Återbruk, skog och minka
(2019) AAHM01 20191Department of Architecture and Built Environment
- Abstract
- This project is an investigation in atmosphere, and an attempt to create a new architectural idiom through the vernacular Japanese building style minka, the ambiance and context of the woods, and, importantly, by exploring whether it is possible to keep the crookedness from the first sketches throughout the whole process, into the completed building.
Minka are traditional preindustrial homes for farmers, artisans and merchants in rural Japan. Their big, heavy and steep roofs and their dark interiors characterize them. During my investigation, I stumbled upon kura, a kind of Japanese storage sheds, and I have studied and drawn inspiration from these as well.
The ambition has been to draw and imagine something like minka in a Swedish... (More) - This project is an investigation in atmosphere, and an attempt to create a new architectural idiom through the vernacular Japanese building style minka, the ambiance and context of the woods, and, importantly, by exploring whether it is possible to keep the crookedness from the first sketches throughout the whole process, into the completed building.
Minka are traditional preindustrial homes for farmers, artisans and merchants in rural Japan. Their big, heavy and steep roofs and their dark interiors characterize them. During my investigation, I stumbled upon kura, a kind of Japanese storage sheds, and I have studied and drawn inspiration from these as well.
The ambition has been to draw and imagine something like minka in a Swedish landscape, and to preserve and create what, hopefully, can be perceived as an aesthetics of crookedness. I have also investigated and drawn inspiration from the Japanese aspiration to live in alignment with the seasons, and how the atmosphere and interior of a home change as they change. For this, I have studied The Pillow Book (1002) by Sei Shonagon, a court lady in Japan during the Heian Period.
I have situated my project in the Torup bokskog, and part of the project’s ambition is to investigate whether it is possible to redetermine the idea of the woods, in our time less an autonomous place than a cultural function, used by city-dwelling humans for unspecific kinds of spiritual recreation. Is it possible, with the assistance of buildings of a more or less determined function, change the atmosphere of these woods? Recuperate its autonomy? Or, at the very least, resist the cultural reification of the woods?
One of the most central parts of the project is to explore and as such create a new idiom, which means that the ambition is not to translate the traditional Japanese building style into a Swedish context, but rather to study it and from it make something new – imagine something that does not yet exist. I believe that an idiomatic investigation, where the investigation is both method and end, can be a way towards new ideas and new ways of expression.
With this project, I want to create something I haven’t seen before, which is not the same as creation ex nihilo, only a way of saying that I value the experiment, the imperfect, since architecture is, or can, be more than an enterprise that creates functional and purposeful buildings. Ultimately, this project is an attempt to imagine other ways of being, which must be undertaken without stipulating it a social, common function or a clear, well-defined goal. (Less)
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- author
- Ullberg, Kristina LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- AAHM01 20191
- year
- 2019
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8968141
- date added to LUP
- 2019-01-25 15:09:46
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Minka are traditional preindustrial homes for farmers, artisans and merchants in rural Japan. Their big, heavy and steep roofs and their dark interiors characterize them. During my investigation, I stumbled upon kura, a kind of Japanese storage sheds, and I have studied and drawn inspiration from these as well.
The ambition has been to draw and imagine something like minka in a Swedish landscape, and to preserve and create what, hopefully, can be perceived as an aesthetics of crookedness. I have also investigated and drawn inspiration from the Japanese aspiration to live in alignment with the seasons, and how the atmosphere and interior of a home change as they change. For this, I have studied The Pillow Book (1002) by Sei Shonagon, a court lady in Japan during the Heian Period.
I have situated my project in the Torup bokskog, and part of the project’s ambition is to investigate whether it is possible to redetermine the idea of the woods, in our time less an autonomous place than a cultural function, used by city-dwelling humans for unspecific kinds of spiritual recreation. Is it possible, with the assistance of buildings of a more or less determined function, change the atmosphere of these woods? Recuperate its autonomy? Or, at the very least, resist the cultural reification of the woods?
One of the most central parts of the project is to explore and as such create a new idiom, which means that the ambition is not to translate the traditional Japanese building style into a Swedish context, but rather to study it and from it make something new – imagine something that does not yet exist. I believe that an idiomatic investigation, where the investigation is both method and end, can be a way towards new ideas and new ways of expression.
With this project, I want to create something I haven’t seen before, which is not the same as creation ex nihilo, only a way of saying that I value the experiment, the imperfect, since architecture is, or can, be more than an enterprise that creates functional and purposeful buildings. Ultimately, this project is an attempt to imagine other ways of being, which must be undertaken without stipulating it a social, common function or a clear, well-defined goal.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Återbruk, skog och minka}},
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