4 Houses / On Office
On Office (Joao Vieira Costa, Leon Rost, Ricardo Guedes, Francesco Moncada) designed a housing project located right outside Oslo. Since the existing neighborhood presents the same architectural atmosphere, where nature and landscape dominate the land between houses, for this project, the architects wanted to preserve that natural and built relationship. Working within the confines of a small site, the design of the stacked villas creates separate private gardens for each of the homes. And, their orientation toward the river provides great views to the users. Inside, the layout is simple and efficient, shaped to meet the landscape of the exterior.
More images after the break.
Location: Oslo, Norway
Program: 500 m2 (residential)
Client: Hecht
Status: Cancelled
Architect. On Office – Joao Vieira Costa, Leon Rost, Ricardo Guedes, Francesco Moncada
Collaborator: Tudor Vlasceanu
i dont really understand what the last image is saying…
allow me: “here is a brief selection of the infinite number of variations which are better than the scheme we ‘developed’ “
is this a student project?
Undergrad freshman I would say…
Architects like to big themselves up, and put others down…
We all know this game is full of egos?
Ryan La, I don’t believe you think this is 1st year work. I think you said that as an underhand jab at this work. Put downs seriously scream insecurity. I seriously doubt you’d have the guts to post your work on this site.
It saying how thay look shapes… it is clear. In common, thay did very complicated investigation for this simple building, it is nice!
Its trying to be a BIG idea but fails. a tip for ON OFFICE the next time they present a project: be a little bit more critical about the material published.
I think they’re just trying to be BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)
@david: It’s written that it is not “On Office designed… ”
Personally I like the simplicity of the project,
The pictures 2 and 3 are not so understandable.
Status: Cancelled
I wonder why?
I wondered the same thing that Igoor, it’s a very practical project…
i like the simplicity, even in the diagrams.
it would be nice if, it was more tangible, material pallet… the beauty / smartness of a house usually falls on the material and the details… so until then the verdict is still out. but nice so far . Also, i guess overlapping living spaces are no be deal in europe? and do they not need railings? and that is a planted roof right?
Obviously function follows form in this project and i just doesn’t seem to work. look at the plans, they are terrible. whats with the unnecessary hallways?
A bunch of houses on top of each other? Genious!
(yeah.. maybe not!)
(yeah… maybe you’re not ‘genious’ yourself)
I think this is a nice concept. It’s not trying to be genius. It obviously needs a lot more development before we can imagine being in the spaces, but I’m sure the architects know that. As a spatial solution, this project has a nice composition.
very cool project.
the modular panel system is sweet.
so simple and clear, nice!
It is an interesting way of combining the houses together. It would have been nice to push a bit further the thinking, like for the balustrades. A lot of work was done to communicate actually the same things in different manners but without going more in details than a scheme does. The whole thing is still sketchy.
To me this looks nothing like Oslo and its surrounding areas. Top photo and airphoto does not cohere. Is this a real project?
sanaa meets mvrdv.
The diagrams are a bit much. I’d rather see how the spaces work than to see the same thing reiterated about their process, which is nice to see in a competition but not in a project that has, in my opinion, a lot of potential.
The bird’s eye view of Oslo is suggesting the current connection between dwellings and the landscape, it is not meant to demonstrate any other idea, I believe.
It’s always complicated to try to fit a lot of housing needs on top of small sites while simultaneous trying to incorporate exterior green areas. Overall the project seems pretty successful although there are a few elements that need refining.
I was thinking 2, 3years ago, that renders are starting to ‘eat’ architecture. Now everything is about deiagrams and cool strategy to sell the project. Still like BIG designs, but I dont know what will be next year;/
I like purism as well as the next guy, so I am very interested in how the designers are able to omit gutters or drip edges, how windows need not have any frames or trim (or for that matter, glazing), how no doors need be provided, how a gable roof is able to withstand outward thrusting without collar ties or other suitable countermeasures, how ridge venting of the roofs has been dispensed with, how stairs and roof decks may be provided without railings, how the exterior finish may be contiguous with the foundation, how the moment and deflection of the cantilevered volume at the building volume at the topmost unit are countered and how footings have been eliminated.
I draw these issues to attention not so much to show how smart I am but as a caution as to what really separates elegant design, which as illustrated this is, from the type of work one sees constructed in general. That difference is the incorporation of the exigencies of construction and code compliance.
We all would like our work to carry off our aesthetics, and since I am aesthetically likeminded with these designers, I should like to hear from them how these concerns are dealt with tectonically so as to dispose of the visible means of their exigence.
you nailed it. it’s one thing to develop an interesting concept (which this project did not), but the absolute omission of any detail relating to how the physical world operates is it’s primary downfall.
and I thought the Postmodernism movement was dead…
To be honest, It’s lovely…..!
I really like the simplicity~
its a nice and simple project
but details connecting roofs and terraces would be a misery
totally i guess detailing will influence the quality in whole.
I agree, Sajad.
Looks like this office broke up:
“After a fruitful collaboration, the partners of ONOFFICE LDA have mutually agreed to continue work independently.”
http://www.onoffice.no/
11:05 AM Jan 23rd
I love evolution & components of 4 Houses / On Office (via daily arch) to bad the project was canceled http://bit.ly/6JM4OA
2:37 PM Jan 23rd
RT @archdaily: 4 Houses / On Office http://bit.ly/7MYVfn
6:52 PM Jan 23rd
ノルウェー、オスロの公営住宅団地設計。量産化を超えた洗練されたデザイン。何か忘れていたテーマに再び出合ったおもいです。RT @archdaily
4 Houses / On Office http://bit.ly/7MYVfn
7:02 PM Jan 25th
4 Houses / On Office http://ff.im/-eQ3mM
7:14 AM Jan 28th
http://www.archdaily.com/47418/4-houses-on-office/
7:15 AM Jan 28th
http://www.archdaily.com/47418/4-houses-on-office/
how creative 4 house,moderndesign
7:16 AM Jan 28th
moldingdesign how creative
http://www.archdaily.com/47418/4-houses-on-office/
4:03 PM Feb 9th
Houses … thought differently! http://www.archdaily.com/47418/4-houses-on-office/