Kvarteret Plankan is a 25.000 m2 residential quarter in Stockholm built in 1966. It contains 341 apartments and has a large, rectangular courtyard. In this courtyard, a second, round building is now under construction.
For a period between spring 2018 and until access to the area was denied because of the start of construction, Image as Site explored the courtyard of Kvarteret Plankan through a series of iterative field-recordings relating to the idea of a circle versus a rectangle.
The investigations were triggered by the fact that, after years of battle against the municipality of Stockholm, the residents of Kvarteret Plankan lost their final appeal and the awaiting investors could start the construction of their long planned circular building situated on pillars inside the large rectangular court. The new building, two stories taller than the existing ones, will contain 119 apartments. The existing building will also be expanded vertically with two full floors.
The process has been filled with conflict and, due to inflation and increased building costs, the building is delayed and partly cancelled.
After several visits during this research period, Trond Lossius created a composition for Plankan.
29th of May, 2018
Studies of various drone movements in relation to Plankan.
Ashley Briggs, Ellen Røed, Robin Hedström.
28th of October, 2018
Sound studies Trond Lossius.
Visual studies (suspended dual rig) Ashley Briggs, Ellen Røed
24th of November, 2018
Day time and night time sound and video studies based through archive material Luigi Nono (dual rig on shoulder).
Ellen Røed and Bjørnar Habbestad.
Part of project Unarchiving Nono