where people can relax and have some fresh air.This green strip also makes the connection between the city and the fjord. Especially in places like Lade, this connection is much appreciated and used by inhabitants of Trondheim who come hiking, playing and bathing during summer.

The railroad is eventually the last object to overcome and to make a better connection between the city and the fjord and nature. A possibility is to make the railroad go underground. The railroad already goes underground for a little while when it crosses Kongens Gate and at the same time there is a new car tunnel entering the industry island. If these 2 could be combined, car and railwaytraffic could as well go underground to liberate the city waterfront from railway.

MASTERPLAN / NW WATERFRONT: RAILROAD & GREEN CONNECTION

NETWORKS

NEW identity or added identity, should this harbour be something completly diffrent or should it join its existing, less important use with something new and exiting to bring life to both

+ =- expand areas for commercial useestablish planning policies which result in a more predictable planning procesmaintain a compact urban development pattern and stimulate urban regenerationreduce transport dependency through location policy and zoning regulationpreserve and develop existing green spaces

TRONDHEIM'S STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY

large scale building blocks

hard materials ( concrete, steel, …) with rough details

traffic wide roads and train tracks

industrial scales impersonal image

ground surface gray asphalt

large scale building blockshard materials ( concrete, steel, …) with rough detailstraffic wide roads and train tracksindustrial scales impersonal imageground surface gray asphalt

SVARTLAMOENNYHAVNA

The first thing of importance in Trondheim is that the Munkholmen island plays an important role. Space syntax did a studie on the city and found out Prinsens Gt, Munkegt and Kjopmansgt were the most used roads. After doing research I saw that these roads (the main structural roads in the city) head towards Munkholmen island. If you elongate the view axes, they always lead to the island.Munkegt leads to the fish market where you have a view on the fjord and the island. Kjopmansgt leads to the new swimming pool near the fjord where you also have a clear view on the island. It’s clearly that the connection with the fjord and Munkholmen played an important role during the building of Trondheim.

Another important thing is that the green strip along the border between the fjord and the land or hills is interrupted by the industrial waterfront of Trondheim. Yet this green strip is actually a valuable place and actually makes the real Norwegian waterfront. This green strip is often used as a place where people live with the most spectacular view and as a place where people can relax and have some fresh air.This green strip also makes the connection between the city and the fjord. Especially in places like Lade, this connection is much appreciated and used by inhabitants of Trondheim who come hiking, playing and bathing during summer.

The railroad is eventually the last object to overcome and to make a better connection between the city and the fjord and nature. A possibility is to make the railroad go underground. The railroad already goes underground for a little while when it crosses Kongens Gate and at the same time there is a new car tunnel entering the industry island. If these 2 could be combined, car and railwaytraffic could as well go underground to liberate the city waterfront from railway.

MASTERPLAN / NW WATERFRONT: RAILROAD & GREEN CONNECTION

Burying the railway would folds of opportunity to bring the waterfront to Trondheim. Keeping traces of the railway above ground can reflect a new cultural point.

The railway and industry became more apparent visually as we walk along history. At present time

Sight line of the Fjords will diminish alike the scenographyfrom Fjordgata but we can’t stop our city from developing. We need a principal of growth.

_Fragility Week_ W5

During fragile week, Tarald Lundevall from Snohetta architecture office gave a lecture. The lecture was mainly about the Snohetta Opera building in Oslo. Oslo has the same problems as Trondheim. They have a possible large waterfront but now this is mainly occupied by industry. The city of Oslo wanted an opera house near the water.

The building consists of 4 charachteristical properties. The building itself is a machine, the entire building works for 1 or 2 little stages and for a couple of hours of entertainment. Between this machine and the fjord, you have a kind of lock chamber or a huge threshold, a curved wall, that takes you inside the machine and the theatre stages.

This building had to have some grandeur, some monumentality. The architects stated that it’s not verticality that gives monumentality, but that it’s horizontality, so the made a huge carpet coming from the fjord and going over the building. This way people walk on the roof of the building and can look in and find out what’s going on inside and maybe come in another time.

Tarald Lundevall is also professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, he then showed us some projects of architecture graduates.

FRAGILE WEEK / SNOHETTA LECTURE

The people’s relationship with the natural world, affects the mental and physical health. By investigating lateral points to the water front, it also deals indirectly to all age groups

+ existing activity and structure+ cultural and historical landmarks+ green strip proposal

Would change of connection make a remark on citizens whom move in and out of the city?

This urban enclave is an attractor for the local residents it offers their basic needs but ot isn’t integrated in the general context.

