Completed 2024
Estuary House
A family house on the edge of an estuary, with a deep concrete terrace that floods at the highest tides.
Location
Bergen, NO
Sector
Year
2024
Client
Private
Area
260 m²
Budget
€2.3m
Programme
House, studio, terrace
Photography
J. Lindqvist
(A-109) Overview
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01.1 — Brief
Competition
Direct commission, 2021
Design
2021 — 2022
On site
2022 — 2024
Opened
June 2024
A house that lets the water in, a little.
The garden floods twice a year. Rather than fight it, we raised the rooms and gave the tide a terrace to cover, with steps down to the water.
The upper floor cantilevers over the terrace so the living room looks straight down the estuary, framed by a single eight-metre window.
(A-109) Gallery
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Fig. 01 — The terrace at high tide
Fig. 02 — Living room, west light
Fig. 03 — The stair to the studio
(A-109) Drawings
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A-102 — Ground floor plan · 1:200
A-301 — Section A–A · 1:100
Step 01 — Grid and axes
Step 02 — Walls and structure
Step 03 — Openings and finishes
Step 04 — Rooms and labels
Step 05 — Dimensions and title block
(A-109) In numbers
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m² over two floors
single window to the water
embodied carbon vs. baseline
energy rating
(A-109) Materials
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Four materials, chosen to weather.
Hover a material to bring its specimen forward. Every surface was sampled on site for a full winter before it was specified.
(A-109) Client note
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“The tide comes up the steps and goes again. The children time their breakfasts around it.”
Sigrid Haugen
Client
(A-109) Credits
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Architect
Hallform Architects
Partner in charge
Ida Kjær
Structural engineer
Søe & Kirk Engineers
Services
Nord MEP
Landscape
Field Office
Lighting
Lumen Atelier
Contractor
Brink Byg
Photography
J. Lindqvist
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