Native studio Erling Berg has created an ocean-view vacation dwelling in Risør on Norway's south coast that’s clad in regionally sourced spruce.
Referred to as the I/O Cabin, the picket vacation dwelling was raised from the bottom with picket posts and perches on the location's sloping land.
![I/O Spruce veneer exterior cabin by Erling Berg](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/02/io-cabin-erling-berg-norway_dezeen_2364_col_1-852x568.jpg)
![I/O Spruce veneer exterior cabin by Erling Berg](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/02/io-cabin-erling-berg-norway_dezeen_2364_col_1-852x568.jpg)
Erling Berg's design brings collectively three separate volumes related by a picket deck and positioned to create an atrium on the middle of the plan. This creates “indoor-outdoor” areas that reply to the dynamic Norwegian local weather.
“Being a summer time home on the coast of Norway, the climate will change shortly, typically altering in the course of the day, creating each indoor and outside hours,” studio founder Erling Berg instructed Dezeen.
“Due to this fact, we wished to create a home with quick access to the inside and exterior, with round and visible connection between the 2 components,” he continued.
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![Norwegian holiday home atrium](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/02/io-cabin-erling-berg-norway_dezeen_2364_col_9-852x568.jpg)
The hilly website is fabricated from strong rock and overlooks the southwest coast, overlooking Denmark throughout the Skagerrak Strait.
The cabin's three volumes have been positioned on a picket deck that floats above the location, supported by cross-laminated timber beams that additionally assist the cantilevered roof of the home.
The form and placement of the roof was designed to offer shading from the solar in addition to to permit mild to enter the central atrium. It additionally gives safety in opposition to rain.
![Interior view of living space at I/O Cabin by Erling Berg](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/02/io-cabin-erling-berg-norway_dezeen_2364_col_2-852x568.jpg)
![Interior view of living space at I/O Cabin by Erling Berg](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/02/io-cabin-erling-berg-norway_dezeen_2364_col_2-852x568.jpg)
Berg, who spent most of his twenties and thirties in California, was knowledgeable by the horizontal language of mid-century structure within the area in addition to Norwegian constructing traditions.
“I discover the performance in California mid-century structure as essential because the practicality of the Norwegian vernacular and its conventional development strategies,” he defined.
“The design of the deck and roof related by the identical vertical posts that run from the roof to the untouched land was impressed by the bigger, metal frames of mid-century California homes seen within the hills of Los Angeles,” he continued .
Upon getting into the I/O cabin, the interior-exterior transitional atrium results in the principle dwelling area, 4 bedrooms and bathe room, that are oriented in a U-shape across the central area.
Inside, the partitions have been clad in white-painted horizontal picket planking, whereas the ceilings and flooring are clad in oiled spruce timber, providing a heat and pure aesthetic typical of conventional Norwegian coastal cabins.
![Norway holiday home kitchen interior by Erling Berg](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/02/io-cabin-erling-berg-norway_dezeen_2364_col_7-852x568.jpg)
![Norway holiday home kitchen interior by Erling Berg](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/02/io-cabin-erling-berg-norway_dezeen_2364_col_7-852x568.jpg)
“The fabric relies on each native, genuine supplies and a conventional shade palette that may be present in summer time homes alongside the Norwegian coast from the 1950s and 60s,” stated Berg.
“[It is] a practical palette, combining the heat of wooden textures with white painted panels, making the inside chilly but heat and brilliant.”
![Norwegian I/O cabin shower room](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/02/io-cabin-erling-berg-norway_dezeen_2364_col_10-852x1278.jpg)
![Norwegian I/O cabin shower room](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2024/02/io-cabin-erling-berg-norway_dezeen_2364_col_10-852x1278.jpg)
A spotlight of the inside is the V-shaped picket column on the nook of the lounge, which permits for a nook glass window, opening the home to its pure surroundings and reinforcing the “indoor-outdoor” high quality of the cabin.
Erling Berg is a Norwegian studio based by Berg, who beforehand labored at Mork-Ulnes Architects in San Francisco and Oslo on initiatives that embody a concrete hostel overlooking fire-ravaged hills.
Elsewhere in Norway, Snøhetta and engineer Tor Helge Dokka have accomplished an enormous log home that sits on a hill in Kongsberg, and Feste Panorama/Arhitecture has designed a sequence of log cabins for mountain hikers from the Agder area. .
The picture is by Carlos Rollán.