Kvarken is a transdisciplinary practice, working across buildings, landscape and the objects people touch.
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Our process
We put the architect, the landscape architect and the product designer in the same room on day one. It slows the first month down and it saves the year that follows.
Ground and responsibility
The Kvarken archipelago rises about 9mm a year, the fastest post-glacial rebound on earth. New islands surface inside a human lifetime. We design for coastlines that are still moving.
Selected projects
- Havsted LibraryA reading room that opens onto the harbour→
- Salt Line PavilionA shelter built on the tidal flats→
- Almstad Swim HallWinter bathing for a town of 9,000→
- Grindaker CampusA working landscape for 1,200 people→
- Rebound HouseA home that follows a rising shoreline→
- Fenno Transit HallForty thousand people a day under one roof→
- Kalvo Field StationResearch quarters on an exposed coast→
- Bramme ChairOne sheet of birch, no fasteners→
Get in touch
Tell us what the site is and what it has to do. We will tell you whether we are the right practice for it.
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- Vaasa
- Oslo
- Rotterdam