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We are very pleased to learn that 3RW’s proposal for the construction of 115 housing units was chosen by Sweco as the proposal for the sustainable development of Montana. The other firms competing in the feasibility study were Snøhetta and Aarstiderne Arkitekter. Have a look at our project here.
This is a ZEN (Zero Emission Neighborhood)-project!
The project is located at the Landås transformer site of Bergenshalvøens Kommunale Kraftselskap (known as BKK, the Norwegian power company supplying most of the West coast).
We took part in the start-up meeting early this week, and our study will move forward into the first project phase. The electricity infrastructure is to be placed underground and liberate a nice parcel between the existing residential blocks and the forest of Ulriken: our team was tasked with imagining new housing volumes around the old brick BKK power plant. The project team understood this project as an opportunity to rethink the very idea of being housed next to one another, and played with the language of single-family homes. The resulting infrastructure is both sustainable and densely populated, allowing for punctual moments of sharing or privacy. As a deferential node to the architectural heritage of the site, the BKK building is conserved, its interiors minimally retrofitted.
This archive photo shows the site in 1960-07-04, with the transformer and the power station visible in the upper right corner, and the single-family houses and housing blocks distributed around it. The pillars of the Ulriken cable car are already built. Source by Marcus / Spesialsamlingene ved Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen; see the project’s webpage for a contemporary depiction of the site.