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Snohetta has completed a new building for the Faculty of Fine Art, Music, and Design of Bergen University, Norway. The students are free to use the unfinished interior walls of the building as a canvas for their artwork.
After winning a competition to design the building in 2005, the Norwegian architectural firm has completed its construction this year. Each student was given a cubicle/studio to use it according to their preference. The students were creative to the extent that one of them put a piano in a vacant shower stall.
Courtesy of Snohetta, Photography by Tomasz Majewski Photography.
?Before architecture is used it is just a monument,? Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, co-founder of the architectural firm commented. ?It needs people to become a tool.? The metal façade of the building reflects the light during the day and changes appearance according to the weather. Glass boxes jut from the façade as a display area for the artwork made by the students. A hall was assigned for projects and was placed on the first floor at the core of the building.
Courtesy of Snohetta, Photography by Tomasz Majewski Photography.
The project was designed in compliance with PassivHaus standards which means that the hall would control its own climate which ranges between 15-25 degrees.
?There are no surfaces, only materiality,? Thorsen explained. ?And the materiality has to work!?
Courtesy of Snohetta, Photography by Tomasz Majewski ...