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Entwurf • Design Helen & Hard, NO-Stavanger
Grundriss Erdgeschoss • Ground floor plan
Grundriss Regelgeschoss • Standard floor plan
mit • with SAAHA, NO-Oslo
Foto: Architekt Njål Undheim
Bauherr • Client SR-Bank, NO-Stavanger
Nutzfläche • Floor space 22.500 m 2
Fotos • Photos Sindre Ellingsen, NO-Sandnes
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More information on page 134
SR-BANK HEADQUARTER
IN STAVANGER
The new SR Bank headquarters in Stavanger in Norway
designed by Helen & Hard and SAHAA ranks among the
largest timber constructions in Europe. The up to seven
storeys high office building not only proves a new self-
image as well as a new interpretation of the task of buil-
ding banks but also of how the atmospheric qualities of
wood can benefit multi-storey inner-city workplaces.
H elen & Hard love building and experimenting with wood. The
Norwegian architectural office has already proved this with
a wide variety of building tasks. Among them are – to list just a few
– the private home in Reilstad (2018) clinging to the rocky coast,
the lively school complex in Sauland (2018) or the library-, office-
and apartment building in Samling which has just been completed
this year. All the buildings benefit to a high degree from the unique,
warm and authentic qualities of wood as the natural construction
material. In the banking industry, wood as a constructive building
material is still an absolute novelty. With the SR Bank in the former
European Capital of Culture Stavanger (2008), Helen & Hard toget-
her with SAHAA have just recently been able to set an example of
the image change in the banking industry. It was the goal of the
client to offer the employees a healthy and inspiring work climate of
natural materials. The up to seven storeys high building in Bjergsted
Park not only has an interior construction of a wide variety of
woods but also a load-bearing timber structure of glued-wood- and
cross-laminated plywood trusses. The glazed building has been de-
signed together with the Swiss engineering office Création Holz
of Herrmann Blümer and the Norwegian Degree of Freedom engi-
neering office. The office floors are arranged around a central, light-
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supply ng atrium. In the same way as the branches of a tree grow
freely, the galleries of the individual levels also appear to unfold
organically, almost wild. The atrium looks like a natural landscape
where different seating options invite to sit down. The timber con-
struction is braced by four staircases, floor panels of cross-lamina-
ted timber and continuous trusses of laminated beech veneer
along the façades on every floor. Organically shaped timber trusses
and visible beech dowels are further characteristic features. Quiet
workstations are arranged along the façades. A 5.40 metres wide
axis grid creates freely divisible zones. This is intended to ensure a
long and flexible use of the bank building.
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