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Article: Wright angles. (house in a residential suburb of Oslo, Norway)(Norway: Special Issue)
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 1996
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The design of a new house, built entirely of wood, in a residential suburb of Oslo calls upon the traditions of Modernism and the local vernacular.
The two-storey house is in one of the hilly residential suburbs that surround Oslo. It is a long and narrow building with a flanking pavilion and with its stern backed up against a hill. The building descends the slope and drops down a storey, so that from the street you pass straight into the upper level where the living room and kitchen, elevated above the surrounding landscape, have views to the south of the city and fjord. Beneath, the bedrooms and ancillary rooms are disposed around a conservatory which has French ...