weaving Complex Context 2022 Gudrun Hardardottir, Maren Roscher and Tora Nitter
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Process
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Content Map a station in Bergen
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Prepare your eyes to see
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Hardangerbana and Granvin
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What we want to do
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Concept
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Models
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Diagrams
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Mapping a station in Bergen
explorations
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Prepare your eyes to see
explorations
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explorations
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Hardangerbana and Granvin
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Change in the building custom in Granvin, from laft in ”really old times” to gates took over around 1800. Another type of building that is special to Voss and Granvin, which there are also few of, are barns with timber hay and grain quarries and with threshing floor in the middle. Graven Fiskeriforening was founded.
STØL
47 husmannsplasser in Granvin
Written resources about stølsdrift back to 1600. Possibly all the way back to 500 BC
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Husmannsvesenet
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1537
Middle age
New age
1600
1726 Granvin church
One product that we take for granted today, but if possible was even more vital in the past, was salt. City names and written sources tell that salt was extracted from fjord water (common salt) in Hardanger.
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1859
1890-1914
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Granvin Herad becomes Ulvik
TOURISM
Graven municipality.
first came with the national romantic wave at the end of the 19th century and lasted until the First World War
Granvin bruk established (today Moelven)
1965
In general, there are few industry-related activities in Granvin.Today, livestock-based agriculture is the largest industry, and about 1/3 of the working-class inhabitants of Granvin work outside the district. Of individual businesses, Moelven Granvin use is the largest workplace with 42 emploeys.
STØL 1900-1960 Ending of stølsdrift
19141918 1ST WW With WW 1, the industry in Granvin more or less collapsed, before it took off until the Second World War, when it collapsed again.
1935 Hardangerbana built
19391945 2ND WW
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Hardangerbana closes for public transport
Hardangerbana closes
In 2020, Granvin went from municipality to village in voss herad municipality.
1940 Battle at Skjervet
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Granvin can offer a long and varied history when it comes to transport. Both by virtue of its own industrial production, tourism, and Granvin’s location as a link between the neighboring villages means in sum that the contact both between the village team in Granvin and beyond has been large and varied The road through Skjervet is mentioned in sources from the middle ageand together with the road that goes from Folkedal, up the valley and on towards Voss.
According to stories, this was the path Olav Haraldsson used when he was to christianize people in Voss in 1023.
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was its own port both in middel ages and in 1647, as it stands of the taxable tram. It tells a story about power and affluence. Granvin priest area, which also includes Ulvik, was separated from Kinsarvik as it’s own priest-area in 1608.
Bedrock
Granvin
Ulvik was main parish in 1858, and then Granvin was a parish in the new Ulvik parish. Granvin was separated as its own municipality in 1891. At the municipal regulation in 1964, the farms Lussand, Beggevik, Naustvik, Håstabbe and Kvanndal were transferred to Granvin from Ullensvang.
Forestery and agriculture
Eidfjord was a part of the parish debt from 1688. Then Granvin (Graven) included the three parishes Granvin, Ulvik and Eidfjord.
Then there was a Lensmann for whole Graven shipwrecked (Ulvik, Granvin,Eidfjord), which later belonged to Ulvik county - man’s district in the 19th century. There are good farms and there are old farms in this one municipality; farms with good forest.
Cultural heritage
Granvin parish had its own Lensmann until 1689.
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Hardanger about Granvin
Voss about Granvin
Granvin about Granvin
”Harding fiddle and a living fiddler environment” and ”Most important folk music village in Hardanger” are typical statements. In second place are sawmills and lumber: ”Fellers and sawdust”, ”the wooden village of Granvin”, ”Timber on the quay”. A relatively large part of the Hardings experience Granvin as a crossroads and a hub. ”Tourists driving past”, ”Historic hub”, ”Road junction” and ”A place one drives through” are wordings that can be used.
”It’s beautiful in Granvin, especially around Granvinsvatnet.” «Access to the Hardangerfjord and close proximity to Voss», «A quiet place to live or stay», «Low house prices, short way to Voss, easy access to the fjord. And a strong spirit of hard work internally in the municipality »
Gravensarane highlights the ”spirit of service”as the most typical of Granvin. ”People are asking up »and one« gets things done », are formulations that Walk again. Several also point out that there are «many teams and organizations »and almost as many agree that despite the willingness to volunteer, it can be difficult to get people to take board positions. Gravensaren can be ”a little scared to stick out”.
