An empty villa Taking out the Blues DALE NKD VILLA FAGERHEIM programatic exposé KRISTIAN FERDINAND ADOLPHSEN BAS master course spring 2014/28/02
extracting and combining
Villa Fagerheim is located in Dale, a village with 1063 inhibitants. The villa is positioned on a peaking mountain ca 78 meter above Dale. The villa was built in 1970 for the school principle and major of Dale Oddleif Fagerheim and his wife Thora Nitter. It was drawn by the architect Peder Ristesund. The villa was supposed to be home of Fagerheim combined with a school, a meeting room for politicians and, seperated, home for the teacher plus a dobble- garage, attached to this flat. The Villa never became a school. The flat was never home for a teacher but became accomodation for visiors and finally the Fagerheim`s office. NKD, the international Nordic Artcentre (Nordisk Kunstcentre) was established and rased in 1998 and Villa became a part of the new complex of buildings of a Work- shop and four temporary cabins. The villa was used as a home for 14 years. Because of its big size Villa Fagerheim was just partly used which led to condensation problems in the empty parts. Nowadays Villa Fagerheim is suffering from fungi affection and just in use as storrage.
Facts of Villa Fagerheim Villa Fagerheim. 1970, Two floores. Four modules. First floor: 23 rooms, 317 sqm. Wooden walls, wallpaper, tiles. Bedrom, bath, service room, kitchen, storrage, living- room, two, toilette, entrĂŠ. Dobble garage, plaster. Basement/ ground floor: 16 rooms, 247 sqm. Wood panel First floor: wooden cladding on the nother facade and along the courtyard. South facade: mainly glassed. Terrasse: conctrete. Western facade: Plasted bricks, glass. East facade: Plastered bricks. Basement/ ground floor Concrete, glasse.
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Blægja Fjellet 1304 m Nyfjellet 449 m Villa Fagerheim 78 m Dale 13 m Jarstad Heia 578 m Fløyen 761 m Sunnfjord
black granite red granite
snow mixed forest spruce forest spruce forest
sea water snow
The curtain The three black humbs The sharp pitching line The skin The wall, the canvas
Jumping hills
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What is the Villa...
....trying to be?
Remain The water, the sun, the wind. Wood stain, wood cladding, insulation, painting, bricks, steel, stoneskin, concrete. Fell apart. small rooms, containers, the areals, tunnels, hallow spaces, the human beeing, the sea, the mountain. A flower bed.
Sustain Technical improvement. Use of materials from the surroundings.
Compactivity Adaptability
Caves
Stones, the villa falls apart.
Collage of the east- facade of Villa Fagerheim, ca 70 single pictures.
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The wall is cutting throgh the building from top to the basement, seperating the entrance from the 2. living room from the wintergarden in the courtyard to the terrace. The wall is constructive element for the chimney.
Collage of the wall covering the garage and the seperate flat
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Blue spaces in the first floor
The building consists of four modules. Model of “blue“ rushing through the object.
The building consists of four modules.
Reference. E.1027, by Eileen Gray
E.1027 is inspired by a cruise ship and the memories of a jurny. There are several innuendos on a cruise like the bull`s- eye in the sealing of the bathroom, the railing, promenade or sun-deck or the saloon- like ensemble of furniture. Gray tried to achieve several layers of memories by creating spaces of being together, take part in the others actions or being alone. She designed the building to create referenses to diffrent spaces and expiriences. Spaces was made to be occupied and to be changed. E.1027 was disigned for lovers and friends.
The house was not meant to be for a family but for people with an open sexual lifestyle. E.1027 should be a sensual space, Gray´s “love nest“. Spaces like bath, bed- resting or living room are combined with each other. There are no walls, no obstacles in deviding the large space but a lower, on the top open wall seperating the bath from the rest of the room. The sound of dripping water interfusing the living room with rooming a large bed, was part of the sensual concept with the human body in centre. In Opposite to Le Corbusier`s view on a building as a “machine for living”, Gray looked at the building as a shelter for the body. The living room could have different character and become resting room, “love nest“ or/ and a place of being together. The Bed could also be “occupied“ by friends.
Blue furniture in the living room
Brown spaces
White spaces
The villa is „working against it selv“: It was meant to be a school, it never became one. The villa was meant to contain live. Now it is empty. The generous space was shrinking by time and was abandont when Fagerheim retired to the wing with the basics. Food, wash, sleep, a little work a little recreation. The villa trys to be nature. It is made by concrete. The footprint is blasted ground. It had a clear formal consept which contradicts itselv by architectural compromises and programs, filled inn.
Diagram of the entrance and the living room with the fire place in centre of the inner and outer space
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Diagram about the bedroom and the bath.
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Diagram Speculation about what the living room could be.
Diagram about what the bedroom could have been
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Villa Fagerheim i future The villa should stay as something autonous. It is not for NKD. Maybe it is not for Dale. Maybe it is for the mountain it stans on. It could be an object which is not to for use like a building but maybe just an object in the landscape. Anyhow should it be something for temporary use. The villa should be partly preserved.