Mercedes Benz Showroom / Kristin Jarmund Architects

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Text description provided by the architects. Functionally the building is a combined office building, car salesroom and workshop. Formally we worked with two ideas, in which the first one was to work with dynamic curves, with each office floor offset in and out independently with its own curvature – inspired by the speed and dynamic which characterizes moving traffic.

Mercedes Benz Showroom / Kristin Jarmund Architects - Stairs

The building contains an exclusive showroom for Mercedes Benz Norway – which further legitimizes the dynamic architecture.

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Secondly, we introduced further themes in the endless façade by developing the story of what happened when a mighty force "bent" the building into place: Cracks would occur, and therefore we built stylized "cracks" to visualize the bending. The building is terraced to accommodate the falling terrain and hight of the neighbouring builidings.

Mercedes Benz Showroom / Kristin Jarmund Architects - Cityscape

The building is the first building in Norway of it's size to be built with Bubble-Deck, a deck system in which each concrete deck is filled with plastic balls. This makes the decks lighter and gave us great freedom with regards to cantilevering and a allowed for a greater distance between each column – 12,5 m.

Mercedes Benz Showroom / Kristin Jarmund Architects - Facade, Windows

The projects sun protection strategy is based upon using sun reducing glass and black glass insulated from the inside. The pattern of glass closes towards south and opens towards east and west, emphasizing the curvature at the same time.

Mercedes Benz Showroom / Kristin Jarmund Architects - Facade, Windows

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Address:Oslo, Norway

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Cite: "Mercedes Benz Showroom / Kristin Jarmund Architects" 28 Oct 2008. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/8053/mercedes-benz-showroom-kristin-jarmund-architects> ISSN 0719-8884

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