Barn Again
Proposes a reimagining of the traditional Norwegian barn through the expressive reconfiguration of reclaimed timber elements. The pavilion addresses slowness from three different perspectives: by providing a place of pause in the middle of the city; by deferring and elongating the material value chain; and through the tectonic overlay of timber hand and machine-craft.
Timber is salvaged from a disused barn—weathered wood that has already lived a life—and strategically reconfigured into a sheltered cocoon in the plaza at Gammel Strand, where its traditional architectural language is contrasted with new joinery and precise machine incisions.
