Shuffle Haugerud Center / Eriksen Skajaa Architects
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Eriksen Skajaa Architects shared with us their awarded proposal for Europan 10 with their design of the Haugerud Center, entitled Shuffle. Haugerud, originally an area born from the utopian ideals of the Modern Movement, now struggles to a have a clear sense of what it stands for. Shuffle aims to rediscover Haugerud’s lost identity by exploring low rise/high density urban planning. The buildings create a village-like atmosphere with multi-functional structures that can be used for housing as well as public functions.
More images and more about the project after the break.
“Grid orientation, formal characteristics, facades and construction methods where determined by the passive house standard. The shaping of the volumes brings light in between the streets and to the solar facades, but it also gives houses individual character. Through this process we have developed a clear urban typology consisting of a relatively small scale urban unit that is combined in a dense configuration,” explained the architects.
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An extended network of forested paths form interconnections and permeability, both through the new development and through existing homogeneous. Buildings are flipped to focus toward the public by removing most of the existing center and making the facades open up toward the new public space.
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Within each unit, there is enough flexibility to develop a wide range of housing solutions ranging from individual houses to blocks of flats. The ground floors share that same flexibility as they can shift between housing and retail functions.
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“Through a high degree of fragmentation we open up possibilities that the large scale existing structures can’t cater to. We foresee in the beginning that a few small scale shops could function in the area, but we also see that this can be the framework for a development where retail and recreation colonise the entire development. This is the concept we call shuffle.”
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Project: Shuffle – Europan 10 competition
Location: Oslo, Norway
Year: 2009
Type: Competition
Category: Urban plan and buildings
Status: 1st prize
Size: 15000 m²
Architect: Eriksen Skajaa Architects
Team: Arild Eriksen, Joakim Skajaa
There is a lot done in term of windows sizes, orientation and roofs for sunlight. Nevertheless, the 54 degrees slope is a joke ! If it corresponds to the sunlight angle of June 21st at 12am, it means the ground floor of the building behind is fully lit for a few minutes during one day per year, and let’s say partially lit for two hours per day one month per year… That seems to be a lot of work for little !
What more is this really, than any other general lowrise housing unit in Groruddalen?
Instead of one more failed attempt at creating high intensity with schematic high density housing I think overall this is an original proposal in the Groruddalen context. I guess the solar angles is more a conceptual approach. Maybe not that original as buildings, but the arch daily post tells much less that the exhibition at DogA in Oslo where I saw this project first. Instead of being trendy and speculative I think this is beautiful on a human scale.
wow. solar angles. i can’t remember last time i saw these used to plan projects, looks like some old school environmental planning is coming back. real environmentalism instead of some government stamped over-regulated ignorance of common sense approval. like it a lot!
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