Conditions of Intimacy (A book about individuals and toilets)

Conditions of Intimacy Elisa Ricoy Castro

A book about individuals and toilets

Re-store: Maintenance Tutor Amandine Kastler Andrea Pinochet Erlend Skjeseth

Author: Elisa Ricoy Castro

The Oslo School of Architecture and Designs (AHO)

Table of contents Preface City Building Room Object Intimacy Proposition

Conditions of intimacy The Munchmuseet, built in 1963, is moving out to a new and generic building in Bjorvika, raising the question of what to do with the empty shell.

In the context of the museum both physical and cultural acts of maintenance are studied as a form of preservation and preservation is explored as an act of maintenance.

Electricity, waste management, air quality or sewage systems are essential. Cities, buildings and even humans are not able to survive without them.

In this project sewage systems at the scale of the city, the building, the room and the object are carefully analyzed. The systems importance and expansive character is only visible through small objects like water pipes, drain channels, manholes and toilets.

The Munchmuseet is approached by following the pipes from the streets of Toyen into the building. ‘’Our buildings, like ourselves are full of pipes’’… ‘’Yet these tubes are rarely allowed to enter the space’’.

The toilet as a room is seen as the architectural space in which one can be locked away, becoming the form of interaction between humans and architecture on its most intimate level.

The toilet as an object, is seen as both, a device for intimacy and a device for connection. It connects the individual to the building and the city while being alone, inside its own cubicle.

Trough exploring intimacy in public spaces, the project questions how museums through their adoption of the generic white cube have lost touch with the ability of the building to impact the intimate experience between the individual, the building and the art works it contains.

The project challenges our understanding of the museum as an object or form to be adapted. It focuses on the interior spaces, how they connect between each other and how the individual interacts with them.

Triggered by its materiality and spatial qualities, the Munchmuseet transforms to increase your perception of it as an intimate space. A place where you can be surrounded by people, yet you are still alone, inside your own fiction, inside your own cubicle.

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City Water is something we use in our everyday life, but we never think where it goes once we have used it. A life without the water sewage system seems impossible nowadays, it is something that we take for granted but we never see.

In the urban context, it is only shown in little objects as chain pipes, drain channels or man holes.

Focusing in the neighborhood of Toyen, in this chapter, the importance of sewage systems in the city is explored.

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Toyen maintenance systems collage: sewage, water supply, electricity, time, waste management, air systems, security systems among others.

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City

The collage was made by all the students the first week of the semester. It shows the connections and imporance of maintenance systems in Toyen.

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City

Storm water harvesting system Modern building storm water harvesting system Function: Collect water from the roof and transport it to the water waste system Elements: gutter, descendant, balcony connections, chest

Location: Ringgata 1E 0577 Oslo

Storm water harvesting system Street catchments Function: Collect water from the roof and transport it to the water waste system Elements: gutter, descendant, street catchments

Location: Urtegata 11, 0187 Oslo

Storm water harvesting system Sloping roof Function: Collect water from the roof and transport it to the water waste system Elements: roof tiles, gutter, descendant, catch basin.

Location: Brinken 59 0654 Oslo

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Storm water harvesting system and manhole Harvesting system function: Collect water from the roof and transport it to the water waste system Man hole function: Maintain of subterranean pipes Elements: gutter, descendant, chest

Location: Monrads gate 13A, 0564 Oslo

Storm water harvesting system T-bane channel drain system Function: Collect storm water from the street stoping it from getting into the metro station.

Elements: sloping floor, channel drain

Location: Tøyen T-Bane 0653 Oslo

Storm water harvesting system Parking drain system Function: Collect water from the parking floor Elements: Drain channel, pipes

Location: Kjølberggata 28B 0653 Oslo

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Thermo safety valve Function: Remove water to the outside to decrease pressure when water is overheated.

