Kaikanten Housing

Location

Bergen

Completed

2023

Size

72 homes

Client

Kaikanten Housing Co-op

The co-op wanted homes families could afford and would want to keep. We kept the scale of the old warehouses along the quay and gave every home a balcony towards the harbour and a window towards the shared courtyard.

A green courtyard with planting beds and a bicycle shelter between timber apartment buildings.

The frames are cross-laminated timber from Norwegian spruce; the colours come from the painted boathouses along the fjord.

Everyone gets a view of the water. Nobody gets the whole view.

Vatn Architects