A holiday home embedded on the slope
A new holiday home designed by Office Inainn is taking a steep fjord landscape from Valldal. Norway. The 127 square meter House Lies high above the waterline and built without leveling the area, so that its shape can be created by precise observation of the location.
The approach of the project is defined by its refusal to laugh at or delete the country. Instead, a few subtly balanced volumes follow the natural slope, steps back with the hill and generates more spatial variations by section than a partition. A concrete base increases the structure above the rocky soil and offers both stability and separation, while the landscape remains intact.
Every Wood-Clad volume plays a certain role. A larger, narrow structure contains the input sequence and a corridor illuminated from above, while the adjacent lower volume houses the living rooms and bedrooms that are correct to the outside in order to frame the fjord below.
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Office inainn's procession of light and view
The arrival in the office of Office Inainn begins along a narrow footpath that has dropped from the rock town and the wooden facade of the holiday home. This experience extends inside, where the corridor is to be continued in an inner continuation of the Architect'Compression of the huge area. The clergy glazing and polished concrete floors lead visitors through a number of intimate rooms before the full fjord panorama is unveiled in the living room.
Frame views are a central element. Each room instructs the area differently – some take the steep forested slopes, others absorb the open water. The glazing is expansive and yet intended, maintained privacy and minimizes visual noise while the scale and movement of the landscape is captured.
A holiday home from Office Inain is high above a fjord in Valldal, Norway, high
Norwegian materials and furnishings
Office Inainn defines the material palette of the holiday home by restraint and location. Dark Timber Clodding wraps both volumes and enables the house to return to its context, especially under changing light. Inside, wooden floors create a warm, quiet atmosphere. The establishment of Fjordfiesta reflects the same principles of minimalism and regional sources.
Window frames are painted dark and match the top curtains that extend the verticality of the openings. The details remain narrow and precise in the interior. Where there is contrast, it is gently and uses the depth rather than the distinction.
The project was developed in close cooperation with a customer who maintains long -term relationships with Valldal. Her letter to lead nature was not treated as a metaphor, but as an instruction. In practice, this meant to hold back if possible and patiently calibrate architecture through subtraction and alignment.
The house is designed with minimal changes on the rocky slope below
Two offset volumes follow the natural climb of the hill
The customer asked that nature leads every design decision