Stavanger, 2006, Project-Team: AD, RK

Client: Jenny and Marius Sandvik

Our clients, had quite contrasting notions of their future home. Her image: an intimate, cosy villa with pitched roof, and immediate access to a romantic garden. His image: a modern villa with roof terrace, open plan and extended glass facades. We worked to combine these qualities. The stuccoed brick wall encloses the house from the street and neighbours and openes to a garden oriented to the South. The vernacular typology of the villa is thus opened up, stretched, folded and terraced. The sloping topography of the garden is designed as a series of steps; giving rise to each of the four floor levels of the house.