Pitch perfect

Every new project is different because context, client and users, are different. This building was designed with the client as ‘co-creators’, designed with care, from the original analysis of users needs, to managing the construction.

The task was to ad a new middle building between two unspectacular existing villas, creating more space for the pupils at Radiomarken - a school for troubled kids with special needs.

The idea was to unifie the existing villas under one big new piched roof in an architectual language that fits the existing buildnings. To make a building from materials that are already present on site, but twist and shaped the in new ways.

The client wanted an introverted school with a lot of small rooms with no view to the outside world, to avoid the kids from getting distracted. The answer was the architecture of the pitsched roof:

We saw the pitched roof, with all its crooked angels and loft spaces as a way to avoid the institutional feeling of a new build school. By using ordinary and traditional building techniques and standard materials we wanted to create a feeling of intimacy.
and to make every single room into something special.