Portfolio Johannes

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portfolio content Barents 2058, autumn 2008 0-0 Sensory architecture, autumn 2008 0-0 Impossible Necessity - Library, spring 2009 3 - 23 Mosaic Malmø, autumn 2009 0-0 Diploma, spring 2010 0-0

The impossible Necessity description This studio will explore the theme of knowledge in relation to architecture and the architecture school. The basis of our approach is analytical and critical: we regard the library as an ‘impossible necessity’, a place that strives to contain a comprehensive, authoritative, complete & limitless set of resources, even within a particular field, while at the same time remaining, like any work of architecture, necessarily defined by its limits. Decisions about what is included and excluded in a library, what is accessible and inaccessible, how information is classified, disseminated, and propagated – these determine the shape of our knowledge, as much in terms of the contents of a library as in its architectural form – and, indeed, as a description of the discipline of architecture per se. At Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, we regard architecture as the material embodiment of ideas. The studio’s working method is to explore ideas through observation & research, data collection, ordering and Portfolio for Johannes Sverdrup. Student at Bergen school of Architecture 2005-2010 making. Ordering in its different forms makes sense of information, giving it specific meaning. In editing and re-presenting it, we come to design. The studio therefore places emphasis on process rather than product, al- though high levels of finish and professionalism are expected in all the work produced. This simply means that the final outcome will not be known at the outset, should be constantly challenged by the process, and may only be recognized or understood once it has arrived. The four studio projects aim to establish a symbiotic relationship between SWA, who will come to understand the culture and identity of Bergen, BAS and the student library through the lens of the students, and the students, who will explore the complex notion of ‘library’ through the framework presented by SWA. The responses to the questions posed will form the philosophical, cultural and social brief for the new BAS library. The studio will also parallel a Masters studio taking place in the Department of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, UK, under the Directorship of Dr. Renata Tyszczuk. There will be exchange visits between the two University studios during February and March 2009. 3

The impossible Necessity Task 1 This is a rigorous, methodical, mapping, information gathering, surveying, document- ing, collection exercise. The edge in question may be cultural, historical, geographical, social, climatic, or environmental. It will mark a boundary where change affects Bergen in an observable way. It may be a line between the tangible and intangible, limitation and expansion, hierarchy and anarchy, organisation and entropy, the physical and the virtual, stasis and flux, solid and fluid – terms which may be taken as literally or figuratively as you wish. The presentation of this project, which should be carefully considered, must be visual (and if it is in some other form, i.e. oral or written, it must be performed or rendered visually). It is purely a documentary project; no alteration to the site is allowed. The emphasis will be on looking and recording accurately what is observed. The only design is the process by which your edge will be documented. The wording of the project title is important: it intends to force you to make a choice which, at some level, you should be un- comfortable with. It is an exercise in exclu- sion which is also inherent in the notion of mapping. You should also understand that marking the edge is equivalent to marking the centre: what is inside the limit is considered essential. Funes The memorious lived in a scale beyond the microscale - everything was atoms or very smal fragments of a whole. This task is also about seeing at microprocesses. When wet meets dry is actually a microprocess. This process is mapped on the cloth. For further considerations - is this actually a edge? If it is, what distinguishes this edge from a liquid state from wet to dry. The map is also showing that part. The remaining marks is evidences.

Task 2 This project is envisioned as a built detail. You are How to discover empiric knowl- expected to design and edge? By taking a home made construct a container which suitcase and organize it with houses 4 ‘objects’ of your items and then test its meaning choice. These objects must to different people in different be sourced from either side cultures - mapping the results of your ‘edge’ – 2 from each. and categorizing the responses The objects, removed from wil give me a opinion about their context, must be cat- things/items/materials . egorised in a way which as- cribes meaning to the group This could be useful for every- as a whole. This meaning thing that requires factful mean- may have little or nothing to ing. This method gives data. Portfolio for Johannes Sverdrup. Student at Bergen school of Architecture 2005-2010 do with the edge defined in project 1. The system are potentially a tool for investigation. Hoe coul I know We want you to reflect on anything without aksing others? how knowledge is curated, organized and classified in order to be disseminated or propagated to expert and layman alike. The project must engage issues of accessibility, classification and organisation, and the way in which these create frameworks and relation- ships which can ascribe/ deny meaning to a body of information. Untitled-1 1 09.06.2009 16:24:51 5

