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Multi-disciplinary, international design- and innovation competition

COMPETITION PROGRAMME

Competition Programme // Lilletorget 1 1

URBAN+

LILLETORGET 1

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY, INTERNATIONAL DESIGN- AND INNOVATION COM-

PETITION

COMPETITION PROGRAMME

INTRODUCTION

Entra ASA is the owner of Lilletorget 1, a central city property within the perimeter of the

main transportation hub of Oslo Central Station (Oslo S) and on the same plaza as the Metro

(“T-banen”). The present office building (1936 retrofitted 1985) in no ways meets contempo-

rary standards for environmental performance nor sustainable densities at central locations.

Hence, Entra aims to demolish the building and build a new office building with public ser-

vice areas (shops etc) on the ground floor(s).

In order to investigate the potential of the property, Entra launches an international design-

and innovation competition for multidisciplinary teams of experts, and with explicit goals for

environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions for the building as well as the urban level.

The competition will be organised in the manner of a two-stage competition:

- Stage 1: an open, international multidisciplinary design contest

- Stage 2: a non-anonymous competition between three winners of the Stage 1

design contest.


CONTENTS

1 GENERAL INFORMATION ........................................................................................... 3

1.1 Competition format ........................................................................................................... 3 1.2 Framework ........................................................................................................................ 3 1.3 Overall Goal ...................................................................................................................... 3 1.4 Prizes and payments .......................................................................................................... 3 1.5 The jury ............................................................................................................................. 4 1.6 Eligibility ........................................................................................................................... 4 1.7 Competition schedule ........................................................................................................ 4 1.8 Competition rules .............................................................................................................. 5 1.9 Competition language ....................................................................................................... 5 1.10 Insurance of entries ......................................................................................................... 5 1.11 Returning the entries ....................................................................................................... 5 1.12 Announcement of results, Stages 1 and 2, final resolution and publication ................... 5 1.13 Use and publication rights ............................................................................................... 5 1.14 Recommendations, cancellation ...................................................................................... 5

2 DOCUMENTATION AND OTHER SOURCE INFORMATION ............................... 6

2.1 Competition documentation .............................................................................................. 6 2.2 Meeting and site visit ........................................................................................................ 6 2.3 Questions concerning the competition .............................................................................. 6

3 TASK AND DESIGN GUIDELINES ............................................................................... 7

3.1 Description of the competition area and surroundings ...................................................... 7 3.2 The existing building ......................................................................................................... 7 3.3 Objectives and Challenges ................................................................................................ 8 3.4 Starting points and instructions for design ........................................................................ 9

4 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA ............................................................................................ 12

4.1 Stage 1 ............................................................................................................................. 12 4.2 Stage 2 ............................................................................................................................. 13

5 INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING ENTRIES ......................................................... 14

5.1 Secrecy and anonymity of entrants ................................................................................. 14 5.2 Required documents ........................................................................................................ 14 5.3 Submission of entries, Stage 1 ........................................................................................ 15


1 GENERAL INFORMATION

1.1 Competition format

The owner and promoter of the competition is Entra ASA. The competition is organized in

two stages; one open multidisciplinary design competition followed by a Stage 2 competition

for awarded entries.

Stage 1 is an open international competition. The jury will select 3 entries that are judged to

be the best and/or have the highest potential for further development according to the compe-

tition’s goals. In the event that four entries be deemed of equal standing, the number selected

may be 4. These 3 (4) will proceed to Stage 2. At the end of Stage 2 the jury will select one

winner among the entries.

1.2 Framework

The competition is arranged in close dialogue with FutureBuilt www.futurebuilt.no. The aim

is to make Lilletorget 1 a FutureBuilt project. FutureBuilt is a ten-year Norwegian programme

(2010-2020) with a vision of developing carbon neutral urban areas and high-quality architec-

ture. The goal is to complete 50 pilot projects – urban areas as well as individual buildings –

with the lowest possible greenhouse gas emissions. These pilots shall also contribute to an

improved city environment with regard to ecological cycles, health and the general impression

of the city. For more information, see www.futurebuilt.no. The Oslo City Planning and Build-

ing Authorities are committed to FutureBuilt through partnership. FutureBuilt is represented

in the Jury.

