64 - GROUP 2 Trondheim Cityscape: Preservation of the City Identity Bartolucci B., Grabner C., Kocabas E., Parracha J., Trujillo Cabrera L. [INTRODUCTION] Norway has the world’s second largest shoreline, and the sea has been the most important communication system all through Norwegian history. In fact, there is a strong interaction with the landscape, climate conditions, nature resources, and traditional communication systems in the development of the Norway built environment. The ship building technology was extensively developed by the Norwegians and fishery has been a major industry in Norway, i.e., stockfish and klippfish (dried and salted cod) industry has been paramount for the economy. Therefore, most of the Norwegian historic buildings are associated with the sea, which had an important role in the construction of the Norwegian built heritage. Wood has been the most important construction material in Norway since Viking times. In the medieval time, wood building technology was developed to a very sophisticated level, enabling the best buildings to survive up to our time. The construction systems and technologies have later been developed in different regions considering the availability of materials and other local conditions (e.g., coastal buildings have had to adapt to harsh coastal climate such as strong winds, rain and high humidity). Timber buildings proved to be very suitable facing harsh climatic conditions and adapting to the functional needs of Norwegian society. In this report we examine the importance of the preservation of the city identity, especially considering the most iconic Trondheim buildings (i.e., warehouses and Nidaros cathedral) and their relative importance on the preservation of the city landscape. We also present herein some solutions towards the maintenance and preservation of the buildings and the city identity. [THE WAREHOUSES] In Mid-Norway there is Trondheim, the largest city of the country and the most important trading port for the region. The river harbour has always offered a safe port where the first urban settlement was located. The city consists almost entirely of timber buildings, often ravaged by fires, like that of 1681. Interventions can be done in the warehouses as long as their identity can be preserved. With identity we mean their colour, symmetry, cladding, form and different roof shapes, the pile foundation, the traditional log constructions, the flatbrygge along the water, the location and the use. From a visual and social point of view, the warehouses represent an identifiable “city-scape”, with cultural and aesthetic heritage value of national importance. By tradition, Norwegian houses used to be coloured either red, white, or yellow. The colours chosen by the owners of the house would signify their financial status. So, depending on the profession, social status, and location, houses would be
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