Nele Bergmans

DALE noreg remote place(s)

charettespring 2016

DALE

Dale puzzle continues. Diff erent pieces analysed by me.

Scales varying from LM, M , MS, S, XS, XXS, ...

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XXS

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portico

Entering a house, entering a space. Before you step

over the invisble line, the one which makes you feel in

the next space or not, there is also a space. This in-

between space, this before-the-next space, is something

Norwagian are very good at. They also need to provide

this space, because it rains and snows so much in

Norway, that when you need to wait before a door, you

want to be sheltered. The portico gives you shelter.

A portico in front of every front door, for people

visiting and waiting till someone opens the door. Or

for people looking for their key in their purse. But

also portico’s on the side of the house, on the back of

the house, on top of the house, beneath the house, in

the house, or not even related to the house.

These porico’s have usually a pitched roof, also so

that snow and rain can fall down easily. Cars get a

roof, mail gets a roof, ventilation units get a roof,

brooms get a roof, waiting rubber boots get a roof.

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a norwegian house type 1 (perspective)

This is a standard house, wich can be found in any Norwegian

village. This one is in Dale, a remote village. There is a

door for entering the house, wich usually leads to a corridor

or hall behind it, where shoes and coats can dry. Before

the door is usually a little piece of land, or a small path

leading to the door. This is to create a middle zone between

the private house and the public street, it’s a transition

zone.

This is the type without options. Not personalized yet.

Next pages show some expanding options.

a. transition zone

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a

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expanding option 1 (perspective)

Expanding option 1: to break the transition zone into more

specifi c transition zones. Now you feel like entering the

property, a movement from a public space to a more private

space, but still quite public. Everybody can still see you.

The moment you arrive at this portico, you’re covered from

the weather, you feel almost IN the home. But you’re still

not in there. You ring the bell, while waiting looking around

at the life on the street, that seems further away from your

almost safe and private spot.

Once you stand in front of the door for more than 2 minutes,

you lose the feeling of safety and almost being inside.

Nobody’s home and this in between place loses it’s meaning

and it’s warmth.

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Expanding option 2 (perspective)

Expanding option 2: not only shelter for people but also for

random stuff and for cars. This is a transition zone for more

familiar people. Family taking the back door, those who not

have to wait untill someone opens the door, they open the door

themselves. This is also the entrance for the people living

in the house: once you’re under this porch, you’re home. It’s

like you already feel the warmt of the chimney or smell the

dinner being ready. Although not as pretty and not at the main

entrance of the house, expanding option 2 is more integrated

in the house then expanding option 1. If there where colours

leading the way from public (blue) to private (red) this

space would be bright bordeaux.

a. Bright bordeaux

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blue to red

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or should you draw it like this?

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expansion option 3 (perspective)

This expanding option creates some zones that are spacially

on the same level as expanding option 1 and 2, (they’re an

expansion on the original house) but they are totally diff erent

on the privacy level. If you want to enter these expansions,

you’ve already been inside the house. You’re not going from

blue to red, but you can stand in the bright bordeaux and look

at all the other tints of bleu and purple.

Also special for this expansion: covering roof for one space

is immediate the fl oor for the space above. Above this space

there’s also a covering roof, this one of course pitched.

(We’re still in Norway)

note: imagine the windows larger and like doors (otherwise

this expansion is only accessible by climbing, wich would

create a dark purple space, not in not out, and trapped

forever.......)

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Like this! (axonometrie)

What is transition space in this context? You can be in the

dark purple space, looking at the door you want to go to, or

at the window you want to see through. Or you come a step

closer, walk on the balcony above the door.

You are above the entrance, but still not inside the house.

You can see a window, wich can we an entrance, for your eyes,

but it seems that we might need a door, to make a physical

entrance.

Mindfuck. Think about this the other way around. x x and x

are inside, leading ways to the outside. Do these spaces

that were before outdoor spaces, have the same meaning and

qualtities as before? If you stand in point x, would you also

feel bright bordeax because you have intentions to go out?

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inside out -side (axonometrie)

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outside in -side (axonometrie)

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other expansion options (perspective)

Because it seems that the Norwegians have run out of inspiration,

I made a proposal for new expansing options. They are always

providing shelter (for humans, birds, warmth, sun, ...) They

make new transition zones wich range from purple to violet

to raisin to wine to mauve, sometimes eggplant and sometimes

jam.

a. purple

b. violet

c. raisin

d. mauve

e. eggplant

f. jam

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a b c d e f - to place yourself

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standard house 1 with option 1,3,4,6,8,10,12,20,25 (model)

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standard house type 2 (perspective)

Standard house type 2 is universal. This could be in Belgium

too. This is probably in Belgium because they’ve kept it more

simple.

