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Rundeskogen / Helen & Hard + dRMM

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Architects

Helen & Hard, dRMM

Location

Rudskogen, Norway

Helen & Hard Team

Siv Helene Stangeland, Reinhard Kropf, Njål Undheim, Ane Dahl, Randi Augenstein,Nadine Engberding

dRMM Team

Alex de Rijke, Mirko Immendorfer, Jonas Lencer, Saskia, Koopmann, Junko Yanagsawa,Satoshi Isono

Area

14250.0 sqm

Project Year

2013

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Manufacturers

Trespa

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From the architect. Rundeskogen is a wooded hill connecting three city centres on the west coast of Norway.

Single-family houses and small-scale housing projects dominate this region, creating a context that accentuates theexceptional height and volume of the project. The density and concentration of the project was developed to keep arequired distance from a recently discovered Viking grave on the same hillside.

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Site Plan

The three towers contain 113 units in total, ranging from 60m2 to 140m2, with the highest tower reaching 15 stories.The core construction is concrete while secondary parts are made from timber framework. Originally the threetowers where designed as timber constructions. Due to the client’s desire to build in a more conventional way, thissolution was replaced with hybrid concrete/timber.

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The emphasis has been balancing the tall building typology with generous and attractive public green spaces on theground. To minimize the footprint of the three towers and retain a view of the fjord for neighbours, the first apartmentfloors have been lifted off the ground, cantilevering from the core. This creates covered outdoor spaces on groundlevel.

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The organizing element of the entire project is a star-shaped core structure of concrete, in which the fins areextended as separation walls between the flats. The prismatic shape of the plan is derived from optimizing the floorplans according to views and sun as well as the creation of diagonal views in between and around the towers. Thislayout gives special volumetric qualities - letting the light and shade gradually shift around the facades, an effectwhich is further emphasized by the triangular panels that reflect the light differently as one moves past the building.On the ground floor, the fins and bracing elements of this stem-like core spread out as roots which integrate socialmeeting places, play and training facilities, generous entrance halls and communal gathering spaces.

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Internally, each apartment has an integrated winter-garden, which has fully insulated glass facades allowing forflexible, year-round use. Other environmental features that are added include; solar collectors on the roof, heatrecovery from grey water and ground source heat pumps that provide heating.

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Floor Plan

Every apartment was purchased with a complementary bike and the owners given their own fruit tree in thelandscaped site.

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