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tun: October 2006
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The tun is the central outdoor living space of the traditional Norwegian farm. Around the tun are arranged the various farm buildings. This outdoor space is used for feasts and celebrations, as well as day to day activites. Thursday, October 19. 3:Vikings, Neo-Classicism and a Storytellers Museum. The Viking Age Farm, 800-1000A.D. Aveldsnes, Rogland. We can see the Viking Age long house developed from the Iron Age structures. As trade and contact with other regions becomes more prevalent, we find the...
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tun: July 2006
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The tun is the central outdoor living space of the traditional Norwegian farm. Around the tun are arranged the various farm buildings. This outdoor space is used for feasts and celebrations, as well as day to day activites. Sunday, July 16. The Three Aspects: Verncaular/Modern/Fehn. A farmstead from Hordland in Western Norway. This is the storehouse for grains. Like most storehouses, it is raised off the ground to prevent vermin from infesting the food stores. This farm was built in the mid 1700s. This i...
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tun: January 2007
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The tun is the central outdoor living space of the traditional Norwegian farm. Around the tun are arranged the various farm buildings. This outdoor space is used for feasts and celebrations, as well as day to day activites. Saturday, January 27. 6: Loft, Bang, Korsmo and Carl Bødtker's house. The loft is the storehouse of the farmstead. As production increases the amount of space needed to store grain increases. Eventually, storage demands a separate building that houses the grain. The loft is no...The l...
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tun: February 2007
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The tun is the central outdoor living space of the traditional Norwegian farm. Around the tun are arranged the various farm buildings. This outdoor space is used for feasts and celebrations, as well as day to day activites. Tuesday, February 27. The first of these were simple wooden constructions all of which have disappeared with age. Posted by jeffrey ottem at 16:08. Man placed the stone on the ground to recognize a site in the midst of an unknown universe." - Vittorio Gregotti. View my complete profile.
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tun: September 2006
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The tun is the central outdoor living space of the traditional Norwegian farm. Around the tun are arranged the various farm buildings. This outdoor space is used for feasts and celebrations, as well as day to day activites. Tuesday, September 12. 2: The Iron Age and the Bishopric. Iron Age Farm, 500 B.C. - 800 A.D. Ullandhaug, Rogaland. There is a decking laid over the rafters and purlins. This decking is covered in birch bark and sod is laid on top of that. The roof pitch is significantly shallo...There...
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tun: August 2006
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The tun is the central outdoor living space of the traditional Norwegian farm. Around the tun are arranged the various farm buildings. This outdoor space is used for feasts and celebrations, as well as day to day activites. Sunday, August 20. Vernacular: The Bronze Age. The long house becomes a standard building type that stretches well into the Medieval Age. Although the function of the long house is expanded though out this period and construction techniques changed, the basic form remains the same.
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tun: June 2006
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The tun is the central outdoor living space of the traditional Norwegian farm. Around the tun are arranged the various farm buildings. This outdoor space is used for feasts and celebrations, as well as day to day activites. Tuesday, June 20. Vernacular architecture consists of a variety of building types. Simply put, vernacular building is traditional building that was created by craftsman and not designed by architects. Posted by jeffrey ottem at 03:14. View my complete profile.
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tun: November 2006
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The tun is the central outdoor living space of the traditional Norwegian farm. Around the tun are arranged the various farm buildings. This outdoor space is used for feasts and celebrations, as well as day to day activites. Tuesday, November 21. 4: The Tun, Functionalists, and Glaciers. Double Tun: This tun type is characterized by a closed yard surrounded by the buildings for human occupation, stue, loft, cook house, and a smaller open tun occupied by the brea and supporting buildings. These tun typ...
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tun: December 2006
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The tun is the central outdoor living space of the traditional Norwegian farm. Around the tun are arranged the various farm buildings. This outdoor space is used for feasts and celebrations, as well as day to day activites. Tuesday, December 26. 5: Log construction and the Pavilion of the Nordic Nations. Log construction of the Farm House of the Middle Ages. The roof itself is predominantly a system of sod roofs. Beams span the distance between the walls. These beams hold purlins, which were spre...Poste...
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tun: March 2007
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The tun is the central outdoor living space of the traditional Norwegian farm. Around the tun are arranged the various farm buildings. This outdoor space is used for feasts and celebrations, as well as day to day activites. Wednesday, March 21. As a formative exercise the investigation has been invaluable. I believe that the vernacular has a lot to tell us about the way in which we dwell in this world. And I believe we can dwell in a better way and that architecture can help us do that.
