ONCE UPON A TIME IN FORESTRAND
Xabier Montilla, xabier montilla studio
How do we mind a Non-Human Urbanism? Can fiction be inhabited? Where is Forestrand?
Form doesn’t follow function anymore. Forestrand is the reality that already exists, but it requires a new look at the territory. Forestrand is currently sleeping. By moving through this place, we identify a series of fictions that are linked to the forest that surrounds Fagerstrand and that allow us to discover new territorial drifts. A change takes place from an egocentric model to an ecocentric model in which the forest becomes the center and from which a hybrid model that connects human and non-human realities will be articulated. This
coexistence of realities provides us with programs dispersed throughout the territory, we call them fictions. Forestrand goes through them and gives shape to models of construction of the territory and habitats, the 4th Landscape, that improves the existing reality giving back to Fagerstrand its identity. We establish the concept of Form Follows Fiction, therefore, as a mechanism of hybridisation between the fictions and realities of the human world and of the non-human world.
Client: EUROPAN
Project Partner: Paula Fernández + Saray Ossorio
Categories: Historic Preservation, Landscape and Garden, Urban Development
Location: FAGESTRAND, Norway
ADC: ADC entry/not built, restricted ADC 2021
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Xabier Montilla
xabier montilla studio
Architect, ADC Expert
http://www.xabiermontillastudio.com
Spain