Natural Surroundings
The care centre is placed in beautiful surroundings and the building is carefully nestled into the landscape to maximize the orientation and access to the surrounding lakes and rivers. The building is organised around a central shared facility with arms meandering into the landscape creating several intimate garden openings into the surrounding landscape.
Natural Surroundings
The care centre is placed in beautiful surroundings and the building is carefully nestled into the landscape to maximize the orientation and access to the surrounding lakes and rivers. The building is organised around a central shared facility with arms meandering into the landscape creating several intimate garden openings into the surrounding landscape.
Human Scale
To emphasize the community scale of the housing units the clusters are shifted and rotated to create variations and spatial sequences both inside and outside. The roofs are inspired by the surrounding context with pitched roofs that gives associations to residences and the sense of ‘home’. They are oriented in two different directions giving an intimate and varied housing community in harmony with its surroundings.
Human Scale
To emphasize the community scale of the housing units the clusters are shifted and rotated to create variations and spatial sequences both inside and outside. The roofs are inspired by the surrounding context with pitched roofs that gives associations to residences and the sense of ‘home’. They are oriented in two different directions giving an intimate and varied housing community in harmony with its surroundings.
Community Scales
Going from institutions to community housing, the scaling is also reflected in the spatial organisation and organisation of clusters. Here each house represents one group of residents organised around a common living room shared between two houses, creating a house with several community scales from the private, living room to the shared functions in the main house.
Community Scales
Going from institutions to community housing, the scaling is also reflected in the spatial organisation and organisation of clusters. Here each house represents one group of residents organised around a common living room shared between two houses, creating a house with several community scales from the private, living room to the shared functions in the main house.
Biomaterials
The load-bearing elements, cladding, and indoor interior are all made of wood. Besides its sustainable qualities, the wood gives a warm and intimate living quality with a good indoor climate and beautiful and pleasant surfaces to live in.
Biomaterials
The load-bearing elements, cladding, and indoor interior are all made of wood. Besides its sustainable qualities, the wood gives a warm and intimate living quality with a good indoor climate and beautiful and pleasant surfaces to live in.
| Program: | Elderly Housing |
| Size: | 4200 m2 |
| Location: | Kvernaland, Norway |
| Client: | Time Municpality |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Type: | Invited competition |
| Collaborators: | Asplan Viak |
| Status: | Completed |
| Team JAJA: | Jakob S. Christensen, Jan Tanaka, Kathrin Gimmel, Ingvild Roalsø, Inger Marit Skogstad |