FutureBuilt and Entra have jointly established a “Quality Program” for this office-building

project, as is the case with all prospective FutureBuilt projects. The Quality Program formu-

lates a number of general and specific goals to guide the development of the project. These

goals are incorporated in the Competition Programme, and the Quality Program is added as an

appendix.

Cradle to Cradle (C2C) is a framework for design and innovation. Rather than focusing on

reducing environmental impacts, the C2C framework aims to avoid the negative impact alto-

gether by excluding the use of hazardous substances and promoting innovative design solu-

tions. The objective is to affect the surroundings in a positive manner. Entra has, as important

aspects of the company strategy, adapted closed loops perspectives and circular processes,

and aims to include elements with C2C intentions into this project. See appendix 3 for more

details.

1.3 Overall Goal

The overall goal of the competition is to find the proposal that best answers to the general

brief program of innovative excellence in design- and urbanism, to the FutureBuilt and C2C

criteria, and to Entra’s environmental ambition of being a frontrunner of environmentally

friendly and sustainable property development and construction.

For details, see chapter 3.

1.4 Prizes and payments

For Stage 1, three winning entries will each receive a prize of 200.000 NOK (approximately

24.350 € as of Nov 2014). The jury has 150.000 NOK for additional prizes/purchases.

http://www.futurebuilt.no/


For Stage 2, the three participants will each be paid 200.000 NOK excl. MVA (VAT), pre-

suming that proposals are in accordance with the competition brief and the more detailed

guidelines given in the negotiation procedure.

1.5 The jury

The jury of the Nordic Built Competition Norway consists of the following persons:

1. Kristin Haug Lund, Executive Vice President, Entra (chairperson)

2. Sonja Horn, Executive Vice President, Central Oslo Region, Entra

3. Henrik Melder, Director for Property Rent, Entra

4. Fritjof Salvesen, chartered engineer; Asplan Viak, Department of Energy and Environ-

ment – nominated by RIF (Association of Consulting Engineers, Norway)

5. Stein Stoknes, chartered architect MNAL; nominated by FutureBuilt

6. Kristin Jarmund, M.Arch. MNAL, nominated by NAL (The National Association of

Norwegian Architects)

7. Kasper Guldager Jensen, Architect MAA (3XNielsen AS, Denmark), nominated by

NAL

Dag Christer Øverland, Project Leader for Entra, will act as advisor to the jury.

Asplan Viak, Department of Energy and Environment will act as advisor to Entra in general

and the jury in particular on evaluations of the entries’ environmental concepts and calcula-

tions, and assess the entry material for sufficiency.

In addition, the jury has the right to use other external experts when assessing the proposals.

External experts do not participate in the decision-making.

Secretary for the jury is Øystein Grønning, M.Arch. MNAL, migrant a+u, Norway.

Competition Secretariat is NAL, responsible Per Rygh, M.Arch MNAL.

1.6 Eligibility

Stage 1 of the competition is open to all. Participants are required to form multidisciplinary

teams. Multidisciplinary is in this context seen as a minimum of 3 different professions repre-

sented, that all together and separately answer to criteria of sustainability and environmentally

friendly planning and construction, as demonstrated through professional references given on

their websites.

In stage 2, the jury may require the teams to be strengthened by specific experts, if this is seen

as necessary to meet competence requirements

1.7 Competition schedule

Competition period for Stage 1 01 Dec 2014 – 27 Feb 2015

Announcement of 3 (4) winners to Stage 2 26 March 2015

1

Competition period for Stage 2 10 April 2015 – 12 June 2015

Announcement of winner of Stage 2 Ultimo June 2015

The schedule is indicative. It will be confirmed after the number of entries in Stage 1 is clear.

