Kvist Loft

The loft sits above a log barn at the edge of a pine forest outside Røros, a town built on copper and long winters.

The barn is protected as part of the old mining landscape, so its outside could barely change. The hayloft inside was dark, with a single hatch on the forest side where the hay once came in. That hatch became the starting point for the whole project.

We opened the old hay hatch into a wall of glass and a deck that reaches into the trees.

The original log walls and rafters stay exposed and dark. Inside them, a single box of pale birch plywood holds the kitchen, bathroom and storage, leaving the rest of the loft as one open room. The bed sits on a raised platform facing the forest, beneath a new skylight set between the old rafters.