The Transition: An Including Place for Ceremony

Name
Hanna Blomquist
Education degree
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Architecture
Institute
Architecture and Technology
Program
Settlement, Ecology & Tectonics
Year
2020
The house on the pier - entrance

“The Trancission: An Including Place for Ceremony" is a place that carries the sublime and solemn atmosphere of a holy place, but is free from religion, located on a pire, in the harbour of Stavanger, Norway. A design with focus on the main person, that amplifies the exalted atmosphere. The project enhances Stavangers identity as a coastal city by different ways of connecting with nature.

Visualization of the house in context
Section drawing 1:500 - The old storehouses mark the transition from the sea to sky, a typology we translate into our project.
Section drawing 1:500 - A city well placed in the terrain, where the red saddle roofs color the transition between city and sky.
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Stavanger Path - walking rout to connect the different areas in the city, explore the old town, city center and the nature.
Landscape plan 1:2000 - a rain water collecting element with trees, from the highest point down to the ceremony house.
Stavanger path 1:2000 - The old town and city center, street art and the pier. A new connection to the water.
The water-collecting metal ribbon unfolds in circles where trees grows, and leads you to the ceremony house.
Visualization of the water ribbon with trees, showing the way down to the ceremony house at the end of the street.
Space for Gatering - in front of the house
Space for Reflection - between the heaven and the sea
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Section drawing 1:200 - Placed at the pier, marking the harbour and visible form the whole city, a place for everybody
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Site plan 1:500 - The house anchors at the tip of the quay and stretches out to the city with the paving that invites the people
Plan drawing 1:100 - the walls can never meet, and creates the transition and openings to let the light in, between the walls
Isometric - the solid concrete quay, the tall granite walls, and protective wooden roof
Section drawing 1:20 - transition from the sky to the sea. The roof, the walls and the quay.
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Visualisation, framing the view to the horizon
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Visualization of the first meeting with the ceremony room
Visualization of the ceremony room
Visualization, framing the view to the horizon
Visualization of the entrance
Ceremony towards the open, high room
Ceremony towards the entrance
Ceremony towards the long wall

The open room, and the different openings make the room adapteble for each ceremony, so that you can make it how you want it, with the right light and atmosphere. 

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Ceremony towards the hight open room, the light the filters in and follow the curved walls.
Ceremony towards the entrance - The elevator ambience of the room, on a day where a small ceremony takes place.
A large ceremony - The atmosphere of the ceremony can be created using the varying natural light that changes through the day an
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The Royal Danish Academy supports the Sustainable Development Goals

Since 2017 the Royal Danish Academy has worked with the Sustainable Development Goals. This is reflected in our research, our teaching and in our students’ projects. This project relates to the following UN goal(-s)