Norse Code: lapped in larch, this terrace will gradually grow into harmony with the surrounding forest.Norway has a programme for providing affordable housing for young people, and one of its more ingenious recent products is the little scheme for 12 flats at Nesodden, near Oslo. Code, a young practice, won the competition for a site between a '60s suburb and a green common that overlooks the fjord fjord or fiord (fyôrd), steep-sided inlet of the sea characteristic of glaciated regions. Fjords probably resulted from the scouring by glaciers of valleys formed by any of several processes, including faulting and erosion by . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Fundamentally, the scheme is no more than a two-storey terrace of 43 [m.sup.2] flats. The main structure is of steel to avoid bearing internal walls, but all the rest is of timber, except where the ground slab (to which the RSJs are fixed) projects over the falling land to the north, propped on four concrete columns. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A simple, even dull parti is given dynamism by the handling of the east front. Here is a large gallery at first floor level that acts as access to the upper flats and which is hoped to provide a social space for all users. In plan, the gallery is cut to allow light down to the east-facing windows of the ground floor. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gallery structure is larch larch, any tree of the genus Larix, conifers of the family Pinaceae (pine family), which are unusual in that they are not evergreen. The various species are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. in long and slender laminated pieces braced with thin flat galvanized gal·va·nize tr.v. gal·va·nized, gal·va·niz·ing, gal·va·niz·es 1. To stimulate or shock with an electric current. 2. steel bars. On the gallery, roof and balcony cladding The plastic or glass sheath that is fused to and surrounds the core of an optical fiber. The cladding's mirror-like coating keeps the light waves reflected inside the core. The cladding is covered with a protective outer jacket. See fiber optics glossary. is corrugated cor·ru·gate v. cor·ru·gat·ed, cor·ru·gat·ing, cor·ru·gates v.tr. To shape into folds or parallel and alternating ridges and grooves. v.intr. polycarbonate A category of plastic materials used to make a myriad of products, including CDs and CD-ROMs. sheeting that in winter becomes opaque under its thick carpet of snow, and sparkles in the long slanting sun of autumn and spring. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Larch is used to clad the flats, so that the whole will gradually weather grey together. Internally, the flats are divided in two by a wall with green sliding doors and partitions. A service strip includes entrance, bathroom and bedroom (the latter with inbuilt in·built adj. Built-in; inherent. inbuilt Adjective (of a quality or feeling) present from the beginning: an inbuilt prejudice Adj. 1. storage and double bed). In the wider living strip, the kitchen area always faces east. To the west, full-height sliding glass panels provide splendid views and scents of the landscape, magnificently expanding the compressed living spaces. H.M. Architect Code: arkitektur, Oslo Project team Henning Kaland, Ole Einejord, Gaute Stensrud, Bjarne Ringstad, Julian Lynghjem, Halvor Weider Ellefsen, Ellen Haukas Structural engineer Reinertsen AS Photographs Henning Kaland/Code: FLATS, NESODDEN, NORWAY |
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