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 26 Kjellerverksted

Tuva: Gaute fikk sitt eget arbeidsrom med høvelbenk i kjelleren. Her hadde han sitt eget verktøy, og skuffer med skruer, spiker, gamle dørhåndtak og beslag. Hyllen var laget av skuffer som var til overs fra mosaikkhyllen i 1. etasje.
Kjellerverkstedet hadde eget ildsted. Klebersteinsovnen ble plassert her fordi det ikke var noe annet naturlig sted å plassere den. Ovnen ble flyttet med fra leiligheten i Griffeltsgate hvor min mor og far bodde før de flyttet til Ekely. Det var en OBOS-leilighet med atelier i den øverste etasjen og leilighet under. Etter at ovnen ble flyttet til kjelleren i Gråbrødreveien ble den aldri brukt.

Christine: Jeg fikk arbeidsplass på mesaninen over atelieret. Det var pipe her, men ikke noe ildsted, så vi flyttet klebersteinsovnen opp hit. Anne sier ofte at om jeg fikk bestemme, ville det vært et ildsted i hvert rom. Tre sterke menn bar ovnen opp fra kjelleren. På vei inn til mesaninen falt den fra hverandre i 8 biter.

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