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Room for Manoeuvring: In the Deconstruction of Rural Lolland
Name
Nilaus Maltha Müller
Education degree
Kandidat
Institute
Architecture and Culture
Program
Political Architecture: Critical Sustainability
Year
2021
By proposing a series of celebrative deconstructions , the project eyes an opportunity to reshape contracting villages and to strengthen their communal coherence. While a festival relocates amongst demolishing buildings, a guesthouse of re-used materials underpins the future of rural Lolland. Unveiled qualities combine with a network of hiking routes, supporting villages' intermediate stages.
As the built environment in rural Lolland is decreasing, a festival is increasingly marking its performative remanence.
It is already a drastic act, to erase the carefully built architecture of a village, no longer regarded as thriving. And to extend the time of demolition is only more trouble. Quoting Haraway, I find it meaningful to ’staying with the trouble’, when we choose to settle and unsettle from the land we live on.
This is an environmental concern, considering the immense waste in building industry’s production and demolition, besides a concern of the social implications following political decision-making on architecture in rural Lolland.
It is already a drastic act, to erase the carefully built architecture of a village, no longer regarded as thriving. And to extend the time of demolition is only more trouble. Quoting Haraway, I find it meaningful to ’staying with the trouble’, when we choose to settle and unsettle from the land we live on.
This is an environmental concern, considering the immense waste in building industry’s production and demolition, besides a concern of the social implications following political decision-making on architecture in rural Lolland.
Deconstruction
Generator for – and measure of – the succesfull deconstruction of Birket village.
A shelter and outdoor kitchen is erected from the remains of annual deconstruction festivals. Profit and materials is used for its construction – potentially resulting in a taller guest house.
With the workforce of demolition workers – already busy deconstructing Birket village – the new house is fed with bricks of the deconstructions. Demolition workers are suggested to make their deconstructions matter in a direct, local re-use.
A shelter and outdoor kitchen is erected from the remains of annual deconstruction festivals. Profit and materials is used for its construction – potentially resulting in a taller guest house.
With the workforce of demolition workers – already busy deconstructing Birket village – the new house is fed with bricks of the deconstructions. Demolition workers are suggested to make their deconstructions matter in a direct, local re-use.
The Erection Of A House
Proposal for a festival. A social event moving into Birket village for two summers, conducted together with the demolitions of its many condemned buildings.
A festival of deconstruction, food fairs, musical and theatrical performances.
A festival of deconstruction, food fairs, musical and theatrical performances.
Metabolism of a Village
On a regional scale: A network of hiking routes in the slipstream of festivals and village-metabolisms, combining guesthouses across a demolishing Lolland.
A Network
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)
