Jarðnæði; tranquil terra

“Jarðnæði; Tranquil Terra” is a study on the living earth and nature’s impact on life and space in Southern Iceland, closeby my namesake volcano Katla.

The project is anchored in a place with a long and complex history and with a profound relationship with its landscapes – a place of wandering churches, lifesaving shipwrecks, growing houses, teeth in the ground, paths lined with crosses to protect against the ghosts and other dark creatures. It is a place where everything is vibrant, alive and has a story to tell.

In this journey to the Tranquil Terra I navigated by means of cartography and critical fiction in search of ways to rethink the Icelandic architectural heritage beyond the nature-culture divide.

 

Diploma days exhibition at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm.

Diploma days exhibition at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm.

Diploma days exhibition at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm.

Diploma days exhibition at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm.

Diploma days exhibition at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm.

Diploma days exhibition at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm.

 

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I received the Offecct Prize 2014 for my graduation thesis “Jarðnæði, Tranquil Terra” from KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm, Sweden. “Jarðnæði, Tranquil Terra” is a study on the living earth and nature’s impact on life and space in Southern Iceland, closeby my namesake volcano Katla. According to the jury, the project “in a beautiful and poetic way illustrated the living earth and nature’s impact on life and the room […]. With a captivating story about human meetings across generations, this work explores with the tools of the architect, the natures impact on human life, the room and the landscape. This is a slow, economic project that harvest the forces of nature, its materials and expressions, which on the highest level makes it alive and thoughtful. […] poetic and willful work, that ponders the times we live in and the direction we humans are heading in […]”

During the Diploma Days in June 2014, I was also awarded the Jury’s Mention for this project.



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