Austigard Arkitektur

ABC Street House

ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen

ABC STREET HOUSE

Austigard Arkitektur

LOCATION
Stavanger, Norway

ARCHITECTS
Austigard Arkitektur

CATEGORY
Houses Interiors

PHOTOGRAPHS
Sindre Ellingsen, Aeroview

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Tor O. Austigard, Hildegunn Slotnæs, Hanna Kurlovich

AREA
90.0 m2

CONTRACTOR
Haga Bolig

PROJECT YEAR
2019

MANUFACTURERS
Bergene Holm AS, Ikea, Jeld-Wen, Kebony, Nordan, Hafrsfjord Tre, Kebony + Bergene Holm, Konkret Studios, Parketten, Ulfven

Text description provided by architect.

The house is an infill project, utilizing an empty lot in the dense urban fabric of the coastal town of Stavanger.

ABC Street House
© Aeroview
ABC Street House
© Aeroview

The house is in many ways a sequel to House in Stavanger from 2016, which is located just 100 meters away and which spurred a new development in the area.

The project continues the tradition of low-scale, high-density urban housing in coastal towns of Norway.

The density in the area is in fact comparable to any Asian megalopolis and provides opportunities for efficient energy consumption as well as a car-free lifestyle for the people who live there.

ABC Street House
© Aeroview
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen

The house is all in wood, both in structure and in cladding. The façade reflects the three layers of the house:

The utilitarian ground floor, the living room in the middle floor and the kitchen in the upper floor.

The kitchen is intended to be a bright space with ample daylight and views across the surrounding roofscape of the wooden town.

ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen

The kitchen has access to a big rooftop terrace above as well as to south-facing outdoor planters on its own level.

In contrast to this the living room below is intended to be an intimate and dark cave, where the immediate urban life in the street below is visible, however at a comfortable distance.

The stairs serve to connect all these spaces into one complex spatial continuity, from the cobble stones out on the pavement, to the views to the mountains from the rooftop terrace.

ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen


ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen
ABC Street House
© Sindre Ellingsen


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Elevation
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First floor plan
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Second floor plan
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Third floor plan
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Roof plan


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Austigard Arkitektur
T +47 997 16229
Austigard Arkitektur
Pedersgata 8, 4013 Stavanger, Norway