Radical chic: this imaginative new housing in Trondheim attempts to build on a radical civic spirit.This housing in Trondheim, Norway's third largest city, is an imaginative response to the vibrancy and enterprise of the local alternative lifestyle movement. Svartlamoen began life in the eighteenth century as a working-class neighbourhood near the sea front. After the Second World War, it was re-zoned for industrial use, sparking fierce public protest which consigned the area to developmental limbo. By the 1980s, squatters, artists and entrepreneurs were colonising the redundant building stock and by 2001, the community had such an air of permanence and legitimacy, that the industrialisation Noun 1. industrialisation - the development of industry on an extensive scale industrial enterprise, industrialization manufacture, industry - the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of plans were scrapped. Instead, Svartlamoen was re-zoned for residential use under the wonderfully nebulous rubric RUBRIC, civil law. The title or inscription of any law or statute, because the copyists formerly drew and painted the title of laws and statutes rubro colore, in red letters. Ayl. Pand. B. 1, t. 8; Diet. do Juris. h.t. of a 'semi-autonomous urban ecological experimental area', which aims to crystallise Verb 1. crystallise - make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" crystalise, crystalize, shed light on, sort out, crystallize, elucidate, illuminate, enlighten, straighten out, and build on its original informal spirit. This project by local partnership Brendeland & Kristoffersen is the outcome of a competition for low-rent, ecologically conscious housing. Responding to the area's history of gentle subversiveness, it suggests new possibilities for urban living while displaying an almost Swiss fetish fetish (fĕt`ĭsh), inanimate object believed to possess some magical power. The fetish may be a natural thing, such as a stone, a feather, a shell, or the claw of an animal, or it may be artificial, such as carvings in wood. for materiality and formal rigour rig·our n. Chiefly British Variant of rigor. rigour or US rigor Noun 1. . The scheme has two separate crisply prismatic pris·mat·ic also pris·mat·i·cal adj. 1. Of, relating to, resembling, or being a prism. 2. Formed by refraction of light through a prism. Used of a spectrum of light. 3. Brilliantly colored; iridescent. apartment blocks of two and five storeys. The smaller block houses six studio flats, while the large, block has four storeys of communal flats (each for five to six people occupying an entire floor) set above ground level shop units. Bedrooms are monastically compact and face north, while communal living and dining spaces overlook a south-facing courtyard. Circulation is external on a broad steel staircase that doubles as an informal terrace in summer. Timber use was part of the brief, as it is renewable, recyclable and (potentially) a local resource. Assembled on site in just 10 days, the prefabricated pre·fab·ri·cate tr.v. pre·fab·ri·cat·ed, pre·fab·ri·cat·ing, pre·fab·ri·cates 1. To manufacture (a building or section of a building, for example) in advance, especially in standard sections that can be easily shipped and structure is spruce, imported from Austria. The 144mm thick exterior walls are loadbearing to provide column-free space and internal partitions are also quite robust (96mm thick), so that furnishings or equipment can be fixed directly to the walls. Reduced energy consumption was another programme requirement, so external walls have an additional layer of 200mm mineral wool gypsum gypsum (jĭp`səm), mineral composed of calcium sulfate (calcium, sulfur, and oxygen) with two molecules of water, CaSO4·2H2O. It is the most common sulfate mineral, occurring in many places in a variety of forms. boards and an outer skin of untreated Norwegian pine. Compact plans (which encourage communal living) and simple detailing make for an economical solution both in terms of capital and running costs, yet there is no loss of architectural or urban dignity. Unsentimental and functional in a way that recalls Norwegian vernacular farm buildings, the scheme resonates with Svartlamoen's radical history. C. S. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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