On site
Skog Cabin
A low timber cabin on a forest clearing, raised on a walkway so the meadow can grow right up to the windows.
Location
Telemark, NO
Sector
Year
2026
Client
Private
Area
140 m²
Budget
€1.1m
Programme
Cabin, sauna, boathouse
Photography
J. Lindqvist
(A-117) Overview
Sheet 01 / 06
01.1 — Brief
Competition
Direct commission, 2023
Design
2023 — 2024
On site
2025 — 2026
Opened
Autumn 2026
A cabin that touches the ground in only nine places.
The clearing floods every spring, so the cabin stands on nine steel feet and a raised timber walkway. The meadow stays wild underneath and the water moves where it always has.
Inside, one long room runs from the stove to the lake window. Bedrooms are small and quiet; everything else is shared, warm and lined in local spruce.
(A-117) Gallery
Sheet 02 / 06
Fig. 01 — The walkway at the clearing edge
Fig. 02 — First light on the lake side
Fig. 03 — The long room, spruce lining
(A-117) Drawings
Sheet 03 / 06
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-117) In numbers
Sheet 04 / 06
m² over one level
steel feet, no slab
embodied carbon vs. baseline
trees felled
(A-117) Materials
Sheet 04 / 06
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-117) Client note
Sheet 05 / 06
“We wanted to feel the forest from the sofa. Now we hear the lake before we see it.”
Anne & Tor Brekke
Clients
(A-117) Credits
Sheet 06 / 06
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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