Einar Aslaksen. https://atelieroslo.no/project/pressens-hus#298
Atelier Oslo + KIMA Arkitektur. Pressens hus , Oslo, 2021
The 2021 Pressens hus , by Atelier Oslo + KIMA Arkitektur, Oslo, follows a similar design strategy as the one employed in the Lleialtat Santsenca Civic Centre by H Arquitectes. The project consists in the transformation of two nineteenth century listed buildings located in the centre of Oslo. The new program – spaces for media and press activities, conference rooms, studios, café/restaurant – develops across two atriums. Around these two voids, the building reveals the passing of time and the dialogue between the existing vocabulary of steel beams and brick buildings and the new vertical order of posts and beams in laminated timber. The geometry of these two orders overlaps, revealing the continuity of past and future in the same building.
In going over these examples, it is clear that differences in formal vocabulary, materials and building techniques characterise their configuration. Nevertheless, when it comes to the overall relationship between time and architecture, all those projects address a similar concern: all of them question the socially and culturally acceptable durée for architecture, against and beyond market-driven interests. The way they do it is by being aware that architecture is not only about space, but is above all a matter of time – whether time is interpreted as a scar of the past (Flores & Prats), as a design material (H Architectes), or as a conceptual scaffold for future interventions (Brandlhuber+). Only by facing, embedding and interpreting time in all its manifestations, architecture can play a different and less invasive role in the built environment. Reusing rather demolishing, repairing rather than discarding, updating rather than replacing; this is what architecture can do to act as a catalyst for new collective and urban instances. g
STEFANO CORBO is an architect and educator at TU Delft – Chair of Public Building – where he also serves as MSc Coordinator. In 2012 Corbo founded SCSTUDIO, a multidisciplinary network practicing public architecture. www.scstudio.eu
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