Groma AS

Dråpa House

Dråpa House
© Johan Dehlin

Dråpa House

Vatn Architecture + Groma AS

PROGRAM / USE / BUILDING FUNCTION
Residential

TEAM
Espen Vatn, Andrea Pinochet, Trym Langeggen Tafjord, Jelle Boone, Ingrid Dale, Hanna Birkeland Bergh

PHOTOGRAPHS
Johan Dehlin

AREA
150 M²

YEAR
2023

LOCATION
Oslo, Norway

CATEGORY
Houses, Extension

This project is an extension of a modernist house from 1939 on the outskirts of Oslo for a painter and a filmmaker, adding much needed area for the family.

Dråpa House
© Johan Dehlin
Dråpa House
© Johan Dehlin

Titled “Dråpa” after the ancient verse form with the same name which was praising poems for kings, earls, and other dignitaries.

The project interprets and adds a curvilinear extension as a play on the modernist language, complementing the existing house.

Dråpa House
© Johan Dehlin
Dråpa House
© Johan Dehlin

In the era the existing house was built many examples have a soft, curved shape together with a rectangular volume.

We therefore consider the curved shape of the extension as in line with the house´s character,

and possibly in line with how an extension would have been made at the time the house was built.

Dråpa House
© Johan Dehlin
Dråpa House
© Johan Dehlin
Dråpa House
© Johan Dehlin

The extension stretches over 3 floors and contains 3 bedrooms, a generous living and kitchen area, and a terrace on the 3rd floor with views over Oslo and its archipelago.

The project has a concrete base referring to the existing house and vertical wood cladding as opposed to the horizontal cladding of the existing house.

Dråpa House
© Johan Dehlin
Dråpa House
© Johan Dehlin
Dråpa House
© Johan Dehlin


Dråpa House
South facade
Dråpa House
West facade
Dråpa House
East facade
Dråpa House
North Facade


Dråpa House
Plan - Lower floor
Dråpa House
Plan - Ground floor
Dråpa House
Plan - 1st floor
Dråpa House
Section

Groma AS
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Groma AS
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