the skin of space

attempts on uncovering Villa Fagerheim

DALE NKD VILLA FAGERHEIM

KRISTIAN F A BAS master course spring 2014/29/05

This book is about

reshuffling

contextualizing

transforming

The staircase in the basement is made of shiny marble. It is bright and becomes a safe point in the darkness of the basement. The steps are cold and hard when escaping upwards.

Tactility - childhood and memories about the surface

Discription of a childhood space

The staircase between ground and first floor is wooden. It is a place to wait for the father comming from work. One step is creaking. Rumbling upwards, bouth floors are filled with the dull sound of feet impacting the hallow steps.

The steps are in brown wood- laminate and attached to a oil- colour painted bar- structure. Sitting in the staircaise one feels the asperity of the painting, the coldness of the bars and the roughness of the wallpaper of the second floor above.

plan basement

diagrammatic section of the staircase between ground and second floor of a childhood space

model of the tactility of the staircase

tactility of the elevations

Villa Fagerheim

Norway Sogn og Fjordane Dale i Sunnfjord

Villa Fagerheim from north- east

sujective understanding of the landscape -positive and negative casts of the landscape

red white, black stripes

white

spruce forest

brown, green, dark

black

silvery water, blue, gray, green

The curtain

The wall, the canvas

The three black humbs

The sharp pitching line

Jumping hills

The skin

collage of the east facade

collage of main intrance on the east facade

facade

club

birch at the staircase to the garden

surfaces of spaces of Villa Fagerheim

bath

fi replace

livingroom

Theese pocket models of Villa Fagerheim contain spaces which has to be imagined or are not obvious to us.

Overexposure makes them appear and the former skin dis-appear.

Plan and section of a moving pattern in Villa Fagerheim

the narrative

Mrs Fagerheims background is known from an interview of the director of NKD. She is born and rased in Berlin. The narrative ties in with her back-ground. The choice of a narrative provides possibilities of connecting Villa Fager-heim in Dale with her childhood space in Berlin. It is supposed to figure out particular values of spaces and its elements inside Villa Fagerheim and its context in Dale.

Mrs Fagerheims fictive diagnosis of dementia initiates the narrative and gives different possibilities to evaluate spaces of Villa Fagerheim by means of the sympomes of this deseas.

Oblivation is the key disease of dementia.Therapies try to counter it by stimualting the senses of the individual.

Mrs Fagerheim is walking through the building. Because of disorientation she has to navigate by touching the surfaces of the Villa Fagerheim. While experiencing the surfaces, Mrs Fagerheim will receive flashbacks to her childhood. That is the key of this narrative!

The narrative leads to architectural proposals for Villa Fagerheim and to architectural questions about space and its configuration.

dementia symptoms

anxietyconfusionoblivion

disorientationhallucination

What something is and what it becomes

This is a plan and a diagram of movement and light It is an urban plan, a plan of Villa Fagerheim, another one.

c and d

nabourhood and lake in Berlin, housing and garden

a b

c d

a. urban plan of the nabourhoud, b. moving pattern.

Villa Fagerheim is placed to Treptower Park in Berlin Köpenick.

“Six year old, she learnt to ice skate. The lake was close to the housing block which was her home.Every sunday, she and her friends, liv-ing on the other side of the nabourhood used to go to the lake.”

plan

Villa Fagerheim as urban plan in Berlin,New movingpattern in- and outside villa FagerheimNew landscape and garden.

A. Villa Fagerheim is a part of housing blocks in Mrs Fagerheims nabouthood in Köpenick. The building stands close to the lake she was ice skating on.

B. The Livingroom is the only space remaining. It becomes a pavillion with a surrounding pond.

isometric drawing of the nabourhood sequences of light and tactility

“ The street from school was lined with birch. Dandeling home, she used to sweep over the bark or the sandy, red and brownish and partly black tiles of the brickwall of the nabour house. It was heated by the noonday sun.

repitation of former movement habits

urban agglomeration plan of Dale; sequences of walls

The conceptual deviding brick walls of Villa Fagerheim can be elements of a se-quence of walls along a path. Proposal: the walls should be kept as a tactile el-ements for children. The walls can be part of a new school or another program concerning children.

1 step, 2, 3........slap, door, 1, 2, 3,...8 steps: approaching the next wall.

isiometric drawing

isometric drawing about sequences of elevations and openings

experiments of possible surface texture according to sequencese

repetative behaviour

When Mrs Fagerheim is in a confused state, she is repeating the movement corresponding to her child-hood nabourhood.

1 step, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 steps between each birch.

Mrs Fagerheim sweeps over the landscape pictures in the clubroom. The tree cover panel of the between each picture reminds her of the stairwell of the staircase in Berlin, were she used to wait hven she forgot her keys.

diagram textural rythme

1 meter, 2, 3, turn left. Corner, 3 steps up, innside the stairwell.

projection of moving pattern from the childhood

element references

diagram and plan about textures

Mrs Fagerheim wakes up at night. She can´t find the switch and moves in the darkness. On the way to the bath she orientates with the smell of textures and spaces.

one to one casts of textures and structurs inside and outside the building.

tile of the fireplace in the living room

birch beside the stairway, leading to the garden on the north side

treshold and floor of the bath of the ground floor

Window frame of the dining room

model of the funghi befalt space in the basement

sie orientiert sich anhand der gerueche!

plan of orientation piots with individual smells

plan/ section

section south -west to north -east

spaces of anxiety and halucination

emmense space

Mrs Fagerheim suffers from psychotic anxiety. She feels little and is not capable to estimate the space. She feels traped.

Mrs fagerheim can´t enter the space. She remem-bers standing on the balcony with husbent looking over the fjord.

model

Memories on the cruise with her family.

colage