{"id":76,"date":"2021-08-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/2021\/08\/30\/skaret-a-frame\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T13:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T13:19:11","slug":"skaret-a-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/skaret-a-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"Skaret A-frame"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 1960s A-frame restored, with a low timber wing beside it.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Location<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telemark, Norway<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Completed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Area<\/p>\n\n\n\n

68 m\u00b2<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Type<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cabin restoration<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Client<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Private<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Photography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tor Eide Lunde<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The site<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n\n
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Skaret is a narrow clearing in a pine forest above a lake in Telemark, reached by a footpath from the forest road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The client’s grandfather built the A-frame in 1964 from a kit ordered by post. Sixty winters had rotted the sill beam and the roof leaked at every ridge joint, yet the shape still felt right among the pines. We decided to keep the frame and add only what it lacked.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\"A<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Boards left to weather on the new wing<\/figcaption><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The building<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n\n
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A new metal roof protects the old frame, and a low wing takes the kitchen and bathroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We lifted the A-frame onto new foundations, replaced the sill and wrapped the roof in dark standing seam steel. The original sleeping loft under the ridge remains, now opening onto a small deck in the trees. The new wing is a plain timber box clad in boards left to weather grey, so the A-frame stays the main figure in the clearing.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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My grandfather built it in one summer. Now it should last another sixty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anders Bakke, client<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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Materials<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n\n
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Roof<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dark standing seam steel<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Frame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Original 1964 pine, repaired<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Wing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Untreated pine boards<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concrete pads, raised clear of snow<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Credits<\/h2>\n\n<\/div>\n\n
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Architects<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eirik Fjellheim, Jun Sato<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Engineer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lia Bergset, Notodden<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Builder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seljord T\u00f8mmer, Seljord<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Telemark, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-project","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cabins","category-work"],"_flatsome_builder_edit_link":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/wp-admin\/index.php?page=flatsome-builder&postType=post&postId=76","_flatsome_builder_post_lock":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.flatsome.com\/architecture\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}