1 To take place at the annual ”Entra-dagen” 2015


1.8 Competition rules

The competition follows Norwegian law and the present competition programme. In possible

contentious situations, the order of applying the rules shall be as follows:

1. Norwegian law

2. The present competition programme.

1.9 Competition language

The competition language is English. This applies for all entries and all questions posed to the

Jury. In no way shall any submitted material disclose the team behind the entry, neither their

geographical basis.

1.10 Insurance of entries

The competition promoter will not insure competition entries.

1.11 Returning the entries

The competition entries will not be returned. Entries that have not been selected for Stage 2

can be collected personally from the competition promoter, or be returned at the cost of the

entrant within two weeks after the announcement of the competition result.

1.12 Announcement of results, Stages 1 and 2, final resolution and publication

The authors of the 3 (4) entries selected for stage 2 will be informed by 26 March 2015.

The competition entries, at least those selected for further development, will be published on

the competition website by their mottos.

The result of the stage 2 of the competition will be immediately conveyed to the authors of the

winning entry. Other competitors in Stage 2 will be individually notified.

1.13 Use and publication rights

The group awarded the design commission will retain the right to use themes and ideas from

all proposals selected for Stage 2, and others who may have been awarded prizes/purchases in

Stage 1. The copyright of designs will remain with the authors of the proposals.

Entra retains the right to publish the competition proposals selected for Stage 2. In connection

with the publication of the material (after the announcement of the results), the main author/s

of the proposals in question will always be mentioned by company/-ies or individual names.

1.14 Recommendations, cancellation

The jury will make its recommendations for further actions based on the results of the compe-

tition. The intention is that the commission for further design work will be awarded to the

authors of the winning proposal.

If the building project for any reason is cancelled or if the consultancy contract is not other-

wise awarded to the winner of the competition within four years of the announcement of win-

ner of the competition, the winner shall receive a compensation of NOK 150 000 ex VAT.


2 DOCUMENTATION AND OTHER SOURCE INFORMATION

2.1 Competition documentation

The documentation comprises this competition programme plus the following appendices:

Background

1. FutureBuilt Quality Program for Lilletorget 1

2. FutureBuilt’s Plus-Energy building definition

3. C2C Objectives

Templates etc.

4. Environmental Strategies Template

5. BREEAM-NOR Pre-Assessment tool

6. Material Calculator Template

Maps etc.

7. Base maps / site map

8. Master Plan Pap (current)

9. Ground conditions, geological information

10. 3DS MAX, site & surrondings

Links

FutureBuilt, http://www.futurebuilt.no/english1

BREEAM-NOR: http://ngbc.no/english

Areal photos: http://www.1881.no (Lilletorget1, Oslo)

The competition documents and additional information related to the competition can be

downloaded from 01 December 2014 onwards at NAL’s website, www.arkitektur.no/entra-

competition.

The competition programme and its appendices have been checked and approved by Entra

and FutureBuilt.

2.2 Meeting and site visit

An information meeting for potential participants will be held at Entra’s offices on Wednes-

day, 10 Dec at 13:00 PM, followed by a brief site visit. For reasons of security control at the

headquarter building, participants are required to register by name (all names) to:

[email protected], at the latest by Dec 9th

.

Due to early darkness, participants may want to see the site prior to the meeting.

2.3 Questions concerning the competition

Stage 1

Competitors can forward questions regarding the competition task via e-mail to the competi-

tion secretary, until 15 January 2015. The secretary is Per Rygh, [email protected]

Questions will be handled anonymously. They may be answered in batches according to need,

the last immediately after 15 January.

The organizer has the right to compile questions of similar content/character and answer them

in groups. All questions and replies will be available on the competition website.

http://www.futurebuilt.no/english1

http://ngbc.no/english

http://www.1881.no/

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


3 TASK AND DESIGN GUIDELINES

3.1 Description of the competition area and surroundings

The area is an important hub at the crossroads between Oslo’s central core and the eastern

central area of Grønland, Oslo’s possibly most socio-culturally diverse precinct. The rectangle

formed by buildings and a motorway is traversed by the Akerselva river that, however lacking

in largesse, holds great symbolic and historic significance for the capital city.

