WWOOF farm Flatberget explores the possibilities of reactivating an abandoned farm in Dalarna through farming and traditional log building techniques. This subject is explored through a 1:1 investigation into traditional Swedish and Finnish log construction, as well as through an architectural plan for a volunteer program as a part of the international network WWOOF (world wide opportunities on organic farms). Flatberget (the flat mountain) is an old abandoned farm founded by finnish migrants in the 1700s and is considered an important part of the cultural heritage of Dalarna. The area is slowly being depopulated and jobs have disappeared. To investigate ways of “reviving” the area, the project proposes a volunteer farm where the purpose is teaching farming and traditional log building to people from all over the world. An important part of the project’s methodology is physically testing traditional log construction on the site from cutting down trees to building fieldstone foundations and cutting joints in the logs using traditional tools. To preserve the cultural identity of the site the spaces proposed are reusing old farm buildings on site and constructing with the environmentally friendly log building technique as well as reused materials. The outcome of the project is an architectural plan for this one farm, as well as a proposition of a program for farming and log building workshops that could be implemented on several similar sites, once again making farms like these places of work, collaboration and learning.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-184339 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Roobol, Benjamin |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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