Hus Fjellveien

One window, drawn first.

The site is a rock shelf above Fjellveien, eleven metres wide, with the Byfjorden below. We drew the west gable before anything else: one window, 2.2 by 4.1 metres, framed in oak and set where the evening light comes in under the cloud.

Everything else follows from it. Two storeys of timber on a plinth cast against the rock, clad in heat-treated pine that went silver in the first winter. The chimney is lime render, mixed hot on site. Inside it is oak, wool and plaster, and nothing that needs painting.