The impossible Necessity Task 3 Nietzsche argued that life is not about learning from books but learning from experience. This project is an attempt to resolve this seeming paradox: to bring ‘life’, Nietzsche’s moment of ‘invigoration’, into the library. Based on a brief of your construction, your task is to design a room for work, contemplation, or study for your designated ‘client’. You must try to understand the conditions which allow this person to undertake these activites most effec- tively – be it the sound of rain on a tin roof, the sunlight at 3:37 on a winter’s afternoon in England, the sound of a television playing in the background, the smell of onions frying, the feeling of one’s feet not quite touching the ground – and to bring this state of consciousness into a contained space. This project is also intended as a cross-cultural experiment: a way to explore what is gained, what is lost (and what is gained through the loss) of the translation of information over the North Sea. We expect there to be misun- derstandings, misinterpretations, and mistakes – and some of these might even make the project. 10 Questions Each Norwegian student will be assigned an English student (due to odd numbers, some will have to be doubled up). The Norwegian student has 10 minutes to ask his/her ‘client’ a prepared set of 10 specific, carefully con- structed questions, the answers to which will form the brief for your room. Any outstanding information will have to be assumed. ‘Tea’ Time At 15:30 on Tuesday 2 March, you are asked, as a group, to prepare a treat (the Norwegian equivalent of tea and biscuits) for your Sheffield counterparts. Over ‘tea,’ the interviews will take place. Your conversation must review the 10 prepared questions and the answers must be fully documented in writing.

Portfolio for Johannes Sverdrup. Student at Bergen school of Architecture 2005-2010

The impossible Necessity Task 4 Your task for the fi nal project is to design a Early ideas about a area that connect and gathering activi- library. We start ties that happens in Bergen to one place. Collecting inputs, you off with the Ark - a seminal architectural treat them and deliver them out - like a library does. symbol and idea. The Ark is a vessel which represents the paradoxical nature of the library (the ‘impossible necessity’), and also refers, in its nature, to the setting of Bergen on the open sea. From Noah’s Ark to the Ark of the Covenant to the origin of the word – Latin for ‘chest’ – they all recall something necessary, universal, and limited. The Ark is both a haven, but also, like the English boat that brought the plague to Bergen in 1349, a symbol of something foreign - a source of unease. Over the course of the fi rst three projects you will Drawing from short course with Janice Kerbel. Focusing on have learned someting about limitation, classifi one thing regarding my library. Movement. The drawing cation, are showing movments in diferent programs, and poten- organsiation, translation, and the uses and disad- tially movement in a soundexplotion. More on this spesific vantages task here; http://impossiblenecessity.wordpress.com/janice- of knowledge. Refl ecting on these lessons, your kerbel/ task now is to design a vessel that contains 2000 volumes of any kind on a physical site of your choice, within Bergen.

situation today Portfolio for Johannes Sverdrup. Student at Bergen school of Architecture 2005-2010 The existing place that I have choosen is a harbour/pier related to Bergen/to the well known searoutes and shipping. In 2004 Bergen gets its own terror fence along the arbour and made this place non-accesible for the public. Today The place is a part of Bergen identity and its location attract a lot of attention. this is a seriously debate/topic if this is right to do in a souch a small town as Bergen. Privatizing enormous areas to avoid terror treaths.. The task is how to bring this area back to the people. 7

situation, makro/meso svalbard askøy local sea route road for cars pedestrian paths 1450 m loc al se 3250 ar m ou te bergen 160 m d an gl en In macro perspective the solution is to make a artificial island where the controll/Schengen/antiterror issues Closer inn this is as mentioned a attemt to attract people to the library area. Pedestrians/people will be solved. This island will take place between Bergen center and Askøy. From here it will go schuttle traf- from citycentre will seek out there and from here enjoy the wiev towards the citycentre. fic to the library area. At this time the place will take care of all the tourists and wish them welcom.

situation, meso/micro The drawing is a result of a site analyzis. Different programs meets at one place. This is just a advan- tage that much happens there. I have to sort out wich programs that should bee there or not. For ex- ample is the park at the fortress of interest since it is close to my plot and have qualities Im looking for. Portfolio for Johannes Sverdrup. Student at Bergen school of Architecture 2005-2010 This drawing is a further developing of the previous. Going more inn to the situation an looking for even more petenital. This is a sketch of possible slab/use of colour at the place. The colours at the drawing comes from the existing surrounding and mixed inn new ones. 9

introducing concept/wishes I will make a library of Bergen identities. In a existinjg building I will transmit out the material/2000 volumes. This is a conceptual drawing where I have filled inn existing big bands and names. The idea from here is to collect the material these people have made, and pread it out from the library. The place wich is a receiving central is perfect surroundings to transmitting this material out, wireless.

