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K OL L E K TIV
DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN & FINLAND BY 24 STUDENT AUTHORS
SCANDINAVIAN KOLLEKTIV From our first moments on Earth, inchoate senses begin our cognitive repository of multi-sensory interactions. We embark on a life’s journey of spatial understanding and empathetic comprehension. The unexplainable pleasure and contentment attainable through environment and interpersonal relationships feeds our human curiosity and inspires new discoveries. The Nordic world manifests this interdependent sense of community and being to which we yearn to belong, and, thus to which we are called to belong. Nordic architecture and landscape engages our own person and lets us easily fulfill our role as environmental participants as part of a unifying community. Though the world is characterized by a cyclical evolution that continues to create and forget, Nordic architecture and landscape continually evolves with cultural origins still held close and respected. In a sense, the Nordic world provides the benediction of self-acceptance of our own past as we look forward to an unknown future. The myriad thoughts expressed in writing and photography reflect not only our literal surroundings but the Nordic evolution so similar to our own. As we interpreted each country’s abstract theme, we not only explored architectural conditions in an engaging environment, but we embraced our own evolving selves.
Denmark Norway Sweden Finland
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Kollektiv was produced by Gump Record following a Scandinavian group study abroad trip by UNC Charlotte’s School of Architecture. All photographs and corresponding quotes were produced during travel. The study abroad trip took place during Summer 2013. Kollectiv was published on Monday, September 9, 2013. It was printed as its own book, printed as a section of Gump Record’s biweekly paper, and was printed in Gump Record’s Fall 2013 biannual collection. It was also published as a digital ebook format in 2013. © 2012 Lulu Author. All rights reserved. ISBN 978-1-304-40854-9
INTIMACY DENMARK “Our culture of control and speed has favored the architecture of the eye, with its instantaneous imagery and distant impact, whereas haptic architecture promotes slowness and intimacy, appreciated and comprehended gradually as imagery of the body and skin.”
Juhani Pallasmaa
“Hapticity and Time: Notes on Fragile Architecture”
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DANIELLE SCESNEY [Copenhagen’s] approach to the city allows the people that live or visit here to experience an intimacy with the natural and built world simultaneously.
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DAKOTA PAHEL-SHORT
EVAN DANCHENKA
EMILY BOONE Silence is the opportunity for all occupants, initiated in architecture or not, to form an individual experience of the space separate from the architect’s vision of the space.
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JULIA BADORREK The mutualism between our human personalities and city characteristics creates an evolving relationship between the path traveler and the commute spaces.
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JESSIE NUTZ
SEAN GILLESPIE
ALYSSA NELSON Denmark is not only able to appreciate the individuals within the community but also individualism within architecture.
DENMARK 5
DAKOTA PAHEL-SHORT The street controls the aura of a city. A street, as a transition between moments, can weave these moments together or divide them into punctuated shelters.
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JUSTYNA BERNACKI
BRYAN WILLIAMS
EVAN DANCHENKA In this sense, a “silent building” is a datum. It should provide the missing constant against which to measure life’s abundance, constant adaptation, and speedy evolution.
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COURTNEY HATHAWAY ‌contemporary projects speak to the ideas of intimacy that have been embedded in the culture of Denmark for hundreds of years, allowing an appreciation for the new as well as the old.
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KELSEY LANE
ADAM ANZIVINO
SEAN GILLESPIE Forgetting‌ The Art of Forgetting was no longer seen as the simple opposite of remembering, but as intrinsically a part of memory.
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MONICA WHITMIRE The people of Copenhagen are what make the city feel close and personal, all friendly and welcoming to others.
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JUSTYNA BERNACKI
CONTRAST NORWAY “The Norwegian place is above all determined by the tension of above and below; here, things exist not in harmonic presence within comprehensive space but instead participate in the environmental interplay of forces. To reveal and maintain this in building requires forms that simultaneously possess the safety of home and express the indefinite and savage environment.�
Christian Norberg-Schulz Nightlands: Nordic Building
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HANK SCHELLENGER Oslo allows for slowness and silence within a local site while feeling connected to a larger identity.
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EMILY BOONE
NICOLE BROWN
EVAN DANCHENKA The buildings are incredibly fragile against the power of the fjords. Like innocent sheep, they huddle together in the only shadowy pockets where life is possible. The respect of “place” built these villages.
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NICOLE BROWN Nothing provides such a contrast to the everyday except for pure silence: a vacuum of stillness. The power of silence was noticed constantly in Norway between both architecture and landscape.
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JOSH KIEB
JESSIE NUTZ
SAVANNAH DEWITT Norway most certainly has the best of both worlds with wild, dramatic landscapes of the fjords contrasting the very composed, routine environment of the city.
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SEAN GILLESPIE …nostalgia is a form of understanding insofar as it brings together raw attachments to space and place, to a way of life and the idea that life is those attachments, feelings and patterns. But understanding is itself accompanied by the feelings of youth – hope and the love of modernity for itself – and by the realization that nostalgia can only destroy us, since history moves on regardless.
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CHRISSY CHLEBDA
EVAN DANCHENKA
EMILY BOONE The great contrast between valley and mountain, between nestled safety and exposed vulnerability, leads to an architecture of contrast.
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CHRISSY CHLEBDA Norway has such an intense natural landscape of mountains, fjords, and waterfalls that its architecture opts not to compete with the landscape but to contrast it.
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SAVANNAH DEWITT
JUSTYNA BERNACKI
JULIA BADORREK While man has used the body to scale and understand space, the timeliness and timelessness of Norway’s city and wilderness offer two contrasting experiences.
