Byggesak 201912777

Student project

Sebastian Jørung Øvrebø

Diploma

Diploma fall 2022

In face with a building industry which is increasingly occupied with
the reuse of existing buildings and components, this project wishes
to explore how values are attributed to architectural objects through
relocation, mediation and reproduction.

In 2020, two concrete reliefs, Fiskerne and Måken, weighing in total
over 250 tons, were moved 50 meters from the now demolished
Y-block to a place they will rest for around ten years before they will
be moved to their next resting place, the not yet built A-block. The
move itself took 45 minutes. A temporary storage structure, not unlike
the wooden crates used to store and transport valuable art objects,
or the vitrines such objects are often exhibited in, was erected to
protect The Fishermen and The Seagull during transit. Already during
the application process a profound connection between the storage
structures and the artwork they frame was created. The first e-mail
registered in Saksinnsyn, sent by Architect Ole Tørklep from Nordic -
office of architecture says the following: «Vedlagt oversendes søknad
om tillatelse til tiltak for ‘Picassoboksene’» The Picasso Boxes.In this project, the boxes have become a prism through which I have looked at memory and monuments, and the cult which creates them.
It has resulted in a series of entangled investigations which attempt to
transform the structure through multiple mediations:

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