Tranquil Sustainable Home Designs

Kolman Boye Architects designs the Saltviga House a tranquil retreat located in Lillesand, Norway. It is a unique structure that uses offcut wood in order to reduce waste and negative impacts on the environment. It was constructed using 12,000 pieces of oak wood. This idea came to fruition when Danish flooring imprint Dinesen has a lot of leftover materials that were scrap and offcut from creating its measured floors.
The firm speaks about the home, stating that "In our recent projects and in our teaching and research, we have come across Dinesen materials as both the traditional floors and as a scrap, a leftover, an offcut from the production of made-to-measure floors. Making and thinking with these leftovers from the production gave rise to the notion of making a building of them as a sympathetic way of using and ennobling scrap materials that would otherwise have been used as firewood. Besides being beautiful, the off-cuts are low in embodied carbon, and could offer an alternative to more commonly used and more carbon-intensive materials."
Image Credit: Kolman Boye Architects