Location: Kjølberggata 28B 0653 Oslo

Water reservoir Multipurpose reservoir Function: Collect water and keep it in quantity so that it may be drawn off for use and serve as a public space Elements: Collecting surface, round grates, filters, storage space

Location: Kampenparken

Fire hydrant Dry barrel type Function: connection point by which firemen can tap into water supply Elements: Operating nut, upper standpipe, upper stem, breaker ring, lower standpipe, lower stem, connector to water supply

Location: Tøyengata 53, 0578 Oslo

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City

Public toilet exterior Sewage and water storm harvesting system Function public bathroom: provide a place to urinate

Location: Bøgata 0654 Oslo

Public toilet interior Water supply system and sewage Function: provide a place to urinate

Location: Bøgata 0654 Oslo

The system expansive but only manifests itself in a few places as chain pipes, drain channels, manholes or public toilets.

Whitout them diseases arrise, roofs and streats get floaded, so does people’s bladder.

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Underground networks Sewage systems constitute a whole underground network, almost a parallel world made of infinite connections that collect human waste from one single object and lead it to a waste treatment plant, so it can be dumped into the fjord.

Every water waste system has its unique organization. Driven by governmental policies and regulations, demand from consumers, access to advanced technologies, and absence or availability of funds for capital investments. The system must develop and change continuously.

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City

Ontario sewage system plans showing the primary and secondary sewers.

The pipes draw the street under the soil, giving shape to an underground city.

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Civic pride ‘‘Sewage systems have been matter of civic pride since Agrippa toured the Cloaca Maxima by boat in the first decade AC.’’ - Fundamentals (toilet) Very related to the idea of health, the importance of hygiene has accompanied us until now. Clean roads, clean houses, clean people.

It seems like cleanliness raises the value of an area exponentially like the number of bathrooms increases the prize of living spaces.

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City

Cloaca Maxima te Rome, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748 - 1778

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Public toilets Public toilets have been known throught history as a place for gathering.

The public toilet makes possible the inhabitation of spaces. They become facilitators of everyday and intimate encounters.

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KjĂŚrlighetskarusellen (The Carousel of Love), 1937, located in Stensparken

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Building The building is approached by following the pipes from Toyen into the Munchmuseet. ‘‘Our buildings, like ourselves, are filled with pipes. Water, gas, electricity and information flow inside walls, floor and ceilings, crisscrossing basements and running across rooftops. A complex, interconnected net of tubes supports each space, from the largest pipes to the finest wires. Yet this tubes are rarelly allowed to enter the space.’’

-Mark Wigley (Pipeless dreams) Mark Wigley makes it clear.

The guts of the building are hidden. Sewage systems inside the Munchmuseet are primarily shown through the toilet.

Flows of people walking over pipes. Flows of people walking over their own shit.

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52 m = 91,74 sec

Looking for the toilet = 25 sec

6000

5901,7

3412,5

2800

49787,5

43 m = 77,34 sec

48 m = 86,33 sec

36 m = 64,75 sec

21 m = 37,77 sec

177 m = 318,35 sec

146 m = 262,59 sec

,6 07 72

31,1 102

9301

13500

13500

19375,7

First peeing thought

6775

3412,5 2212,5

Ask the waiter = 20 sec

25 m = 44,64 sec

55 m = 98,21 sec

7500

3412,5

64 m = 115,2 sec

4387,5

6862,5

35755,9

3000

121 m = 217,6 min

21637,5

28500

57 m = 102, 52 min

30000

89 m = 160,07 min

1st floor plan

1st floor plan showing the distance and time needed to walk from every room to the toilet. scale: 1/350

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Building

60 m = 107,91 sec

29 m = 52,17 sec 43 m = 77,34 sec

17982,8

28 m = 50, 35 sec

6851,1

5550

7050

19937,5

8287,5

25500

3543,8

38 m = 68,35 sec 46 m = 82,64 sec

3543,8

3037,5

21 m = 37,7 sec 4462,5

49 m = 88,23 sec

36 m = 64,75 sec 3037,5

14717,4

20642,4

46 m = 82,74 sec

26 m = 46,76 sec 4462,5

5481,4

4 m = 7,19 sec

22 m = 39,57 sec

6502,1

5457,6

14058,2

29 m = 52,16 sec 4462,5

36 m = 64,75 sec

Basement floor plan

Basement plan showing the distance to the toilet and time needed to walk from every room to the toilet. scale: 1/350

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Fish eating

Fish manufa

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Basement workshops Basement offices Exhibition1 st floor offices

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In the drawing to make all the distances comparable they are simplified into a straight line.