Svartlamon

Ladehammerkaia

Ladehammer Fjord

A real junction of infrastructure and functions. They all claimed there space, of which there is plenty, so the spare part are lying everywhere. The ignore each other and live in a one-to-one relation with their users, ... The fenced of claimed approach leave this place with an empty feel, abandoned an underused.

A visual interesting point, that could function as a leisure gate, but now there is the industry that takes the headrole. This is miles away, in the heads of residents, from there prefered place to go now.


Svartlamon

Starting with the end of development borders and bridges, we can make a comprehensive study to bring revival to the surrounding.

Ladehammerkaia

Ladehammer Fjord




Svartlamon

Ladehammerkaia

Ladehammer Fjord



The plan is to make this artificial industry strip, seperating the city and the fjord, into a real island, a ‘skerry’ (a rocky island in front of the Norwegian westcoast, protecting the mainland). This island is then given back to nature and the fjord and becomes a place where you can have a rest and relax. It’s a retreating place, a getaway place. A place to get out of busy, daily life and reset your mind.

This idea is based on the Norwegian idea of having a cabin. This cabin is used as a weekend retreat, to go back to nature and back to basics. Living without the everyday worries. It’s also based on the (to me) Norwegian waterfront that is used as a place to walk and think.

The idea of getting away is also based on the movie ‘Du Levande’, where a redheaded girl dreams of Micke Larsson, a guitarplayer whom she marries in her dream. They go of on a honeymoon in a moving house on railroad tracks but they don’t exactly know where they will be going. The whole atmosphere of the movie is greyish and depressing, but still somehow warm, honest or calming.This ‘getting away idea’ is also to be found in the masterplan for a railway city by Jagnefalt Milton and especially in his pictures. They show deserted spaces in which you can reset your mind and thoughts. His masterplan contains moving cabins with which you can travel and go to another breathtaking residence.

A GETAWAY PLACE & ATMOSPHERE / DREAM OR REALITY?

Tunnel under the railway and pathway across the rail tracks can be seen. The apparent advantage is to use it and connect the north and the east.

LIVE, STAY, WORK, RECREATION, WATERFRONT, TRANSPORT

Oppurtunities are plenty here, but it won’t happen at once, keypoint is to make som attractors on the city scale, like the big objects that define its industrial role now. Like the bunker which represents the historical context. But what will this point be, A remarkable object, or something really typical for whats is going on.

EXTERNALISED, WITH NEW INSIDE POSIBILITIES, BLURING THE BORDERS


This island can be reached by 2 bridges. One ‘big’ bridge, making you enter from the inner city, walking down the road Prinsens Gate (which is the most strucural and important road for the city) to an outdoor public activity place. This place is orientated towards the Munkholmen

island and the fjord (as is Prinsens Gate). This whole place functions as an outlook place and may contain a lookout tower, an arena where inhabitants can have a campfire and eventually a swimming pool in the water of the fjord (that can function as an ice-skating arena during winter times). At the other side of the island a pedestrian bridge makes the connection with the walking bridge at the other side of the city, crossing Nidelva river and connecting the sports area with the city. Several piers give an interior view towards the city and the outskirts of the island could be made into a beach with several piers.

A GETAWAY PLACE: ISLAND / ISOLATION

Mining is a trade from the past along Ila, Kisanlegg and Fogervika. Rail tracks are a priority until the mining held no longer importance. Development is not spread further as the landscape remains dominant. Mining and off shore structures still remain at present.








This island can be reached by 2 bridges. One ‘big’ bridge, making you enter from the inner city, walking down the road Prinsens Gate (which is the most strucural and important road for the city) to an outdoor public activity place. This place is orientated towards the Munkholmen

island and the fjord (as is Prinsens Gate). This whole place functions as an outlook place and may contain a lookout tower, an arena where inhabitants can have a campfire and eventually a swimming pool in the water of the fjord (that can function as an ice-skating arena during winter times). At the other side of the island a pedestrian bridge makes the connection with the walking bridge at the other side of the city, crossing Nidelva river and connecting the sports area with the city. Several piers give an interior view towards the city and the outskirts of the island could be made into a beach with several piers.

A GETAWAY PLACE: ISLAND / ISOLATION

Mining is a trade from the past along Ila, Kisanlegg and Fogervika. Rail tracks are a priority until the mining held no longer importance. Development is not spread further as the landscape remains dominant. Mining and off shore structures still remain at present.

