{"id":13982,"date":"2025-09-10T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13982\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:26:10","slug":"office-inainn-adds-timber-restaurant-to-barn-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/13982\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Inainn adds timber restaurant to barn in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Office Inainn<\/a> has inserted Nikkakj\u00f8kken, a timber-framed restaurant<\/a>, into the concrete and timber envelope of a barn in Valldal, Norway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Minimising impact to the barn’s pitched volume, Office Inainn<\/a> designed the restaurant’s timber frame as an independent module \u2013 conceived as “a second layer” to the structure.<\/p>\n

Along with the creation of the Nikkakj\u00f8kken restaurant, the project included the updating and preservation of the three-storey barn’s existing concrete and wooden structure, with all-new interventions built from timber.<\/p>\n

\"ViewOffice Inainn has added a restaurant to a barn in Norway<\/p>\n

“We took a reuse-first approach: keep the barn and add only what is necessary,” studio founder Maksymilian Sawicki told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“Rather than a rebuild, we inserted an independent timber restaurant core inside the existing envelope, so the historic structure remains intact and legible.”<\/p>\n

“The exterior and roof are largely retained and repaired only where necessary; all new work reads as a secondary layer,” Sawicki added.<\/p>\n

\"ViewA secondary timber structure was inserted into the barn<\/p>\n

Nestled into a sloping site, the barn encompasses 127 square metres and is accompanied by a neighbouring guesthouse.<\/p>\n

An entrance at ground level provides access to the back-of-house facilities. Here, an internal staircase and a second, raised entrance provide access to the first floor, where a sauna and spa are located.<\/p>\n

Above this, the restaurant, along with a kitchen, can be found on the second floor. This can be accessed via a ramp protruding from the barn’s exterior.<\/p>\n

\"Nikkakj\u00f8kkenThe restaurant is held on the barn’s second floor<\/p>\n

To create the Nikkakj\u00f8kken restaurant, Office Inainn designed the secondary timber core to be demountable, so as not to damage the existing structure.<\/p>\n

Inside, the pitched roof structure creates a lofty dining space that doubles as an events space and is illuminated by a large glazed facade overlooking the surrounding landscape.<\/p>\n

A series of round tables fill the space and are framed by timber trusses, walls and flooring.<\/p>\n

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Office Inainn models prefabricated Norwegian house on slate\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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“Timber offered low embodied impact, local craft and supply, and a material compatibility that keeps the structure as the project’s character,” Sawicki said.<\/p>\n

“The insert is entirely timber with dry, demountable connections, and the glazing is calibrated to frame views without altering proportions.”<\/p>\n

\"InteriorA sauna and spa are held on the first floor<\/p>\n

Recently, Office Inainn drew on the layered composition of slate to design a prefabricated holiday home on Norway’s western coast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, a barn was converted into a compact house with geometric windows near Florence, Italy<\/a>, and biomaterials were used to adapt a wood-framed barn into a structure and library in rural Vermont<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Mathias S\u00e6ther<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Office Inainn has inserted Nikkakj\u00f8kken, a timber-framed restaurant, into the concrete and timber envelope of a barn in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,16350,501,156,111,139,5895,69,16351,10270,1621,1774],"class_list":{"0":"post-13982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-barns","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-norway","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-office-inainn","20":"tag-restaurants","21":"tag-sectionall","22":"tag-sectionarchitecture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}