Diplomprosjekt
Høst 2021
Institutt for arkitektur
INITIATIVE
My father has his own workshop,
I often watch him while he is working.
I have done this, for as long as I can remember.
The workshop is where we talk, create, struggle and argue.
As I get older, I reflect back to the conversations
we have had throughout the years.
I realize that this has been fundamental in triggering my
awareness and necessity to create.
I make an effort to understand his thinking and craftsmanship.
I repeat his doing,
but to my frustration - always to a lesser grade.
Now - after many years of studying,
I see that there are no shortcuts to
endurance or experience, in the field of architecture.
Five years in - and I am still a dilettante.
By definition curious and open-minded in my research.
I wish to investigate the basis of a house,
where my father and I can meet.
I talk about the house as a workshop.
In regards to living and working,
a relationship between father and son.
I wish to create this house, piece by piece.
By models, drawings and other means.
ABSTRACT
I met my father in his workshop, in a situation of daily life : dwelling and working. A meeting that enabled me to learn and engage in a craft. As I now have moved out of my childhood home, craft, knowing and knowledge is what I bring with me.
Entitled “A house where my father and I can meet”, this diploma is an experimental research where I focus on the memories I have from my upbringing and use them to generate new architectural realities. Each chosen situation from the past generated a memory. Each memory is presently materialized into a physical model, called fragment. All fragments put together aim to create an hypothetical house, where a meeting between my father and I can happen again. In this process, the hand and the head act as a bridge between the past - memories - and the future - articulated fragments. Along with this notion is a wish for a generosity of space that enables one to work and dwell.
This diploma therefore drives a personal search for the possibilities to work as a way of dwelling and sets the stage for my own maturing. It aims to further develop my craft, knowing and knowledge1 with the intuitive method of working that my father introduced me to in my upbringing. Embedded in it are the exchange of knowing and the possibility to develop oneself through the creative act. Architecture is here discussed as the possibility to reflect upon the self through the materializing of one’s own memories.
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1 Craft relates to “craftsmanship” defined by Richard Sennet and “knowing and knowledge” are terms discussed by Per Olaf Fjeld and Louis Kahn.
Emanuel Verde / emanuel.verde@stud.aho.no
My father has his own workshop,
I often watch him while he is working.
I have done this, for as long as I can remember.
The workshop is where we talk, create, struggle and argue.
As I get older, I reflect back to the conversations
we have had throughout the years.
I realize that this has been fundamental in triggering my
awareness and necessity to create.
I make an effort to understand his thinking and craftsmanship.
I repeat his doing,
but to my frustration - always to a lesser grade.
Now - after many years of studying,
I see that there are no shortcuts to
endurance or experience, in the field of architecture.
Five years in - and I am still a dilettante.
By definition curious and open-minded in my research.
I wish to investigate the basis of a house,
where my father and I can meet.
I talk about the house as a workshop.
In regards to living and working,
a relationship between father and son.
I wish to create this house, piece by piece.
By models, drawings and other means.
ABSTRACT
I met my father in his workshop, in a situation of daily life : dwelling and working. A meeting that enabled me to learn and engage in a craft. As I now have moved out of my childhood home, craft, knowing and knowledge is what I bring with me.
Entitled “A house where my father and I can meet”, this diploma is an experimental research where I focus on the memories I have from my upbringing and use them to generate new architectural realities. Each chosen situation from the past generated a memory. Each memory is presently materialized into a physical model, called fragment. All fragments put together aim to create an hypothetical house, where a meeting between my father and I can happen again. In this process, the hand and the head act as a bridge between the past - memories - and the future - articulated fragments. Along with this notion is a wish for a generosity of space that enables one to work and dwell.
This diploma therefore drives a personal search for the possibilities to work as a way of dwelling and sets the stage for my own maturing. It aims to further develop my craft, knowing and knowledge1 with the intuitive method of working that my father introduced me to in my upbringing. Embedded in it are the exchange of knowing and the possibility to develop oneself through the creative act. Architecture is here discussed as the possibility to reflect upon the self through the materializing of one’s own memories.
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1 Craft relates to “craftsmanship” defined by Richard Sennet and “knowing and knowledge” are terms discussed by Per Olaf Fjeld and Louis Kahn.
Emanuel Verde / emanuel.verde@stud.aho.no
