Category: Workspace

Office Headquarters
Fredrikstad

Surface: 8 000 m²
Status: Ongoing

The new headquarters of Solid Group is an example of a passive office building. It uses many environmental-friendly solutions. The extended use of massive wood as a renewable resource, from its main structural material to its cladding and window frames, makes it one of the rare “All wood” office proposal in Norway. Along solar panels, passive cooling and heating, waste and rainwater management, the proposal is focusing on environmentally friendly solutions.

The compact office is built around a gigantic atrium to regulate the inner climate of the building both in summer and winter. It is the core of the building, a mandatory passage when walking from the entrance to the stairs up to the working spaces. Social areas and meeting points, gradually from loud near the atrium to quite near the working spaces, are scattered on the way to the decks to diversify the appropriable spaces for the workers, as well as promoting spontaneous encounters in order to prevent social isolation and promote a more social and stimulating work environment.

Workspace
Fredrikstad

Surface: 330 m²
Status: Completed

The warm wooden furniture of the office contrasts with the metallic framework of the roof and the concrete floor. The offices stand in wooden rooms, providing privacy but also dividing the open space into different areas. For flexibility of use and comfort, you’ll find redundant areas with different gradients of privacy in the office: large, open meeting room, large, enclosed meeting room, smaller open social places, closed phone call room.

A large amount of library and shelves for books runs along the walls under horizontal windows and the archive shelves rise from the floor to height point of the roof in one of the many wooden boxes of the office.

Fire Station
Oslo

Surface:  2 000 m²
Status: Unbuilt

The Sentrum Brannstasjon in Oslo lies on Bjørvika, not far from the Akershus fortress, from which the design is inspired from. It is a public building interacting with a historical position in the city. As part of the urban landscape, the parks surrounding the station are public, and offers to admire the fire trucks on display in the double height ground floor.

Materials and colours are both inspired by the historical buildings nearby, as a way to extend the architectural legacy of the past, while also integrating the technologies and needs of our modern society. The wooden structure is one of the many environmentally friendly solutions of the project, as a beacon of sustainable architecture visible by all right in the hearth of Oslo city centre.

Upstairs, a more private floor for offices, rest rooms and meeting rooms use wooden screens for modular privacy in the floor plan. Windows all around the building offers a privileged view on the Oslofjord, the park, the Opera house and other surrounding buildings.

Government District
Oslo

Surface: 124 500 m²
Status: Vinner av konkurransen, ikke bygget

In the proposal «Lysning», the Government District is built with a single high-rise block, while the rest of the surrounding buildings maintain a low height through large floor surfaces. In this way, the towering building naturally becomes the symbolically most important building.

I utformingen av arbeidsplassene har G8+-teamet lagt vekt på møteplasser i og på tvers av departementene for å sikre god kommunikasjon både internt og med byen.

Office Headquarters
Drammen

Surface: 18 000 m²
Status: Ongoing

The project aims to link the best qualities of the immediate local area to the site. It forms a network of covered paths towards and within the high-tech and modern campus of Uloba Headquarters.

Forthermore, we want to promote with this project a new way of thinking about accessibility and sustainability to inspire future projects and lifestyle. As such, it is part of the FutureBuilt program, which encourages carbon neutral and sustainable urban projects in the Oslo urban area. The project aims to be certified with the most excellent grading according to the BREEAM-NOR certification and meet all requirements regarding passive house and energy solutions. Thanks to that, the project of Uloba Headquarters will be use as a flagship project by Futurebuilt to change the way buildings and urban area are developed, as one of their pilot projects.

Kontor, kaffebrenneri og besøkssenter
Oslo

Surface: 850 m²
Status: Completed

Transformation of listed buildings in Oslo, from a candy factory to “Coffee house” for Tim Wendelboe, with a coffee roastery, tasting room, laboratory and offices. This building is the backstage of the Expresso Bar and coffee business of Tim Wendelboe, to ship coffee and satisfy home enthusiasts, offices, restaurants and other coffee shops all around the world.

Open to the public, the coffee roastery is built out of raw and robust materials to withstand the passage of time and people. Concrete surfaces, OSB boards and steel stairs and details are used in the four floors of the narrow and deep building, and the façade has been renovated with a new coating.

Expresso Bar
Oslo

Surface: 50 m²
Status: Completed

The small and cozy Expresso Bar of Tim Wendelboe is located in Grünerløkka in Oslo, and visited by both locals and coffee enthusiasts from all arourd the world. Thought to be as much a café than a coffee showroom for the owner to expose his work and inspire people to try something new and see the coffee world in a different light, the Expresso Bar features custom-made furniture, tables and benches. The exposed bricks of the industrial building constast and complete the warming wood and leather of the furniture, to enjoy coffee by yourself, or with friends.