Final book

In between emptiness mass light transparency DALE NKD VILLA FAGERHEIM intentions for a proposal gabriella de mattos pimenta BAS master course spring 2014

paratext

During the first semester of 2014 a master course named “Dale NKD Villa Fagerheim ad_hoc transform� was attended by a group of students of the Bergen School of Architecture. The main goal of the course was to develop a proposal for a integration of the Villa Fagerheim to the Nordic Artists Center in Dale i Sunnfjord.

The course happened in a number of phases, and there was work in situ, at school and during a study trip. Each phase resulted in a distinct product that in the end was assembled into a final proposal.

The work presented in this book is the final result of this process, and while it shows excerpts of the previous works, it is better understood with the complete knowledge of this previous work. All the material was published online and can be found in Issuu, in the following link: http://issuu.com/gabriellapimenta/docs

Oddleif Fagerheim

Dale i Sunnfjord

Villa Fagerheim in January 2014

brief history and conditions

The Villa Fagerheim was built in 1970 for Oddleif Fagerheim, an important figure in Dale. An active member of parliament, accomplished teacher and direct of a youth school in the village, Mr. Fagerheim was married to Thora Nitter. Her family came from Germany, and owned several antiques that were brought to the villa when it was completed.

The couple lived there for a few years, and after his wife passing, Mr. Fagerheim kept living there, but in restricted areas. The house was too big to be kept warm at all times.

The villa came to be as a project of Mr. Fagerheim to build a school for nordic children. He acquired the plot of land and had the project done by an architect from Bergen, Peter Ristesund. The construction happened between 1968 and 1970, with modifications to the original project happening during that time.

The real reasons the building never became a school were lost, but it is speculated that the project was comissioned as a house to prevent issues with the municipality, and remained a house after its completion.

In the 80s, the Nordic Counsil of Ministers and the Ministry of Culture of Norway reached an agreement to build a Nordic Arts Centre in Norway, one of the last nordic countries without such a centre. After some discussions, the decision was to have the centre in the same location as the Villa Fagerheim, and in the 90s the NKD was built. The villa served as house for the first director, but by then living conditions were very precarious.

Having been unused for almost 10 years, the conditions of the villa are not optimal. There is mold in a number of rooms, the heating system is outdated and requires huge amounts of energy and in general the onnly use the building has is to serve as deposit for the objects of the Fagerheim couple and some materials of the Arts Center.

The intetion is to reintegrate the Villa Fagerheim with the town of Dale and its inhabitants, and to the artits centre and its residents.

location

Dale i Sunnfjord

relations

Dale i Sunnfjord is a small town located in the western coast of Norway.

Although small, with only 1063 inhabitants, it is the administrative center of the Fjaler municipality of the Song og Fjordane county.

The town sits in the southern border of a smaller fjord, the Dalsfjord, and its center is crossed by the Dalseva river. The center is in the river valley, but there are expasions towards the hills surrounding the city.

The local culture is connected to traditional woodworking, which led to the construction of a woodshop in the artists center.

Sitting atop of a mountain overlooking the city, the artitsts center and the villa Fagerheim are surrounded by remnants of the natural forest that existed in the region.

Villa Fagerheim

previous work The following work was made during the course, in different phases. The selected pieces were either chosen afterwards for their relevance to the conitued work, or made with the intent to connect with the flow of wrok being done.

The first task was to recreate with fast ink strokes on paper the spaces of the childhood home. Looking back to this work, it is possible to see an interest in the spaces that are connections of inside and outside, and spaces that are transiotinal spaces, in which the observer is led to another room to discover what lies beyond.

Stairs to uper floor - section

Stairs to uper floor - plaster model

childhood spaces

raindrops

sunshine

pocket model

During the stay at the NKD, one of the tasks was to build a pocket model of the villa, with the possibility of creating models of parts of the villa that were considered relevant. This is a model of the courtyard in front of the main entrance, a space particularly interesting, and focus of the concept developed later.

registry

The following drawings show the Villa Fagerheim as it is now, after 44 years of being built. Although the drawings look precise, there was some estimates involved, since it was not possible to take all the measurements necessary. The drawings are mostly based in old drawings that were available, and some information was missing.

roof

first

ground

section 1

section 2

section 3

section 4

current conditions - external

After the last inhabitant left the villa, it was closed and left as it was. On occasion it was opened, specially when there was the need to store things related to the administration of the artists center. In this period in which the villa was closed off was the most damaging, with the surfacing of several leaking problems and the intensification of an already existing mold problem.

