Project: Ungen, architect Gartnerfuglen arkitekter

In 2020, the young architectural office Gartnerfuglen received the prestigious Oslo Architecture Association's architecture Prize for Ungen/The Kid, one of their very first commissions. The jury highlighted the project as an inspiration for interventions in the historical areas of Oslo, demonstrating the value of quality and craft: "The project has been carried out with obvious care for all of its phases, from its conceptual presence in the urban context to the articulation of the individual rooms' construction, light, materials and details." This small extension to a small house is a infill project in the former working-class areas along Akerselva, the river that hydro-powered the city's first industrialization. Its name is taken from the play Ungen (1911) by Oskar Braaten, a chronicler of the first factories and the lives of the factory workers. Today both the industrial power and misery of these areas are substituted by the characteristics of gentrification. In the continuous