TYPOLOGY / interfaith space / trans-religious space
LOCATION / Gløshaugen, Trondheim, Norway
DATE / mar. 2025 / 2.5 weeks
STATUS / academic work at ntnu, semester 8, 3houses
KEYWORDS / meeting of landscape and urban plateau, sequence of space, public and intimacy, sacred, light
NTNU today gathers students, researchers, and staff from all over the world. Like many universities, it is becoming increasingly multicultural; a community shaped by diverse cultures, beliefs, and traditions. Out of this diversity arises the need for a religion-neutral space: a place for tranquility, reflection, meditation, and ceremony. A space for tolerance and respect—equally welcoming to all, whether Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, atheist, or of any other faith.
The procject creates a transition between the urban platau and the valley landscape. A two directional space making a transition from the urban to the sacred. A space that gradually transition from the public to the introverted, being in a garden, on a platau, between walls, under a roof, or sheltered from the cold.
Constructed from reused brick walls and a contemporary timber structure crafted with traditional joinery, the building bridges past and present. Its simplicity invites contemplation. Between Walls becomes not a temple of one faith, but a shared sanctuary for all.
