Oslo Cancer Cluster Innovasjonspark (OCCI)
LOCATION:
Oslo, Norway
ARCHITECTS:
DARK Architects AS + Arkitektpartner
MODEL:
Javier College
MORE INFO:
www.darkarkitekter.no (architect)
www.arkitektpartner.se (architect)
www.skanska.com (contractor)
www.oslocancercluster.no (client)
The building houses the Oslo Cancer Cluster, an organization integrated in a global network of research institutions, that intends this project to be a highly skilled cluster of professionals, start-up businesses and research facilities. This meeting point between scientists, students and investors is bound to generate new ideas, capital and solutions in the fields of biomedicine.
Common areas are accessible by both students and researchers, and were conceived with the aim of encouraging dialogue and collaboration between the two. The building volumes, placed over the horizontal base, host the workspaces where laboratories and offices complement each other. This the so called business incubator where science, creativity meet each other.
The challenge of combining teaching (Ullern high-school), research facilities and office spaces for health and cancer research related startups gave this project an extra layer of complexity. Ascénder contributed to the supply of the chairs for one of those key common areas, the auditorium: a state of the art solution comprising seat and fixed writing desk on back.
The original design of our Javier College chair was modified for this project featuring an innovative riser fixing solution and the integration of power & data outlets under the long fixed desks.
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