Aerie Architecture · concept set · rev C 2026
● A-101Cover sheet · front elevation · 1:25
Aerie is a small architecture studio drawing quiet modern houses of glass, concrete and timber: pavilions on open lawns, white volumes on rock, frames that hold a view. Every project starts with one pencil line and a long walk on the site.
● A-100Studio · general notes
A house in the north has to answer to the sun path, the prevailing wind, the drift line of the snow and the edge of the water. We spend the first two days on site with a compass, a level and a flask of coffee. Only then do we pick up the pencil.
Every drawing set starts with a survey sheet: sun angles at the solstices, wind roses and the line where meltwater runs in April.
Timber from within 200 km, stone lifted from the excavation, and glass where the view earns it. Nothing is clad to look like something else.
Our houses average 190 m². A smaller plan means a thinner footprint on fragile ground and fewer metres of wall to heat through a polar night.
Elevations begin on paper at 1:50 before they go anywhere near a model. The first line decides the roof; the roof decides the house.
T.01Glass pavilion
T.02Long box
T.03Cantilever
T.04Stacked cubes
T.05Frame house
T.06Wedge
● A-200Work · the plan chest
Concept houses, each drawn for one particular piece of ground. Scroll to pull the next sheet, or pick one from the drawer tabs.Swipe sideways through the drawer.
A-201 Garden elevation · 1:100
A single-storey glass pavilion set into an old orchard lawn. A 450 mm roof slab floats on slim black steel columns, so the garden reads straight through the house from front to back.
A-202 North elevation · 1:200
Three white volumes stacked on a granite bank above the fjord. A full-height glazed slot runs up through the tower and carries the stair light out into the blue hour.
A-203 Garden elevation · 1:100
A long white house with one deep frame that holds the view like a picture (ramme is Norwegian for frame). The glass sits two metres back, so the frame shades the living room through long summer evenings.
A-204 Pool elevation · 1:100
A two-storey concrete villa whose living floor opens straight onto a long black reflecting pool (stille means still). Upstairs, a louvred box cantilevers out over the terrace and pulls shade across the bedrooms.
● A-300Clients · in their words
Ref. 01 Client brief, Glasshus
They spent two days in our garden before they drew anything. The first sketch was one line for the roof slab, and it is still the line of the roof. In June the evening sun reaches the back wall of the living room at exactly ten past six.
Concept testimonial written for this studio concept.
● A-400Questions · schedule of answers
Mostly Norway and Sweden, from the coast to about 70° N, plus the occasional Danish coast. Garden plot, rock shelf or waterfront: if we can walk the site, we can usually draw for it.
Plan on about 18 months: three for survey and sketch, five for planning approval, and ten on site. Remote sites follow the snow, so building often pauses from November to March.
No. We often walk a plot with a client before they buy it. One site visit and a short report on sun, access and ground conditions usually settles the decision.
Nothing. The first call is an hour about the site and how you want to live there. If we go on to a site visit, that is a fixed fee agreed in advance.
Yes. Joinery, lighting and the fixed furniture are drawn in the same set as the walls, so the shelves, the fireplace and the window seat are built with the house.
Gladly. Some of our favourite drawings start with a measured survey of a 1960s villa: we keep what has aged well and replace what hasn’t.
● A-500Start a project · site brief