Monolith Sun 13:00 · 50° N

Architecture & LandscapeStudio est. 2009 · five selected works

We make buildings that weigh something: walls that store heat, cast shadow and outlast the people who poured them.

Built9 302 m²Works05Years17

01 — Vessel · chapel · Lofoten

Monolith

Mass is a material.Shadow is a material.Time is a material.

MONOLITH designs in concrete, stone and earth for places with weather: northern coasts, high deserts and wet valleys. We use heavy walls to slow heat down, deep openings to control light, and landscape that is given room to take over. Every drawing here responds to the sun. Move it and watch the shadows swing.

600mm typical wall
0suspended ceilings
38people in the studio

Selected works

01 — 05 · axonometric, not to scale · shadows follow the sun control

How a monolith
is made

  1. Raft 01

    An 800 mm raft spreads the load across wet glacial clay.

  2. Walls 02

    Twin 1.2 m walls, cast in 450 mm lifts over nine days.

  3. Floors 03

    Two post-tensioned plates span the archive without a single column.

  4. Screen 04

    The south screen is cut with slits that admit daylight but never direct sun onto paper.

  5. Roof 05

    A 900 mm roof slab, heavy enough to steady the room’s temperature from season to season.

  6. Lantern 06

    A copper lantern: the only colour on site, and it will turn green as it weathers.

Material library

Five surfaces, generated live · drag or scroll sideways

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