On Belonging

Name
Caroline Mathilde Ahm
Education degree
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Architecture
Institute
Architecture and Culture
Program
Cultural Heritage, Transformation and Conservation
Year
2020

The project "On Belonging" examines the way we evaluate and develop existing buildings, and the importance of architecture as a cultural reminder of where we were, where we are and where we're going.

 

The project itself is a transformation of the old pathological institute and chapel in Frederiksberg Hospital. A main focus of mine has been to preserve the existing phenomenological qualities of the building that evolves around the handeling of dead bodies - in both a practical and a spiritual way, and how to interpret these qualities to the new function as a community centre that evolves around living bodies - living people. 

  

Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein (being), is the nobody to whom every Da-sein (being) has always already surrendered itself, in it's being-amongst-one-another"
- M. Heidegger
ALBUM
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PLAN 1 : 50
SNIT N 1 : 50
OPSTALT V 1 : 50
OPSTALT Ø 1 : 50
SNIT A 1 : 50
SNIT B 1 : 50
DETALJE 1 : 5
To find the way forward one must also know the way back, in the hope that somewhere in between, in the now, there exists a place of belonging. "
- C. Ahm
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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)