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Villa Tussefaret, Drøbak

The client wanted a cheap little house, with room for one family and a lettable studio. Lie Øyen solved it with a puzzle of prefabricated concrete elements.

Architect: Lie Øyen arkitekter AS
Published 14 Nov, 2014
 
Villa Tussefaret, Drøbak. External staircase to roof terrace.

Villa Tussefaret, Drøbak. External staircase to roof terrace.

Villa Tussefaret, Drøbak.

The concrete elements make up one large “shell”, which can be divided internally in different ways.

Main ground floor space, with kitchen and dining area.

Opening above the kitchen, allowing a sense of the full height of the “shell”.

Custom cabinets under the staircase.

Custom storage works as room dividers.

The oak veneer interior fittings were made by the architects’ own joiners.

External staircase leading to the roof terrace.

From the building site. The house is built of prefabricated concrete sandwich elements.

From the building site.

Isometrics showing the concrete elements.

Overview of prefabricated concrete panels.

Plans.

Long section.

Site plan.

Completion: 2014

Address:
Tussefaret 19, Tverkjegla Øst, Drøbak, Frogn

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Photo:
Fin Serck-Hansen and Nils Petter Dale

Villa Tussefaret is a 60 sq.m. compact single-family two-storey house. It can be divided vertically into one main unit and one rental unit. Combined, these two units provide four bedrooms, two bathrooms and two living rooms. The idea was to create a concrete “shell”, a one-room house that could later be divided into two floors, which had to have room for two children and a rental unit. Through the design process the house became slightly more conventional, but the idea of the “big shell” is maintained. The house is made from prefabricated concrete elements. The interiors are oak veneered birch plywood. The windows and doors are made of crude aluminium.