the studio
The studio is located in Oslo, Norway, where you’ll find us in a former corner shop on a charming little square in the vibrant Grünerløkka neighbourhood. It’s run by architect Margrethe Rosenlund, sivilarkitekt mnal, and upon the project’s demand engages a network of freelancers and collaborators.
We take on a variety of projects, and our former work experience is on a scale from small furniture to large office or housing complexes. These days we focus on everything residential, spanning over villas, two-family homes, generation homes, town houses, cabins, holiday homes, apartments, loft expansions, interior architecture and so on.
The budgets of our projects span from shoestring to ample, and even though we of course love to work with access to exclusive products and solutions (who wouldn’t?) we also really appreciate the challenge of creating within stricter budget limitations. Good architecture isn’t necessarily expensive, it just needs a great idea.
As you can see from our portfolio, that includes both mediterranean style holiday homes and simple and minimal nordic farm houses, to mention just a few samples, we can’t say we have a distinct style. The architecture in each project is shaped not only by the architect’s viewpoint but is very much a result of all the other formative factors in this puzzle. The site, with its possibilities and limitations, it’s formal regulations and its role in the urban web or landscape. The clients, with their visions, background and requirements. The builder and her or his skills, experience and ideas. And the input from clever and competent consultants in various fields. Together all this knowledge, ideas and framework will result in an architectural language that varies from project to project, hopefully creating just the right answer for the demands of the specific assignment.