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Smestad Recycling Plant, Oslo

A public recycling facility by Longva Architects introduces a new building typology in Oslo.

Architect: Longva arkitekter AS
Published 25 Dec, 2016
 
Entrance to the service building.

Entrance to the service building.

Room for reuseable stuff.

The covered recycling ramp.

The recycling station at night, facade facing the ring road.

South-east facade.

Inside the recycling plant, with public access along the ramp to the left.

Site plan: A. Recycling plant, B. Entrance, C. Reception, D. Exit.

Long section: 1. Service area, 2. Public access ramp, 3. Reuseable stuff, 5. Hazardous waste, 9. Changing rooms, 10. Office, 11. Plant room.

Plan: 1. Service area, 2. Public access ramp, 3. Reuseable stuff, 4. Plant room, 5. Hazardous waste, 6. Workshop, 7. Service building, 8. Reception, 9. Changing rooms, 10. Office, 11. Plant room

Detail section of the south-east facade.

Completion: 2015

Address:
Ullernchausséen 26, Oslo

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Photo:
Ivan Brodey

The Smestad plant represents a new building type: a public recycling facility where all activity takes place indoors, a preferable operation for users, staff and neighbours. The site faces the Oslo ring road, backed up against a steep cutting. The suburban houses overlook the sedum roof, which further hides the plant from general view. The structure itself is an open hall, with precast concrete gables and a hybrid shed-pitched roof. The plant has climatised staff rooms and a capacity for 34 visiting cars and 16 waste sorting containers. The façade facing the ring road is clad with stretch metal panels mounted on the secondary laminated timber columns, the direction of the material opening the façade towards the east and closing it to the south.