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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«Dear reader and visitor...
Our work on Sankt Olavs Plass is about giving an account of our understanding
of the place, studied through the prism of urban preservation and
city heritage. Our research was accompanied by lectures which helped us
to organise our work and to find a focus for our project.
After a month of research, some interviews and several visits on site,
our attention was caught up by the set of stone-chairs surrounding the
square. These chairs became the setting for our narrative. Together they
form a whole ensemble directed towards and presenting the five buildings
forming the square but also surrounding the fountain that presides
over St Olavs Plass at the centre of the square. The chairs seem to
connect and tie together the various elements of St Olavs Plass increasing
the coherence of its public space. Taken individually, each chair frames a
view and a portion of the square that we decided would be a starting point
for our presentation. Indeed, we wanted to use this aspect of the public
space as a physical framing of our presentation. The chairs appeared to be
the perfect medium as the views they offer capture simultaneously parts
of the buildings, public space, traffic axis, stories, characters... presenting
many layers of history hidden in a single picture.
What this magazine tries to do, in using the views from six of the chairs,
is to provide an account -in a non-exhaustive way- of some of these
layers of history giving an overview of Sankt Olavs Plass’s evolution and
help people to bond with the place. We chose a collage technique of old
pictures and historical documents related to Sankt Olavs Plass to communicate
all these layers. Collage offers the possibility of overlapping different
stories while letting us see through the successions and connections
of events through time and space. We took the liberty of using notable
characters involved in Sankt Olavs Plass’s history as our narrators for each
chair as we thought it could make the story more thrilling. We hope this
eccentricity will be forgiven, and that you’ll enjoy your reading and visit!
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