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On Belonging
Navn
Caroline Mathilde Ahm
Uddannelsesgrad
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Arkitektur
Institut
Bygningskunst og Kultur
Program
Kulturarv, Transformation og Restaurering
År
2020
The project "On Belonging" examines the way we evaluate and develop existing buildings, and the importance of architecture as a cultural reminder of where we were, where we are and where we're going.
The project itself is a transformation of the old pathological institute and chapel in Frederiksberg Hospital. A main focus of mine has been to preserve the existing phenomenological qualities of the building that evolves around the handeling of dead bodies - in both a practical and a spiritual way, and how to interpret these qualities to the new function as a community centre that evolves around living bodies - living people.
Everyone is the other, and no one is himself. The they, which supplies the answer to the who of everyday Da-sein (being), is the nobody to whom every Da-sein (being) has always already surrendered itself, in it's being-amongst-one-another"
- M. Heidegger
- M. Heidegger
To find the way forward one must also know the way back, in the hope that somewhere in between, in the now, there exists a place of belonging. "
- C. Ahm
- C. Ahm