1 place 33 rooms – Portrait of a house

Christine Petersen

1 place 33 rooms “Memory, including collective memory, is linked to houses. When we eradicate a place in the exterior world, we lose a major pathway into our own history.” Lena Lindgren, Morgenbladet, 2. November 2012 The project is based on a real place, a house in Oslo. I am interested in how our memory connects with places and houses, in expanding our understanding of what a house and a place are, seen from the perspective of our own cultural background, time and history – and in the perceptions and experiences that are associated with it. In the significance of how the rooms are organised in relation to each other and what happens if the room is freed from the context in which it stands. It is rare to experience an isolated room that doesn’t relate to anything else, torn from its place, time and spatial context. The neutral room simply doesn’t exist. A key aspect of architecture is the experience of going from one room to another. The way the rooms are organised in relation to each other affects the sense of what it is like to be in the house. From the starting point that architecture begins with a single room, I have explored what criteria a space has to fulfil to be called a room and how big it has to be. Everyone relates to rooms – whether it is a private room like a bedroom, kitchen, dining room, or a public space such as a café, library or railway station. The work comprises six physical installations, plus the book and archive “33 fortellinger” (33 stories).

33 rom

NR 01 Vindfang
NR 02 Hall
NR 03 Trapperom
NR 04 Kjøkken
NR 05 Anretning
NR 06 Soverom 1
NR 07 Bad 1. etasje
NR 08 Frokoststue
NR 09 Havestue
NR 10 Toalett
NR 11 Atelier
NR 12 Mosaikkverksted
NR 13 Bibliotek
NR 14 Peisestue
NR 15 Mesanin
NR 16 Hovedbad
NR 17 Soverom 2
NR 18 Lekerom
NR 19 Skaprom
NR 20 Omkledning
NR 21 Badstue
NR 22 Hellelagt terrasse
NR 23 Vaskerom
NR 24 Matbod
NR 25 Tørkerom
NR 26 Kjellerverksted
NR 27 Kjellerutgang
NR 28 Atelierlager
NR 29 Verkstedlager
NR 30 Vedlager
NR 31 Loft
NR 32 Mesaninloft
NR 33 Overdekket inngang

"Hukommelsen, også den kollektive, er knyttet til hus. Når vi utsletter et sted i den ytre verden, mister vi en hovedvei til vår egen historie." Lena Lindgren, Morgenbladet 02.11.12

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