This is our own personal project. We bought this site ourselves in order to create experimental architecture. The constant question for young architects was how to find clients willing to take a chance on enthusiastic architects with little experience? When we first started our firm, instead of going and looking for clients we went looking for a possible site to build an experimental structure. In this way we could pursue our architectural vision in line with our convictions: no compromises, original, and respecting the Norwegian landscape that we live in. Once we made such a project, we knew that it would be easier to find and convince clients that we are competent architects through this use of a real life building as opposed to paper visions of architecture so common among young architects.
The architecture of this new crematorium seeks to meet both the functional and emotional needs of cremations. This involves creating spaces with dignity for relatives who choose to follow the deceased until the cremation. It also means creating spaces of dignity for the staff that confirms the importance of their work. The crematorium has a relatively high degree of transparency and visibility, to create a good workspace and to make the crematorium a reference for the people in the region.
In 2010 Point Supreme Architects, Alexandros Gerousis and Beth Hughes won the Europan 10 Competition for Trondheim Norway. The second phase of the concept design has just been completed and preparations for the next phases have already started. This will be the second Europan project to be realised in Trondheim.
Concept
The proposed urban configuration of the new Deichmanske Main Library capitalizes on the site’s morphologic potential. The site is centrally and prominently located between existing and up-and-coming cultural institutions. Positioned between the waterfront and the Oslo Fjord, the new library’s compact program has been divided into a number of volumes – ‘solitaries’ – that have been evenly dispersed throughout the site.
Exterior perspective - city
Architects: Wiel Arets Architects
Location (address): Oslor, Norway
Project team: Wiel Arets, Bettina Kraus, Jos Beekhuijzen, Jochem Homminga
Collaborators: Tobias Gehrke, Julius Klatte, Miguel Valerio, Cindy Wouters
Model: Werk 5, Berlin
Client: HAV Eindeom AS; Cultural Affairs of Oslo Municipality, Deichmanske Main Library
Consultants: Huygen INstallatieadviseurs bv (Maastricht, the Netherlands)
Software used: Drawn using Vectorworks and renderings are created using Photoshop
The site is a small square in Langgata in the center of Sandnes. With approximately 60,000 inhabitants, Sandnes is half the size of its close neighbor Stavanger. The two cities were the cultural capital of Europe 2008. Langgata is the heart of the older part of the town, and the traditional area for shopping and a Saturday stroll.
During the last decades the city center has moved towards the sea front, into the former industrial areas along the harbor. Langgata is now in competition with the sea front area and its indoor shopping center.
Hamar Police Station, located 120km north of Oslo, was completed in 2009. The project is a result of a competition scheme won by Filter and LPO (in collaboration). The Police Station is the HQ of Hedmark Police District, which is the second largest police district of 27 districts in Norway.
The main idea of the project is to create a place of sports and activities, where the qualities of the magnificent surrounding landscape will merge with the bourgeoning urban live of the town of Ulsteinvik.
With the completion of the foundations up to basement level, the construction of the main building of the new DnB NOR headquarters in Norway, has entered its main phase. The new headquarter cluster with a total surface of 80,000m2, is developed by the Norwegian Oslo S Utvikling (OSU), and its central building, designed by MVRDV with 17 floors and a surface of 36,500m2, is due to be completed in 2012. The pixelated design adapts to the urban context and combines an efficient and flexible internal organisation, based on small-scale working entities, with a variety of specific communal spaces, a sheltered public passage and respect for urban view lines.
Program : 2000 flexible work spaces, trading floor with 250 work stations, boardroom and executive lounge, meeting lounge, panoramic restaurant, sheltered arcade and public passage.
Size : 36.500 m2 building and 3.000 m2 concourse
Building costs
Initial building costs : withheldTender
phase estimate : withheld
Final building costs) : withheld
Design team information
Design : MVRDV
Design team : Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries with Jeroen Zuidgeest, Merlijn Huijbers, Aser Giménez-Ortega, Ida Ruth Mathisen, Marin Kulas, Bart Milon, Jeanne Despas, Gerd Wertzel, Billy Guidoni, Francesco Pasquale, Paul Kroese, Joanna Gasparski, Chris Green, Richard Prest, Jonathan Louie, Marta Gierczynska
Jåttå Vocational School is designed as a small ‘town within the city’ featuring a vibrant double-high central street surrounded by individual ‘urban quarters’, each with their own teaching environments and lecture rooms.
Architects: Henning Larsen Architects
Location: Stavanger, Norway
Client: Municpality of Rogaland
Gross floor area: 16,000 m2
Year of construction: 2005 – 2007
Type of assignment: First prize in international competition, 2000
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