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”The downside is that the outside world does not know enough the identity of the village. There is probably a lot the outside world should be more up to date on. What and who is Granvin? » Some point out that it is important ”that the inhabitants are involved in the restructuring phase so that it was not” everything was better before ”mentality”. ”Realizing that they are part of a larger municipality and that not everything can be exactly as before.”
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Slow tourism Slow tourism is an alternative tourism choice in contrast to mass tourism. Slow tourism ia a part of the sustainable tourism family, different from mainstream tourism and emphaszing on the tourist greater personal awareness. It is characterized by reducing mobility and by taking time to explore local history and culture, while supporting the environment, The concept emerged from the Italian slow food movemen.
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agricultural area town area housing area important locations
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Kirsten Fenne Kolsgård
Lars Ivar Kvalfoss
Leif Seim
Leader of Granvin Husflidlag. Used to work at the ”utsalg” next to the saw mill, but is now working in Husfliden in Voss. She holds courses in Hardangersaum, and looming. Every wednesday Granvin husflidlag gathers in Heradshuset where they have 8 loom chairs. She said that its a very popular venue, and that they have people on waitinglists to have a chair.
Lars bought old Nesheim station building in 2014. He is originally from Odda himself, but he has ancestors and family around the area of Granvin.
Leif grew up in Voss. He is now living at the farm where his mother grew up in Seim in Hardanger. Leif is currently landowner of a big area around his farm. He worked as a tourist guide for 35 yrs on cruises in Hardangerfjoren, Flåm and Sognefjorden. As a boy he took Hardangerbana down to Granvin to visit his uncle
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What we want to do
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Gather villagers across generations and fields of interests and encourage encounters. Improve and revive town center. Create a meeting point between the traditional and new cultural contributions. Create a common shelter with space for several and shifting programs.
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Weaving urban carpet Granvin is a small town located in the west of Norway. In the inner most of Hardangerfjorden. Granvin has a strong connection to the Hardangeridentity, and is still practicing the traditions of handcraft in food, drinks, embroidery, agriculture, textiles and pattern. The town of Granvin is 20 minutes from Voss and 1,5 hours from Bergen. In a time where we located our selves after minutes and hours, and not by the length in kilometers, the measurement of a distance is to move from A to B at the fasts possible way. One can say that time is moving faster now than in the past. It took us two days to walk from Voss to Granvin (11,1 hours) and it took us 15 minutes to take the bus back. On the way back it felt like going into a time capsule and the distance became really clear to us and how evolutionary pace between A to B has become. Hardangerbana was built to transport gods from Granvin, that had a seafront, to Voss that was inland, but it was also beneficial for the persons living in Granvin. Through the walk we randomly met three people that where still practicing the handcraft and identity from Hardanger. They have strongly inspired us in our thoughts. We want to make a place in Granvin that will benefit the people living there. Therefore we are focusing on the main street that goes through Granvin center and will make this a better place. The main intention of the project is weave urban life and nature together, and create a common shelter with for several and shifting programs. A woven urban carpet that slows down traffic and create connections across spaces. By shifting textures one can orient one self based on the added elements in the new urban terrain. We have opened up the former library, kept the structure of it, establishing an open common space - like a station. It functions as a bus stop, communal kitchen, a place for gatherings and festivities, as well as public toilets. Wherest it used to be the sea-front that was the main place for enconters, and the main transportation hub in Granvin, it is now moved to the former library, in the midst of Granvins urban carpet. 23
G o p t
Th I t B i
I u t p H t G
Th t i p g
B d w Th w t
site track
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site public industry recreational
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site
Concept
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Textus Tissue (of anatomy) Connection (of language) Texture
Weave
Structure
To move by turning and twisting Twisting long pieces of something together Combining differnent parts in a complicated or skilled way
Textilis Non-nude (naturism) The latin adjective meaning ”woven” with itself. Stems from textus, The past participle of the verb textere ”to weave”
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Models
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concept modelss
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concept modelss explorings scale and statics
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exchange drawing exercise
project
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carpet concept model
Diagrams
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diagrams
Solving cars
Additions
Carpet
In/out
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B
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B
A +80 +60 +40 +20
+60 +40 +20
+80 +60 +40 +20
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urban plan
project
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section A-A and B-B
plan ground floor
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plan 2nd floor
looking at the station
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looking out from station
looking towards the fjord
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looking towards the valley
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