Aldea

Bergen, Norway

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Aldea

Bergen, Norway

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a-works | architecture + art

Type

Cultural › Gallery Cultural Center

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2018

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

ALDEA Center for Contemporary Art, Design and Technology inhabits the ground floor and seventh floor of a former industrial building facing Bergen’s inner harbour. The center enriches an existing cultural community within the building, already housing several artist collectives and the Bergen Center for Electronic Arts (BEK). The newly transformed ground floor hosts a public gallery that doubles as a project space, along with professional grade workshops for wood, metal and digital fabrication, all intended to serve the artist communities in Bergen as well as being open to the general public. The seventh floor has been converted to provide studios, storage and a common kitchen/living room for artists.
 Indoor collective spaces are strategically positioned to connect to existing outdoor public areas, increasing publicness. On the ground floor new glass doors join the L-shaped gallery to outdoor areas on the street and waterfront side, while on the upper floor the location of the common kitchen/living room enables access to a roof terrace with views of the harbour and surrounding mountains.

Notions of openness guide the architecture. A series of new constructions re-organize the industrial space to establish an absorptive background for the inhabitants to appropriate and evolve. Spatial and material porosity provide visibility and encourage interaction and inclusion within the building’s community as well as out into the street and public sphere.

Reclaimed windows, ceiling lights and workshop equipment paired with the creative misuse of material ecologies generates the project's tectonic language. This includes the conversion of exotic hardwood commonly found on the bottom of shipping containers into trim elements or the use of green boards often used as a moisture barrier inside wall assemblies as an external finish of the building's interior.

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