Debate, Housing | We are entering a world of construction projects, where architects and buildings are still given greater and freer leeway to design our living areas and our urban spaces without the influence of us who live here.
The architectural uprising is a movement that wants new buildings and places to be built with tradition-oriented architecture. The architectural uprising started on social media in Sweden in 2014. According to Wikipedia, the movement has today spread to sister groups in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States.
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The movement wants new buildings on a human scale, where houses in the same quarter and street form a whole. While architects often design buildings that stand in contrast to existing buildings, the Architecture Uprising believes that new buildings must adapt to the surroundings by using traditional sizes, materials and design language.
In Norway, the Architecture Uprising has been active since 2016, and the movement has received much attention in the Norwegian media in 2021. In particular, the uprising has had consequences on Instagram by showing pictures of beautiful buildings that were demolished, as well as modernist buildings that were replaced by traditional buildings. style. Audun Engh, Saher Sourouki and Erik Holm have been spokespersons for the movement in Norway.
More beauty and harmony, thank you!
Civil architect Eskild Narum Bakken has described the Architecture Uprising as a «disparate movement with divergent focus», but the common denominator is that the participants are dissatisfied with «how the built environment is designed and organized».
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High on the architects’ wishes are beauty, harmony, variety, small scale, ornamentation and user participation, it is with a perception that democracy works insufficiently in planning and construction matters, and that local building practice is a point in itself. The demands made by the Architecture Uprising have been taken up in the Storting, and the Young Conservatives have adopted a resolution that supports the movement.
Human scale
The Norwegian architectural uprising has as its program to achieve
1) A human standard in architecture; house that suits us in size and height.
2) House that creates order and coherence – rows, streets, closed quarters and sheltered places. House that speaks to us in a language we understand: Recognized past, good materials, knowledgeable composition and thoughtful detailing.
3) House that respects the place and fits existing houses in type and size.
4) Fre track for buildings in traditional form.
No to high-rise buildings and long unbroken facades
The architectural uprising does not want high-rise buildings towering over us, nor long unbroken facades that stand in our way.
And here locally, in our traditional and listed buildings in Thaulows gate, Kransbindergaten and Bjerggata, we now see that we can get modern, square blocks on the new Carlsen quarter, right up to our more than 100-year-old buildings.
At the same time, we now seem to be heading into a world of construction projects, where architects and buildings are still given greater and freer leeway to design our living areas and our urban spaces without the influence of us who live here.
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