Skøyen School, Oslo
Location: Oslo
Commission: Limited competitive tendering
oppgave: 1-7-school with 3 parallels (540 pupils)
Client: Oslo Kommune, Skoleetaten
Gross area: 6750 m2
Total costs: 101.600.000 NOK
Completion: 1999
Project team: C. Adams, I. Lødner, H. Salvesen
Ladscaping: Hindhamar AS
Interior: div.A arkitekter
Photo: E. Grønlie, J. Havran, div.A arkitekter
Publishing: Byggekunst nr. 5/99, aw architektur+wettbewerbe 181/3/2000, norway _a guide to recent architecture b.t.batsford 2002
Skøyen school is a 1-7 school with 3 parallels for 540 pupils (school year 2008/09). In addition, a specialized department for the disabled and a sports hall has been accomodated. The geometry of the site combined with regulatory guidelines and the number of m2 to be fitted, limited strong choice of main approach, to a solution with 8 separate buildings along a school street and school square, with exterior, covered circulation to all 8 buildings. The sports building, with its large volume, was located at the bottom of the site's southwest corner.
The classrooms are distributed in the 4 school rooms, with 3 classrooms (2 in house G) with group rooms, WC and wardrobe on each floor. All 3 classrooms are different, depending on the location and orientation. All vertical communication takes place via the swallow. All classrooms on the ground floor have direct access to their own terrace. Stairs from the 2nd floor of the school rooms lead directly down to the play area. Administration, staff rooms and teacher work rooms are gathered in a house.
The main entrance to the “Council House” is added to the school square. There is good visual contact from the staff room, the headmaster's office and the education of the school square. The special rooms are divided into 2 buildings with access from the swallow passage. Strict cost and area requirements were set, which resulted in a gross network factor of 1.18 (eg. The artistic decoration is performed by 5 different artists. The school street became the natural location of the work. The unifying theme of the decoration is “attachment and anchoring”.
