Naustet på Sotra

A boathouse with a bed in the loft.

The brief was a naust: a dry place for a boat, a slipway to launch it and a loft for the nets. The owners asked for one thing more, a bed for the nights the weather keeps them on the island. We drew the section first, because everything happens in it. Boat below, nets and oars above, one bed under the ridge.

It is 58 square metres of untreated timber on a rock shelf, with doors that open the whole gable to the water. The slipway is split slate, laid dry so the sea can move it. The boards went grey in the first winter. The Hordaland Craft Council gave us an honour for the joints; the boat has not commented.