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MONICA WHITMIRE It seems that in Oslo one can have the best of the past and the present.
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JULIA BADORREK
MEMORY SWEDEN “Architecture is essentially an art form of reconciliation and meditation, and in addition to settling us in space and place, landscapes and buildings articulate our experiences of duration and time between the polarities of past and future. In fact, along with the entire corpus of literature and the arts, landscapes and buildings constitite the most important externalization of human memory. We understand and remember who we are through our constructions, both material and mental.”
Juhani Pallasmaa
“Space, Place, Memory and Imagination: The Temporal Dimension of Existential Space”
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DANIELLE SCESNEY Memory can’t be described as a timeline, same as landscape is not simply a framed picture.
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HANK SCHELLENGER
MONICA WHITMIRE
HANK SCHELLENGER Stockholm seemed to be composed of expansive views and large-scale understanding while immediately contrasted by moments of intimacy and anticipation; a city full of visual connection and comprehensive cohesion but physically divided and interwoven with local cultures and personalities.
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FIONA CAHILL ‌it is interesting to think of the city as a collage through time within each building, with the purposes changing continually.
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JULIA BADORREK
SAVANNAH DEWITT
SEAN GILLESPIE Architecture, no longer a translation from theory or diagram, takes on form and materiality – its solid state – the minute one logs it. What follows is an attempt to indicate where we are by mapping not distance traveled over time as linear connections between two points but mapped as a series of events within a field of forces.
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DAKOTA PAHEL-SHORT How a person feels about an event determines both the perception of length and the vividness of the memory. Thus emotion is the driving factor in a person’s understanding of time.
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NICOLE BROWN
FIONA CAHILL
JULIA BADORREK Our memories of these places will continue to evolve, like the rocks of the archipelago, because we continue to change.
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MCKENZIE CANADAY The importance of the city silhouette doesn’t necessarily lie within the connection to the ground in this instance, but with how the collection of building fragments meets the sky. Sky as ground.
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RYAN GLYNN
CARLY COATES
MONICA WHITMIRE The historical air of the original buildings in Stockholm carry the memory of what once was, creating a unique hybrid city that is both timelessly old and scandalously edgy.
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JOSH KIEB By engaging the city it begins to unfold, interact, and direct.
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RYAN GLYNN
INCOMPLETENESS FINLAND “In Finland, things are experienced as possibilities, and the goal is to reveal the hidden. All of these modes have their origin in the mythic geography of the North, which humans must understand through participation in order to obtain a meaningful interaction.�
Christian Norberg-Schulz Nightlands: Nordic Building
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CARLY COATES The deep-rooted cultural connection to the land, especially in Finland, seems to result in these kind of architectural responses that allow the natural surroundings to engage in dialogue with the buildings themselves, and as a result, with the inhabitants.
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NATHAN AARONSON
BRYAN WILLIAMS
EVAN DANCHENKA Our bodies react and our minds capture and store. It is the yearning for this experiential moment that we must go to places of great architecture and landscape. There is a need to feel the architecture through – and in – our bodies.
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EMILY BOONE A work of art is complete when it invites no further interpretation. Finnish architecture remains vibrant and living because of its incompleteness which allows occupants to continue to reinvent and add to the work.
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JOSH KIEB
RYAN GLYNN
SAVANNAH DEWITT From buildings to stools, everything is thought out and carefully crafted for the user.
FINLAND 35
CHRISSY CHLEBDA Finnish architecture allows landscape to interplay with and add its own definition to buildings, such that the built and natural environments become seemingly inseparable.
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EMILY BOONE
JESSIE NUTZ
COURTNEY HATHAWAY Rooted in a deep connection to nature, the materials all belong to each other while simultaneously creating fragmented facades and incomplete interiors.
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JUSTYNA BERNACKI …while each structure itself is complete, having it’s own logic and proportion, this logic is discontinuous when going from building to building.
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CARLY COATES
SAVANNAH DEWITT
KELSEY LANE The architecture is about their lives, their culture; the architecture may be incomplete in the sense of a style, but it is deeply rooted into the everyday lives of the people who use it.
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MCKENZIE CANADAY The juxtapositions of situations in space happen through peripheral vision, thus creating a more multisensory experience and allowing one to become unified with a space rather than an insignificant reporter of what is seen in focused vision.
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HANK SCHELLENGER
SCANDINAVIAN KOLLEKTIV Captured images and penned thoughts clearly exemplify how strangers to the region so easily understand and resonate with the Nordic world. Though the average time in each country was a week, the architectural thoughtfulness, dynamic landscapes and inspired self-reflection contributed the most meaningful and comprehensive memories to our collection. These memories are now part of our past that will continue to mold our being just as the cultural past of the Nordic world remains close in their continual growth. We applaud and appreciate everyone who made this trip possible, and we extend the greatest thanks to the superhuman power duo who made it all possible, Bryan and Jen Shields.
EDITORS
Julia Badorrek Blake Montieth
FACULTY
Bryan Shields Jen Shields
AUTHORS Adam Anzivino Alyssa Nelson Bryan Williams Carly Coates Chrissy Chlebda Courtney Hathaway Dakota Pahel-Short Danielle Scesney Emily Boone Evan Danchenka Fiona Cahill Hank Schellenger
Jessie Nutz Josh Kieb Julia Badorrek Justyna Bernacki Kelsey Lane McKenzie Canaday Monica Whitmire Nathan Aaronson Nicole Brown Ryan Glynn Savannah Dewitt Sean Gillespie
COVER + SIGNAGE Victoria Pike
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