Trehus

Oslo Architecture Triennale, 2022

What do we expect of the places we share? How are we placed - as bodies and as communities - in our built environment? The work Trehus, initiated by art collective SKAUS (Håvard Sagen, Mari Kolbeinson and Markus Bråten) with Pippa Mott experiments with hierarchies of public space.

A temporary structure, Trehus frames a linden tree by the entrance of the Old Munch Museum: embracing a natural component of the urban landscape and elevating it to a place of sanctuary and stewardship. The spatial design and architectural concept, developed by architect studio Eladio Ramm orchestrates an intimate experience. Sound artist Yngvild Færøy contributes with two soundworks that emphasize the vitality and vulnerability of the city's biotic dimension, highlighting human-plant relationships. Wind chimes made by The Climate House youth program participants decorate the linden tree’s boughs and branches.

The collaboration demonstrates a shared interest in architectural and artistic interventions that explores the sensory and the conscious use of shared spaces, and the cultivation of community.