The longest distance is the one from the exhibition space to the toilet.

Once you enter the exhibition space there is no way back.

The travel of waste water through the pipes shows aconstant connectivity between the building and the city.

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Building

150

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200

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Exit to the fjord

Security

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Fishing point

acturing

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Flows of people Primary sewers (1500 m) Main sewers (2600 m) Toilets Building pipes connections Bekkelaget water treatment plant Fishing point

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Room As the pipes can be followed from the city to the building, they can also be followed as we walk through the hallway, from the entrance to the basement, from the basement to the cubicle. ‘‘The toilet is the architectural space in which bodies are replenished, inspected and cultivated, and where one is left alone for private reflection- to develop and affirm identity.’’ ‘‘The toilet is the fundamental zone of interaction- on the most intimate level- between humans and architecture.’’

-Fundamentals (toilet) Inside its walls, we interact with ourselves in the most natural way, nudity instantly becomes comfortable. Outside its walls people chat, move, live.

In this chapter the Munchmuseet toilets and adjacent locker room are carefully surveyed, drawn and analyzed.

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Locker room Being considered a private action, going to the toilet is a taboo.

Bathroom, water closet, toilette, privy etc.

The unamenable element.

The unamenable action.

The closer the individual is to this room, the more akward the interactions are.

The locker room is situated in the basement of the Munch Museum.

It becomes the first stop for the visitor of the exhibition.

It is mandatory to leave bags and winter jackets inside a locker, that for a few hours can only be open with a personal code.

The next step is to look for the closest toilet. The individual looks around until the door with the toilet sign is found.

Flows of people, continuously following the same ritual, minute after minute, hour by hour, day by day.

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Room

Observations of the interactions of visitors to the museum inside the locker room and entering the cubicle.

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Survey of existing women’s toilet in the Munchmuseet Regular doors: 1 Sliding doors: 2 Floor tiles: 84 + 28 Wall tiles: 678 Urinals: 0 WC: 2 Soap dispensers: 1 Paper towel dispensers: 2 Toilet paper dispensers: 2 Bins: 2 Sinks: 1 Bath brushes: 0

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Room

Unfolded elevation survey

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Mirror

2

Coat hanger

Paper towel dispenser

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Soap dispenser

4

Trash-bin

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Lack of bath brush

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5

Sink

Trash- bin

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Floor tales

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7

Sign

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Sliding door

Toilet

Toilet paper dispenser

Old toilet paper dispenser

Light switch

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Wall tales

Existing Munchmuseet women’s toilet used by three strangers.

A space for one person, deisgned for two.

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1. Mirror

2. Towel paper dispenser

No framed mirror Dimensions: 729 mm*1020 mm Situated in front of the door: eye contact with person entering the toilet

Surface mounted White shell Material: white plastic Standard roll Dimensions: 161mm *400 mm * 433 mm

3. Soap dispenser

4. Trash-bin

Liquid soap dispenser Material: White plastic Manual use Contains 1L of soap

Material: White plastic *Situated under paper towel dispenser, often paper gets attached to it

5. Sink

6. Floor tales

Mounted sink Material: white porcelain

Material: black and white gres Dimensions: 20 mm * 20 mm

7. Toilet

8. Toilet paper dispenser

One piece toilet Material: Porcelain Type of flush: Gravity flush

Shell material: white plastic Type of paper: Jumbo Dimensions: 300 mm diameter

Room

9. Old toilet paper dispenser

10. Light switch

Material: Metal No shell *Unhygienic

The only light switch in the toilet is located inside one of the cubicles.

11. Wall tales

12. Sliding door

Material: grey porcelain Dimensions: 145 mm * 145 mm

Material: purple ply wood *Broken rail makes it unable to slide correctly

13. Lack of bath brush

14. Pads sign

*You will not be able to clean the toilet if tou want to.

