Espen Surnevik: Naust
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Location: Sokn, Ryfylke, Rogaland, Norway
Year: 2020
The Boathouse is located at the Isle of Sokn outside Stavanger on the Vest coast of Norway. Espen Surnevik’s work is not a retreat but a resonance — a structure suspended between past and possibility, echoing memory while projecting forward.
The structure preserves the old boathouse function at its base, while the new volume ascends above it like a rebirth. Clad in oxidized zinc, the façade absorbs the salt, wind, and storms of the North Sea, transforming with time into a raw, elemental skin.
Naust is not nostalgia, nor is it pure modernity — it is an experiment in continuity. A fabulation of regional architecture where heritage and horizon collapse into one seamless narrative.
The Boathouse is located at the Isle of Sokn outside Stavanger on the Vest coast of Norway. The project is a small vacation home built on a two-hundred-year old boathouse-ruin in a heritage costal landscape. The new building investigates how new ways of building still can bring on the history and the building traditions, of the past, into a new era. The old boathouse-function is kept under the new part of the building. The top is cladded in oxidized zinc to protect it against the especially hard weather form the North Sea. The projects occupation has been to connect past and future together in a fabulating regional Architecture.
Year: 2020
The Boathouse is located at the Isle of Sokn outside Stavanger on the Vest coast of Norway. Espen Surnevik’s work is not a retreat but a resonance — a structure suspended between past and possibility, echoing memory while projecting forward.
The structure preserves the old boathouse function at its base, while the new volume ascends above it like a rebirth. Clad in oxidized zinc, the façade absorbs the salt, wind, and storms of the North Sea, transforming with time into a raw, elemental skin.
Naust is not nostalgia, nor is it pure modernity — it is an experiment in continuity. A fabulation of regional architecture where heritage and horizon collapse into one seamless narrative.
The Boathouse is located at the Isle of Sokn outside Stavanger on the Vest coast of Norway. The project is a small vacation home built on a two-hundred-year old boathouse-ruin in a heritage costal landscape. The new building investigates how new ways of building still can bring on the history and the building traditions, of the past, into a new era. The old boathouse-function is kept under the new part of the building. The top is cladded in oxidized zinc to protect it against the especially hard weather form the North Sea. The projects occupation has been to connect past and future together in a fabulating regional Architecture.
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