All'opposto. Due interventi sulle rovine di Hamar (Norvegia)

Starting from the second half of the XXth century, the area located on the Domkirkeodden cape in Norway was the subject of various interventions in order to protect the exposed archaeological remains. The most famous of these interventions is the new museum (1967-1979) designed by Sverre Fehn. Equally interesting but definitely less investigated by the critics are the two pavilions that Fehn designed between 2001 and 2005. The paper focuses on these two pavilions in “opposition” to the later project that, at the end of the ’90, the Norwegian studio Lund & Slaatto has realized to protect the remains of the nearby Medieval cathedral. The relation with history, the materials and the role attributed to the protective roof make these two case studies emblematic to understand the paths that Fehn’s architectural poetry followed.