Lilletorget 1 constitutes the most important part of the western side of the rectangle. The

northern has a number of very different urban buildings with restaurants, coffee shops, shops

and bars on ground floors, and includes the entrance to the Metro (T-banen). The north-side

street includes a bridge over the river. To the east the most apparent element is the elevated

motorway bridge. Underneath is a building with changing programmes, presently a municipal

youth centre.

The south side is the site of the high-rise Radisson Blu Hotel. It faces Sonia Henie’s Plaza,

away from the Vaterland Park area. A new wing of some 50 metres height is up for approval,

and will then form the southern wall of the Vaterland park rectangle.

The Oslo Spectrum concert and events hall lies in the southwest corner, flanking both the ho-

tel and Lilletorget 1. This corner has a very complex geometry due to a truck ramp to Spec-

trum’s lower levels, for unloading/loading for concerts, TV productions, etc. Trucks enter

from Stenersgata and exit between Vaterland Park and the competition site.

The park forms visual and physical barriers to adjacent areas. As a result of an absence of

“public eyes” on three of its four sides, the park has become a gathering place for vagrants

and is therefore not seen as attractive in the local context. The hotel and concert hall turn

blind sides to the park. Parking leaves the existing Lilletorget 1 building with little urban

street-level activity that could help in this respect.

3.2 The existing building

The current building on the site will be demol-

ished. Re-use of building elements from this

will not be part of the competition program, as

materials will be deposited for independent re-

use or recycling.

The Lilletorget 1 property is 208/379. Added to

this is parts of 208/889 and 999/881, soon to be

bought by Entra. The zoning codes are for

“stores and office” and “traffic area – plaza”

respectively, but the latter will be changed with

the new plans. The total area allows for a maxi-

mum footprint of 1900 m2. Space for traffic

(deliveries, emergencies etc) must be reserved at

a width indicated on the map along the plot pe-

rimeter from street to street.


3.3 Objectives and Challenges

3.3.1 Objectives

Objectives are:

to optimise environmental performance at the highest possible standard for centrally

placed, high-rise business properties,

to provide office space and commercial space of truly exceptional quality in terms of

technology, functionality, sustainability, accessibility and location

to replace a centrally located building lacking of attractors, with one that offers high-

quality commercial and public service on ground levels, thus invigorating the vicinity and

providing safe urban surroundings through high-density qualities.

3.3.2 Environmental Challenge

The environmental objective of the competition is to optimise environmental performance.

This implies setting new design standards with bases in economy, environmental innovation

and life cycle principles, for high-rise office buildings.

This objective implies that there will be no set building height, number of floors and square

metres. However, a precondition is that the building must be “lower than the Radisson Blu

Hotel”. The footprint will be a minimum of 1600 m² and a maximum of 1900 m². Height and

number of floors will be a result of the environmental and sustainability criteria, given the

proximity to Oslo Central Station and other hubs of public transportation. The building’s sta-

tus as a FutureBuilt project means that environmental performance is prioritised. Height and

utilisation will be a result of the competition investigation rather than prescribed by conven-

tional guidelines.

The environmental challenge is substantial. No detailed analysis has been undertaken on pre-

sent-day and future environmental performance goals, such as BREEAM-NOR Outstanding,

or for making the building a Plus-Energy building (a net producer of energy). This is the task

for the competition. However, indicative analyses point to the realism of the goals.

3.3.3 Architectural and Urbanism Challenge

The architectural objective is to provide commercial retail and office space of truly excep-

tional quality in terms of technology, functionality, sustainability, accessibility and location.

Accessibility and location are largely given.

The urbanism objective is to radically improve the immediate ground level and adjacent qual-

ity and status of the site. The site is flanked by pedestrian and bicycle currents on two sides.

