Dråpa House is an extension of a modernist house from 1939 on the outskirts of Oslo for a painter and a filmmaker, adding much needed area for the family. Titled “Dråpa” after the ancient verse form with the same name which was praising poems for kings, earls, and other dignitaries.
© Johan Dehlin
The project interprets and adds a curvilinear extension as a play on the modernist language, complementing the existing house. In the era the existing house was built many examples have a soft, curved shape together with a rectangular volume.
© Johan Dehlin
We therefore consider the curved shape of the extension as in line with the house´s character, and possibly in line with how an extension would have been made at the time the house was built.
© Johan Dehlin
The extension stretches over 3 floors and contains 3 bedrooms, a generous living and kitchen area, and a terrace on the 3rd floor with views over Oslo and its archipelago. The project has a concrete base referring to the existing house and vertical wood cladding as opposed to the horizontal cladding of the existing house.
Project Info
Architects: Groma AS, Vatn Architecture
Country: Norway, Oslo
Area: 150 m²
Year: 2023
Photographs: Johan Dehlin
Team: Espen Vatn, Andrea Pinochet, Trym Langeggen Tafjord, Jelle Boone, Ingrid Dale, Hanna Birkeland Bergh
Program / Use / Building Function: Residential
