Studio: Omegarender
Designer / Architect: Omegarender
Personal / Commissioned: Personal Project
Location: - Norway
TYPOLOGY: Exterior
STATUS: Concept Design
LOCATION: Sunnmøre Alps, Western Norway
VISUALIZATION: Omegarender
COMPLETION TIME: 3 weeks
DIVIDE AXIS does not sit on top of the ridge; instead it splits the ridge. A single piece of concrete is inserted along the line of the mountain creating a controlled crack within the mountain. What looks like a triangular shape is actually a cut through the thickness of the mountain not something added to the surface.
The project is built around one passage that runs through it. This internal corridor makes movement between two large planes feel compressed with no escape to the sides making you focus on moving The view of the landscape is not shown gradually; it is hidden, then revealed at points along the way.
From the outside the structure looks like a rock formation that doesn’t react to its surroundings. Its surfaces do not have any openings refusing to engage with whats around it. Only the cut, which is a continuous opening shows what the project is really about. The ridge is no longer a path to walk on; it becomes a thick part to move through.
DIVIDE AXIS turns a boundary into a space, to inhabit, where the act of moving is defined not by where you are going but by the act of dividing the space itself.