None of this is in any way reflected in the public quality of the present building, with the pos-

sible exception of a first-rate fish shop and a popular sculpture. It is a basic requirement in the

competition that the new building radically alters this lack of public consciousness or sensitiv-

ity, and that it will become a true place-maker. The new building must represent employees as

well as other users in numbers that, along with activities, will ensure close to a 24/7 street-life

urbanity.

In the “Quality Programme” of the Municipal Planning Authorities, Goal 1 on Urban Envi-

ronments and Architecture states; “the project must coexist well with the rest of the (neigh-

bouring) built structures”. Goal 2 says it must be clear that “new, public functions on the low-


er floors” are planned, “accessible for the general public on street level”. This coincides fully

with Entra’s program.

Car parking will be minimised and bicycling optimised.

3.4 Starting points and instructions for design

3.4.1 Eco-efficiency

Introduction: the Urban Plus-House

Lilletorget 1 does not provide ground areas for conventional energy production. The footprint

of the new building will cover the currently available ground area. The competition explicitly

bars entries from employing either ground boreholes or the adjacent river Akerselva from

being used for energy provision. The reason is that Entra wants to investigate the building as a

framework for energy, so as to maximise general experiments instead of site-specific poten-

tials.

Entra’s goal is to gain knowledge about new and innovative solutions that are easily transfer-

able. Solutions should radically improve environmental performance while balancing costs

with market willingness. Such solutions will ideally provide answers that can be a model for

buildings of similar typologies.

All teams are recommended use the attached template (appendix 4) to describe their strategies

and solutions concerning energy and environment together with the material calculator.

Overall goals

1. Plus-Energy building without the use of boreholes or water from the Akerselva river.

Motivation: to create an energy-positive precedence building for other city-centre

buildings. Boreholes and river water reduces the transfer value and is therefore ex-

cluded in the competition. The building aims to produce surplus energy of at least

2 kWh/m².

2. BREEAM-NOR Outstanding.

The aim should be achieving the rating Outstanding in the BREEAM-NOR environ-

mental assessment method.

3. C2C (Cradle to Cradle) for a minimum of three main components (C2C products):

building materials / elements that can be reused when the building once be rehabilitat-

ed.

4. Minimum 50 % reduction in carbon emissions for energy, materials and transportation

compared to a precedence building, which follows from FutureBuilt’s requirements.

5. Universal Design

Solutions shall be adapted to users with different needs regarding visibility and mo-

bility etc, ie go beyond the minimum requirements of technical regulations (Norwe-

gian: Teknisk forskrift) regarding Universal Design.

Plus-Energy building:

The building should meet all FutureBuilt requirements for Plus-Energy buildings (appendix

2).

Minimum for stage 1:

An energy calculation for the project should be made. Relevant standards (NS 3031:2012 and

NS 3701:2014) with minimum requirements and normative data should be followed.

As the standards are not available in English we have listed some important normative data:


energy consumption and useful heat from technical equipment (6 W/m²), DHW

(1.6 W/m²) and persons (4 W/m²) during operating hours.

fixed set point temperatures during/outside operating hours for heating (21/19 °C) and

cooling plants (22 °C)

fixed operating hours for the building (5 days per week 07-19)

minimum requirements for air volumes during/outside operating hours: 6/1 m³/m²h.

However, it might be possible to use lower air volumes according to FutureBuilt’s

plus house definition (appendix 2), if documented.

climatic data for Oslo.

Results from the simulation should be given as net energy demand per year (per m² and total),

documenting that all passive house requirements are met (maximum heating demand, maxi-

mum cooling demand and maximum heat loss number).

In addition, net energy demand, delivered energy and weighted delivered energy should be

specified divided between el-specific (ex post 5 Technical Equipment), heating and cooling,

with a table similar to the one that is shown in the Plus-Energy building definition document

(appendix 2). You are welcome to use other tables showing similar information in a different

way if preferred.

Demand for delivered energy should be calculated using system efficiencies from NS

3031:2014 (for instance the system efficiency for district heating will generally be around

85 %). Other production efficiencies can be used if documented.