*Throw away pads in bin sign **Inexistent bin

15. Trash bin

16. Coat hanger

Material: White plastic *Situated under paper towel dispenser, often paper gets attached to it

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Survey of existing men’s toilet in the Munchmuseet Regular doors: 2 Sliding doors: 0 Floor tiles: 85 + 50 Wall tiles: 471 Urinals: 2 WC: 1 Soap dispensers: 1 Paper towel dispensers: 2 Toilet paper dispensers: 1 Bins: 1 Sinks: 1 Bath brushes: 1

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Room

Unfolded elevation survey

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Mirror

2 Paper towel dispenser Paper towel dispenser

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Soap dispenser

4 Sink

Urinals 12 4

Trash- bin

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Floor tales

6 Hidden light switch 7

Toilet

8 Toilet paper dispenser Reduced knee-space Urinals separator 11

9 Bath brush

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Wall tales

Munchmuseet men’s toilet used by three strangers The reduced space makes the strangers interact in a tight and intimate space.

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1. Mirror

2. Towel paper dispenser

No framed mirror Dimensions: 729 mm*1020 mm Situated in front of the door: eye contact with person entering the toilet

White shell Material: white plastic Standard roll Dimensions: 161mm *400 mm * 433 mm

3. Soap dispenser

4. Trash-bin

Liquid soap dispenser Material: White plastic Manual use Contains 1L of soap

Material: White plastic *Situated under paper towel dispenser, often paper gets attached to it

5. Sink

6. Floor tales

Mounted sink Material: white porcelain

Material: black and white gres Dimensions: 20 mm * 20 mm

7. Light switch

8. Toilet

Light switch hidden by the paper towel dispenser and the paper towel caos.

One piece toilet Material: Porcelain Type of flush: Gravity flush

Room

9. Toilet paper dispenser

10. Bath brush

Shell material: white plastic Type of paper: Jumbo Dimensions: 300 mm diameter

Plastic support bath brush Unclean water inside

12. Wall tales

12. Urinals

Material: grey porcelain Dimensions: 145 mm * 145 mm

Urinals Material: white porcelain Type: flatback urinal

13. Urinals separator

14. Coat hanger

Separator: Material: White porcelain Wavy shape

*Located on sliding door

16. Folding door

17. Folding door

Material: Ply-wood Reaches the floor

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Object Rooms are always full of objects.

There’s two categories of objects: the ones that are never used, staying static on a shelve and the ones that are continuosly in use.

The second need to be maintained daily.

The toilet is full objects requiring regular maintenance.

Paper towel dispensers, soap dispensers, toilet paper dispensers and most important of all, the toilet. ‘‘No architectural treatise cites the toilet as the primordial element- unlike the fireplace, the roof, or the wall- but the toilet might be the ultimate element.’’

- (Fundamentals, toilet) In this chapter these objects are explored.

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Toilet dispensers The toilet dispensers are objects that are continuosly in use.

They can be seen as clocks that need to be constantly maintained.

They become an indicator of the life inside the cubicle, measuring how many people have used the space and also how often.

At the beggining of the day the objects are full, by the end of the day paper, soap or towels are replaced by new ones, erasing the print of the the previous users.

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Object

Section of toilet dispensers

7 hours 38,1 m 0 hours 304,8 m

6 hours 76,2 m

1 hour 266,7 m

5 hours 114,3 m

2 hours 228,6 m

4 hours 152,4 m

3 hours 190,5 m

7 hours 26,3 m

1 hour 184,1 m

5 hours 78,9 m

3 hours 131,5m

0 hours 1L 0,5 hours 0,75L 1 hours 0,25L 1,5 hours 0L

Section of toilet dispensers. scale: 1/5 In order: toilet paper dispenser, towel paper dispenser and soap dispenser.

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The toilet The toilet itself becomes the ultimate object.

The amount of people visiting the museum can be measured in how many times the toilet is flushed.

The toilet becomes both, a device for intimacy and a device for connection.

We interact with it in the most natural way. The most intimate skin touches the white porcelain.

The internal pipes of the human body connect with the pipes of the system.

We connect not only to architecture, but to the street and the city.

