Diplomprosjekt
Vår 2020
Institutt for urbanisme og landskap
The Lunheim Quarry is an inactive open mine site in Kroken, Tromsø. It is nestled on the edge of a resi-dential area, part of a larger recreational path network, and has become a popular ice climbing destination. I have chosen to work with this quarry out of a global necessity to find innovative and multifaceted design solutions for the increasing number of post-industrial landscapes; the need for an outdoor recreational gathering place in the Kroken area; and because of my personal curiosity of the unique qualities this quarry holds.Born out of the insights I have gained through working closely with the site itself, I am proposing an open and inclusive design which embraces innate character of the Lunheim Quarry. The design objective is to create landscape interventions which will invite people to explore the quarry by evoking their curiosity, guide them safely through the site and provide gathering and resting destinations. The aim here is not to prepose a complete overview and master plan, but rather to spark interest through simple yet carefully thought out interventions which highlight the quarry’s unique qualities. The goal is to invite people to dis-cover the space, get to know it, care for it, and start to envision how, overtime and through the development of a collective imaginary, it could evolve into becoming a unique and invaluable recreational asset for their community.
My focus for the diploma was working frequently onsite, performing actions usually based on walking, pho-tography, sketching, filming and impermanent interventions where I used red sticks and my body as tools to measure scale, define areas of interest and start to imagine how I might implement permanent interven-tions. The goal was to allow the design to come out of my experience of being in and taking action on the site. In working this way, I have chiseled out my own method through which I have acquired an implicit and internalized understanding of this landscape. This method of performing the landscape has fostered a continuously unfolding project where the design has been revealed through physically and directly inter-acting with the site, paired with my reflective studio work.
Nicolene McKenzie / Nicolenemck@gmail.com / www.nicolenemckenzie.com
