RHYTHMICAL DIRECTION fragmentation of space
DALE NKD VILLA FAGERHEIM programatic exposé LOVISA WALLGREN BAS master course spring 2014 / 28 feb
An overview of the villa Fagerheim, part of the NKD Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale, and the subject of the BAS master course NKD Villa Fagerheim. The booklet includes: text, history, context, essay objective plans, sections and façades subjective drawings about directions and rhythm All material: Lovisa Wallgren 2014
HISTORY
But they had problems realize the idea of the boarding school and the villa was only used as a residency for themselves before they donated
At the west coast of Norway in the village Dale can you find the Villa
the villa and the area to the Nordic Council of Ministers 1976.
Fagerheim. The villa was designed by Peder Ritesund 1968 for the couple Oddleif and Thora Nitter Fagerheim. The villa was completed
In 1998 the Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale opened at the property. The
1970.
area had been supplemented with several buildings and the intention was to include the villa Fagerheim in the facilities. But the villa has
The couple’s original idea was to open a boarding school at the
been shut down some years ago due to leakage problem and the
property and the design of the villa includes teachers’ accommodation,
detection of moulds.
facilities for the boarding school and housing for themselves. Oddleif Fagerheim was a politician and a teacher who was very active in the area. Thora Nitter Fagerheim came from a wealthy family, originally from Berlin. They had a school in the village which they sold and they built the villa Fagerheim for the money.
108 km
JARSTADHEIA
NYFJELLET
DALE BERGEN
FLøyEN
VILLA FAGERHEIM
DALSFJORDEN
CONTEXT Dale is a small village 108 km north of Bergen and part of the municipality of Fjaler in Sogn og Fjordane County. The village is situated in a valley in a characteristic Norwegian west coast scenery with big mountains, valleys and fjords. Through this valley runs Dalsfjord.
THE CENTER OF DALE
NYFJELLET
The villa is located on the edge of a hill, overlooking the village. The hill is situated to the east of Dale near the center.
THE SCHOOL
NKD nordic ARTISTS’ CENTRE DALE
VILLA FAGERHEIM
DALSFJORDEN
FAGERHEIMS OLD LIVING SPACE THE CENTER OF DALE THE CHURCH
LEVELS, GEOMETRY AND VOLYME The building is two story high and follows the landscape with terraces in different levels. Even the inside follows the landscape with floors in different levels. There is a lot of stairs both on the inside and on the outside. There are many doors from where you can reach the outside, both from the ground floor and the basement floor.
GROUND FLOOR WITHOUT PARTITIONS
You can go around and around, in and out, out and in.
BASEMENT FLOOR WITHOUT PARTITIONS
BUILDING VOLUME
OUTSIDE SURFACES
THE LEVELS
GEOMETRY AND VOLYME OF THE VILLA
BASEMENT FLOOR 1:400
THE ROOMS The inside consists of many rooms. The building feels large, but the most of the rooms feels quite small. The living room which are meant to be the big warm area are big, empty and cold. The windows are only facing northwest and northeast. The small rooms facing south feels warm but the long corridor leading to the rooms are claustrophobic with windows only high up.
GROUND FLOOR 1:400
NORT ELEVATION 1:400
THE FACADES, MATERIALS AND WINDOWS
EAST ELEVATION 1:400
The intention with the dark painted wooden walls seems to be that they should appear lighter. Almost all the windows and openings are
Part of the facades seems like heavy, white, solid, massive walls.
located at this walls. But the wood is dark and old and the lightness
Some walls have the appearance of thick natural stones walls and are
does not allways appear.
sometimes a wall of the building and sometimes a wall in the nature.
WEST ELEVATION 1:400
There are windows in different sizes. Large windows spanning from the floor to the ceiling, areas with window bands and some places with windows high up. The doors are made of wood, some have windows.
SOUTH ELEVATION 1:400
SECTION THROUGH THE ENTRANCE HALL 1:400
SECTION THROUGH THE LIVING ROOM 1:400
THE CHIMNEY, THE ENTRANCE HALL AND THE LIVING ROOM
SECTION THROUGH THE DINING ROOM AND LIVING ROOM 1:400
SECTION THROUGH THE ENTRANCE HALL AND LIVING ROOM 1:400
SECTION THROUGH THE ENTRANCE HALL AND LIVING ROOM 1:400
VIEWS FROM DIFFERENT ROOMS
MOVEMENT, DIRECTIONS, PATTERNS AND RHYTHM
Windows, doors and stairs
One direction of two
The rhythm lines lines, crossing lines the windows the pattern
The rhythm lines lines, crossing lines fragmentation
The inside the partitions
directions in the villa fragmentation of the space
There is considerable value in preserving the building, both as memory and for the artist center to use. But manipulation is needed. There are leakage problem and molds have been detected. The facade and roof can not breathe. The spaces has been difficult to use because the villa is to expensive to heat. To be able to use it, the villa must be seperated in to different areas isolated from each other so as you can heat only one part at a time. The dammaged areas and the areas not working properly need to be replaced. Some rooms with poor daylight and unusable spaces needs to be converted.