Vardåsveien
Norway
Residential
A detail plan for 66 new homes at Vardåsveien 6-8 in Ski, on a site where traffic noise from the county road would ordinarily rule out usable outdoor space. The plan turns the constraint into the parti: the housing itself is deployed as the noise screen. Slab blocks line the loud edges of the site, shielding a quiet inner landscape where shared gardens, play areas and a common house with a greenhouse can be used.
2024 -
Within that protected ground, slab blocks and point houses step between three and five storeys with the terrain, parking goes below ground, and the site’s hollow oaks, a protected habitat in their own right, are kept as the anchors of the outdoor areas. Rainwater is handled in the open through rainbeds and green roofs. The result is a plan in which the difficult edge pays for the calm centre.
