The legalisation proces of Christiania has Kafkaesque effects when it comes to getting a planning permission. What used to be an informal – but still necessary – process has now turned into a complicated process in which the unique culture of building on Christiania is suffering.
Based on the feedback from the users and local youth the CRIR board work on some overall principles for a new CRIR house – we called them the 5 obstructions: not really a programme or a plan but…
CRIR user workshop and feedback
We asked the the users – artists and researchers – of the CRIR house about how they have experienced the existing house and how they could imagine and new CRIR house.
Kids workshop
To kick off the discussion of how a new CRI house should look and work we invited kids/youth from the nearby youth club to give us their reaction to the existing house and some ideas for the new house.
Existing house – analysis
Existing house and landscape
The history of the CRIR house
The existing CRIR house is a result of a number of offshoots: Each of them linked to both the landscape and the political situation but especially the community of Christiania and the people who would live in the house.
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NewCRIRhouse 