Oslofjord Convention Center
Langeskjærveien 7
The beach promenade
The beach promenade
Location
Tjuvholmen, Oslo
Size
19,300m²
Principal
Aspelin Ramm/Selvaag
Year
2009
The building's facade varies in expression depending on which side it faces: facing Olav Selvaags Plass, it is small-scale and intimate, with a light and transparent quality, and is intended to appear withdrawn when viewed against the dominant tall corner building. Facing the Oslo Fjord and the park area, the building has a solid and precisely designed outdoor area to give residents a respite from city life. The building is located between the new canals that cross Tjuvholmen, Tjuvholmen Allé, Lille Stranden and Promenade (which faces Akershus Fortress). The building consists of three elements (see plan): building 31 (facing north), building 32 (facing Olav Selvaags Plass), building 33 (facing south) and building 34 (facing southeast). Grepet aims to create buildings that do not seem heavy, but which take into account the fact that the buildings are surrounded by water. It has therefore been chosen to mainly use "light" materials such as glass, metal cladding and fibre-cement panels, while "heavy" materials are limited to the plinth floor of the buildings. In this way, the transition between Aker Brygge's stone and brick facades and the lighter expression planned for the rest of Tjuvholmen is communicated. Where the facades open onto balconies, colored wooden slats are used to give these sitting areas a warm quality. Building 32 has bright facades with transparent glass panels with screen printing and corrugated metal cladding facing Olav Selvaags Plass and Akershus Fortress. Houses 31 and 34 have colored, perforated steel sheets to create a varied play with light, depending on the direction of the sun. Building 31 has a dark tone, while building 34 is somewhat lighter.
The first floor contains business premises with separate entrances. There are three entrances to the residential areas, one to the office, as well as a public passage that starts at the level of Olav Selvaags Plass (c+4.3) and rises gently towards the center of the building (c+3.4). This creates a line of sight from the square, through the area and out towards the fjord. Being raised in the middle also makes it light and open to walk along.
The central part of the building through which the passage passes is raised on tall, slender columns towards Olav Selvaags Plass. The passage is large and open, and the facade is mostly transparent to let light through the building from the southeast and into Olav Selvaags Plass, as well as providing a view from the square out over the fjord and the open sky. This helps to give the square an open and airy quality.
An archway has been built along the canal. This and the deck inside are lowered to c+1.6 to create contact between the water and the building. The ground level facing the promenade (facing Akershus fortress) and Tjuvholmen Allé has been lowered so that they meet the floor level inside the building. Cafes and restaurants have been set up in the areas facing the canals and the promenade. There is also an archway on the first floor along the facade facing Tjuvholmen Allé, where the two lowest floors facing Olav Selvaags Plass and along the Promenade are set back from the floors above.
Buildings 31, 32 and 33 are connected from the first floor up to the eighth floor, while building 34 stands alone to the southeast. Between buildings 31, 32, 33 and 34, a horseshoe-shaped outdoor area faces the fjord. On the first floor of this area there is a private garden for the residents. On the upper floors, many of the apartments have views towards this area and over the fjord. It is planned that this area will be lushly planted, with vegetation climbing up the walls in this area.
The first floor contains a large common entrance hall for the residents, with direct access to the private communal garden. The entrance hall contains common facilities such as a function room, lounge with fireplace, meeting room, gym, kitchen and dining area as well as service functions. Two of the building's main staircases and lift cores are accessed from this area.
The main entrance to the apartments in buildings 31, 32 and 33 is from Olav Selvaags Plass, via a staircase from the public passage up to the garden, from which the entrance hall is reached. Building 34 has an entrance through an entrance hall on the Promenade. The first floor consists primarily of offices and apartments.
From the second to the ninth floor there are apartments. The horseshoe-shaped outdoor area facing the fjord has a clear formal division on the fifth floor. It is formed with curved balconies up to the fifth floor, and then with a more rectangular facade treatment from the fifth to the eighth floor.
To let light down to Olav Selvaags Plass, the middle part of the building has been pulled back above the sixth floor, and the top floor in this area consists of a free-standing glass cube. These contain duplex apartments. Building 31, which is closest to Aker Brygge, extends up to 8 floors with a somewhat secluded common area with a roof terrace on the eighth floor. Building 33 extends up to 9 floors, but building 34 stops at 8 floors.
In addition to the shared roof terrace, there are several private roof gardens on levels 8 and 9.
The total floor area is approximately 19,300 m².
Channel 5
Channel 5
Location
Tjuvholmen, Oslo
Size
9,200m²
Principal
Aspelin Ramm/Selvaag
Year
2010
Tjuvholmen zone 1 south is a quarter consisting of a perpendicular L-shaped building and the oval-shaped building facing the sea. Shape. The oval-shaped building is designed with a total of 11 floors where the two lowest floors are set back. The building's proportions, height and width are adapted to the exposed location. Round concrete pillars outside the air-conditioned areas on levels 1 and 2 support the entire residential rotunda from levels 3 to 11, and the main form collars out in this direction over the water and parts of the seafront. Plan 11 has been pulled back and given an orthogonal geometry that ends the building's shape towards the sky.
The building's design gives a wide view towards the sea and the sky from all areas. The clear shape helps to give the building identity - creating a signature for Tjuvholmen from a distance.
Features.
