Marshallhúsið/The Marshall house

Meðan allir voru heima á íslandi á fullu á hönnunarmars þá missti ég af herlegheitunum.

Hef búið erlendis í 10 ár núna og hef einungis einu sinni náð að vera á íslandi yfir þennan viðburð :/ en ég ég mun skipuleggja ferð heim á næsta ári.

Ég fylgist samt allfar stíft með og þá sérstaklega fylgist ég með Svönu vinkonu á Svart Á Hvítu þar sem hún er alltaf með puttan á púlsinum. En einnig var margt mjög spennandi arkitektúr tengt sem ég hefði svo viljað sjá.

Eitt af því var túr um Marshallhúsið á Grandagarði 20. Kíkti þarna inn síðast þegar ég var á landinu og skil vel að þair haf i hlotið Hönnunarverðlaun Íslands 2017 fyrir uppgerð hússins. Þetta er mjög heilstreypt og vel gert. Hrátt og elegant á sama tíma.

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While Design march was going on in Iceland last weekend I was here in Copenhagen... wishing to be there... I have been living abroad for 10 years now and only once have I planned a trip to be at this great event.

I will definitely be there next year!

I follow what is going on ... and my friend Svana covers much of it on her blog. But there were so many interesting architecture events this year I would have loved to see... including a tour in the Marshall house.

The Marshall house was the winner of The Icelandic Design Awards 2017 and is for sure worthy of it.

MARSHALLHÚSIÐ / The Marshall house

Listamiðstöðin Marshallhúsið opnaði í mars 2017 og hýsir Nýlistasafnið og Kling & Bang en auk þess er þar vinnustofa og sýningarrými Ólafs Elíassonar og veitingastaðurinn Marshall Restaurant + Bar. Arkítektarnir Ásmundur Hrafn Sturluson og Steinþór Kári Kárason frá stofunni Kurt og pí, önnuðust hönnun breytinga á húsinu í samstarfi við ASK arkitekta.

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The art center opened in march 2017 and is hosting the Modern art gallery and Kling & Bang gallery, it is the home of the Icelandic/Danish artist Ólafur Elíassons office and showroom as well as housing the Mashall Restaurant + Bar.

The architects Ásmundur Hrafn Sturluson and Steinþór Kári Kárason from Kurt og Pí were in charge of the design of the new Marshall house in collaboration with ASK architects.

Þetta fallega hús var byggt árið 1949, sem hluti af síldarbræðslu, og var starfsemi þar í rúma hálfa öld. Húsið stóð autt í nokkur ár eftir að fiskmjöls og -lýsisvinnsla var aflögð á vegum HB Granda í Reykjavík. Húsið er á fjórum hæðum, samtals 1.839 fermetrar að stærð.

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This beautiful house was built in 1949, as part of herring smelter, and was there for over half a century. The house remained empty for a few years after fishmeal and fish oil production was discontinued by HB Grandi in Reykjavík. The house is on four floors, total of 1,839 square meters.

Í rökstuðningi dómnefndar við Hönnunarverðlaun Íslands, segir að verkið kristalli vel heppnaða umbreytingu eldra iðnaðarhúsnæðis fyrir nýtt hlutverk í samtímanum. „Arkitektarnir hafa þróað verkefnið frá hugmyndavinnu til útfærslu og leitt saman breiðan hóp aðila til að skapa heilsteypt verk. Í verkinu er vel unnið með sögu byggingarinnar og samhengi staðar og til verður nýr áfangastaður fyrir samtímalist í Reykjavík á áhugaverðu þróunarsvæði í borginni. Marshall húsið er gott  dæmi um hvernig með aðferðum hönnunar verður til nýsköpun í borgarumhverfinu.“ Hönnunarverðlaun Íslands 2017.

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According to the jury's verdict at the Icelandic Design Prize; the work crystallizes the successful transformation of old industrial buildings for a new contemporary role. "The architects have developed the project from conceptualization to implementation and brought together a wide group of people to create a holistic piece. The work carefully respects the history of the building and context, and creates a new destination for contemporary art in Reykjavik in an interesting development area in the city. The Marshall House is a good example of how design methods will be innovative in the urban environment. "The Icelandic Design Prize 2017.

Þessar flísar eru bara beautiful... / gorgeous tiles...

Þangað til næst...

The Icelandic Architect

Högna Sigurðardóttir MY Idol AS AN ARCHITECT

“I AM NOT LIGHT, I am heavy”

Högna Sigurðardóttir (6 July 1929 - 10 February 2017) was a leading Icelandic architect. She was the first woman to design a house in Iceland. She spent most of her professional career in France.

Högna is one of my biggest idols in architecture, not only because of her great architecture...but also for who she was and still is in minds of people, as a strong powerful woman that went for her dreams. A true pioneer of her time. “I AM NOT LIGHT, I am heavy” were here illuminating words.

THIS HOUSE on Bakkaflöt Hafsteinshús, or the house of Hafsteinn, (1965–68), which has been praised as one of the hundred most remarkable buildings of the twentieth century in World Architecture: a Critical Mosaic, is a fine example of Högna’s approach, where landscape, form, and space are merged into a whole, with reference to ancient Icelandic building heritage as well as to contemporary use of concrete and other Brutalist features of modernism.

Bakkaflöt is thrust into a manmade grass-covered hill with only the edge of its flat roof visible.

The interior layout revolves around a central living room with a massive fireplace beneath a skylight, which provides the seemingly closed building with generous light inside.

Beautiful how Högna organically molds the space both horizontally and vertically. From the sleeping rooms, reading nooks, and other intimate spaces sprout from the center with floor-to-ceiling gliding doors. The levels of the floors and ceilings are deliberately raised or lowered to define smaller rooms within the open space.

Materials are restricted to untreated raw concrete, elegantly crafted hardwood, and a bit of leather, with most of the furniture (sofas, benches, tables, bathtubs, and even the beds) cast in concrete, making them part of a coherent whole with the visible main structure of the house.

The sleeping rooms are relatively small as where were six children in the family when Högna designed the house but the have sliding walls that allows the space to open up and to be used for other means. Great idea and concept still today.

VIDEO OF THE SLIDING WALLS

It is obvious that the she was inspired by the look of a traditional Icelandic turf house

Inspired by the look of a traditional Icelandic turf house

Högna's designs were and are still to this day seen as very modern and bold.

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