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).

NR 07 Bad 1 etasje

Christine: Badet ligger inntil soverommet i 1. etasje. Jeg har alltid tenkt at dette rommet minner meg om å bo på hotell., et sted hvor soverommet har sitt eget bad. Vi bruker dette rommet som gjesterom og tror at de som overnatter her liker følelsen av å ha sin egen plass i huset. Både Vega og Dyre liker best å bade når de har besøk. Det hender at de bader samtidig med hver sin gjest, i hver sin etasje.

Anne Kristin: Jeg synes det er gøy å variere hvor jeg går på do. Doen i gangen er litt kald og trang. Doen innenfor gjesterommet bruker jeg ofte når jeg har sovet her. Da føler jeg at den er min. Den har myke kurver og mye lys og er passe stor. Rommet ligger også nært det som foregår på kjøkkenet og i spisestuen. Badet oppe er mest glamorøst. Det er et stort, luftig rom med en fin utsikt og tre dører, alle uten lås, så det er litt mer risiko for å bli forstyrret.

Nina: Da vi bodde her, var badet lyseblått.

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