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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Townhouse : By Elding Oscarson

Landskrona, Sweden
Elding Oscarson

Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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Sweden-based studio Elding Oscarson has designed a minimal style townhouse on a narrow site in Landskrona, Sweden.
"Our intention is to use small means to create an array of different spatial experiences in this very small project."
Elding Oscarson
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+ Project description courtesy of Elding Oscarson
The narrow site is sandwiched between very old neighboring buildings in Landskrona, Sweden. Since mid 20th century it has been empty, waiting behind a wooden fence. It is only 5 meters wide with a tiny area of 75 square meters. Immediately adjacent buildings are low, but the street is lined with buildings of various height, size, facade material, age, and approach. Behind the row of buildings is a colorful world of back yards, brick walls, sheds, and vegetation. We find this small-scale, motely, naturally worn place extremely beautiful.http://plusmood.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Townhouse-Elding-Oscarson-plusMOOD-01.JPG
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The building relates to the surroundings in scale, proportion and in the way it adds to the established rythm of low and tall buldings along the street. A perpendicularly inserted crow-step gabled house a few lots down the street is a particularly important ancestor. Yet, our aim is to create a sharp contrast, to express inherent clarity, but more importantly to highlight the beauty of the surroundings. Our clients, a male couple that love art and run a café in a bigger city closeby, plan to settle here for good. They see the potential in this small town, beyond its current economic and social problems.
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Compressed slab construction, unconventional ceiling heights, and the ground floor flush to the street level, permitted fitting three floors into a volume aligned with the neighboring rooftops. The interior consists of a single space, softly partitioned by three exposed steel slabs. These span the entire width of the house and divide its program – kitchen, dining, living, library, bed, bath, and a roof terrace. A home office for a growing side business of art dealing is located in a separate building across a small garden in the back. Mechanical and service spaces are housed next to a glazed entrance from the street.
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Our intention is to use small means to create an array of different spatial experiences in this very small project. The division of the single space aims at a non-minimalistic and lively sequence of confined and airy spaces, niches, interiors and exteriors, horizontal and vertical wiews as well as carefully framed views of the site. The continuous interior space is opening up to the street, to the middle of the block, and to the sky above.
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The openness to all directions generates a building both monolithic and transparent. All facades are treated equally, exposing the interior and offering views through the building with similar apertures whether on the front, back or sides. The neigboring facades are closed, yet there is something deeply humane about their tactility, detailing, and ornaments. We want to contribute to the street with a faded border to the private sphere, with artifacts, furniture, plants, and patios; traces of human presence, consideration, and care.
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+ About Elding Oscarson
Elding Oscarson is a recently started office run by Johan Oscarson and Jonas Elding. The collective experience is covering both Swedish and international architecture, from museums to private houses, interiors, furniture and product design.
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Jonas Elding was an associate at Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), Tokyo, for 7 years, in charge of the design for the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Johan Oscarson was an associate at Sandellsandberg, Stockholm, for 7 years, in charge of the designs for Villa Nilsson and the interior for the OMX headquarters.
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Our aim is to challenge a variety of architecture and design tasks and by means of a solid process find new solutions, ways to live, or atmospheric qualities. We look forward to leading a pragmatic workflow influenced by site, program, budget or other parameters, making every project unique, real, and story-telling.
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Site plan--drawing courtesy of Elding Oscarson
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Floor plans--drawing courtesy of Elding Oscarson 
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Section--drawing courtesy of Elding Oscarson

The people
Project: Townhouse
Location: Landskrona, Sweden
Architect: Elding Oscarson
Structural Engineer: Konkret
Builder: Skånebygg
Structure: leca-masonry, metal deck slab
Gross Floor Area: 125sqm
Construction Cost: 280,000 Euro
Completion: 2009
Photographer: Åke E:son Lindman

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