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Object

Toilet and human body section

Chewing food: Average person: 10-20 seconds

Digestion: Total emptying of stomach: 4-5 hours 50% emptying of small intestine: 2.5-3 hours Transit through the colon: 30-40 hours

The toilet gets flushed 695,8 times a day 6L of water wasted with one single flush Munch Museum water waste from toilets = 4174.8 L

Average time for peeing = 21 seconds Average time for pooping = 1-10 minutes

The toilet gets filled by the cistern in 6 seconds

The human pipes connect to the pipes of the system.

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Intimacy The dictionary definition for intimacy is: 1. Intimacy is defined as the state of being intimate.

2. Intimate is defined as very private; closely personal.

Going to the toilet has become a private act. The toilet itself has become a device for intimacy.

Inside public buildings is the only place where we can lock ouselves away and do not let other people enter the space we are in.

Through exploring intimacy in public spaces: - What is an intimate space?

- What variables do we use to define an intimate space?

- Where does the public meets the private?

- Can the public be private?

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Munch

Museum as public space

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The Munch Museum is a public building. Everyone can get in to enjoy Munch’s paintings.

While visiting the exhibition it is easy to bump into strangers.

Yet, the building is an enclosed space that does not relate to the outside, due to numerous additions.

The patio, which was meant as a public space is now inaccesible.

Meanwhile the exhibition space is completely open, with almost no partition walls. Painting after painting you walk through the gallery amongst hundreds of visitors.

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Section and plan

The diagram speculates on an scenario where you watch the painting ant they watch you.

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Intimate spaces The toilet is the most intimate space of the Munchmuseet.

The sense of intimacy is emphasised by architectural elements and objects that contain or are contained by the toilet.

Partition walls, doors, locks and the toilet itself are some of them.

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Intimacy

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Equation for intimacy Degree of publicness= (A x H) + (n x W) + (n x D)

Room Num 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

Floor Area (mm^2) Floor Area (m)Ceiling height (mm) Ceiling height (m) Volume

Window nยบ

window type value Doors nยบ

Door value

438941718 1023032250 364472500 239385600 6529250 6328350 3243100 8746103 10334042 10334042 8746103 102811250 6873845 5918433 11324159 17871326 139045272 22460271 79720304 33062500 10696522 2620073 2620073 2620073 36368699 206443517

438942 1023032 364473 239386 6529 6328 3243 8746 10334 10334 8746 102811 6874 5918 11324 17871 139045 22460 79720 33063 10697 2620 2620 2620 36369 206444

6500 4400 4400 3500 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 3000 2700 2700 2700 2700 3500 3500 3500 3500 2700 2500 2500 2500 2700 10000

6,5 4,4 4,4 3,5 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 3 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 3,5 3,5 3,5 3,5 2,7 2,5 2,5 2,5 2,7 10

2853121 4501342 1603679 837850 17629 17087 8756 23614 27902 27902 23614 308434 18559 15980 30575 48253 486658 78611 279021 115719 28881 6550 6550 6550 98195 2064435

1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 1 3 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 3 1

305887 0 11900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 746 0 0 11892 4812 746 746 746 1748 0 0 0 0 4855 21560

10 10 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 4

2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167

27456250 13323750 13323750 5411250 7824375 13323750 26807250 13392000 27342000 13392000 27342000 13392000 13392000 13392000 13392000 13392000 27330375 13392000 23383638 347494275 324341000 10524539 28706394

27456 13324 13324 5411 7824 13324 26807 13392 27342 13392 27342 13392 13392 13392 13392 13392 27330 13392 23384 347494 324341 10525 28706

2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 2700 4400 10000 2700 2700

2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 2,7 4,4 10 2,7 2,7

74132 35974 35974 14610 21126 35974 72380 36158 73823 36158 73823 36158 36158 36158 36158 36158 73792 36158 63136 1528975 3243410 28416 77507

0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

0 4050 4050 0 0 4050 4050 4050 4050 4050 4050 4050 4050 4050 4050 4050 4050 4050 4050 1333318 119002 16930 19248

1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 1 1 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 10 1 4

2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167 2167

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The existing spaces of the Munchmuseet have been classified according to their degree of intimacy.

The variables are floor area, ceiling height, total volume of the windows and total volume of the doors.

