Stack Rock House, White house on a rocky cliff overlooking the ocean

Stack Rock House

Sheet

08

Place

Lofoten

Country

Norway

Completed

2019

Area

152 m²

Stage

Completed

A small house on a sea cliff, anchored into the rock and planted over, so from the water only the window shows.

A small house on a sea cliff, anchored into the rock and planted over, so from the water only the window shows.

Client

Private

The brief

Build where planning said no one could, without changing the silhouette of the cliff.

Materials

Sprayed concrete shell · sedum and heather roof · weathering steel · glass

Stack Rock House, brown brick wall
Stack Rock House, Modern black structures on a grassy hillside overlooking mountains

(02) — The project

Stack Rock House

Keeping the silhouette

The house is dug into the cliff and roofed with the same heather that grew there before. From the water only one window and a thin steel edge are visible.

Stack Rock House, gray concrete stair during day time

The planners came back to photograph it for their own report.

Client

Have a site in mind? Let’s walk it together.

Have a site in mind? Let’s walk it together.

Start a project

Oslo studio

Tollbugata 24, 0157 Oslo

+47 22 41 90 16

Edinburgh studio

14 Coburg Street, Leith EH6 6ET

+44 131 555 0192

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Sheet 00 / Index · Drawn in Oslo and Leith

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