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Timber buildings, drawn slowly.

Halvorsen Studio designs houses and small public buildings in wood, from a quiet office in Oslo. Eleven buildings finished since 2014.

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A larch-clad timber house with large glazing among pine trees

Six buildings, one material

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Pale spruce library with a low roof on a fjord shore
Fjordbib2024, Drøbak
Pine cabin with a turf roof on a rocky hillside
Hytte Nordmarka2023, Nordmarka
Community hall with a tall glazed gable in snow
Bygdahuset2022, Rendalen
Row of charred timber townhouses with pine doors
Kjølrekka2021, Oslo
Pale pine boathouse with sliding doors beside calm water
Naust Hvaler2019, Hvaler
Furuhuset, a larch-clad timber house with large glazing in Nesodden
Furuhuset2017, Nesodden

Project index

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  1. Fjordbib, a timber library on the fjord in DrøbakFjordbibLibrary, 2024, Drøbak
  2. Hytte Nordmarka, a pine cabin in the Nordmarka forestHytte NordmarkaCabin, 2023, Nordmarka
  3. Bygdahuset, a timber community hall in RendalenBygdahusetCommunity hall, 2022, Rendalen
  4. Kjølrekka, a row of timber townhouses in OsloKjølrekkaTownhouses, 2021, Oslo
  5. Naust Hvaler, a pine boathouse on the water in HvalerNaust HvalerBoathouse, 2019, Hvaler
  6. Furuhuset, a timber family house in NesoddenFuruhusetHouse, 2017, Nesodden

From brief to build

The brief

We start at the table

Two long conversations, a walk around the plot and a page of what the family or the municipality actually needs. We write the brief back to you before drawing a line.

Architect and clients reviewing sketches and plans

The model

Everything is built small first

Every project gets a basswood model at 1:50, made in our workshop in six to eight weeks. Clients move the roof, lift the walls and argue with it until it is right.

Wooden scale model of a timber house

The build

We stay on site

A Halvorsen architect is on site every week with the carpenters. Spruce and larch come from within 150 km of the plot, cut and dried to the drawings.

Finished timber community hall in snow

We believe a building should be quieter than its landscape. We draw in wood because it ages in public, repairs easily and smells like the place it came from. We take few commissions so each one gets the whole studio.

The four of us

Ingrid Halvorsen

Founded the studio in 2014 after ten years drawing for a Trondheim timber builder. She leads every brief conversation and still cuts the first roof of each model herself.

Anders Berge

Joined in 2016 and became partner in 2020. He runs the library and community hall commissions and knows the municipal procurement process better than anyone we have met.

Maja Lindqvist

Trained as a cabinetmaker in Stockholm. She builds every 1:50 model in basswood and has made 31 since 2019, each one small enough to carry to a client's kitchen table.

Tobias Dahl

Spends most weeks on site with the carpenters, from the first foundation pour to the last coat of oil. He keeps the drawings honest when the weather and the timber disagree.

Tell us about the plot

We reply within two working days and take on four new commissions a year.

Akersgata 41, 0158 Oslo
studio@halvorsen.studio
+47 22 00 41 30