The Re-Store teaching unit offers new perspectives on the preservation, reuse and transformation of architectural heritage from the recent past, with a special focus on the provenance of building systems, components and materials. Taking an Experimental Preservation approach, the unit responds to the challenges of the climate crisis by renegotiating the way we understand, evaluate, and transform the built environment. Through MA studios and seminars, the unit aims to reinvigorate the discipline by challenging the prevailing ideas of authorship, origins and the integrity of the architectural monument. Engaged in a wide range of practices counting archival studies, value assessment methods, restoration techniques, survey practices, model building, drawing, writing and dissemination, the students are trained to participate in the contemporary discourse with a critical mindset and high design skills. Recent studios have focused on concrete, building systems, prefabrication, building components, petroleum and weather. Re-Store publications include the 

Former Re-Store faculty: Andreas Angelidakis, Thordis Arrhenius, Bård Helland, Amandine Kastler, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Andrea Pinochet, Kim Pløhn, Alena Rieger, Bryony Roberts, Ingrid Dobloug Roede, Erlend Skjeseth, Jørgen Tandberg, Kjetil Sæterdal, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Helle Bendixen Trier, Espen Vatn.

Re-Store

This studio was dedicated to weather in all its forms and meanings, as well as its implications for the construction, care and understanding of
architecture.

Weather constantly dominates news headlines around the world, with reports on floods, rain storms, droughts, landslides, wildfires, blizzards and tornados giving proof of accelerating humaninduced global warming. Architecture is all about weather, providing shelter against the violent forces of nature, spurring creative acts of construction and maintenance. Weather is constructing building codes and regulations, turning architecture into a complex set of material composites and maintenanceschedules. Weather is both science and poetry, chronicled through time as surveys and statistics, but also in the form of painting, literature, sculpture, film and photography. Weather is at the center of preservation, activating core questions of the discipline, relating to patina, authenticity, originality, authorship and more. The studio asked for speculative explorations of weather as a broad cultural phenomenon, as well as specific architectural propositions on how to deal with weather in the reuse, transformation and preservation of architecture.

Re-Store: Weather

Båthus

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.

Båthus

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