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result

reduced result 3180683 4523017 1664285 840017 19796 19254 10924 25782 30069 30069 25782 313585 20727 18147 44635 55232 495399 81524 287762 123549 33216 8718 8718 8718 114928 2094665 0 76299 42191 42191 16778 23293 42191 80764 44543 88425 42376 84090 46710 46710 42376 42376 42376 82177 42376 69353 1533310 5407118 47514 105425

318,1 452,3 166,4 84,0 2,0 1,9 1,1 2,6 3,0 3,0 2,6 31,4 2,1 1,8 4,5 5,5 49,5 8,2 28,8 12,4 3,3 0,9 0,9 0,9 11,5 209,5 0,0 7,6 4,2 4,2 1,7 2,3 4,2 8,1 4,5 8,8 4,2 8,4 4,7 4,7 4,2 4,2 4,2 8,2 4,2 6,9 153,3 540,7 4,8 10,5

Intimacy

Index of spaces in the Munchmuseet

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50 49 48 47

46

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45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 3

37 36 35 34 33

4

32 31

5

30

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29

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28 27

9

26

10

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25 24

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23 22 21 12 13 14

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scale: 1/400

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Volume: 3243410 Volume: 3243410 Window's number:Window's 18 number: 18 Door's number: 10Door's number: 10 S c ore: 540,7 S c ore: 540,7

Volume: 837850 Volume: 837850 number: 0 Window's number:Window's 0 Door's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 84,0 S c ore: 84,0

Volume: 77507 Volume: 77507 number: 1 Window's number:Window's 1 Door's number: 4 Door's number: 4 S c ore: 10,5 S c ore: 10,5

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Volume: 1023032 Volume: 1023032 Window's number:Window's 0 number: 0 Door's number: 10Door's number: 10 S c ore: 452,3 S c ore: 452,3

Volume: 486658 Volume: 486658 number: 3 Window's number:Window's 3 Door's number: 3 Door's number: 3 S c ore: 49,5 S c ore: 49,5

Volume: 73823 Volume: 73823 number: 2 Window's number:Window's 2 Door's number: 3 Door's number: 3 S c ore: 8.8 S c ore: 8.8

Volume: 2853121 Volume: 2853121 Window's number:Window's 1 number: 1 Door's number: 10Door's number: 10 S c ore: 318,1 S c ore: 318,1

Volume: 308434 Volume: 308434 Window's number:Window's 4 number: 4 Door's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 31,4 S c ore: 31,4

Volume: 73823 Volume: 73823 Window's number:Window's 2 number: 2 Door's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 8,4 S c ore: 8,4

Volume: 63136 Volume: 63136 Window's number:1 Window's number:1 Door's number: 2 Door's number: 2 S c ore: 6,9 S c ore: 6,9

Volume: 74132 Volume: 74132 Window's number:Window's 0 number: 0 Door's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 11,5 S c ore: 11,5

Volume: 78611 Volume: 78611 Window's number:Window's 1 number: 1 Door's number: 2 Door's number: 2 S c ore: 8,2 S c ore: 8,2

Volume: 36158 Volume: 36158 number: 1 Window's number:Window's 1 Door's number: 2 Door's number: 2 S c ore:4,5 S c ore:4,5

Volume: 36158 Volume: 36158 Window's number:Window's 1 number: 1 Door's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 4,2 S c ore: 4,2

Volume: 27902 Volume: 27902 Window's number:Window's 0 number: 0 Door's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 3,0 S c ore: 3,0

Volume: 18559 Volume: 18559 number: 0 Window's number:Window's 0 Door's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 2,1 S c ore: 2,1

Volume: 17629 Volume: 17629 number: 0 Window's number:Window's 0 Door's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 2,0 S c ore: 2,0

Volume: 3243410 Volume: 3243410 Window's number:Window's 0 number: 0 Door's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 1,9 S c ore: 1,9

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Volume: 2853121 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 10 S c ore: 318,1

