{"id":7765,"date":"2026-05-07T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/?p=7765"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:09:31","slug":"rever-drage-extends-smallholding-in-norway-with-stepped-barn-like-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/rever-drage-extends-smallholding-in-norway-with-stepped-barn-like-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Rever & Drage extends smallholding in Norway with stepped barn-like volume"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Architecture studio Rever & Drage<\/a> has expanded<\/a> a cluster of rural buildings in Norway<\/a>, adding a barn<\/a>-like form that steps up a sloping, rocky site.<\/span><\/p>\n

Named Smallholding at Nesjestranda, the site was already home to a group of three buildings: a red barn, a guest annexe and a white home, to which the new extension has been added.<\/p>\n

Tasked with creating a new entrance area and additional bedrooms, Rever & Drage<\/a> tucked the small extension at the back of the existing home, with a timber-clad form that steps up a rocky slope.<\/p>\n

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Smallholding at Nesjestranda is a home extension that steps up the rocky site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The building had to remain subordinate where it connects to the old main house, even though the new building is much higher,” Martin Beverfjord, one of the studio’s founders, told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“There was also the desire to preserve the rocky terrain without excessive blasting and use of concrete.”<\/p>\n

“These physical limitations were what prompted the most important design move: a building that steps up,” he added.<\/p>\n

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Point foundations give the appearance of the extension being perched atop boulders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The existing home’s kitchen and dining area steps down into the lowest volume of the extension, where a large entrance room is finished with a poured concrete floor and a fireplace.<\/p>\n

A central axis steps up into an intermediate level with two bathrooms, and subsequently a short timber stair that leads to the uppermost volume, where a bedroom sits alongside an office space that can double as an additional sleeping area.<\/p>\n