Furthermore, the nursery building is part of the ambitious FutureBuilt programme, under which the three largest municipalities in the Oslo area work together to create climate-neutral buildings of high architectural quality. In the architecture for this energy-plus project, we have incorporated passive and technical solutions that make the building produce more energy than it uses. On the roof - the key to the institution’s energy design - solar cells harvest the sun to ensure that the building produces a surplus of energy.

In addition, large windows in the façade and the south-facing roof surfaces are geometrically optimised to create unusually good daylight conditions. The building’s spatial qualities and architecture provide an insight into how energy, environment and biodiversity can all be balanced in a modern nursery. Hence, the building design of Kistefossdammen nursery shows the children - the future citizens of Norway - how human behavior is part of a large cycle, and how the environment and energy affects one another.

In that sense this project is an example of how architecture and technology interact and how climate friendly architecture can be about much more than advanced technology.