Residential + Landscape
Villa
Sørnes
A family house that steps down the slope, every room turned to the water.
Location
Oslo, Norway
Year
2025
Type
Residential + Landscape
Area
240 m² · 3 floors
Status
Completed
Team
Mette Lund, Jonas Aal, Sofia Reis
Recognition
Dezeen Awards, House of the Year
The brief was one line long: a house that feels safe in a storm and open on a still evening. We pulled the rooms low against the heath and gave the living space a single 14-metre window facing the sea.
The concrete is cast with local sand, so the walls take on the colour of the dunes around them. Inside, oak floors and lime-washed ceilings soften the shell. At night the glazing turns the house into a quiet lantern on the dark heath, visible from the coast road two kilometres away.
Living room, west façade
Terrace at dusk
“They spent a whole winter learning how the light moves across our plot before drawing a single line. You feel it every morning.”
Mette & Lars Holm · Clients
(02) Light
Daylight was modelled for all twelve months before the windows were fixed. Low winter sun reaches six metres into the living room and warms the slab; the 1.2 m overhang keeps the summer sun off the glass.
Architecture
QEVRØN Studio
Structure
Moe Engineers
Landscape
Heath & Co.
Photography
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$49