The project, which started in 2020, grew out of the desire to create an experience that is truly special and authentic, where nature plays a major part. The four cabins, named: Stylten, Myra, Stjerna, and Eldhuset are located on the edge of Lysefjorden, built to blend in with the landscape with a minimal footprint on the surrounding nature. They are lifted above ground on large concrete pillars and have glass facades for guests to appreciate the natural surroundings from inside their private cabin and to bring the outdoors inside.
This cabin in Ulvik, Western Norway, is a homage to country-road architecture. Important as sources of inspiration are the works of Rudolf Olgiati; with its blend of vernacular architecture and historical design principles, as well as the romantic nationalism paintings of Hans Gude. The latter both in a direct, landscapy way, and in a more abstract way being within the tradition of design as a method of slow and steady progression.
Situated in a valley at the mouth of the river Vefsn, the town of Mosjøen provides an ice free and safe harbour close to Lofoten. Today the town is dominated by residential areas of detached houses in a strict grid plan.
The Bay Window house has four apartments designed for people who want to replace their single-family house with an apartment in favour of a simpler life. It has therefore been an ambition to create a project with apartments that have many of the qualities found in a single-family house.
The energy sector and building industry account for over 40% of global industry’s heat-trapping emissions combined. As the world’s population and the severity of the climate crisis continue to grow, precipitating global disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic, architects are challenged to work across industries to build more responsibly.
“Framtid” (Future) will be the next extension to the Fram Museum, dedicated to polar exploration and environmental education. The result of an invited architectural competition, our proposal will propel the museum towards the future with a simple idea: that architecture exemplifies how we care for our environment.
Bores beach is a long, fine-grained sand beach with an infinite horizon out at sea, popular among local sunbathers, dog-walkers and surfers. We wanted the project to fit in with the local site, specific materials of the landscape and still have a specificity of its own. It is constructed in concrete and glass, a massive object that will weather over time. We wanted the building to highlight and frame the surrounding nature, and that the functionality of the building could ease and enhance the visitors experience of the beach.
Ålgård, just outside Stavanger, is a very vibrant congregation with many activities. One of the aims of the new church was to bring together as many functions as possible under one roof. A challenge with the project was therefore to create suitable rooms for a classroom, an office, a café, without affecting the actual Church space. By lowering the ground floor partially into the terrain, suitable space to accommodate the range of functions room was generated, leaving the sacral space undisturbed on the upper floor. – A logical and functional solution that makes the sanctuary a natural and prominent center.
The new high quality housing project in Askeveien will offer innovative apartments, sheltered in a green and lush surroundings in Skøyen, Oslo. The residential building will band together with the adjacent historical landscape and built environment in an attractive and humble manner. Through the conscious use of qualitative and locationoriented architecture, the project will reinforce and develop the inherent identity of the site.The pitched-roof housing complex consists of 15 apartments with generous openings and private balconies or terraces. The play of the roof geometry allows the penthouse apartments generous ceiling heights and sheltered roof terraces. Villa Ask is wrapped in hand-basin long-shaped tiles giving the project a unique language.
A listed, regional modernist, low office building at Frogner, Oslo is re-purposed onto a residential building with nine apartments in varying sizes, spanning from 77 to 196 m2. The original project was built in 1973, designed by architects Trond Eliassen and Birger Lambertz-Nilssen, they were awarded the “Sundt” prize for architecture due to “Munthes gate”-complex’s outstanding quality. The building is now listed as propper representative for architecture of its period. The transformation strives to preserve this particular character, while giving the building a new life.
The aim of the project is to rehabilitate an existing villa, and integrate two new, small single family houses on the site. The two new houses reflect the character of the villa by their modern gabled roof. With a similar expression the two adjust to the situation with a focus on view and light. All the houses obtain a private garden within a bigger shared outer room. The main floor has an open character where kitchen, living and dining area are all in one big room. Some large steps down to the garden gives the room a close connection to the outside, and also an alternative place to stay. The open character allows a continuous window strip of various heights, giving the big room several different atmospheres. Throughout the houses the exposed wooden structure in the ceiling becomes an important part of the architectural language. Visible also from the outside, the wooden structure is cladded with vertical Baubuche laminated beech wood.
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