Portfolio for Johannes Sverdrup. Student at Bergen school of Architecture 2005-2010 Early sketch of wishes and how to connect the place with the existing programs nearby. This has impact on aprox 20 000 square meters and is slightly to much to coop with this time, but this is all about accessibillity and reinforce the place with programs for me and you, not for security issues. 11

developement for the area 2003 2004 2009 2012 2020 I look at this task to make a library as a catalyst for further developement in the area. The timeline is method to categorize my developement and saying what possible for now and what the further process should be. The library stadium will be the startingpoint ro reinforce the place and create an attractor so the process can follow along. For just a couple of years ago the place was a open harbour for the publir, but with heavily shipping traffic. The terrorfence appear at the same time they started to use the fortress as a concertplace, mixed use.. In the end of the timeline (2020) I optimistic look at the place as a whole and all the puzzlepices has come to their place, all the programs.

introducing the system The idea is to make my library wireless for the area so you dont need to actually go inn somwhere to reach the material/2000 volumes. See it as a local spotify. You are coming to the Library area (LOBI) and on your device this site will apperar (the logo beside). Here you choose music, movie or text. After a registering procedure you download whatever material you need. On your device this will only be stored for a normal “library” period. After this period the downloaded music will be selfdeleted unless you go to the library area and renew your loan. music movie This system dont require a spesific building, therefor is accessibility the big issue. Portfolio for Johannes Sverdrup. Student at Bergen school of Architecture 2005-2010 text

the new situation Sidewalks, new and better strategy, more flow. The actual library building. A volume you can visit for taking a coup of coffe or just as a wievpoint into citycentre. In here the administration and working team are located. Works like a visitingcentre and as a red attrac- tionspot. A new loong liniar level towards the library so you can “see” the direction and have closer connec- tion to sealevel. Introducing colour on the pav- A green park. Linked and com- Different transitions with slabs to ing/slabs to attract people. Get municates withe the green struc- leed people attention. ture at the fortress in this direction, and to show the passage/path.

Accessibility. Coming from citycentre (1) and going furter towards (2), and at this point going along this liniar pir - up in the library (3). Portfolio for Johannes Sverdrup. Student at Bergen school of Architecture 2005-2010 1 2 15 13

plans and sections A < B < stair < < acces s B acces s Kitchen for the not on “ ly for th whole” buld the co e librar ing - mmon y. facilitie Sharing s. archiv e Admin ist and ar ration stair chive for the Library . A stair

model pictures/sketch Colour to attract attention The illustrations shows the new accessible area. A open harbour for the publir. The “red” line to leed people. The new Existing level. level to have a place to sit and communicate with the library. The new structure is almost a continuing elemnt on exixting building. As mentioned in the timeline diagram, this is one stadium to attract and invite to further developement on the New level, better contact area. with the sea. Portfolio for Johannes Sverdrup. Student at Bergen school of Architecture 2005-2010 17

Description Our personal space is not stable. It changes, depending on our mood, on whom we are with, on our situation in general. It can have different sizes and qualities around visual structure I different parts of the body, like soft / hard, open / closed, transparent / opaque and so on… Brief Choose a mental mood you can recall (as a memory), or just the way you feel right now. Try to materialize, to show your personal space, its borders (skin?), and its qualities as confront- ed to or related to your enviroment. Show your space related to the surrounding space, its borders. Build at a scale of 1:1. This is an individual project but it may be necessary to assist each other with practical work and documentation.

visual structure II Description: Imagine that your project (library 3.) is built and taken in use. You are visiting your ex-client at the studio. You forgot the exact sizes of it but it makes a strong impression on you to see it after some time in use. You are sensing it by: the light / dim-impression, feeling the room’s size, form the height / (tricky?) lowness, the transparency / its closeness, intimacy / open / public character, its cold emptiness / neutrality / private closeness, the colour atmosphere, its sound character (soft or hard …), smell? and so on… whatever you feel can be important. Portfolio for Johannes Sverdrup. Student at Bergen school of Architecture 2005-2010 Try to express your essential feelings in this meeting. Find the right place at BAS´s property to show your expression. Reflect consciously if your work should be at the ground floor, in a passage, in a corner, in a very high space.. or otherwhere. Use the space’s character actively in your expression. Output Work in architectonic / body related scale. Of course you aren’t asked to build a studio in full size, but to complement your chosen space at the school with percepti- ble elements, surfaces, qualities in order to obtain the essential expression. You are also requested to show your position during the conversation with your client in your installation. Like before it is an individual project but it may be necessary to assist each other with practical work, and in documentation as well.

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