Nichtoffener Wettbewerb | 04/2014
Statoil’s new office building
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Architektur
Architektur
Beurteilung durch das Preisgericht
Architectural and functional solution
The project is on a highly conceptual level. The project shows a building kit-like structure with clear associations to a drilling platform, located in the south-western corner of the site. The site is fully planted with dense forest, with hiking trails and a woodland pond in the centre. The author’s stated ambition is to create a public park area, as a necessary focus for the entire Forus area. The area should be a green lung that can be used by anyone working at Forus, with opportunities for recreation, exercise, picnic, dining, skating, hiking trails etc. The idea is to provide a building with maximum flexibility and with mostly open floor plans. This is proposed achieved through a structure where four concrete towers with integrated stairs and lifts are connected with giant trussed beams in steel. These are placed in an altitude equivalent to 14 floors above ground level. Over these beams mounted a series of box -shaped floors of prefabricated composite steel, arranged to form an atrium in the structure midst. The highest altitude of the structure is approximately 30 floors. In later building phases the idea is to add the desired number of new floor boxes, freely placed and hanging under these beams, the lower ca. 4-5 floors above the ground.
The project appears to be unfamiliar with the program description and the Forus area. The jury has a certain understanding of the draft idea, the author has been inspired by a drilling platform, but this is not realised in a credible building structure.
The floor layouts are only very sketchily indicated in the written material. The layouts are printed directly onto the floors in the model. Given that all fixed installations are located in the "core towers", all floor boxes have a fully open plan that allows for total flexibility. It is not shown how the internal horizontal communications between the different parts of the floor plans are intended to be solved. As the floor plans in the model are glued, it is only possible to control the layout of the upper floors. Beyond that, one must resort to pure guesswork to try to understand the total room program, and what the individual areas are intended to be used for.
Because only a small number of floor plans can be controlled, it is difficult to make any area or volume controls, or count of the number of work places. This limits the possibilities to conduct a qualified cost assessment and this is not done for this project.
Masterplan
The idea of a forest/park contradicts Statoil communicated idea of the development of the plot. The project does not correspond with the intentions described in the Forus vision of an urbanization of the area.
The project is on a highly conceptual level. The project shows a building kit-like structure with clear associations to a drilling platform, located in the south-western corner of the site. The site is fully planted with dense forest, with hiking trails and a woodland pond in the centre. The author’s stated ambition is to create a public park area, as a necessary focus for the entire Forus area. The area should be a green lung that can be used by anyone working at Forus, with opportunities for recreation, exercise, picnic, dining, skating, hiking trails etc. The idea is to provide a building with maximum flexibility and with mostly open floor plans. This is proposed achieved through a structure where four concrete towers with integrated stairs and lifts are connected with giant trussed beams in steel. These are placed in an altitude equivalent to 14 floors above ground level. Over these beams mounted a series of box -shaped floors of prefabricated composite steel, arranged to form an atrium in the structure midst. The highest altitude of the structure is approximately 30 floors. In later building phases the idea is to add the desired number of new floor boxes, freely placed and hanging under these beams, the lower ca. 4-5 floors above the ground.
The project appears to be unfamiliar with the program description and the Forus area. The jury has a certain understanding of the draft idea, the author has been inspired by a drilling platform, but this is not realised in a credible building structure.
The floor layouts are only very sketchily indicated in the written material. The layouts are printed directly onto the floors in the model. Given that all fixed installations are located in the "core towers", all floor boxes have a fully open plan that allows for total flexibility. It is not shown how the internal horizontal communications between the different parts of the floor plans are intended to be solved. As the floor plans in the model are glued, it is only possible to control the layout of the upper floors. Beyond that, one must resort to pure guesswork to try to understand the total room program, and what the individual areas are intended to be used for.
Because only a small number of floor plans can be controlled, it is difficult to make any area or volume controls, or count of the number of work places. This limits the possibilities to conduct a qualified cost assessment and this is not done for this project.
Masterplan
The idea of a forest/park contradicts Statoil communicated idea of the development of the plot. The project does not correspond with the intentions described in the Forus vision of an urbanization of the area.