Volume:1603679 Window's number: 4 Door's number: 6 S c ore: 166,4

Volume:1603679 Window's number: 4 Door's number: 6 S c ore: 166,4

Volume:1603679 Window's number: 4 Door's number: 6 S c ore: 166,4

Volume: 115719 Window's number: 2 Door's number: 2 S c ore: 12,4

Volume: 115719 Window's number: 2 Door's number: 2 S c ore: 12,4

Volume: 115719 Window's number: 2 Door's number: 2 S c ore: 12,4

Volume: 78611 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 8,2

Volume: 78611 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 8,2

Volume: 78611 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 8,2

Volume: 36158 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 3 S c ore: 4,5

Volume: 36158 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 3 S c ore: 4,5

Volume: 36158 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 3 S c ore: 4,5

Volume: 23614 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 2,6

Volume: 23614 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 2,6

Volume: 23614 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 2,6

Volume: 14610 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 1,7

Volume: 8756 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 1,1

Volume: 8756 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 1,1

Volume: 2064435 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 4 S c ore: 209,5

Volume: 2064435 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 4 S c ore: 209,5

Volume: 2064435 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 4 S c ore: 209,5

Volume: 279021 Window's number: 3 Door's number: 3 S c ore: 28,8

Volume: 279021 Window's number: 3 Door's number: 3 S c ore: 28,8

Volume: 279021 Window's number: 3 Door's number: 3 S c ore: 28,8

Volume: 73792 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 8,2

Volume: 73792 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 8,2

Volume: 73792 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 8,2

Volume:28416 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 4,8

Volume:28416 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 4,8

Volume:28416 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 4,8

Volume: 27902 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 3,0

Volume: 23614 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 2,6

Volume: 23614 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 2,6

Volume: 3243410 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 1,9

Volume: 14610 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 1,7

Volume: 14610 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 1,7

Volume: 308434 Window's number: 4 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 31,4

Volume: 73823 Window's number: 2 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 8,4

Volume: 78611 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 2 S c ore: 8,2

Volume: 1528975 Window's number: 17 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 153,3

Volume: 1528975 Window's number: 17 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 153,3

Volume: 1528975 Window's number: 17 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 153,3

Volume: 98195 Window's number: 3 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 11,5

Volume: 98195 Window's number: 3 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 11,5

Volume: 98195 Window's number: 3 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 11,5

Volume: 72380 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 8,1

Volume: 72380 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 8,1

Volume: 72380 Window's number: 1 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 8,1

Volume: 30575 Window's number: 3 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 4,2

Volume: 30575 Window's number: 3 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 4,2

Volume: 30575 Window's number: 3 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 4,2

Volume: 23614 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 2,6

Volume: 21126 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 2,3

Volume: 21126 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 2,3

Volume: 21126 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 2,3

Volume: 8756 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 1,1

Volume: 6550 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 0,9

Volume: 6550 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 0,9

Volume: 6550 Window's number: 0 Door's number: 1 S c ore: 0,9

Taxonomy of the levels of intimacy in the existing Munchmuseet according to the equation.

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Small toilets and big dark rooms; windows and skylights, open doors and closed doors, thresholds and corridors.

Every room provides a unique experience; and the individual experiences it in their own personal way.

Triggered by its materiality and spatial qualities, the museum transforms to increase your perception of it as an intimate space. A place where you can be surrounded by people, connected to them or even interacting with them, yet you are still alone, inside you own fiction, inside your own cubicle.

The project challenges our understanding of the museum as an object or form to be adapted.

The project focuses on the interior spaces, how they connect between each other and how the individual connects with them.

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Conditions of intimacy

Munchmuseet as an interior experience

The Munchmuseet is seen as machine of intimacy.

It becomes a serie of selected spaces , from the most private to the most public. These spaces transform into a fiction that challenges the concept of intimacy.

From now on you become the individual, and this is your journey.

Entering the museum, a visitor must descend to the basement.

Here you find a locker room and a small public toilet.

Once you place your winter jacket and bag on one of the lockers you are only left with your wallet, pants, shirt, shoes and underwear.

Before starting your journey in the museum, you must use the toilet.

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Munchmuseet spaces explored within the project.

Spaces used in the project are marked in red.

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Women’s toilet plan and section scale: 1:30

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An intimate space for two

The door is closed, dark and heavy.

