Architect: Valerio Olgiati
Location: Scharans, Switzerland
Collaborators: Nathan Ghiringhelli (project manager office Olgiati), Nikolai Müller, Mario Beeli
Client: Linard Bardill, musician + poet
Structural Engineer: Patrick Gartmann, partner of Conzett, Bronzini, Gartmann AG, Chur
Project Area: 285 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2007
Photographs: Courtesy of Valerio Olgiati

The Atelierhouse Bardill replaces an old barn in the protected centre of the village Scharans. The building permission was granted by the local authorities only under the condition that the new building would have exactly the same volume as the old barn. Read the rest of this entry »

Architect Tennent + Brown Architects
Location: Pelourus Sound, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand
Project Year: 2007

Tennent + Brown Architects landed their clients lodge softly in Pelourus Sound. The cozy wood fired lofts and separate living pavilion combine in a perfect self sustained retreat. Photovoltaics, rainwater harvesting and solar concious design combine with modern chic and warehouse like solidity of the steel frame construction. Read the rest of this entry »

Architects: Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects
Location: Mazama, Washington, USA
Lead Architect: Tom Kundig, FAIA
Date of Completion: 2008
Size: 440 sf/per hut (200 sf interior space, 240 sf exterior deck)
Photographs: Chad Kirkpatrick & /Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects

Responding to the owner’s need for space to house visiting friends and family, the Rolling Huts are several steps above camping, while remaining low-tech and low-impact in their design. The huts sit lightly on the site, a flood plain meadow in an alpine river valley. The owner purchased the site, formerly a RV campground, with the aim of allowing the landscape return to its natural state. The wheels lift the structures above the meadow, providing an unobstructed view into nature and the prospect of the surrounding mountains. Read the rest of this entry »

Architects: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
Location: Gasverksgatan 22, Malmö, Sweden
Responsible Architects: Bolle Tham & Martin Videgård
Project Architect: Mia Nygren
Collaborators: Carmen Izquierdo Làzaro (Façade Architect), Helene Amundsen, Susanna Bremberg, Andreas Helgesson, Eric Engström, Mårten Nettelbladt, Marcus Andrén, Dennis Suppers, Alina Scheutzow, Suzanne Prest, Julia Gudiel Urbano
Client: Stadsfastigheter i Malmö and Moderna Museet
Contractor: NCC Construction
Project Area: 2,650 sqm
Project Year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Åke E:son Lindman

A starting point was that a new art museum, a public and cultural building, represents a rare opportunity to create a new node within the city, the urban balance is changed and the neighborhood develops. In Malmö, in the south of Sweden, there was also the possibility to, starting from the industrial architecture of the former Electricity plant dating from the year 1900, create a new art museum with an informal and experimental character that would complement the main museum in Stockholm. Read the rest of this entry »

Architect: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Oslo Norway (RRA)
Project Team: Reiulf D Ramstad, Christian Fuglset, Anja Strandskogen, Christian Dahle, Nok Nimakorn (all Architects MNAL)
Location: Romsdalen – Geiranger Fjord, Norway
Client: The Norwegian Public Roads Administration
Design year: 2004-2010, Official Opening 2011
Building area: 800 m2 (Mountain Lodge with restaurant and gallery)
Site: Building Site 600,000 m2
Type of construction: Cor-ten steel and poured-in-place concrete
Photographs: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Oslo Norway
Illustration: MIR and RRA

Norway-based firm Reiulf Ramstad Architects has designed a Trollstigen National Tourist Route Project located in Romsdalen – Geiranger Fjord, Norway. Trollstigen is one of the most popular tourist-attractions in Norway which is surrounded by the majestic mountains. Read the rest of this entry »