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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JOSEPHINE CHAIR
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«My dear beloved friend. I am the Queen
Josephine...
Sit here with me and enjoy the view I had from my chambers. This place
means a lot to me and represents a lifetime of hard work and determination.
Don’t trust appearances and history, I might be under estimated, but
as queen and wife of King Oscar of Sweden and Norway, I had arguably
a lot of influence!
I was politically active and acted as the king’s trusted adviser. I also met a
lot of resistance being a Catholic in a Lutheran monarchy, but I woked
all my life to implement religious freedom in Norway. I led numerous
charitable institutions and fundraising actions to help developments of
churches such as Sankt Olav Church, which you can see here. This was
the first Catholic Church built in Norway after the reformation to the
design of architect Wilhelm von Hanno, in 1856. It creates a sight-line
connection from the royal palace to the church, which symbolises a renewed
relationship between the Crown and God, which Norway had not
seen since the end of the Viking age. It also allowed me to enjoy my days
in Oslo always being close to God.
Nr. 3 Sankt Olavs Plass, located on the right side, was built in 1870 by timber-master
P. Christensen and was the most anonymous of the original
buildings. Nonetheless, it has had a turbulent history.
In 1938 a fire destroyed the building which was then replaced by the
offices of the Norwegian Machine Company, completed in 1940. The new
construction kept a wall facing the square but with the façade pushed
further back from the road, this announced the mid-20th road widening.
The Melbye family-owned industrial production company moved into
the basement of St. Olavs Plass 3 in 1940. During the war they joined the
first Norwegian sabotage organisation. In addition to delaying Nazi
deliveries of goods, the father and son distributed
a large number of black-out curtains
for other Norwegian sabotage groups.
This was so the Nazis couldn’t look in
through windows.
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