LIMINAL LANDSCAPES
THREE PORTS IN TRANSITION
PROJECT DESCRIPTION DIPLOMA PROGRAMS
DIPLOMA PROJECT KAROLINE HAUKJEM BAS 2020 EMILIE VAN DE WALLE LIMINAL LANDSCAPES CONTENT
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project description on page 4 edit to the program on page 9 program Karoline on page 11 program Emilie on page 61
APP DAV CRISTIAN ŞTEFĂNESCU HEDVIG SKERDINGSTAD
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WHERE WHAT
The infinite ports along the Norwegian coastline are today A place of a port can be differentiated from other spaces a symbol of a former network of several ocean crossings. because of its in-between quality. It is a location that is They can be seen as monuments of the past. Even to that mediating between land and sea. The location of a port is extent that it has shaped the national identity and culture committed to generate awareness. In this project we want throughout centuries. to put the attention on the traces these ports have left behind in the landscape and to its surrounding community. The ports are traces of an era of production and traveling with steamships, but also of former important social We believe that the port has a strong impact to its meeting spaces. To get an overview of the similarities and surrounding landscape. It is crucial to understand its differences of these structures, we have approached the original purpose and the historical importance of the place. mapping of the ports by placing them on different positions All of these aspects are woven together in the liminality in a collective spectrum. To fully understand the gradient of the port. Therefore our intentions, as architects, will of variations and its importance to its local community, we interact with these places through a respectful approach; have narrowed the amount of ports down, zooming in on a gentle, yet clear action. three different situations. Each of them telling a different story; 1 Tellevik: a sauna balancing between water and land, acting as a lantern for the local community 1 Tellevik: located north of Åsane in the district of and its visitors. Indre Nordhordland 2 Skjelanger: activating a linear movement 2 Skjelanger: located on the island of Holsnøy in the connecting different entrances to the water. district of Alversund 3 Veløyna: an interaction between subtracting and 3 Veløyna: a small island located outside Møvik in adding to reveal the reclaim-capacity of nature. the district of Øygarden
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WHY HOW
Human productive activity has shaped our environment for In this project we would like to show the globalisation and centuries, leaving behind a landscape constructed in the the speed of life through the metaphor of a port. Steamship symbiotic relation of technological progress and economic ports are in the shadow of the present infrastructure; roads, fluctuations. We believe that at some point the landscape bridges and tunnels. The many quays that are left behind has reached a limit of human impact. along the coast of Norway are one example of these scars.
Scars come together with a responsibility. In the case of The investigation started with a series of mapping; the ports this is linked to the ownership. Many of the port’s zooming in from the county of Vestland, to the overall area ownership is unknown or complex. That is, according to of three districts; Nordhordland, Alversund and Øygarden. us, in combination with the lack of interest and the lost of The selection of these 3 areas is based on the variation in the original purpose, the main reason of the vacancy and both typology and topography, going from and inner fjord abandonment state of the quays. in Nordhordland to outer coast facing the north sea in Øygarden. Our final decision is to focus on one dock from Our interventions will touch the surfaces of ownership, each districts. The mapping continued registering the appearance and the voice of the ports. The ultimate goal local history, use, materiality and ecology of the different is to challenge and change the attitude towards how the places, revealing strong liminal aspects of these places. environment has been claimed, through the narrative of a This liminality can be described as something diffuse, port. an in-between space, transitions and borderlines, subtle or even delicate and precise. We want to embrace this 1 Tellevik: a gesture to the local community and the element and use it as a potential in our project. Therefore visitors. our actions will be done in a just as subtle and delicate way, following our understanding of liminality. 2 Skjelanger: highlighting the different thresholds to the water and re-purposing an existing building. 1 Tellevik: Liminality in space, mediating between water and land, heat and cold 3 Veløyna: creating awareness, by revealing a dialogue between concrete and algae. 2 Skjelanger: Liminality in use, a flexible ownership that allows the place to open up
3 Veløyna: Liminality in time, a conversation between the concrete and the landscape that reveals the reclaim of nature through time
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2 PROJECTS
In the beginning of the process we both had our individual topic. Karoline started out on the subject of liminal landscapes, a research on the many vacant ports that are marking the west coast of Norway. The first approach of Emilie was based on the traces in the landscape of the extraction to manufacture bricks, another type of a mark in the land.
We have decided to merge our ideas together based on our common interest on impacts on the landscape. As future architects, we believe that in the first place, it is our job to make something happen. We are convinced that there is already a lot of potential for this in our built environment. During the time when we were working separately, we already established a form of collaboration.
It can be said that even from the beginning we both were building out similar projects. The difference between those projects was the approach. Karoline started from a large scale. Emilie her approach was taken from the scale of a brick.
Reflecting back on the first intentions of the project, we now realise that the places where we are working at, don’t have a defined ending. In our opinion, there is not one clear answer to a liminal place.
The follow is showing our original versions of the both programs, to sketch an idea of our starting point.
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