Plan & Section is a small studio for houses, rooms and quiet public buildings. Every project begins with a pencil, a long walk around the site and a section cut through the ground.
We draw the section first — the line where a building meets the ground, the light and the people inside it. Everything else follows from getting that one drawing right.
42Buildings completed
14Years in practice
9National awards
1:50Our favourite scale
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Selected work
An index of buildings, 2021–2025.
YearProjectType · PlaceMaterial · Area
2025Lyngholmen HousePrivate house · HvalerPine cladding · 212 m²
2024Field HousePrivate house · JærenLarch and zinc · 148 m²
2024Kvartal StairRenovation · OsloLime plaster · 96 m²
2023Stillrom ChapelCultural · TrondheimBoard-marked concrete · 180 m²
2022Berget VillaPrivate house · BergenConcrete and oak · 264 m²
2021Fort GalleryAdaptive reuse · KristiansandExisting bunker · 410 m²
Hvaler · Completed 2025
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In focus — Lyngholmen House
A long timber house that steps down with the rock.
Thirty-eight metres of pine laid along the contour of a granite shelf. One long room faces the water; the bedrooms tuck into the slope behind it. The section drops half a storey where the rock does, so the roof reads as one quiet line from the shore.
Ground floor plan1 : 200
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Method
Four drawings before a single brick.
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Survey
We measure the site by hand and on foot: contours, trees, the path of the sun in every season.
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Sketch
Loose studies in pencil until the building has one clear idea it can be explained by.
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Section
The cut through ground, rooms and roof that settles heights, light and structure together.
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Site
We stay on through construction, drawing details at 1:5 for the people building them.
Street elevation · Tollbugata1 : 500
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Studio
Six architects, one long table.
Ingrid Halvorsen
Founding partner
Trained in Oslo and Porto. Leads the houses and still draws every first section herself.
Mathis Brandt
Partner
Came from timber engineering. Looks after structure, detail and the long conversations with builders.
They drew our house until it was obvious. Then they drew it again, and it was better.
Clients, Lyngholmen House
Recognition
2025Houen Foundation AwardLyngholmen House
2024Timber Prize — ShortlistField House
2023Sacred Space AwardStillrom Chapel
2022Young Practice of the YearThe studio
2021Reuse Award — CommendedFort Gallery
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New projects
Tell us about the site.
We take on a handful of new buildings each year. Send us a few lines about the place, the people and the budget — we answer every letter within a week.
Hvaler · Completed 2025 