Buildings upon the waterfront with the continuity of networks includes Hospitalsgata, Tordenskiolds Gate, St. Olav Gate, Prinsens Gate, Munkgata, Jomfrugata, Nordre Gate, Gaubekveita, Sondre Gate and Kjopmannsgata.

As the inner-waterfront is in line with parking bays for boats, Sandgata, St. Olav and Prinsen Gate look most potential for redevelopment as it coincide with the outer-waterfront that have temporary building structure.

Temporariness of the outer waterfront with moving trains in multiple rail tracks and temporary structure or storage suggests an identity of its own that existed solely for transitory purposes.

_Connectivity_Between_Waters_ W6

Urban form is no longer designated by a line of demarcation between here and there, but has become synonymous with the programming of a ‘time schedule’. Its gateway is less a door which must be opend than an audio-visual protocol which reorganizes the modes of public perception.

The use of the Hide en See principle on the border of the fjord, is been derived from the shifting view between the frontline at the water and the framed view from the street behind the buildings.It gives a shifted view towards the water and gives the expierience a new layer, going behind in front or in between, and being fully exposed to the wind or hidden from the cold wind. But always with a changing view to the water, so the contact is restored.

HIDE + EXPOSE

FRAMEA visual interesting point is been framed, to give a slow speed seasonal expierience, ... also making it part af the daily schedule of the people to go and distract themself and giving them some public privacy, like libraries can.

There is a lot of duality to be found in this getaway island near the city. The words combined show a collision between on the one hand wanting to seperate itself from the city and being an island and on the other hand wanting to make a good connection to the city and giving the city its well deserved connection to the fjord and nature. In this particular case it’s seperation battling versus connection.

This knowing and realizing, the bridge (which makes the connection or the seperation) is crucial. I read Simmels ‘Bridge & Door’ for more understanding this issue and precising this peculiar connection or seperation.Simmel talks and writes about the human tendency of

always trying to connect or seperate everything, so I also tried to find out, how come people always want to do this. This brought me to the ‘Gestaltpsychology’ and the perception of things. Both theories will be explained later on in this journal.

The bridge is based on the idea of having one experience at one side but having a complete other experience once you’re on the other side without even realizing or seeing it. It expresses this duality of connection and seperation by creating a feeling of connection at the cityside and by creating a complete opposite feeling of seperation and clear ‘crossing of a boundary’ at the other side, the islandside.

DUALITY / BRIDGE = CRUCIAL

RightContaminants

LeftAdvisories –

Sea Food

Recreational areas for outdoor activities in Trondheim >5 decare = light green

>200 decare = dark green



HIDE + EXPOSE




HIDE + EXPOSE


There is a lot of duality to be found in this getaway island near the city. The words combined show a collision between on the one hand wanting to seperate itself from the city and being an island and on the other hand wanting to make a good connection to the city and giving the city its well deserved connection to the fjord and nature. In this particular case it’s seperation battling versus connection.

This knowing and realizing, the bridge (which makes the connection or the seperation) is crucial. I read Simmels ‘Bridge & Door’ for more understanding this issue and precising this peculiar connection or seperation.Simmel talks and writes about the human tendency of

always trying to connect or seperate everything, so I also tried to find out, how come people always want to do this. This brought me to the ‘Gestaltpsychology’ and the perception of things. Both theories will be explained later on in this journal.

The bridge is based on the idea of having one experience at one side but having a complete other experience once you’re on the other side without even realizing or seeing it. It expresses this duality of connection and seperation by creating a feeling of connection at the cityside and by creating a complete opposite feeling of seperation and clear ‘crossing of a boundary’ at the other side, the islandside.


RightContaminants

LeftAdvisories –

Sea Food

Recreational areas for outdoor activities in Trondheim >5 decare = light green

>200 decare = dark green

ROCK = LANDSCAPEBRIDGE

By making the bunker part of the landscape and reshaping it like its another hill in the city, like Kristiansten Fort, it’s also a place of historical defense. So this would be a place where you go to, but enjoy more active things close to the water

Dividing it from Svartlamon by water generates a distance between, living and now industry. But it also defines both identities better and creates a hard transition from where the softened path can start to both sides.

ROCK = LANDSCAPE

Listed historical timber buildings

Contrast between the busy harbour and tall modern concrete buildings.

