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

© Fin Serck-Hanssen

Architects: Lie Øyen arkitekter as

Location: Tussefaret 19, 1440 Drøbak, Norway

Project Leader: Kristoffer Øyen

Area: 60.0 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Fin Serck-Hanssen, Nils Petter Dale

Consultants: Opplandske Betongindustri AS: Lena Kowalcyk (Structural engineer)

Client: Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi

Interiors: Lie Øyen arkitekter?s own carpenters: Jacek Kowalczyk and Andrzej Prymakowski

Gross Area: 150 m2 (120 m2 usable area)
Estimated Energy Consumption: 110 kWh/m2 GBA per year

Area Usage: 25 m2 GBA per resident

© Fin Serck-Hanssen

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

Diagram

Villa Tussefaret is a 60 m2 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...