Furthermore, local production of renewable electricity and/or heat should be provided in a

similar table. An example on such a table is also shown in the Plus-Energy building definition

document. (appendix 2).

If solar energy production (PV and/or solar thermal) is part of your energy supply solution,

estimates of production of shall be calculated in suitable software, and printouts/reports from

the software should be attached. Be aware of shadows from existing buildings in the area.

If the team plans for export of electricity, heating or cooling, it must be described how this

will be solved.

BREEAM-NOR Outstanding:

There are no requirements for documentation regarding BREEAM-NOR in stage 1 in the

competition. However, BREEAM-NOR Outstanding means that there will be requirements to

many different environmental topics. In stage 2 of the competition, a preliminary BREEAM-

NOR Pre-assessment by using a provided tool will be required. For those that are interested,

the tool is available, but not expected to be used in stage 1.

Minimum for stage 1, however: Describe your team’s ideas on transport, as described in ap-

pendix 4, and according to requirements for parking in chapter 3.4.3 below.

Cradle to Cradle (C2C) (Appendix 3)

Minimum for Stage 1:

- Formulate a comprehensive C2C objective and strategy for the project, including continu-

ous improvement strategy development.

- Describe and justify C2C strategies for minimum three elements.


Carbon emissions from materials:


The material calculator (appendix 6) should be used according to instructions given in the

template to show the main materials used in the building, to corroborate that the project goal

for carbon emissions will be met.

Sun shading

It is preferred to avoid complex outside mechanisms that are prone to damage from wind and

otherwise complex to maintain. Participants should avoid risks and strive for low maintenance

costs solutions.

During Stage 2 the requirements for documentation will be stricter, to be decided through

negotiations as described above.

Biodiversity

The project is to be a test field for urban biodiversity, integrated into building and site, and

preferably into the immediate surroundings.


- Formulate a strategy for biodiversity, with objectives

- Show solutions.

Climate Change Adaptability


- Present measures to meet, for instance, increased rainfall, for building surfaces and ground

areas.

3.4.2 Architecture

The building’s format (height, footprint etc) will reflect the optimising of the environmental

demands, rather than reflecting general or area-specific guidelines. It is, however, a reasona-

ble assumption that the building will have proportions that make it iconic. Entries should re-

flect this element, bearing in mind that the building will be seen as part of a cluster of promi-

nent buildings on the north side of the Central Station.

The building’s visual appearance may be demonstrated by diagrammatic illustrations from

various strategic viewpoints.

Heights might pose problems in the handling of rainwater, snow and ice. Heed must be taken

to counter risks or other inconvenience to the public. Hence, areas where snow and ice might

build up, or rainwater might be thrown off at angles, should be solved so risk is non-existent.

3.4.3 Urbanism

Urban level improvements

Present-day shortcomings are discussed above and can be observed on site.

Minimum for Stage 1:

- Undertake an analysis (brief) of the urban context and the site.

- Support the analysis with a programmatic discussion of

o how the new building can/will improve the quality of public life on the site and its

immediate surrounding, and

o how this improvement may be followed up by supportive measures on adjacent streets,

squares, park areas etc.

Analysis and discussion shall be based on text and illustrations (sketches, diagrams), and lead

to a programmatic conclusion to guide the design process.


Parking

Lilletorget 1 is very close to the most significant public transportation hub in Norway, Oslo

Central Station and the city’s main bus terminal, adjacent to the Metro station at Grønland,

and one block from a major bus/tram stop in Storgata. The site lies at the intersection of two

very significant main pedestrian and bicycle arteries between Oslo’s central core and the cen-

tral eastern areas. Hence the following points:

- No conventional car parking will be provided.

- 15 units of handicap parking shall double as stations/parking for electrical cars. In addition,

5 parking spaces for deliveries shall be provided.

- The site should provide space for in-house bicycle parking, minimum 10 spaces per 1000

m2 office space, according to FutureBuilt requirements.

