Add To Collection
Add to Collection
V-House, Oslo
V-House, Oslo
Oslo, Norway
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
View Original
Add To Collection
Add to Collection
Other Projects by Space Group Architects
V-House, Oslo
Oslo, Norway
(Houens Fund Diploma jury’s statement 2012):
V-House was designed for a client who wanted something different than a
conventional home. The clients were looking to develop a house that would
affect their lives and create opportunity for a different lifestyle in a close
contact between outside and inside.
The site is located on Nesøya in Asker in a terrain that slopes steeply down
to a private beach in the north. The desire for a house with lots of light and
proximity to the surrounding landscape was a challenge in relation to the
extreme topography, and characterize the villa's radical design.
Built as two different landscapes with a connecting "gap" that
serves as both entrance and lets the light flow into the building from the
south.
Lower level is a concrete landscape that “sets the building” in the terrain
with views of the fjord in the north. This level contains a parking space,
access area, a large "living room", a soundproof "experimental
space" (for music, meetings, film, computers, etc. ..) and a private
section with bedroom wrapped in a massive sinus curved wood façade.
The upper 'landscape' is a steel structure which first covers a large open
kitchen, and then fold down the middle and turns into the floor of the terrace,
and finally rolling up and become the side wall of a library that opens into
the garden.
This creates the framework for an unconventional, unique villa organized
with overlapping spaces, or "action areas", through the use of the
"free-section". The house is a stage for a modern life with freedom
of choice, undefined boundaries, continuity between the exterior to the
interior, light and darkness and a constant and intimate interaction with
nature.
Construction and detailing is elegant, precise and carefully thought out,
but never over explained. The roof consists of steel cassettes spanning through
large flexible column-free main space and resting only on a few points of the
plan. The villa's use of visible steel structures and visible painted steel in
the roof and walls are distinctive and gives the building a rough but accurate
touch.
Despite the luxurious villa's programming and use of space, the villa
appears very well adapted to the site. The landscape approach reduces the
villa almost to a "modest" intervention in a context where many
villas for comparison can be seen as "flamboyant". The villa stands
therefore as an example in its genre.
The building represents a significant innovation in architectural concepts
in home design, and the villa provides a space of high architectural level that
brings new perspectives into the architectural debate.
The project has previously been awarded both the Norwegian Steel
Construction Price and the European Steel Design Award, both in 2005.
V-House was designed for a client who wanted something different than a
conventional home. The clients were looking to develop a house that would
affect their lives and create opportunity for a different lifestyle in a close
contact between outside and inside.
The site is located on Nesøya in Asker in a terrain that slopes steeply down
to a private beach in the north. The desire for a house with lots of light and
proximity to the surrounding landscape was a challenge in relation to the
extreme topography, and characterize the villa's radical design.
Built as two different landscapes with a connecting "gap" that
serves as both entrance and lets the light flow into the building from the
south.
Lower level is a concrete landscape that “sets the building” in the terrain
with views of the fjord in the north. This level contains a parking space,
access area, a large "living room", a soundproof "experimental
space" (for music, meetings, film, computers, etc. ..) and a private
section with bedroom wrapped in a massive sinus curved wood façade.
The upper 'landscape' is a steel structure which first covers a large open
kitchen, and then fold down the middle and turns into the floor of the terrace,
and finally rolling up and become the side wall of a library that opens into
the garden.
This creates the framework for an unconventional, unique villa organized
with overlapping spaces, or "action areas", through the use of the
"free-section". The house is a stage for a modern life with freedom
of choice, undefined boundaries, continuity between the exterior to the
interior, light and darkness and a constant and intimate interaction with
nature.
Construction and detailing is elegant, precise and carefully thought out,
but never over explained. The roof consists of steel cassettes spanning through
large flexible column-free main space and resting only on a few points of the
plan. The villa's use of visible steel structures and visible painted steel in
the roof and walls are distinctive and gives the building a rough but accurate
touch.
Despite the luxurious villa's programming and use of space, the villa
appears very well adapted to the site. The landscape approach reduces the
villa almost to a "modest" intervention in a context where many
villas for comparison can be seen as "flamboyant". The villa stands
therefore as an example in its genre.
The building represents a significant innovation in architectural concepts
in home design, and the villa provides a space of high architectural level that
brings new perspectives into the architectural debate.
The project has previously been awarded both the Norwegian Steel
Construction Price and the European Steel Design Award, both in 2005.
Product Spec Sheet
Were your products used?
Join as a manufacturer to add your products.