Al fresco dining on level 1, office on the 2nd floor, and levels 3 and above are comprised of 92 apartments of varying sizes. The area between the two buildings in this quarter is accessible from Tjuvholmen Allé through a slit in the L-shaped building as well as along the jetty and the quay. This helps mingling between the buildings where outdoor serving is arranged and the adventure of wandering along the water's edge.
Tjuvholmen Masterplan
Location
Oslo
Size
83,000m²
Principal
Tjuvholmen KS
Year
Master Plan Design 2005
When the task is to draw a master plan for a new district on a newly completed land area in a port, one is not limited by the city's street structure. When designing the streets and squares on Tjuvholmen, the focus was on sunlight, views and giving the users of the new urban space a sensory experience. This new district has maximum exposure to the Oslo Fjord, with two kilometers of varied paths along the quays. The canal, Filipstad and the beach zone by the park can be perceived as water areas. A hierarchy of streets and walkways has been created, from wide avenues to narrow alleys. The new, created spaces are carefully adapted to avoid being too large or barren. The buildings are of moderate height, so that the city's natural hilly landscape retains its dominant role.
Projects: F1 north: offices, restaurant, shops 15,000 m² 2009, F3: Residential, offices, shops, 19,300 m² 2009, F1 south: Residential, offices, restaurant, 9,200 m², 2010
Volcano - Oslo
Location
Volcano, Oslo
Size
9,400m²
Client
Aspelin Ramm v/Vulkan Eiendom
Recognition
Concrete Panel Prize 2012, City Prize 2012
Built
2011
The project comprises a hotel, artist's apartments, office and with a mixture of workshops and bars and eateries in a bazaar-like structure at the lower street level along the main Aker River running through the heart of Oslo.
The building aims to negotiate a transition through steep terrain between the main road, "the floor of the town", and the planned cultural square in and around the old industrial buildings along the riverside.
The compact hotel accommodates 130 rooms, a bar and a 100-seat restaurant with views of the river.
The commercial floors are intended to serve as local offices and studios.
The lower level spaces are intended for use as workshops for local artists and various eateries and bars with the tables of a large café/restaurant spilling out onto the square to form a focal point at lower street level.
There are also planned apartments, duplexes and studios in the 4 floors of the smaller block-like structures
The primary challenge was to create a mediator for the existing dominant 1940s blocks at upper ground level and the attractive brick and steel industrial riverside buildings from the turn of the 1890s without extinguishing either. The hotel starts roadside at its highest point, and steps gradually downwards towards the river in a controlled manner that offers greater views and light to the existing buildings than the regulated site lines would have allowed without affecting the maximum area.
The project forms a dramatic ending to the long façade of the existing 40's blocks at upper street level creating a portal to the cultural square.
The building's gentle curving motion envelopes and provides a stable backdrop to both the existing buildings and the planned cultural square.
The structure is primarily steel with concrete slabs, clad with cement fiber board cladding and render.
The roof of the overbuilt area between the existing 1940s blocks and the new scheme forms an attractive communal garden. At the northern end a planted terracing opens the restaurant and reception to the communal garden.
Hundsund
Hundsund
Location
Hundsund, Bærum
Principal
Forneby Development
Year
2009
This property is located between Hundsund and Koksabukta. With its proximity to the Oslo Fjord and the city, it is blessed with the natural qualities of sun, views and atmosphere. The gabled houses extend towards the pond, which imitates the old coastline and emphasizes a closeness to the sea. By using dark wood paneling and large open sections, they have a north-south orientation, which gives lots of sun and nice views - even further into the area where whitewashed houses are sprinkled with signal colours. The urban villas were given very flexible floor plans and are positioned like dots in the middle of the building development.
The apartments open in three directions. The terraced houses have rooms connected to a central stairwell which adds quality to all floors. The curved building is expressively shaped, which promotes an irregular floor plan solution that offers different qualities on all sides of the building. Together with the townhouses, the curved building creates an outdoor space that faces the northwest and the town villas.
Kilen Brygge
Langviksveien 18
Langviksveien 18
Location
Oslo, Norway
Size
3,500 m²
Client
The quarter
Built
2005
Holmenveien 36
Holmenveien 36
Location
Holmenveien 36, Oslo
Size
4000m²
Built
2004
To adapt to the neighbourhood, the villa character, the nine apartments are situated in three apartment houses with different volumes and varied facade compositions.
The establishment is tied together by an underground parking area with access to all the flats.
The site plan is built up around a common square and an inside garden with a playground. The square is facing west.
The houses are two floors high plus a partially pulled in top floor.
The apartments vary in size from 232 m² to 277 m² BRA.
All apartments are lit through by daylight and have their own outdoor area as a terrace on the ground, balcony or roof terrace, as well as the common square and garden. The garage establishment and individual storage rooms are in the basement.
The two houses along Holmenveien are given different surfaces and cornice heights to tone down the volume. The sloping roof on the third house is laying like a background on the inner square and contributes to tone down the size of the establishment seen from the road. Towards the west large launched balconies, sheltering roofs and terrain walls distinguish the houses and tones down the scale from the distance.
The facades consist of four main materials; a light thin layer of colored render matching the mortar applied over the face of the buff brickwork but allowing the brick to show through. Dry masonry wreckage slate, oiled oak with varying widths and painted plates with furring strips in front.
The sloping roof is clad with rectangular Alta slate.
The pulled in top floor is clad with plates in a dark gray color combined with horizontal furring strips.