Sankt Olavs Plass Analysis_Urban Preservation_Spring2020
Publication from AHO's Urban Preservation Course Spring 2020. It presents a study of the changing narrative of St Olav's Place in the Centre of Oslo, undertaken by an international consultancy team of students comprising - Eudine Blancardi, Félix Blanchard, Kostas Argyriou, Kristofer Mattsson and Julian Riise. The project started as a normal study with community engagement and installations on site and then owing to Corona Virus, the team had to rethink the project and complete the study as a virtual project. The team were assisted by course leader Tom Davies, Viksjø expert- Even Smith Wergeland, community artists- Kim Frydenlund Grane & Torgeir Stige, Byantikvaren's Marte Muan Sæther, Post-war construction expert- Barbara Ascher, Norberg Schulz expert- Beata Labuhn, and Oxford Archaeology's Ben Ford. There are plans to realise the different 'chairs' in the report as experiences at SOP, which you can do right now by taking the publication to site and trying it out yourself. Enjoy!
Publication from AHO's Urban Preservation Course Spring 2020. It presents a study of the changing narrative of St Olav's Place in the Centre of Oslo, undertaken by an international consultancy team of students comprising - Eudine Blancardi, Félix Blanchard, Kostas Argyriou, Kristofer Mattsson and Julian Riise. The project started as a normal study with community engagement and installations on site and then owing to Corona Virus, the team had to rethink the project and complete the study as a virtual project. The team were assisted by course leader Tom Davies, Viksjø expert- Even Smith Wergeland, community artists- Kim Frydenlund Grane & Torgeir Stige, Byantikvaren's Marte Muan Sæther, Post-war construction expert- Barbara Ascher, Norberg Schulz expert- Beata Labuhn, and Oxford Archaeology's Ben Ford. There are plans to realise the different 'chairs' in the report as experiences at SOP, which you can do right now by taking the publication to site and trying it out yourself. Enjoy!
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CONTENTS
1807
1800
Josephine’s chair gives you an immediate view of Sankt Olavs
Plass No.3 and Apoteket with Sankt Olav Church in the background.
We nammed it after Joséphine of Leuchtenberg (de
Beauharnais) who was the Queen of Sweden and Norway. She
was politically active during the reign of her spouse,acting as his
political adviserandactively participating in government affairs.
In 1856, she helped fund the construction of St. Olavs church.
JOSEPHINE CHAIR
1850
Sitting on Holter’s chair in front of the old Apotek, you will face
the Teledirektoratet Building (Telecommunications Administration
Building) built in 1963 by Nils Holter but also embrace the
view towards the City Hall. Nils Holter was a Norwegian modernist
architect. Apart from Universitets gata 2, he designed the
NRK buildings at Marienlyst and the Telegraph Building in Oslo.
1876
HOLTER CHAIR
1899
1900
1910
The Viksjø chair frames the incredible triangular concrete building
standing at Sankt Olavs Plass No.5 (1969). It is named after
the Norwegian architect ErlingViksjø, central modernist figure
of architecture. He is known for reinventing Norwegian tradition
through his use of textured concrete called Natur-betong.
He also designed the Government Quarter and the Y Block
(today threatened of demolition).
VIKSJØ CHAIR
1950
1971
1995
2000
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