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Norwegian house (perspective)

If it was is Norway, it would look like this:

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Norwegian house (perspective)

or this.

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eyelash house (perspective)

Or like this ( norwegians give their houses eyelashes to

make them more beautiful, and to make it clearer if they’re

tired and want to sleep, or have open eyes and are up for

conversations)

(imagine you had 14 eyes, and you could close them seperatly

whenever you want, what a weird place this world would be)

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Door (colour temprament)

Underneath

safe (red? no almost, let’s say bordeaux)

If I would stretch out my arm to the side, would it feel the

purpleness?

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Window (colour temprament)

They created a space for their gaze, looking out the window.

It’s the space where the gaze is hanging before it fi nds

something interesting. Ofcourse, everything needs shelter.

How come only Norwegians think about these moments - and make

space for it?

And also, would your gaze feel the purpleness? Where does is

start?

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a house in Dale, Norway (perspective)

This house is a little diff erent because it’s somewhat bigger

in scale. It’s also not a house for living. Inside there’s

a bank. Because of the same facade everywhere, and also the

fact that it has big windows all the way down to the ground,

I don’t know where to enter. I could walk around the building,

try to approach it, try to understand it, but the bridge, the

transition zone, the in-between is missing.

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aha! (perspective)

Now I know: two entrances

Now I know, two entrances

.

?

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aha? (perspective)

I wonder why Norwegians put more then 1 portico in front of

each other. We already know now where the entrance is. They

need more shades of purple.

If every space is a transition between the space before and

the space after it, and the two extremes are the norwegian

house and me. What would happen to me in this transition/

translation zone?

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Norwagian roofs (perspective)

Norwegian roofs are always a little bit longer then the edge

of the house. It’s already a kind of transition zone, a

large portico, something that gives shelter. It’s so familiar

that many don’t notice. What if we bring it down? And maybe

put some columns in front to make a real collonade. Then it

becomes also a place to walk in. A large in-between space. Or

do we get the promblem again with the entrance?

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confusion (model)

Confusion for us, clearity for Norwegians. Because they’re so

trained in making transition spaces, they could tell in one

second what’s the appropriate way to go.

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overload (model)

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roof for everything (model)

left to right:

roof for a family

roof for boats and stuff for boats

roof for brooms and tools for in the cemetery

roof for mail box

roof for rubber rain boots

In Norway you can have a roof for everything. Brooms are not

put inside of the church, but they made a little house for

it. Also mail, no post box inside the wall if your house, but

one at the beginning of the street so that the mail man can

go home as quick as possible (always this rain in Norway).

And a little house for rubber boots, so that they don’t make

it dirty inside, but they stay oustide without getting wet

or snowy.

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roof for post (model)

This is such a public placed little house, but inside there

are a thousand very personal papers. Although every box is

the same, you feel yourself drawn to your own mailbox. It’s

glowing in this red bordeaux colour that feels so familiar.

The other are just post boxes. But it’s nice that they can be

all togheter, so that no bad news, no good news, should ever

lie alone in a black box.

It’s nice to have this miniatur street in front of every real

street. It’s also a kind of portico, a kind of translation to

a foreigner: this is this the entrance to this street and here

lives this this and this family. Oke, little house, thank you

for the information.

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colour temprament of mail box (plan)

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position of random stuff house (plan)

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random stuff house in random form (elevation)

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position of broom house (plan)

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colour : real or temprament? (axo)

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roof for rain boots (model)

In Norway they also have a little rood for their rain boots.

It’s just genious. No more water plash inside the hall, no

more dirty footprints in the corridor. The rain boots can

stay outside, where they can dry and are sheltered from the

bad weather. When people come outside, they can put on their

rain boots and go out.

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58 | Dale charette

positioning rubberrainboothouse (map)

As you can see, the rubberrainboothouse has the same scale

as the ventilationunithouse. On the other side of the

familyhouse there is a waterhosehouse, wich you unfortunaly

cannot see on the drawing. So we were wondering about the

position of this rubberrainboothouse. It should be next

to the entranceporticohouse, and out of sight from the

ventilationunithouse. In this composition you can walk out

through the entranceporticohouse and get your boots in the

rubberrainboothouse to put them on. But what with the little

distance between them? What shoes should you put on then? We

don’t want wet socks. The solution: the rubberrainboothouse

should be close enough to the entranceporticohouse so that

you don’t need to step in wet surfaces before you get there.

Or you can put the rubberrainboothouse inside the

entranceporticohouse. Maybe this is even a better solution.

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scale of houses (elevation)

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composition options (model)

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So what was that thing about that mindfuck?

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