Timber Temple, all wooden, mountain cabin. A playful reinterpretation of the motifs and sedimentary stacking – or heaviness of -norwegian traditional architecture, while maintaining a contemporary and modern line. Challenges of differing conditions during winter, snow, and summer use solved with the concrete spot-foundations raising the main volume off the ground while utilizing the rising landscape to achieve a simple «yard» which works both in high snow and heated summer days.

The plan demonstrates a strong hierarchy between intimate, smaller areas and more generous spaces. A high ceiling living room with outdoor access and a generous but simple bathroom with custom aluminium sitting tub in a rich green, a resemblance to the forest pond. All furniture except chairs and dining table drawn specifically to project.

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By striving to declutter what over 100 years of ad hoc adjustments and renovations had done, the project aspired to sharpen and bring to clarity a cross-plan, inherent in the building.

As each of the four facades has an arc, the arcs were used to define four cardinal directions. And by keeping open the cross’ area of intersection and approaching this area as a central room with clearly defined extremities – bathroom, kitchen, dining room and bedrooms – a sense of overview is achieved here – in the central area. Furthermore, by slowly growing in intimacy from this point outwards, the plan feels larger, more spacious and gives a tired parent space to withdraw to a varying extent.

It was important for the plan to keep the west-east-axis open, from balcony to balcony (balconies, see Section BB) to

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