During the restoration, a small river , piped underground is open

_Ilsvikora_

BRIDGE



ROCK = LANDSCAPEBRIDGE



Georg Simmel was a German philosopher and sociologist that was mainly interested in everyday life and cultural phenomena. In his essay ‘Bridge & Door’ he discusses the fact that man always has a tendency to connect or seperate things and how the bridge and the door are two concrete manifestations of this desire.The bridge for Simmel, is a bridge in the landscape, not in an urban setting. This bridge connects 2 riverbanks and in this way the bridge connects the finite landscape on the one hand with the finite landscape on the other hand.The door is more interesting for Simmel. The first man who built the first house, took some space of the infinite unity and continuity and made this space his own. This

space was a finite, defined space. By creating a door, man always has the oppurtunity of connecting with this continuity and unity or of seperating himself and his house and creating his own little space. In this way, the door was more interesting for Simmel because it showed 2 sides of 1 act (not just connecting, as it’s the case with the connecting bridge) and a constant interchange was possible.

By reflecting this on my own work, I realized my bridge wasn’t really a bridge, but it was mainly a door because of the finite and seperated characteristic of this island I wanted to make.

BRIDGE & DOOR / G.SIMMEL

Listed historical timber buildings

Contrast between the busy harbour and tall modern concrete buildings.

During the restoration, a small river , piped underground is open

_Ilsvikora_

INFRASTRUCTURE de/FRASTRUCTURE

Virilio is known above all as a theorist of speed and time. Technical developments in the field of telecommunications and transportation have led to an erosion of the physical, to the point where ’the loss of material space leads to the government of nothing but time’. This has an obvious consequence for a discipline such as architecture which has excerted its influence through materiality.

In ‘The Overexposed City’ Virilio explores a number of themes that arise from this condition. Symbolically -but also practically- the city is no longer governed by physical boundaries but by systems of electronic surveillance. Thus the city gate gives way to the security gateway at the airport. Within the home too the traditional physical windows gives way to the interface of the screen. everywhere architecture is going through a crisis as the hegemony of physical presence is being eroded, and notions such as ‘near’ and ‘far’ have lost their traditional authority-

‘THE OVEREXPOSED CITY’

P. VIRILIO

‘SPEED DISTANCE OBLITERATES THE NOTION OF PHYSICAL DIMENSION’.

INFRASTRUCTURE de/FRASTRUCTURE




P. VIRILIO


I was curious to find out why man has this desire to always connect and seperate things. That’s how I came to the gestaltpsychology that states we see (actually our brain wants to see) the world in groups, relations, patterns or wholes. When we see a point on a paper, we don’t just see the point, but we see the relation of this point to the edges of the paper, the orientation of the point, ... “The Gestalt effect is the form-generating capability of our senses with respect to the visual recognition of figures and whole forms instead of just a collection of lines and curves”.“The whole is more important than the sum of the parts” like a table is more to us than merely the planks and the legs, it’s something we can use to eat, draw, read, ...

The gestalt theorists have made up some rules how the brain of man sees or wants to make relations between seperate shapes, forms, building, people, ...These rules are similarity, continuity, closure and proximity and show us how our brain always wants to see the relations between different things.These ideas are also really important in architecture because they are about perception and composition, which are 2 important subjects in architecture.

Because I was allready working around perception with my bridge, I also find this really interesting to use this as a designing tool.

HOW COME SEPERATION & CONNECTING / GESTALT

3 Potential sites for development

Water front lined with residential or industrial use. Low-level activity, mainly to transit to the city centre. No building tradition. Mining activity with short lived structure




P. VIRILIO





P. VIRILIO


I was curious to find out why man has this desire to always connect and seperate things. That’s how I came to the gestaltpsychology that states we see (actually our brain wants to see) the world in groups, relations, patterns or wholes. When we see a point on a paper, we don’t just see the point, but we see the relation of this point to the edges of the paper, the orientation of the point, ... “The Gestalt effect is the form-generating capability of our senses with respect to the visual recognition of figures and whole forms instead of just a collection of lines and curves”.“The whole is more important than the sum of the parts” like a table is more to us than merely the planks and the legs, it’s something we can use to eat, draw, read, ...

The gestalt theorists have made up some rules how the brain of man sees or wants to make relations between seperate shapes, forms, building, people, ...These rules are similarity, continuity, closure and proximity and show us how our brain always wants to see the relations between different things.These ideas are also really important in architecture because they are about perception and composition, which are 2 important subjects in architecture.

Because I was allready working around perception with my bridge, I also find this really interesting to use this as a designing tool.

HOW COME SEPERATION & CONNECTING / GESTALT

New housing with viewing platform across the site to allow users to experience the space differently from the ground

Since men first began to use enclosures, the notion of what a boundary is has undergone transformations which concern both facade and what it faces, its vis-à-vis. from the fence to the screen,.... The boundary-surface has been continually transformed, percetibly or imperceptibly

The localization and the axiality of the urban layout faded long ago. Suburbia was not single-handedly responsible for the dissolution. The very opposition “intramural”/ “extramural” was itself weakened by the revolution in transportation and the development of communications and telecommunications.

