EXTENSION TO SUNDHÖLLIN Í REYKJAVÍK

We are very proud of our contribution to the competition for the extension of 

Sundhöllin í Reykjavík. Even though the jury did not agree with us on how to 

connect a new structure with the old building, and didn´t value our solution 

for overall access for everyone without the use of elevators, we still think 

that our new outdoor areas are among the sunniest of the proposals, and the

minimalism of the addition would have suited the original structure quite well. 

See the other entries and jury comments here:

http://reykjavik.is/sites/default/files/ymis_skjol/skjol_frettir/sundhollin_highres.pdf

Description of the project and some more drawings on:

http://www.zeroimpactstrategies.com/

DYRFJÖLL - STÓRURÐ

Victory in Iceland !  ZeroImpactStrategies wins the competition for Dyrfjöll/Stórurð. We are very proud :)
Check out Eiriks website for more: http://www.zeroimpactstrategies.com/

PLUMS

Finally 2012 and 2013 are bottled and labelled, new design, same old recipe.

PEAR CHOCOLATE CAKE

BYENS BESTE SOMMERKAKE ?

Da er vi i finalen i konkurransen om Fredrikstads beste sommerkake....
....og den vant så klart! heder og ære, kampbilletter, konsertbilletter og middag på by´n ! 
moro med konkurranser!!

SEWING

My first Spoonflower fabric printing experiment: extra seating with a print of icelandic Blóðberg (Thymus arcticus). Spoonflower is cool!

CARPENTRY

Successful carpentry experiment: mobile closets for 32 pairs of shoes, with pegs for kids clothes, and shelves on top.

RECYCLING

This years homemade christmasgift: recycled floor material samples as a puzzle with the five gaits of the icelandic horse; this proved to be rather difficult to solve :)

NORGE´S FINESTE PEPPERKAKEHUS ?

Da er vi ihvertfall med i konkurransen....

GENERAL BIRTHE´S EPLEPAI

Måtte bare delta i kakekonkurransen om Elingaard Herregårds signaturkake for å få et kombinasjonsinnlegg her, og det ble en 2. plass gitt, ikke dårlig når en proff kokk tok første plass. Kaken sanket flest publikumsstemmer, sjekk Østfoldmuseenes omtale.

CHOCOLATE BISCOTTI

Here is a self-composed variaton of the original recipe, fantastic with coffee!

BISCOTTI

Here is our favorite biscotti-recipe, perfect for dipping in coffee or sweet wine...

JULEKONSERT

Vellykket julekonsert gjennomført i stappfull Onsøy kirke...

GRAFFITI

And now we have started with graffiti at home......inspired by details from the oldest stave church in Norway at Urnes.

SOMMERKONSERT

Da er det tid for årets sommerkonsert igjen...:)

JEWELRY DESIGN 3rd PRIZE!

We participated in an open design competition arranged by the Iceland Design Center and jewelry designer Hendrikka Waage, our approach was to create asymmetry and capture the feeling of water...

We came in third of just about 120 entries !! Our bracelet design was considered the competitions best, suitable also as a concept for a ring design. We were quite satisfied with our presentation; obviously the jury liked it as well.

Present at the seremony in Reykjavik last friday were jury members Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, Icelands greatest fashion designer and Reykjavik City Artist of the year 2009, and Geoffroy Medinger,UK Brand director for Van Cleef & Arpels

Krissi from Krads received the prize on behalf of us.

See also extensive coverage from the prize seremony on icelandic TV here (in icelandic).

COOLEST BIRDHOUSE AROUND

MUSIKK-KAFE

Da er plakaten til den første musikk-caféen på Kolberg klar...

HATLEHOL CHURCH

In january we participated, in collaboration with KRADS Architecture, in the open architectural competition for a new church at Hatlehol in the Ålesund region in Norway. 123 proposals were submitted, with participants from several european countries.

Our proposal interprets the site and activates the stony ground to create intimate closed spaces, while the wooden rib structure reinterprets the forest of the church site to create flowing ancillary spaces together with the main church room.

While our proposal focused on interpreting and creating a sense of place with dissolved boundaries and subtle light variations, the winning entry (by danish architects Cornelius + Vöge) focused on creating an expressive space with pin-pointed visual and light effects, an altogether different strategy.

TREEHOUSE FINISHED!

Finally the treehouse is finished, at least for this season...

