June 2022 – Line Solgaard Arkitekter

Veum Hageby

250 Housing
Fredrikstad

Surface: 17 000 m²
Status: Ongoing

This garden city inspired neighbourhood project on the outskirts of Fredrikstad focuses on quality of life, community and nature. The project has been drawn in collaboration with Studio Sted and Ghilardi+Hellsten Arkitekter. It features many building typologies, gathered around common courtyards and surrounded by public parks. This layout promotes social interaction and social diversity to create a sense of community and improve neighbour interactions. In order to achieve a significant degree of self-sufficiency, some of the buildings house shops and small businesses, public gardens and allotments offer the opportunity to grow vegetables, and the parks have playgrounds and outdoor sports facilities. In this way, neighbourhood life is very self-sustaining and promotes the local economy for a sustainable lifestyle.

The building typologies in the project vary from terraced houses to denser flats, as well as the rehabilitation and conservation of existing buildings. The preservation of existing buildings is both a decarbonized way of reducing building costs, but also of maintaining the identity of the site and reactivating buildings otherwise obsequious with only minor interventions.

Solid Hovedkontor

Solid Headquarters

Office Headquarters
Fredrikstad

Surface: 8 000 m²
Status: Ongoing

The new headquarters of Solid Group is an example of a passive office building. It uses many environmental-friendly solutions. The extended use of massive wood as a renewable resource, from its main structural material to its cladding and window frames, makes it one of the rare “All wood” office proposal in Norway. Along solar panels, passive cooling and heating, waste and rainwater management, the proposal is focusing on environmentally friendly solutions.

The compact office is built around a gigantic atrium to regulate the inner climate of the building both in summer and winter. It is the core of the building, a mandatory passage when walking from the entrance to the stairs up to the working spaces. Social areas and meeting points, gradually from loud near the atrium to quite near the working spaces, are scattered on the way to the decks to diversify the appropriable spaces for the workers, as well as promoting spontaneous encounters in order to prevent social isolation and promote a more social and stimulating work environment.