Diplomprosjekt
As the sprucification of contemporary forests leads to vulnerability in a changing climate, there’s a need to reimagine their potential. The project departures from the historical cultural landscape, but with no ambition of bringing back the past. Rather the multifunctionality and spatiality of a mixed forested landscape is further explored. Through better adapted cultivation practices, the forest meets the demand of regional and ecologically produced products.
The garden of the prosperous monastery of Selja disappeared 500 years ago. The ruins of the old abbey remain in place and the landscape surrounding it is in great measure a product of the activity of the monks. Pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Sunniva, womb of Norwegian church , has recently been reo-pened.
The project understands the situation as an opportunity to turn the future pilgrimage centre into a new monastery. A home for temporary visitors and seasonal researchers.
The project understands the situation as an opportunity to turn the future pilgrimage centre into a new monastery. A home for temporary visitors and seasonal researchers.
The Catskills Mountains of New York state changed the way Americans view nature. It was the birthplace of the 19th century romantic landscape art movement known as the Hudson River School that inspired a sense of national pride in the American wilderness, and led to the emergence of nature tourism in the Catskills and beyond.
Man stopped capturing new forest lands long ago and locked themselves inside the polders, but the rivers still continue to erode and deposit at the polder outsides. Therefore, lands are created in between forests and polders which do not have any clear law about who do those belong to. Mangrove tries to migrate into these parts by sending over floating germinated seeds; while man tries to take control by creating saltwater shrimp ponds.