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‘THE OBLIQUE FUNCTION’ P. VIRILIO & C. PARENT

The idea was to tilt the ground in order to revolutionize the old paradigm of the vertical wall. In fact, being inclined, the wall becomes experiencable and so are the cities imagined by the two French architects. The oblique is fundamentally interested in how a body physically experience a space. The slope implies an effort to climb up and a speed to climb down; this way the body can’t abstract itself from the space and feel the degrees of inclination.

Since men first began to use enclosures, the notion of what a boundary is has undergone transformations which concern both facade and what it faces, its vis-à-vis. from the fence to the screen,.... The boundary-surface has been continually transformed, percetibly or imperceptibly

The localization and the axiality of the urban layout faded long ago. Suburbia was not single-handedly responsible for the dissolution. The very opposition “intramural”/ “extramural” was itself weakened by the revolution in transportation and the development of communications and telecommunications.

HORIZONTAL

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view from islandside

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view from cityside



I wanted to make a bridge that directed you to the island from inside the city centre and focused your view on the Munkholmen island. The bridge starts at a level that is 8 meters high and ends at a level that is 4 meters high, so this bridge descends 4 meters. The bridge is at the cityside approximately 4 meters wide and has sides 1 meter high, so views and surroundings are still easily perceptible. Meanwhile this bridge changes and at the end the at first normal looking bridge has sides that are 5 m high and are a gate towards the island. This way you immediately get the feeling of coming into another place without even knowing or realizing something has changed because at first, this bridge just seemed normal.

The bridge plays with perspective and while descending, this change of perspective is counteracted by the fanning or widening of the bridge. The bridge is about 20 meters wide at the end, at the islandside.You experience a conic chanelling, a natural guidance but yet there is a strange counteraction that is happening. At the end you experience a cagefeeling, that gives a protective yet scary feeling.

This bridge is based on a bridge made by Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen for the Handelsbeurs, situated in Ghent, Belgium. This bridge plays with perspective and perception.


islandside

industrial ruin, convert into recreational grounds. Improve environment, currently contaminated.

take away stationary elements and allow changes of the landscape with movements of dockyards

Place for boat owners to meet

Activity of the dockyard as an accessible sight

Built up on the breakwater to allow people to go across it and reach Ila Pir





I wanted to make a bridge that directed you to the island from inside the city centre and focused your view on the Munkholmen island. The bridge starts at a level that is 8 meters high and ends at a level that is 4 meters high, so this bridge descends 4 meters. The bridge is at the cityside approximately 4 meters wide and has sides 1 meter high, so views and surroundings are still easily perceptible. Meanwhile this bridge changes and at the end the at first normal looking bridge has sides that are 5 m high and are a gate towards the island. This way you immediately get the feeling of coming into another place without even knowing or realizing something has changed because at first, this bridge just seemed normal.

The bridge plays with perspective and while descending, this change of perspective is counteracted by the fanning or widening of the bridge. The bridge is about 20 meters wide at the end, at the islandside.You experience a conic chanelling, a natural guidance but yet there is a strange counteraction that is happening. At the end you experience a cagefeeling, that gives a protective yet scary feeling.

This bridge is based on a bridge made by Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen for the Handelsbeurs, situated in Ghent, Belgium. This bridge plays with perspective and perception.


islandside

take away stationary elements and allow changes of the landscape with movements of dockyards

Place for boat owners to meet

Activity of the dockyard as an accessible sight

Built up on the breakwater to allow people to go across it and reach Ila Pir

Used literature & sources:

Jan Swiatzcak:

Yann-Ee Yau:

Sharon Bauwens:‘La ville écologique’, book by as.architecture-studio‘Du Levande’, movie by Roy Andersson‘Snohetta & Norwegian architecture’, lecture by Tarald Lundevall, Snohetta‘Bridge & Door’, text by G. Simmel (in: ‘Rethinking Architecture’, by N. Leach)

Joris Cauwenbergh:‘The Overexposed City’, text by P. Virilio (in: ‘L’espace critique’, 1984)


Jan Swiatzcak:

Yann-Ee Yau:




Jan Swiatzcak:

Yann-Ee Yau:




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Yann-Ee Yau:



2011 journal: trondheim

Documents

rich city

city cuts

precious fjord

surrounding fjord

precious land

human machine

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short meetings