Spaces madeto be lived inslowly.
Atelier Nord is a small studio working between Copenhagen and Lisbon. We design a few homes a year, closely, drawing every detail and staying with each one from the first conversation to the day you move in.
On how we work
We believe a good room asks for very little. Light that moves through the day, materials that age honestly, and proportions you stop noticing because they are simply right. Everything we make begins by taking things away.
15years
designing homes across Scandinavia and Iberia
48projects
delivered, most by word of mouth
6a year
the few we take, so each gets our full attention
Selected work
A handful of recent homes and interiors. Each one built around a single, stubborn idea.
Fjord House
Private residence · Hardanger, Norway
A single-storey home set low into the slope, built from board-formed concrete and untreated oak that will silver with the weather.
Stone Court
Interior architecture · Lisbon, Portugal
A nineteenth-century townhouse reworked around a quiet central court, where limewashed walls hold the afternoon light.
The Long Room
Residential interior · Copenhagen, Denmark
One uninterrupted living space anchored by a stone hearth, designed for long dinners and longer mornings.
Hillside Villa
New build · Comporta, Portugal
A low villa that opens entirely to the pine forest, its rooms ordered by a rhythm of deep concrete frames.
North Apartment
Interior architecture · Oslo, Norway
A compact apartment stripped back to its bones, then layered with plaster, brass and a single run of cabinetry.
Garden Pavilion
Studio & workspace · Skåne, Sweden
A working pavilion at the end of a garden, framed in timber and glass so the studio dissolves into the meadow.
What we do
Architecture
Ground-up homes and considered additions, from first sketch through to the last detail on site.
Interior architecture
Reworking the bones of a space - light, proportion, materials - before a single object enters it.
Furniture & objects
Built-in joinery and a small line of pieces drawn for a specific room and made by hand.
Art direction
Styling, sourcing and the final layer that lets a finished space settle and feel lived in.
The studio
A small practice,
by design.
We are a studio of seven, founded in 2009. We keep the practice deliberately small so the people you meet at the first conversation are the same people drawing your house and standing on site when it is built.
Our work moves between architecture and the interior without much ceremony. We tend to think the two are the same problem seen from different distances.
- Founded
- 2009
- Based in
- Copenhagen · Lisbon
- Team
- Seven
- Recognition
- Mies Award, nominee
How a project unfolds
Conversation
We start with a long, unhurried talk about how you actually live, and whether we are right for each other.
Concept
A single clear idea for the project, expressed in plans, materials and a handful of reference images.
Development
Drawings, models and samples worked through together until every decision is deliberate.
On site
We stay close to the build, protecting the idea through to the moment you move in.
Now booking 2025 / 26
Tell us about the home you have in mind.
A short, structured brief is the best way to start. It takes a few minutes, and it tells us almost everything we need for a first conversation.
Begin your inquiry