TREEHOUSE COMING UP

Recycling material from our old roof; still under construction...

COVER FOR TRINE

Ett CD-cover til for våre lokale helter...

SUMMER PIE

This is a surprisingly good mix of tastes...

SOMMERKONSERT

Da er plakaten til sommerkonserten klar...

APPLE & LEMON CAKE

Here is a fresh and different apple cake with a touch of Normandy... 

CHOCOLATE MERINGUE

Here is last saturdays cake for KAFÉ NYT, a super simple recipe!

FAMILIEKOR-CD

Og da er CD´n til familiekoret endelig klar, den er vi alle veldig stolte av!

HAFNARFJÖRÐUR LIBRARY

HAFNARFJÖRÐUR LIBRARY (HAFNARFJÖRÐUR, ICELAND)

Last October we participated once again in an open competition in Iceland. Since the credit crunch had hit Iceland pretty hard, a large part of the icelandic architectural offices participated - 31 entries in all. The task was to design an addition to the existing library and reorganizing the existing interior.

Our proposal responds to a new municipal square with large buildings of up to 4-5 stories and at the same time to a small housing street of single family houses of 1-2 stories. It is a hybrid building which transforms and interprets the leftover space necessary to separate these very different public domains, exposing itself in the big scale towards the square while breaking up and lowers itself to fit the intimacy of the housing street. Even the materials selected try to merge the two identities of the site, choosing as the main cladding a bronze sinuscorrugated steel cladding - a subtly refined version of the traditional cladding used in older housing areas in Iceland.

The jury did not find our approach a viable one for the site, choosing to prize entries which all are percieved as signal objects and therefore blows the scale and intimacy of the housing street completely. 

LAYER-CONFECT

This one is a killer...

STOFNUN ÁRNA MAGNÚSSONAR

CENTER FOR ICELANDIC STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF REYKJAVIK, AND ARNI MAGNUSSONS INSTITUTE (REYKJAVIK, ICELAND)

In june 2008 we submitted a proposal for a new university campus building in Reykjavík, gathering all Icelandic competence researching and educating in the historic Icelandic litterature and better facilities for displaying the original Saga manuscripts in one building. Needless to say, the building would be of national importance a grat many architectural offices took part. We collaborated with Geir, Jarl Ture and Espen (the rest of Griff Arkitektur), as well as brainstorming at the beginning with Odd and Adnan (from a-lab). The building is divided into three distinctive parts - Álfaborgin (the elf city);the rock you enter into where the national treasure is kept safe - jarðskorpan (the crust); the rouch icelandic landscape where you move freely on top, and "bókin" (the book); hovering over the violent landscape, elevated and contaiing and protecting the knowledge.  We got shortlisted in the evaluation, one of 5 potential contenders to the 1. prize. Among the jury comments were ".... The floor plans of the lower floors are skillfully done with beautiful horizontal and vertical spatial connections. The idea of the connection between the storage facilities and the exposition area is particularly interesting...,... the library and exhibition spaces are interestingly designed the overall appearance is exciting and positive, material choices are innovative"

PLUMS 2008

Finally last years harvest was labelled today!

Following fru Kolstads fantastic and simple recipe; just fill a jar with plums, add as much sugar as possible, and finally as much 60% as you can, + a few crushed plum stones, and leave for 3 months, turning every now and then. Skål!

TIA MARIA

Today´s cake! made especially for the exhibition opening at KAFÉ NYT.

A new combination of several previously tested elements...enjoy!

MUDESA

MUSEUM OF DESIGN AND APPLIED ARTS (GARÐABÆR, ICELAND)

On the 9th of April 2008 we went to Garðabær to pick up the 3rd prize for our proposal for the new Museum of Design an Applied Arts (Mudesa). There were 35 competition entries.

Visiting the museum would be a unique spatial experience - the museum opens up towards the square with its spiralling shape and invites the visitors in, as well as exposes its contents outwards and contributes to a lively town center square. The strength of the proposal is the way it weaves outside and inside together, and the multistorey central exposition space which connects all levels of the building.

Among the jury comments were " Convincing solution. Ambitious proposal, effortless in its simplicitiy without being neutral....Internal spaces are intertwined in an amusing way with good visual connections....The proposal contains brilliant solutions and interesting spaces of varying size and shape."

The winning proposal was made by PK Arkitektar, one of the leading architectural offices in Iceland.