This project is an extension to a modernist house from 1939 in the outskirts of Oslo for a painter and a filmmaker, adding much need area for the family. Titled “Dråpa” after the ancient verse form with the same name which were 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. In the era the existing house was built there were many examples that 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´ character, and possibly in line with how an extension would have been made at the time the house was built.
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 a vertical wood cladding as opposed to the horizontal cladding of the existing house.
Team (2019-2023)
Espen Vatn
Andrea Pinochet
Trym Langeggen Tafjord
Jelle Boone
Ingrid Dale
Hanna Birkeland Bergh