As soon as you enter the toilet you see your reflection in the mirror. The door behind you is now closed.

The space is reduced. The ceiling is lower than in the locker room. Two towel paper dispensers, two trash bins and two sliding doors on either side.

There are two cubicles around you but there’s only space is only made for one person. You are alone now, yet someone else could open the door you have left behind at any moment, colliding with your reality, invading your privacy.

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Cubicle door detail showing how the door does not reach scale: 1:30 Lock detail showing the importance of small objects and how it can affect the way we perceive space scale 1:20

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An intimate space for one

Inside the cubicle you are half naked. The cubicle has a lock making nudidty comfortable and acceptable.

Twenty-five black and white tiles, one place to sit and one toilet paper dispenser. A place for one person.

The light purple ply-wood door that does not reach the floor makes you realize it’s time to leave the cubicle.

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Women’s toilet intervention scale: 1:30 The partition walls and door dissapear, transforming the mirror into a window The public space of the locker room as the private space of the domestic closet.

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An intimate space for many

You gently wash your hands and look in the mirror that now has become a window.

You can see another space. You find yourself looking at the locker room. You watch people removing their coats and bags like in the intimate space of the home you remove layers of clothing from the day and place them into a closet. This act momentary claims a part of the Museum as your private space.

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Increasing intimacy in a public space

You are now at the exhibition space. It looks completely open. The walls are white and the floor is made out of wood. You can see many Munch’s paintings hang on the wall, one after another. A curtain separates the open space.

As you walk you go through different rooms. Curtains, doors, wholes in the wall. Spaces get smaller and smaller, leaving less space for the paintings. Partitions after partitions the exhition space transforms into an enfilade, where you move from the most public into the most private.

Walls move, getting into the next room gets harder and harder. Every time you cross to another space the opening gets smaller and smaller. The experience gets more intimate.

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Individual exhibition room scale 1:50 Door handle detail showing the importance of small objects defining how we perceive and interact with spaces.

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Looking into the most intimate

Like at Versailles, you have walked through all the rooms, just to get to the king’s bedroom, the most private room.

A closed space, with a lower ceiling. One chair, one lamp and one painting. A place for one person.

You sit on the chair, in front of you stands Munch’s self-portrait.

He paints himself between the clock and the bed, two symbols of death. Behind, all his life.

The painting’s door is lowered and a handle is placed on the frame.

Only when you have become so intimate with him you can enter the painting.

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Munch’s bedroom scale 1:50

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Inside the most intimate

Now you have entered in his room, which is situated in the old director’s office.

The room has a beige carpet on the floor and wood panels on the wall. One chair, the exact same chair you were sitting on before is now located in the room. The bed and the wall. It looks like you have not moved but the truth is that you are standing inside on of Munch’s most intimate moments, where he knew he didn’t have much time left, as the director knows he will not be there in a few years.

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Munchsmuseet courtyard scale 1:200

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Intimate looks into the public

The wall slides open, allowing you to enter the intimate courtyard which has been locked away since it was closed off due to security.

Just by opening the door a private exterior space has become public. Intimate melts with public. Lines between both get blurred as you walk trough the patio.

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Lecure hall with toilet in the middle, as a piece of art scale 1:150

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Intimate challenges the public

You are now inside the Lecture Hall, standing in front of the mural Alma Matter. The ceiling is really high and the walls are painted blue. A black curtain on the right side and black stone on the floor.

In the middle of the room, a podium made out of black and white tiles, like the ones in the toilet downstairs. Over the podium, a toilet.

The toilet stands like Marcel Duchamp’s ‘‘The fountain’’ , like a piece of art that challenges the qualities of the room as a public space.

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Intimate becoming public?

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Or public becoming intimate?

By flushing the toilet in the lecture hall you are transported to the outside, in the middle of the vast field, between the botanical garden and Sofienberg. The toilet is now outside, standind like another building.

Pipes come out of its porcelain bowl, reaching out of the building and beyond the site.

Pipes travel from one place to another, connecting every part of the city.

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The water flowing transforms into pipes, roads, and buildings, forming a continuous space of the toilet and the public domain of the city.

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