Dale charette

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Charettespring 2016

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Private Semi private/publicPublic

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SPrivate

Distance

The houses in Dale are placed in clusters along the roads. With a distance of about 20 to 40 meters between them.

A few houses in Dale are located a bit further away from it’s neighbors. One of them stands out in it’s remoteness, looking more separated from the other separated houses in Dale. This is mostly due to it’s size, it’s a small house of 48 m2. A normal size for a house in Dale really, but unusually placed considering it’s size.

It is placed out on a flat field, the distance from the closest house isn’t longer than the usual, but this house has a large uninhabited field on three sides.

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SPrivate

Territory

Basically all the houses have a garden that surrounds it. Squares marked out with bushes, trees and plants defines the territories.

The small house on the field hasn’t got any adjacent gardens to separate itself from but has a clearly defined line consisted of bushes, trees and a fence made of poles. Since the field is flat, the house is exposed from all sides, even from a far distance.Visible but distancing.

perspective

SPrivate

Nothing

The house is like an island out on the field. It could have a much bigger garden, the lot extends outside the marked out area.

The dimensions of the house are standard, a medium sized, two storey house. The area of the garden is also normal. The unusual is what’s not there. The space filled with nothing.

perspective

SPrivate Mine

The garden is the house’s second skin, that defines the space and protects it.

perspective

SPrivate

Accessories

A rectangular marked out with bushes, not perfectly covering the outline, put dense enough to create a room separated from the rest of the field that surrounds it.

The outdoor room is made up of bushes and some trees. They enclose the space and divides it into even smaller spaces, the side facing north is more open, though with a clear border made up by a straight line of poles and trees, parallel to the facade of the house.

Two of the poles are different, marking out an opening. The house is placed closer to the north border than the other borders.The largest space is on the south side of the house.

perspective

SPrivate

Separating

A visual border. Anyone can pass right through. A bicycle, an animal. A car can run over it if it can’t fit in between. This border is not preventing but asking.

The line doesn’t mean you can build a house right next to it, pick all the apples from the branches that stretches out, or practice the flute just outside the border.

It means this space is has it’s own rules. It means that the two sides of the border are different.

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LPublic

Size

The Dale Senter is situated in the center of the center of Dale, which is the center of Fjaler.

It’s one of the largest buildings in Dale, the shape of it is made up of two rectangular boxes with a glass part in the middle. The glass part are rises higher than the side parts.A lower volume connects the rectangular boxes. It has a glass facade and a square shaped glass part in the roof with the same look as ones in the rectangular volumes.

Seen from above, the building has the shape of an arrow-head. It has several openings, in the roof, on the short sides, but the largest one is that at the tip of the arrow-head.

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LPublic

Connections and visibility

The building is hard to miss. Partly due to it’s size but also because of it’s location. It’s visible from all of the other buildings with a high circulation in the center. You see it if you travel from south or north, but it’s not always visible from the fjord.

There is a large open space in front of the tip of the arrow-head opening. Divided into clusters by lines of grass.

People come into the open space from many different directions, and they circulate all around the building. Therefore, it is viewed from all sides, and from different levels to.

perspective

LPublic

Disguised facade

In the open space outside the building the circulation is random. It’s in constant transformation. People and cars fill up the space, move around, creating formations. The volume of the building, and the impression of it, differs a lot in how it’s perceived from the outside verses the inside.

The external volume is dense, massive and heavy. It opens up in the middle but doesn’t display what’s inside. Hiding it well even though it has several transparent parts. When you enter the building only a few parts of it is exposed. The great volume is contracted down to corridors and divided up in narrow passages.

perspective

LPublic

Crowded

The inside is crowded, filled up, messy. Leaving only narrow paths to move along.There are corners to turn, keep moving,look up, but also look down so you don’t stumble over something. The spaces along the path are pouring out.

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LPublic

Unrevealed spaces

In the centre of the centre is the choice of path. From the wider open space two paths leads somewhere, but it’s not clear where yet.

The space inside instantly feels a lot smaller than what you thought looking at it from outside. The building hides most of it’s volume through the closed spaces and very high but narrow paths.

elevation

LPublic

Daylight

The idea?The result...

The glass volumes in the middle of the long paths brings in not only bright light but also the dark. The space is pushed down.

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M Semi public/private

The stage The two stairs leading in to the former municipality building folds out like arms caching in the by-passers. Standing steady on the ground, with arms resting, reaching out.

To have two stairs instead of one creates an opportunity for having many visitors at the same time. Apart from being a transporting element, a stair is a stage where you can display yourself. With it’s central position, next to a wide road, the church across the street, the rounded stair makes the transportation a little longer. At the landing you can have an extra moment of looking out and being looked at, before entering the building.

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Closed openings

From the public entrance to an enclosed entrance. A small space consisting mainly of closed openings. One of them aren’t closed though: the stairs leading to the second floor.

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Pressing walls

The second and top floor isn’t a space to move around in much. The plan is mirrored. Only the stair brakes the symmetry.

The space in the middle is a shared space. There are tow doors leading to two rooms that are facing each other. They are private.

The walls are pressing against the center, making the area were you can stand up straight smaller. The doors, the old chimney, the stair and its rails occupies large parts of the space.

The free floor space is shaped as an H.

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Let the prisoners out

The space in the middle can be closed on all sides. Before it used to be a prison. But when the two doors are opened, the building is pierced right through.

The space can be transformed from being very closed and dark to bright and open from side to side.

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Four black corners There are four enclosed corners in the rectangular room on the top floor. In those spaces the height is lower, sloping down towards the long sides of the building.

The enclosed corners are long and narrow. Light is brought in through a window on the back wall. On the opposite side is the opening to the other spaces on the top floor. Looking straight forward from inside of the room you see a room just like the one you’re in.

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