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Preserving values in building renovations - Aas and Wahls Boktrykkeri

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Stephan Krenzel

Re-Store

Re-Store: Weather

It is clear that a lof of complementary infrastructure was needed for regular households in a settlement with such presence of fishing culture, being boathouses the most prominent out of all of them.

The boathouse was essential in the daily basis of the fishermen, each of them would always own at least one as for storage where to keep their fishing equipment. Meanwhile, the boats would be usually tied up at the harbour. Today there is still a total of 41 boathouses in Vaeret.

There is clearly a value in these buildings which as a whole belong to a very common typology all along the western coast and which are key to understanding the history of the settlement.

Nevertheless, as exposed in fig. 02 naturally boathouses are placed in the coastline all along Veihol-men and generally in Norway. The imminent sea level rise and moreover storm surges, which also include dealing with the forces of big waves, put this building typology in great danger of disap-searing

fonly looking back at the great flood of Ronna, March 6th of 1938 in Veiholmen, 25 boathouses were destroyed. Back at the time an active fishermen community would make sure to rebuilt this boathouses but these communities are lowering down as time goes by. If such incident were to happen today, the boathouses would eventually be extinct. As a result, these must be restored in order to equal and resist the great forces of weather that are facing.

The project recognizes the inevitable effects that weather will have upon civilizations, furthermore how unpredictable these might increase in the fu-ture. Defensive strategies are no longer an option.

Accepting and living along weather forces remains as the only feasible strategy we should take from now on.

A group of 6 boathouses are chosen as the most relevant buildings to restore due to its location, the most exposed in the settlement due to closeness to water and wave vulnerability. None of them will be replaced neither on location nor height regarding water reaching completely the buildings.

Sea level rise dilutes the limits of water line, erasing land that will no longer livable. By mantaining the location of the six boathouses the actual limits of the settlement will still be readable regarding the waterline changing.

The boathouses will undergo a process of exposure to water, making perceivable the beauty of how weather consumes buildings and eventually making it unavoidable to loose some parts.

The result: a livable boathouse that lets water in, consume it, bringing the harshness of the world into the house and interacting with water itself.

A shelter that allows for the joy of flooding.

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