Atelier North

We build quiet houses for loud weather — concrete, timber, and stone set down where the fog belt meets the treeline.

63.43° N · Trondheim · Est. 2011
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Projects

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  1. 01 Fog House Private residence 2024
  2. 02 Timber Hall Civic assembly 2022
  3. 03 Quarry Pavilion Landscape stage 2021

Three built works, shown in full below.

01 — Fog House

A single concrete room turned toward the valley; in October the fog enters through the courtyard and stays until noon.

Oppdal · 2024 · 212 m²
02 — Timber Hall

Forty-one pine frames, raised in nine days by the town that meets beneath them.

Røros · 2022 · 860 m²
03 — Quarry Pavilion

We cut nothing new; the stage stands on the stone the quarry left behind.

Fauske · 2021 · 340 m²
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Practice

Light

At sixty-three degrees north the sun is a seasonal material. We design for the low December grazing light first, because a room that works in December works all year.

Climate

Fog, sleet, and a freeze-thaw cycle that finds every bad joint. Our details are few, deep, and tested on the building before this one.

Restraint

Each project is allowed three materials and one move. Whatever survives the third round of subtraction is the building.

The studio stays at nine people by intention. We take four commissions a year, and we visit every site in winter before we agree to anything.

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Recognitions

Selected prizes. The juries' words, not ours.

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Contact

Every project starts the same way: standing on the ground, in bad weather, together.

studio@ateliernorth.no · Kjøpmannsgata 12, Trondheim

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