Architects: Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk Photography: Jiri Havran Construction Period: 1995 Location: Oslo, Norway
The garden shed and workshop was designed in connection to the house in which the private library was built four years earlier. The program was a general storage space for garden tools, and a small workshop for household repairs. The narrow site on the north side of the house was surrounded by high pine trees.
The three-storeyed building is a brick and wooden structure: A wooden framework is suspended inside a brick cylinder, as a tea strainer in a teacup. The two laminated beams holding the interior framework also serve as primary beams for the roof. The structural characteristics of the circular brick wall allowed a thin half-stone masonry (108mm).
