| Abstrakt: |
Atmospheres are strange-evasive and yet profound. Bound to space, they can affect our very being by colouring our perception and influencing our moods. In this article I will demonstrate how an awareness of the atmospheres in the house museum of the architect Marius Pedersen can provide a comprehension of the ambiguity in Bedre Byggeskik's architectural project - an ambiguity that has proven difficult to grasp otherwise. Through an exploration of the two dominant spaces (the front garden and the entrance room), I will focus on the potentials of the atmospheres as ways of recognizing the actual house as the object of the house-museum. Because of their uncertain status of being "in-between" (as inbetween subject-object, consciousness-unconsciousness, material-immaterial), the atmospheres offer a kind of evocative communication that exceeds the deliverance of "facts". The experiencing of atmospheres often evokes past experiences of similar atmospheres that affect the moods of the house museum's guests. These moods can be considered existential given that they simultaneously contain the past, the present and the possible future in a privileged space in-between reflection and emotion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
