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and dialogue in order to reinterpret the ordinary human needs in a world that hasa global focus. The projects are seen as part of a larger historical, social and culturalcontext. Considerable importance is laid on the significance of site. Through analysesand model work, form, construction and materials are developed to enrich andmove people by space and light”.Erhverv og bolig (Business and home), (2006) (fig. 11), which is near Østre Mole(Eastern Jetty harbour regeneration project) in Bogense, provides a good example ofhow Jane Havshøj has realised her architectonic goals. The building’s sharp-cut formwith tarred planks and roofing felt refer to traditional fishermen’s sheds while at thesame time it is quite clearly a building from the 21 st century. The simplicity of form issupplemented by balconies and fences which stretch out the facade. The lengthwiseskylights allow the play of light into the high-ceilinged rooms marking the passingof time and contribute to an experience of complexity in the individual building.Fig. 11 Jane Havshøj. Business and Residence. Near Eastern Jetty. 2006. Bogense, Denmark.the question about how far people are prepared to go in order to gain status in themedia. It is an uncomfortable process because the mechanisms are so obvious. “ 14For the architect Jane Havshøj it has always been important to strengthen thevisual dialogue between architecture and the surrounding environment as much aspossible. Therefore she has always succeeded through her architecture in giving ananonymous place a distinctive identity as well as visualising the tensions betweenpast and present that are typical for the context that buildings are inserted into. Shehas also emphasised that works of architecture should be formed in such a way thatthey can provide a stimulating framework for the people who reside in them and bean inspiration in daily life. She has formulated the architectural outlook thus:”Architects continuously investigate architectural interfaces through analysisThe architect Hans Feldthusen, head of The Institute of Architecture and Aestheticsat the Aarhus School of Architecture, has also - at another visual level - workedwith tying architecture and surroundings closely together and thereby profilingarchitecture’s site-specific character. He has at the same time created close connectionsbetween his architecture and those who observe it or live in it. He hasexpressed this understanding of the role of architecture in society as follows:”The conception of a communicative architecture is for me the main question.It is an architecture that poses questions itself: could it be like this, or should it belike that instead? And it involves the viewer or the user in this reflection. It leads toan architecture which is only momentarily crystalline. In its total appearance andessential relations it is rather an aggregate 15 whose individual parts, more or lessobstinately, work together to produce an operative unity. Consisting of spaces andforms in which forces have been invested visually and perceptually – forces thatsuggest or indicate other potential formal and spatial connections.” 1615 In technical terms a machine or a machine unit of several interacting parts is an aggregate; that isan apparatus in which different elements are connected in a whole.14 ”Who is Jimmy Young – interview with Joachim Hamou” in Videologier 2, ed. Lars Movin, TheRoyal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 2003, p. 276.16 Catalogue for Overlaps. North-Southeast. Contemporary Danish Art and Architecture, Sharjah ArtMuseum, 2000, p.68.24 25