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Storgata 40


The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
GK6 - 2024

Individual project
The project proposes a comprehensive transformation of Storgata 40, the former site of Oslo Emergency Clinic (Oslo Legevakt). The site comprises several distinct buildings of considerable historical breadth and a wide range of structural typologies. Through analysis of each building's load-bearing construction, individual transformation strategies are developed. Together they constitute a coherent block-scale intervention.

Rather than departing from a fixed spatial program and forcing it into the existing building stock, the project outlines how the existing structures can accommodate flexible communal spaces and housing wherever conditions are most suitable. Four existing buildings are addressed; Fattighuset (1859), Høyblokka (1959), Lavblokka (1959) and the ambulance building (1977).

The project further explores how the block can be densified and completed through new construction: an office lamella that screens and frames the courtyard, and a residential tower anchoring the northern end of the site.


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