Ghilardi + Hellsten Arkitekter, AS

Paradis Waterfront

Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen

PARADIS WATERFRONT

Ghilardi+Hellsten Arkitekter AS

PROJECT MANAGER
Henriette Stuen Hammer / Ghilardi + Hellsten Arkitekter

PROJECT ARCHITECT
Anna Maria Grossi / Ghilardi + Hellsten Arkitekter

RESPONSIBLE PARTNER
Ellen Hellsten / Ghilardi + Hellsten Arkitekter

MANUFACTURERS
HTH, Schuco

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jonas Adolfsen

YEAR
2021

AREA
21000 m²

LOCATION
Stavanger, Norway

CATEGORY
Public Space, Residential

Text description provided by architect.

The Paradis Waterfront housing project is the first subarea to be developed within the master plan for Paradis South, drawn by Ghilardi+Hellsten Arkitekter and approved in 2016.

Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen
Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen

Situated along the fjord, the project includes a public park continuously running along the coastline.

The surrounding landscape features are of exceptional quality with vast views and extensive openness.

Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen
Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen

Inside the housing development, spaces are green, protected, and intimate. This contrast is deliberately highlighted in both interior and exterior spaces.

The buildings are a modern interpretation of the “wood city” of Stavanger that consists of assembled building volumes, white wood cladding, and pitched roofs creating a varied and complex built landscape.

In the Paradis Waterfront project, each building is, therefore, a composition of two staggered volumes with respectively 4 and 6 floors with opposite roof geometry and light wood cladding (facades are shifting from traditional horizontal panels on one side to vertical panels on the other).

Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen
Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen
Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen

The two staggered volumes within one building allow for six corner situations instead of four and this is exploited for optimal conditions for views, lights, and locations of balconies.

All apartments have either private balconies, roof terraces,s or gardens for the ground floor apartments.

Balconies and windows are allocated in facade bands all around the buildings rendering all facades equally open, creating no ”front or back” within the plan.

Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen
Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen

To prepare the site for construction, the original coastline needed to be transformed and a larger landfill was planned for.

The units are allocated in 11 free-standing buildings along the edge of the site, creating an inner outdoor common garden while simultaneously keeping multiple narrow views and openings towards the fjord.

Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen
Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen

All parking is underground leaving the whole housing area car-free.


Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen
Paradis Waterfront
© Jonas Adolfsen


Paradis Waterfront
East facade
Paradis Waterfront
South Facade


Paradis Waterfront
House3- plan 1st floor 1-100
Paradis Waterfront
House3 -Plan 4th floor 1-100
Paradis Waterfront
House3 -Plan 5th floor 1-100
Paradis Waterfront
House4- plan 1st floor 1-100
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House4 -Plan 5th floor 1-100
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House4 -Plan 6th floor 1-100


Paradis Waterfront
situation plan 

Ghilardi + Hellsten Arkitekter, AS
T +47 22 339910
Ghilardi + Hellsten Arkitekter, AS
Møllergata 12, 0179 Oslo, Norway