Jarmund / Vigsnæs, AS Arkitekter MNAL

Edge House

Edge House
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EDGE HOUSE 

JVA

ARCHITECTS
JVA

AREA
160.0 m2

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Kolbotn, Norway

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

The Edge House is located at Kolbotn, a suburb south of Oslo.

Edge House
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Edge House
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The client, a young couple, asked for a spectacular house on a limited budget.

They had purchased a challenging site with 8 meters height difference from the access road to a plateau, and they wanted a house that "looked like you could shoot a James Bond movie in it".

To save the plateau, the building was pushed towards the eastern perimeter of the site, suspended above the slope on slender steel columns.

Edge House
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Edge House
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The entrance stair rises along the slope through the house up to the plateau.

This strategy avoids costly blasting, hiding the technical connections in the stair.

Edge House
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Edge House
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It saves at the same time the existing characteristics of the site, creating a dramatic interplay between volume and site.

The entrance condition and the experience from the inside attempts to underline this interplay.

The compact interior is horizontally organized around the cut for the entrance stair. Bedrooms and bathrooms are effectively organized along a corridor.

Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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The main structure is steel, with a polished concrete floor slab.

The interior is clad in Birch plywood, the exterior in naturally colored fiber cement boards.

Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House
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Edge House


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Edge House


Edge House
Edge House

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