Svartlamoen Trondheim

Brendeland & Kristoffersen arkitekter

Authors

  • Paul Kuitenbrouwer TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The residential complex for young people in Svartlamoen lies on the intersection between what was until recently a run-down city district and a large-scale industrial area in Trondheim. Here Geir Brendeland and Olav Kristoffersen realized their first building in 2005 – at that moment the largest in the world made of massivtre (solid wood) – as the result of an open competition held in 2003. Their motto was: ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!’ This project for individual young people but also groups made a statement about Norwegian housing policy, which was entirely market-driven and did not pay enough attention to people of all ages with a low income.

In this project, resident participation, sustainable architecture, freely adaptable space and the innovative use of timber as building material all play a central role.

Author Biography

Paul Kuitenbrouwer, TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment

Paul Kuitenbrouwer graduated in 1988 as an architect from the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology. Since then he worked for, among others, Wiel Arets and Jo Coenen, for whom he was deputy supervisor of the Sphinx-Céramique site in Maastricht. In 2001 he followed Coenen, who was appointed Dutch Government Architect, to The Hague. Since 2006, he has been an assistant professor associated with the Chair of Architecture and Dwelling of Delft University of Technology; he has conducted research into high-density low-rise housing (Intense Laagbouw) and student housing (bouwjong!), teaches both Bachelor’s and Master’s degree design studios and analysis seminars with an emphasis on typology, density and the urban context, and is an editor of DASH. In addition, he has taught at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture (2009-2012) and since 2016 teaches at the Maastricht Academy of Architecture. Since 2017, he is also a member of the Board of Examiners for Architects at The Dutch Architect’s Register Agency in The Hague. 

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Published

2018-06-01

How to Cite

Kuitenbrouwer, P. (2018). Svartlamoen Trondheim: Brendeland & Kristoffersen arkitekter. DASH | Delft Architectural Studies on Housing, 6(10), 148–155. Retrieved from https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/dash/article/view/4909

Issue

No. 10 (2014): Housing the Student

Section

Case Studies