Unique Workspace in Norway by TYIN Tegnestue and Rintala Eggertsson

‘Fordypningsrommet Fleinvaer’ is your vision of Håvard Lund, a jazz musician, and composer who obtained the site from 2004. ‘Initially, it was meant as an office for me, a writing lodge of sorts,’ explains Lund. ‘as time moved on, I felt an urge, a desire, to share what I’d discovered on fleinvær with other individuals. I wanted to make a workspace like anything else in the world.’

Years afterward, Håvard Lund introduced his eyesight to TYIN Tegnestue who subsequently sought the expertise of Sami Rintala of fellow Norwegian company Rintala Eggertsson Architects. The group then set about designing a workspace where musicians, artists, and other creatives can rent rooms for a variety of different timespans. The two practices functioned alongside Håvard Lund in addition to students and volunteers who were instrumental in realizing the project.

To obtain a full breakdown of the lot, the architects started by carrying out a three-dimensional scan of the site, conducted in corporation with design students from NTNU (Norwegian University of science and engineering). To not disturb the isle’s rugged beauty, the design team decided to build smaller volumes raised above-above the ground. ‘we have taken good care to inflict couple wounds as you can on fleinvær,’ says Sami Rintala. ‘we achieve this in part by making good pathways spaces between the houses, and a traditional fireplace. This steers traffic away in the isles more sensitive areas.’

The project comprises a series of volumes, which measure the mountain to the sea. Visitors arriving by ship are greeted with a sauna that hovers over the water. A former waiting room from the older docks was refurbished to accommodate overnight guests, while four small sleeping units are found further up the hillside. Two of these are short and broad with twin beds, with another two each containing two bunk beds. A pathway leads through those lodges towards the concert area and also the canteen.

‘The foundations are lessened, and include metal columns curved in 15 levels angles,’ explains Yashar Hanstad of TYIN Tegnestue. ‘We found that in this specific angle, they hit the ground well no matter given the possibility of height-wise adaptations to the terrain. In this way, we were able to realize precisely pointed bases without significant interference with the ground.’

Near the peak of the mountain, the architects created a contemporary representation of the Sami people‘s conventional storehouse — that the Njalla. Built on the back of a tree that was chopped, the structure is enclosed in a steel skeleton, which was pre-made in Trondheim by Arnt Waaberg (an old buddy of Lund along with the project’s practical consultant) and NTNU pupils. Sitting beneath a pillar, the building — which has been designed as a place of expression and immersion — offers sweeping views of the website and that the Norwegian sea outside.

‘The construction teams hard work and commitment has been crucial in finishing this project,’ states Sami Rintala. These variables have made a tangible reality from our drawings’

The Vipp Shelter Hotel Allows You to Spend the Night In Swedish Forests

When the Vipp shelter initially made its introduction, adventurers rejoiced. To get 1,000.00 euros a night, this 55 sqm calm hideaway awaits you in the Swedish wilderness. Every bit of this shelter’s dark-toned inside is chosen to keep the focus on what is important — nature. Check in to the Vipp refuge and check out from everyday life; gaze at the lake Immeln, listen to the sounds of the forest and cook to the relaxing crackling of the fireplace.

The Vipp hotel is a self-service idea. The shelter is a pod wrapped in the Vipp DNA from head each detail pictured by vipp designer, Morten Bo Jensen. To escape town including all the necessities and nothing more,’ explains Morten Bo Jensen. ‘the protector is the end result of this dream. A pod of tranquility designed as a large-scale vipp product.’
The self-contained residence can accommodate up to four people at any one time, with a single main bed for two people in the lofted top story, and space for two additional guests on the daybed on the lower level. Windows present views in the property’s living accommodation, in which there is a kitchen unit joined by a dining table that is versatile.

THOSE Architects Transformed Dairy Farm into Modern Sales Office

Most property sales offices are structures that sit alone uncomfortably, on large tracts of property: prosaic temporary and utilitarian beasts, there to serve no longer, and a purpose. Sydney based architectural practice, THOSE architects, create the exact opposite in this single-story building, and Stockland attracts a buyer to the rural website.

Conceived as a ‘building in a landscape‘ it is a tactile piece of architecture in its own right: a construction that’s unique to its location, designed to heighten the customer’s experience of that place and convey a feeling of the community that will eventually reside there. And unlike most sales and site offices, it’s a longer life: once the new residents move in, it will stay as a cafe and meeting place.

The building features stained, wooden walls that are black on the exterior with surfaces that frame the entrance.

“We see this as a different work of architecture, designed to inform the potential purchaser about the area where they may reside, and how it might feel to live there,” said Ben Mitchell, director of THOSE architects. “it’s all about the design. So, for example, unlike many sales offices, it doesn’t have any signage, and is carefully calibrated to convey an experience of its place.”

THOSE architects’ brief was to achieve this on a super-shoestring budget, so they focused on finding ways to utilize modest materials powerfully, to enhance the experience of what it feels like to be in this lush, flat former dairy pasture landscape. To create moments of tension and relief, camouflage, and revelation, intimacy interspersed with long 31, the flow sequence through and around the building is carefully curated.

Located in the rear of the building, there is a glass wall that was recessed sheltered under the roof.

Together with the primary view from the building located to the south-west (over dairyland into the blue hills outside) the building is approached from the south-east via a honed concrete ramp which intersects lush pasture. An imposing timber wall is punctuated by two openings, one of which is lined with copper cladding to define the entry point.