Jensen & Skodvin, AS

Tautra Monastery

TAUTRA MONASTERY

Jensen & Skodvin Architects

Tautra Monastery
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AREA
2000.0 m2

YEAR
2006

LOCATION
Midsund, Norway

CATEGORY
Monastery

Tautra Monastery
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Text description provided by architect.

The project is situated on Tautra island in Trondheimsfjorden.

It is a new monastery for 18 nuns, complete with a small church and all the facilities needed to make a living, as areas for production and so on.

Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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The original programme has been reduced with around 30% by eliminating almost all the corridors in the project.

This has been possible by analyzing the way the monastery works. 

Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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Usually all the nuns are assembled together when in one of the four important rooms.

That means these rooms can also act as "corridors" and traffic area.

Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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Most of the rooms occur only once and have very different requirements.

This also implies that there is need for both some architectural freedom for each room, and for daylight to each room as the main layout is horizontal.

Therefore the project consists of a system of different sized rooms that are connected in the corners and have courts between them, all together seven gardens.

Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
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Tautra Monastery
Second Floor
Tautra Monastery


Tautra Monastery
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