- Outdoors visitor bicycle parking (offices and shops, restaurants and other services) should

be near entrances. Covered bicycle parking of various types should be looked at, but care

must be taken to avoid negative effects on visibility, pedestrian and bicycle movement, and

delivery cars access.

4 ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Entra and the Jury intentionally aim to keep evaluation criteria brief and pointed, so as not to

hamper inventiveness and innovation. The explicit goal is to gather ideas from a very broad

professional base, not to limit the competition solely to a few specific professions.

In the assessment of the entries, emphasis is put particularly on the points below and how the

entries fulfil the objectives set out in the competition programme.

For Stage 1, the merits of the overall solution are considered more important than the fault-

lessness of details. The assessment also takes into consideration the development potential of

the proposal, in other words, how it can be modified and developed without the basic solution

being substantially altered.

4.1 Stage 1

Sustainability and Environmental Standard

The main goal is general and aims at sustainability and the environment.

From this platform one has derived a set of criteria in three groups; innovation, architecture

and economy.

Group 1: Innovation

Innovation criteria must be fulfilled. If an entry fails to meet at least the core of these, it will

not go on to stage 2.

Criteria:

1.1 The main aim of the issue of innovation is to enhance environmental technological ex-

pertise, manifest in innovative solutions, as trailblazers for environmentally friendly and

sustainable architecture and construction.

1.2 Entry proposals must show inventiveness and innovative qualities or potential in tech-

nological solutions.


1.3 Proposals should show inventiveness and innovative qualities in the use of bicycles as

not merely a means of transportation, but as a driver of activity.

1.4 Solutions should focus applicability.

1.5 Solutions should strive for “low threshold” qualities.

Group 2: Architecture and Urbanism

Excellence in architectural design and functional solutions, including urbanism.

Criteria:

2.1 Solutions should offer technical designs of exceptional quality and/or potential.

2.2 Solutions must show capacity for becoming architecturally outstanding.

2.3 The particular technological solutions should preferably be expressed architecturally so

that the technology becomes an integral part of the building’s character.

2.4 Principles of Universal design must be demonstrated as a formulated design strategy,

proven by proposed solutions.

2.5 Proposals must significantly raise the public standing of the immediate surroundings

through:

architectural quality,

clarity of access to street level urban surroundings and high quality outdoors space,

street-level functions with strong public profile, open façades or other features of

ground level architecture,

pavements and/or plaza areas conductive to pedestrian and bicycle movement and to

the use of Vaterland Park.

2.6 Based on the urban context analysis, proposals should also aim at indicating improve-

ment solutions to the adjacent Vaterland Park and the ground outside the Concert Hall

and Radisson Blu Hotel. However, it must be stressed that these are not part of the com-

petition area as such.

Group 3: Market and Economy: Usability and Feasibility

Market and cost criteria must be met or lend strong credibility to being met.

Criteria:

3.1 Proposals must target economical and market competitiveness for the building.

3.2 Proposals must enhance the site’s location potential by architectural quality, centrality

and accessibility; make it a dominant hub point and make it stand out in the real estate

market.

3.3 The investment cost of technological and architectural solutions must balance the build-

ing’s economy so that it adds to market strength, not detracts from it.

4.2 Stage 2

Whereas Stage 1 will be largely conceptual, it should be noted that detailing primarily is a

task for Stage 2. Assessment criteria for Stage 2 are basically the same as in Stage 1 but will

be specified in detail in accordance with the recommendations of the jury, individual to each

team, to be published after the end of Stage 1.


Entra will cover documented travel costs for participants for a meeting in Oslo at the start of

Stage 2 with maximum NOK 20.000 per team.

5 INSTRUCTIONS FOR PREPARING ENTRIES

5.1 Secrecy and anonymity of entrants

Stage 1

The first stage of the competition will be judged anonymously and each document shall be

clearly marked with a motto.

