Supervisor:
Espen Surnevik
Jonas Løland
Employing a centrally organized plan and using blue columns and red and white curtains, the interior both references the building’s historical colors, but the notions of liberty, fraternity, and brotherhood too. The rectangular concrete base, referencing the old house and culture, is cast with the old walls as formwork, contrasting its roughness to the non-referentiality of the upper floor. A square room for gathering between opaque channel glass walls under an oculus, this room is sleek and oriented inwards, but not secretive.
Critiquing late-capitalist privatization and hyper-individualism, the project positions architecture as a vessel for communality. It aims to repair Nordre Sandøy’s fragmented society, blending tradition and modernity to inspire coexistence and collective renewal.
Contact
Mathias Emil Ugedal Riis