Architecture and interiors · OsloSheet 00 · Contents
HalvorsenAtelier
We build slowly, in timber and stone, for people who notice the weather.
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Sheet 01 / 06Hardanger · House · 2023
Fjordhus
A long house on a birch slope above Sørfjorden. One roof, tilted toward the water, so the rain leaves the way it arrived.
- Type
- House
- Area
- 210 m²
- Status
- Built
- Image
- Photograph
Sheet 02 / 06Nesodden · House · 2021
Villa Skog
A gable among birches, twenty minutes by ferry from Aker brygge. Painted pine, one chimney, no gutters.
- Type
- House
- Area
- 164 m²
- Status
- Built
- Image
- Photograph
Sheet 03 / 06Bergen · Public bath · 2022
Bryggen Bathhouse
A charred-timber bath on the rocks at Nordnes. Ten posts, one long bench, and the sea two steps down.
- Type
- Public bath
- Area
- 640 m²
- Status
- Built
- Image
- Photograph
Sheet 04 / 06Rondane · Cabin · 2020
Hytte Rondane
Forty-six square metres above the tree line, tarred black so the snow can find it.
- Type
- Cabin
- Area
- 46 m²
- Status
- Built
- Image
- Photograph
Sheet 05 / 06Grünerløkka · Public · 2024
Oslo Kindergarten
Three gables on a backyard site in Grünerløkka. The windows start at 600 mm, which is where four-year-olds look.
- Type
- Public
- Area
- 980 m²
- Status
- Built
- Image
- Photograph
Sheet 06 / 06Bergen · Public · 2025
Bergen Library Annex
Five brick bays beside the old reading room. The scaffold comes down in March 2026.
- Type
- Public
- Area
- 2 100 m²
- Status
- In progress
- Image
- Visualisation
General notesEnd of sheet
Twelve people, four houses a year
Halvorsen Atelier was founded in 2011 in a former paint works on Maridalsveien. Ingrid Halvorsen draws the buildings; Tomas Berge draws what happens inside them. We are twelve, including a model-maker who is also a joiner.
We visit every site in three seasons before we draw anything, we build mock-ups of anything we have not built before, and we do not take on more than four houses and one public building in a year. Our drawings are made to be built from.