Austigard Arkitektur

House in Stavanger

HOUSE IN STAVANGER

Austigard Arkitektur

House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey+Austigard Arkitektur

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Austigard Arkitektur

VENEER SHEETS
Oslo Finerfabrikk

MANUFACTURER
Oslo Finerfabrikk

DESIGN TEAM
Tor O. Austigard, Hildegunn Slotnæs

PHOTOGRAPHS
Ivan Brodey, Ivan Brodey+austigard Arkitektur

AREA
80.0 m2

YEAR
2015

LOCATION
Stavanger, Norway

CATEGORY
Houses

House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey+Austigard Arkitektur

Text description provided by architect.

The interior spaces are sculpted to form a varied sequence of spaces, with emphasis on the changes between light and dark spaces as well as between open and intimate spaces.

In a small house it is also important to pay attention to all the small “bonus” spaces, such as window sills for sitting in.

House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey+Austigard Arkitektur
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey+Austigard Arkitektur

The interior is all wood, ranging from dark pine floors to light beech walls.

The house has utilized regular building methods easily available, and despite its is high material and spatial quality it is completed at a normal building cost.

Nordic cities have a long tradition of building austere, small, wooden houses, packed together in tight communities with building densities that match even today’s modern metropolises.

House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey+Austigard Arkitektur

Especially in coastal Norwegian towns, where this house is situated, resources have been scarce, and this way of building has for centuries been maximizing energy efficiency, access to daylight as well as controlling small-scale outdoor local climate in a harsh climate.

However, the past half-century has seen the Nordic countries shifting its mainstream housing production to, on the one side, detached houses on large plots in suburbia, and on the other side, large-scale housing schemes.

House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey+Austigard Arkitektur
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey

Judging from a half-century of experience, none of these two go well with climatic requirements or community building, which the Nordic society and welfare state is reliant on.

This calls for a revival of the small-scale, high-density, Nordic urban house typology.

In the town of Stavanger, this house alone has attracted a lot of attention, and is now spurring a revitalized focus on this typology, in politicians, bureaucrats and developers.

House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey


House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey+Austigard Arkitektur
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey+Austigard Arkitektur


House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey+Austigard Arkitektur
House in Stavanger
© Ivan Brodey


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Austigard Arkitektur
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Austigard Arkitektur
Pedersgata 8, 4013 Stavanger, Norway