IT-Fornebu, Oslo, Norway
2008
a-lab



Client: IT-Fornebu
Area: 15 000 m2

The former Oslo Airport area is now being transformed into the business centre for digital technology based companies. This new project will create a portal to the new district complex, connecting tightly to the existing terminal buildings.
The new buildings are situated where the landing strip, piers and planes used to be.



Starting with the central hall as a main space, a new main entrance is created. New rental areas and working places add qualities that the terminal building is lacking, rather than competing with it.
It is in the union of old and new that a unique project that profiles IT-Fornebu as an international IT-centre is created.

The new building is solved in three typologies.
The “MEGAHUB” is visually a signal element of entrance, entrance space and attraction. It hovers over the new public entrance space and leads the movement further towards the main entrance in the central hall for all visitors.
MEGAHUB is a place for expo related activity, but can also be used as office space.



The “work platforms” are optimal arenas for each renter’s enterprise by being a tabula rasa situation. There is “nothing” between the glass in the façade, the panelled ceiling and technical flooring other than open space. The content of the room is the most important, uniquely reflected in the façade.

The “supply towers” provide the work platforms with electricity, air and water (vertical infrastructures), together with informal meeting spaces and connections between the platforms. The towers are connected on level 1, linking them to the supplying goods and technical areas.





IT-Fornebu Oslo architects : a-lab

Norway Buildings

Oslo architects : Snøhetta

Norwegian Architects



Norwegian building : Molde

Norwegian building : Knut Hamsun Center by Steven Holl Architects

World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

Information from a-lab 2008

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IT-Fornebu Oslo Building - page: adrian welch / isabelle lomholt