The competitors must attach to their entry a neutral name envelope, sealed and non-

transparent, containing the motto for the proposal, the names of the authors and contact in-

formation for the team’s contact person, and who has the copyright to the proposal. In addi-

tion, documentation on the fulfilment of the multi-disciplinary criterion must be gives, as de-

scribed in Ch. 1.6. The name envelope must be marked with the entry’s motto and the text

“Name Envelope”.

Upon entry submission, the competition secretariat shall control that the team meets the multi-

disciplinary criterion and report back to the jury without disclosing who the participants are,

and thereupon store the names envelops according to rules of anonymity.

After the jury has made its decision of the entries to be selected for Stage 2 the name enve-

lopes of these entries will be forwarded to the jury. Other name envelopes remain in the cus-

tody of the secretariat and anonymous until Stage 2 is completed.

5.2 Required documents

5.2.1 Stage 1

A3 booklet, landscape orientation, one bound and one unbound.

The booklet is to document the following:

1. A text explaining the proposal, it’s basic concept and the environmental strategy.

2. An analysis of the urban context, complete with programmatic input to design.

3. A presentation in drawings of the environmental principles of the concept.

4. Elevations that show how the outer shell is solved, architecturally as well as environmen-

tally, showing all sides of the building.

5. Typical office floor plan/s showing examples of area efficiency. At least 3. If top floor

plans deviate from typical ones they are to be shown.

6. Floor plans of ground floor levels, showing how entrances, shops and other services are

solved in terms of connectivity with street and surrounding traffic flows including bicycle

movement (on given site map, modified if preferred).

7. Sections, minimum 2, positions by preference.

8. Templates, as given in 2.1, items 4 and 6, including documentation for Plus-Energy

building as specified in 3.4.1. The teams can choose not to use template 4 (environmental

strategy) if all topics are covered other places in the booklet. We do not expect template 5

(BREEAM pre-assessment) to be submitted in stage 1 of the competition


9. Perspective of the building, free point of view, aimed at illustrating the building’s stand-

ing in the large-scale urban view and the ground level urban context. At least 1 from the

outside, maximum 2.

There are no required scales for elevations, floor plans and sections. This is left to the authors

to decide, but must be given on drawings, along with instructions as to what size paper the

scale is valid for.

The jury stresses that this is a conceptual competition with a technologically innovative pro-

file. The essential element is not quantity but to hold the jury’s attention on the conceptual

level.

CD-rom/USB drive of the proposal with:

- PDF of the booklet

- Excel templates (appendix 5 and 6) in original format (xlsx). Environmental strategy

template (appendix 4) in pdf format (if used).

- All important illustrations, separated in single files, as tiff, pdf or jpg format.

- A brief 600-character (including spaces) presentation text for the possible presentation on

Entra’s website.

Name envelope, see 5.1.

5.2.2 Stage 2

This will be specified during the post-Stage 1 negotiation procedure.

5.3 Submission of entries, Stage 1

5.3.1 Deadline

The competition entries must be submitted no later than the closing date, Friday 27 February

2015 to the postal address given below, with proof (clearly postmarked or registered as evi-

dence of the dispatch date) that they were handed over to the post office or other courier ser-

vice for transportation on or before the closing date.

5.3.2 Delivery, markings and address

The competitors are responsible for the following:

The entry is received at the latest by Tuesday 03 March 2015

The entry will not be held up in customs. The competitors are advised to describe the con-

tents of the package for example as “Design competition documentation, NO RESALE

VALUE”.

Upon expedition of entry, participant teams must notify the competition secretary stating

that an entry with the motto such and such has been submitted for expedition by (carrier’s

name) so that the secretariat can track the entry, should it for some reason be delayed.

The packages must be marked with the text “Lilletorget 1 Design Competition”.

The address of the recipient / Competition Secretariat:

Norske Arkitekters Landsforbund

Josefinesgate 34

0351 Oslo NORWAY

Phone: 0047 23332500 / 41227455

E-mail: [email protected]

Oslo, 01 December 2014

Entra ASA / the Jury

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