Haugenstua Borettslag, commissioned by OBOS, the largest Norwegian social housing copperative, consist of ten blocks spread out in a wide green field. All builings seven stories high, but varing in length. The housing complex was built using a modular system of pre-fabricated concrete elements with load-bearing walls. In total there are 882 units, with an equal distribution of three types of apartments: 86 m2, 72 m2 or 31 m2. Most apartments have windows facing two directions. On one side of the buildings, their repetitive facades have horisontal bands of balconies. On the other, square windows are placed at regular intervals. The ground space was planned to be what the architects called “an extention of the apartment” with shared facilites and common spaces, such as children playroom, storage and laundry rooms in the ground level, and playground for kids of different ages, sports fields and private gardens outside. The parking areas are located on the outskirts of the area, and the residential areas are mainly car-free. The area is planned and designed by Preben and Gynt Krag, and the decoration on the gable wall is done by Knut Steen. The entrepenor was Ungdomsbygg.

Haugenstua Borettslag

The Re-Store teaching unit offers new perspectives on the preservation, reuse and transformation of architectural heritage from the recent past, with a special focus on the provenance of building systems, components and materials. Taking an Experimental Preservation approach, the unit responds to the challenges of the climate crisis by renegotiating the way we understand, evaluate, and transform the built environment. Through MA studios and seminars, the unit aims to reinvigorate the discipline by challenging the prevailing ideas of authorship, origins and the integrity of the architectural monument. Engaged in a wide range of practices counting archival studies, value assessment methods, restoration techniques, survey practices, model building, drawing, writing and dissemination, the students are trained to participate in the contemporary discourse with a critical mindset and high design skills. Recent studios have focused on concrete, building systems, prefabrication, building components, petroleum and weather. Re-Store publications include the 

Former Re-Store faculty: Andreas Angelidakis, Thordis Arrhenius, Bård Helland, Amandine Kastler, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Andrea Pinochet, Kim Pløhn, Alena Rieger, Bryony Roberts, Ingrid Dobloug Roede, Erlend Skjeseth, Jørgen Tandberg, Kjetil Sæterdal, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Helle Bendixen Trier, Espen Vatn.

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Re-Store: Prefab is about prefabricated and mass-produced architecture: its history, cultural value, spread and popularity, technological properties and spatial potential.

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