Situated in the Oslo forest, the project examines the ancient program of conflict in landscape. The clearing’s inherent quality of emptiness is the spatial and programmatic starting points of a linear parliament. Its tectonic logic is reversed – there are no rooms but rather an exterior that is never fully enclosed, remaining in an almost-interior state.
The two lions from Oslo’s parliament structure are essential parts of the Norwegian narrative and array of urban symbols. I stole the animals – I did not borrow them. They are reclaimed from urban space to be used as constructive and programmatic building parts, reintegrating the city’s representation of landscape into real landscape.