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4

3 1

1

2

3

4

current conditions - first floor

living room

dining room

office

meeting room

garage

entrance hall food storage

2 coatWC 1

kitchen

laundry room

3 blue bathbedroom room

white bedroom 4

external office

1

2

3

4

technical room 3

4

sauna

storage room

shower

current conditions - ground floor

library

2 1

club room

WC bedroom 1

bedroom 2

basement kitchen

external office storage

1

2

3

4

group model

The group model, in the 1:25 scale, allowed for a different view of the villa as the way it was built. Each group came with different approaches to the completion of the model depending on the building material.

Afterwards it was possible to study the spaces of the villa and many different reshufflings and reinterpretations.

north

south-east

south-west

north

south-west

north-east

unreal

initial idea

The first idea of how to rework the spaces of the villa surfaced while putting together the work produced previously. An interest in spaces that are interstitial, but not residual, was the driving motif behind the idea of creating paths that crosses the villa.

key concept

threshold

the point something changes

interstice

a apce that intervenes between things

mediate

to convey (a message) by an intermediary

volumetric paths

paths and views

core + interstices

reshuffled

study trip to germany

In the first week of April happened a study trip to Germany. The purpose was to view important works of architecture, and to inspire new ideas for the proposals. The following works were deemed of the utmost importance to the development of the work in question.

museum folkwang - david chipperfield The museum began as the art collection of Karl Ernst Osthaus, established in Hagen in 1902. Soon it became a pioneering modern art museum in Germany. Following the death of it’s founder in 1921, a group of collectors from Essen bought his original collection and established the museum in its current form.

After the war, the current directors of the museum were able to re-establish the prestige of the museum by acquiring works that belonged to the museum and expanding the collection to include pieces of modern art.

In 2006, the then sponsors of the insitution determined that the current collection needed a new buidling, and in 2007 David Chipperfield was the architect that won the international competition. The new museum opened in 2010.

- Empty rooms - Courtyards - Light - Transparency - Glass - Views - Space

museum insel hombroich - various artists Museum Insel Hombroich was established in 1987, by Karl-Heinrich Müller. The location was a park in 1816, and the name “Hombroich Island” is due to the Erft river surrounding the lands.

The landscape is a careful balance between untouched nature and nurturing intervention. The ten “walk-in sculptures” designed by Erwin Heerich are mainly for housing the Müller art and cultural collection, which includes artifacts from East Asia and works of renowned artists.

Since 1997 the Insel Hombroich Foundation consists of thee distinct areas: the Museum Insel Hombroich, the Raketenstation Hombroich, which was a NATO missile center, and the Kirkeby-Feld, where three chapels designed by Per Kirkeby are located.

Ausstellungsräume für Fotografie Siza Pavillon – Forum für räumliches Denken

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Parkplatz Atelier Werkstatt

Field Institute Hombroich

Café Kischken

Das böhmische Dorf

Stiftungsbüro

Transformator

Gastatelier

Haus für Musiker

Turmbunker

Langen Foundation Ra

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Richtung Holzheim

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one-man house

Atelier

Tilapia

Stahlkochen ist Kunst

Zwischenraum

Tafelrunde Atelier

Fontana Pavillon domus aurea Atelier

Atelier

Bibliothek und Archivgebäude

„Kloster“

Veranstaltungshalle

Eingang/Ausgang Begiari

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2 Tore Turm

Janustor

weg

Linden

Wohnhaus Klostergarten

Richtung Kappellen

Fußweg Insel Hombroich

- Light - Relation to nature - Views - Empty - No definite function

proposal

The final proposal mainly explores the concept of interstial space and transition. The intent is to entice the observer to cross the spaces in search for the next point of interest, glimpsed from the previous state of presence, or space.

first floor

ground floor

network of points of interest

first floor

ground floor

conclusion

After a whole semester studying the villa and its challenges, it is inevitable to reach some conclusions. The work presented in this book is unfinished, but that is a positive thing. It means that its open ended, full of unexplored paths to be taken afterwards, be it by the author, be it by a curious reader.

The title of this book is “in between�, and there are some situations concerning the villa that relate to that concept. The villa can become an intermediary in different scales. The macro scale would be to create a connection between the artists centre and the town.

The intermediate scale would be the transition between what is around the villa and the spaces within. And the micro scale is the intrisic relationship between the states of presence, or spaces.

One of the goals of this repurposing of the villa was to create inspiring spaces, places that long after the observer is gone will stand. The space lingers even after the function fades.

On the possibility of permanence, it is not known whether the villa will be repaired and ultimately kept, or put down due to its issues. The work here presented tries to picture a future in which the space is viable again, as something that entices the observer to look for the next interesting place or view the villa has to offer.

BAS spring 2014