Fireplace for Children / Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter
Architect: Haugen/Zohar Arkitekter
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Client: Trondheim Municipality, Norway
3D consultancy: Scenario Architecture
Rapid prototyping: Espen BÊrheim
Contractor: Pan Landskap AS
Project Year: 2009
Photograph: Jason Havneraas & Grethe Fredriksen
The office was invited by the municipality of Trondheim to suggest an outdoor project for a kindergarten.
site plan
Although the region is characterized by predominantly maritime climate and the weather varies considerably throughout the seasons, there is a popular saying ‘there is no such thing as bad weather only bad clothing,’ and all seasons are equally attractive to the Norwegian children that enjoy outside activities all year round.
Together with the standard playground facilities we wished to combine an enclosed space for fire, storytelling and playing.
Given a very limited budget, reusing leftover materials (from a nearby construction site) was a starting point that led the design to be based on short wooden pieces. Inspired by the Norwegian turf huts and old log construction, a wooden construction was built and mounted on a lighted and brushed concrete base. The structure is made of 80-layered circles. The circles have varied radiuses and relative center point in relation to each other. Every circle is made out of 28 pieces of naturally impregnated core of pine that are placed with varied spaces to assure chimney effect and natural light. Oak separators differentiate vertically between the pine pieces to assure airflow allowing easy drying of the pine pieces. A double curved sliding door was designed for locking the structure.
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A firetemple! To sacrifice the little children in!
Great! :)
(I actually do like it)
Terrific project.
¡ children , fire , wood.. i dont think thats a good idea .. kidding nice proyect
A fireplace for cooking children! Yummmy!
That’s what I thought–what does that say about us?
This was very nicely done. It would have been nice to see some detail drawings of the project, it is kind of hard to understand the wall construction while the space inside is nicely portrayed. Seems like an awful nice place for a child to listen to good story.
Brilliant! Stunning, natural, useful… A truly norwegian piece of art.
JENGA!
Zumthor meets officeDA in a beautiful pavilion. Post some details. I wonder about the little shims and what their purpose is?
they are spacers… allows for that beautiful nighttime glow.
it also looks like they fit in little notches in the brick and stop the wood blocks from sliding off of each other.
This project reminds me of Sami Rintala Birdcage (2001) and the book installation he did the same year.
nice in the night~
Isnt this where George Cauldron lives?
Compare this to the Prada Terminator, or whatever that thing is called. It is refreshing to see something conceptual built for an actual purpose other than the vainglorious self-promotion of the BRAND. “You know, it’s for kids”.
Moreover, one supposes they modeled this on a computer. Now this is a good way to use a computer to achieve something organic that might have been otherwise difficult.
Terry Glenn Phipps
http://www.facebook.com/tgpart
Fireplace + Childrens + wood structure…. bad combination… one thing is the look of the proyect… and other thing is the safety…and in this case…is more important the safety of the kids. sooo im no a big fan of this proyect.
Poor Diego, thinks wood is a “fire hazard”… Do you know that practically ALL houses in Norway are built in wood? You are a victim of your own cultural bias. You know nothing about safety.
Here in Northern Europe building in wood is not a problem, and we have open fireplaces in most houses.
oKAY, but the only photo with real children inside that thing was made with no fire lighted.;)
Heat, edge or gravity are universal risks, but security has more to do with the management of risks than to its existence. It is why we amaze about Japanese homes without guard rails, and I know that in northern Europe the relation between fire, wood and children doing activities outdoors can be in complete normalcy and security. For them is a cultural thing which comes from many generations, and habit that occurs naturally and handling risks properly.
hershey kisses!!!
I love this project, Heat of the fire in this cold winter! Very good idea, children’s likes it.
And especially in Trondheim. What will be your next project to bild?
Greetings from Paris,
David Boureau
Architectural photographer
I have seen a construction like this in my country whith a different material which have been used about hundred years ago when there was no refrigirator for keeping the Ice in summer!!!!!
3:45 PM Jan 31st
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4:09 PM Jan 31st
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8:09 PM Jan 23rd
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