nele bergmans towards the entrance
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Dale noreg remote spaces - Bas spring 2016TRANSCRIPT
Nele Bergmans
TOWARDS THE ENTRANCE
transition space
sring 2016
transition spaces
I’m not feeling like entering today. Maybe I can walk
around and observe. Try to come closer, look closer.
Going almost in but still staying in the in-between.
out-between-in. in-between-in-out. I feel like I have
to know every sign that is given on the outside, to be
ready to go in the inside.
I strawl around. Reading spaces that are made on the
outside, probably the enrich the space on the inside.
Sometimes to prolong a look towards the outside, or
sometimes to stand or sit in the little inside created
on the outside. Or sometimes to make you (on the oustide)
feel like almost inside.
I’m discovering a lot of things (norwegian probably) and
I wonder if at some point somebody said stop! it’s enough
now. And if that had never happened, this expanding,
this creation of transition spaces, in-between spaces,
would be still going on. Maybe I couldn’t even see the
real house anymore now.
Imagine this is the case. The house you see now is a big
transition space to the actual house that is indide.
How should I go towards the entrance?
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fi rst: the location
The house is close to the waterfront in Dale. It’s standing
alone, has one neighbour with housing as function, and the
others are more industrial/offi ce.
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second: the house itself (elevations)
3 facts about standard norwegian house type 2
it is yellow
it has a lot of windows
it has a lot of extensions
it has 3 stories
it has a staircase outside
it has a balcony
it has a pitched roof
it has a little garden
it has a lot of portico’s
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third: the site
You can see the house from many viewpoints. The streets are
leading to the house because it’s close to the waterfront,
and this is a sighline they want to preserve.
This also means that the house itself had many views. From
the inside, you could almost see the whole central area: the
cafe, the komunne, the coop, ...
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Fourth: the kummune plan (plan)
the building is laying the the ‘activitetsomrade’ : this means
skole, jobb and sorvis. So it’s not in the traditional housing
area, wich makes it really interesting. In the komunne plan,
they talk about this area as the GUIDE. They want to preserve
this zone (there are a lot of traces of the old Dale) .
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Fifth: 5 models towards the house (model)
5 steps to go from the archetype house, to the fully expanded
house. Transition spaces are added everywhere, and the
complexity rises. There could also be a step 6 and 7, with
all the information we have gotten we can expand the house
easily in our imagination or maybe even in real life.
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now who should be the leader?
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it’s phase 5 who wants the spotlight!
He feels stronger and better, he feels like he is the most
norwegian. He has the most expanding options, he’s the richest.
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but phase 1 wants it too
He feels strong because he is powerfull in his lines, and he
is also a bit mysterious, you have to use some imaganition
for thinking how he really is.
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imagining the fourth side
the real imagination kicks in when we start to think about the
4th side. nothing to see on google street view, nothing to see
on google earth, no pictures taen when we were there. It’s
hidden, maybe it wants to be hidden because it would reveal
the real working of the house.
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yellow inside
maybe there is no wall , and the whole house is empty inside,
it’s actually the front portico that is the house where
people live in. The bigger house is a big void, also yellow
on the inside.
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yellow inside
or myabe the wall is pushed back so that the roofs makes a
big portico (they’re used to this technique) and this side
is yellow too, and has 2 windows that are too high to look
through without ladder.
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windows
ladders needed.
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or blue
or maybe this side is just blue.
with 2 windows and 1 ladder. And you ask yourself if this
is about peeking inside the house, or the only escape route
outside the house...
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staircase
Forget about the ladders. Maybe there is this big staircase
that actually reveals that inside the house, it’s a maze of
plateau’s all leading to that one window in the roof. This is
transition spaces at a high level.
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balcony
or maybe the balconies on the outside are mirrored inside,
and these are the only spaces where you can get a look outside
a window. And you need to climb a lot of stairs to get there.
But if you arrived, you can also see inside the yellow house
at the other side of the bigger house. But is has no windows
so you cannot look further, it’s really just about the void
space being yellow.
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Towards the entrance
A lot of ways leading to possible entrances here in this
drawing. Some extisting, some shortcuts to the existing. The
house is alive, it’s eyes are staring at me. I know there will
be a point of leaving the transition zone, leaving behind
all the strawling around. One day I would really have to go
trough the entrance. Maybe I will fi nd new transition spaces
inside the house. New in betweens. But for now I just imagine
the house as a house with crooked teeth, and braces to get
them straight.
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