HALDEN — Architecture that holds still · Concept by Oroboros Design

Houses that hold still while everything around them moves.

Cantilevered concrete house resting on a basalt rock

Cantilever 11.4 m
Board-formed concrete

Basalt House
Faroe Islands · 2025

Architecture & interiors
Copenhagen / Lisbon

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The studio

We draw with weight, light and a lot of patience.

HALDEN is a small practice for houses and retreats in difficult places — cliffs, coasts, deserts. We stay on site for a season before we draw a line, and we build fewer houses than we could. That is the whole method.

Concrete living room with a floor-to-ceiling window onto a misty pine forest

Forest House, Sweden — one window, one bench, the whole forest.

Selected work

2019 — 2025

Lake PavilionNorway · 2024

Courtyard house with rammed earth walls and an olive tree

Olive CourtAlentejo · 2023

Black timber studio on a rocky headland under a stormy sky

Storm StudioScotland · 2022

Concrete stair lit by a slit of sunlight

Light StairLisbon · 2021

38houses built in eleven years — on purpose not more.

11countries, most of them without a road to the site.

4international awards for residential architecture.

New commissions · 2026

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