Terraced coastal courtyard house descending toward the water

Architecture & Interiors

Built to weather.

Architecture Interiors Adaptive reuse Material research Furniture Landscape Lighting design Exhibition

01 — Built and unbuilt

Three places,
one question.

What does a room need in order to feel calm? These are three answers, arrived at from three very different sites.

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02 — Material matters

What things are made of.

Materials chosen to grow more beautiful with time, not to survive a photograph.

  • Read about Honed Limestone
    Honed Limestone surface

    Honed Limestone

    Soft mineral surface

    Quarried in Jutland. Honed rather than polished, so it holds light instead of throwing it back.

    Stone · Fine-grained · Warm ivory · Walls & floors

  • Read about Smoked Oak
    Smoked Oak surface

    Smoked Oak

    Deep natural grain

    Fumed, not stained. Colour runs through the section, so wear reads as patina rather than damage.

    Timber · Open & tactile · Deep brown · Natural oil

  • Read about Patinated Zinc

    Patinated Zinc

    Pre-weathered sheet

    Arrives grey. There is no awkward decade of a roof looking new.

    Metal · Standing seam · Slate grey · Roof & fascia

03 — The practice

  • 0 Years in practice Founded in Copenhagen, 2012
  • 0 Projects drawn Built, unbuilt and in progress
  • 0 People Deliberately small
  • 0+ Material samples Catalogued in the library

04 — From first thought to final detail

How a project moves.

A clear path from your first conversation to a place that feels entirely your own.

How we work, in detail
  1. Listen

    The site, the brief, the way you live.

  2. Test

    Sketches, models, material studies.

  3. Resolve

    Every junction, drawn and specified.

  4. Build

    On site, beside the people making it.

  5. Return

    We come back at one year, and at five.

06 — From the journal

Notes on
making things.

Material tests, daylight studies and the unglamorous middle of a project — written down as we go.

07 — Start a conversation

Tell us about your place.

Whether it is a house, a workplace or a building that deserves a second life — we would like to hear what you are imagining.


  • Studio Copenhagen
  • Founded 2012
  • Disciplines Architecture & interiors
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