Boligblokker i hardt klima. Hesteskoblokka i Hammerfest og Ormen långe i Svappavaara
Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3681 . Large scale residential buildings from the modernist era have been severly criticized for being hostile both towards people and the environment. In small towns and in less urbanized areas in northern Scandinavia such residential blocks...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/8682 2023-05-15T16:32:50+02:00 Boligblokker i hardt klima. Hesteskoblokka i Hammerfest og Ormen långe i Svappavaara Haugdal, Elin Kristine 2015 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/8682 https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3681 nob nob Septentrio Academic Publishing Nordlit 2015(36):79-106 FRIDAID 1300695 http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3681 1503-2086 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/8682 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_8218 openAccess Hesteskoblokka Ormen Långe Ralph Erskine Astrup og Hellern boligblokker seinmodernisme arkitektur og klima Findus LKAB Svappavaara Hammerfest VDP::Humaniora: 000::Arkitektur og design: 140::Arkitektur- og designhistorie: 141 VDP::Humanities: 000::Architecture and design: 140::History of architecture and design: 141 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed 2015 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3681 2021-06-25T17:54:39Z Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3681 . Large scale residential buildings from the modernist era have been severly criticized for being hostile both towards people and the environment. In small towns and in less urbanized areas in northern Scandinavia such residential blocks are highly visible elements in the landscape. When Hesteskoblokka (architect Astrup and Hellern) was erected in the recreational area outside Hammerfest in 1965 it was the largest residential block in Norway. A similar block, Ormen Långe (architect Ralph Erskine), was completed in Svappavaara in 1965. Both buildings contained apartments for workers in, respectively, the frozen food company Findus and in LKAB mining company. Brand new, they were strong symbols of growing industrial activity and modernization of the north. The blocks were similarly heavily affected by the economic downturn in the following decades, turned into slum or vacated. However, these blocks are not only sociologically interesting, but also the first in the Nordic countries where the architects undertook climate analyses. Both Hesteskoblokka and Ormen Långe obtained their form according to topographical and climatic conditions. Thus they were part of a growing environmentally conscious architecture and a new regionalism within the modernist architecture. This article discusses the attempts of new regionalism in the late modern architecture in the north, and questions both its ideas and realizations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Hammerfest University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Norway Erskine ENVELOPE(-65.667,-65.667,-66.483,-66.483) Astrup ENVELOPE(-63.182,-63.182,-64.710,-64.710) Svappavaara ENVELOPE(20.983,20.983,67.633,67.633) Nordlit 36 79 |
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Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3681 . Large scale residential buildings from the modernist era have been severly criticized for being hostile both towards people and the environment. In small towns and in less urbanized areas in northern Scandinavia such residential blocks are highly visible elements in the landscape. When Hesteskoblokka (architect Astrup and Hellern) was erected in the recreational area outside Hammerfest in 1965 it was the largest residential block in Norway. A similar block, Ormen Långe (architect Ralph Erskine), was completed in Svappavaara in 1965. Both buildings contained apartments for workers in, respectively, the frozen food company Findus and in LKAB mining company. Brand new, they were strong symbols of growing industrial activity and modernization of the north. The blocks were similarly heavily affected by the economic downturn in the following decades, turned into slum or vacated. However, these blocks are not only sociologically interesting, but also the first in the Nordic countries where the architects undertook climate analyses. Both Hesteskoblokka and Ormen Långe obtained their form according to topographical and climatic conditions. Thus they were part of a growing environmentally conscious architecture and a new regionalism within the modernist architecture. This article discusses the attempts of new regionalism in the late modern architecture in the north, and questions both its ideas and realizations. |
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Boligblokker i hardt klima. Hesteskoblokka i Hammerfest og Ormen långe i Svappavaara |
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