E17 portraits - ØSTMARKA RE-ENACTED

Østmarka (NO) - Special Mention

ØSTMARKA RE-ENACTED

Associates: Sarita Poptani (FI) – landscape architect, architect, Guðni Brynjólfur Asgeirsson (IS) – landscape architect, Marta Lata (PL), Mateusz Pietryga (PL) – architects

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"Our humble approach to the existing site conditions is the foundation of our proposal It also responds to what we see as one of the main issues building today faces, namely the dominance of program over environment. Therefore the site “Lade” becomes the regulatory idea of the project. By working with a sitemodel as our main design tool, we developed an approach that prioritised the topography and existing ecologies."

Architecture follows the terrain
New housing strengthens the spaces inbetween the existing housing on site and new outdoor interventions are implemented to preserve biological diversity
The hill slope is activated with new housing on three levels that create enclosed space around the hill