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Andrea Kristine Fredriksen

Department: Furniture and spatial design/interior architecture

Nationality: Norwegian

E-mail: and_frd@hotmail.com

Tlf: +47 928 96 643

 

22.7M19

Can Norway's former central police station be transformed into a place to commemorate the 22nd of July 2011?

The project assumes that the temporary learning centre in the government quarter is to move permanently to Møllergata 19. Based on the events of the 22nd of July 2011, I have examined how Møllergata 19, with its historical past, can facilitate new use. The overall goal has been to investigate how spatial measures affect us.

What have you wanted to explore?

I have wanted to investigate how a learning centre can also be a place of commemoration. How a learning centre for the 22nd of July 2011 can help preserve parts of Møllergata 19’s history through new functions. How spatial measures help to create places to commemorate specific events and whether the portrayal of events that took place on the 22nd of July 2011 are at all possible.

How have you experienced the process?

I have looked at case studies to obtain basic information about the project's themes. Here, I discuss and show examples of the use of spatial measures and their effect.

The examples that I refer to show different approaches regarding building preservation and transformation. Ways to convey traumatic events through various types of information and learning centres. What memorials are and how memorials have evolved from around 1900 to today. It has also been important to include other people in the process and receive input about what a memorial and learning centre for the 22nd of July can be. I have tried to find out what people associate with the 22nd of July. What a learning centre for the 22nd of July should show, and if sensory descriptions of the 22nd of July can provide an indication regarding expression at the centre - something which has given the project a broad point of departure.

How have you chosen to solve this task?

I propose to reuse the materials from the buildings that are due to be demolished in the government quarter. This will be the starting point for the new centre. The demolition and restoration of the government quarter is a direct consequence of the terrorist attack - by re-using the materials from the demolished buildings, one will be able to achieve an expression adapted to place and use. This will both strengthen and support the conveyance of events that took place on the 22nd of July.

Why has this been important to you?

The project has been important to me because it deals with human emotions and relationships. The choice of this theme is related to my deep belief in interior architecture. I believe that a conscious design of the surroundings can help to gather people and trigger conversations in a very special way. I believe that experiences in spaces are able to give us deeper insight and understanding in ways that academic texts never can. Simply because somethings can’t be expressed in words. Perhaps the motivation was that the project appears to be an infinitely difficult task and that the project has, in so many ways, put my view of what interior architecture is about to the test.

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