Restraint
We add nothing a building does not need, and remove what it can do without.
Practising
patience
Fifteen years of quiet, considered architecture from a studio on Copenhagen’s harbour front.
Founded in Copenhagen, 2011
Where quiet becomes practice
Havn Architects began in a small studio above a boatyard on the harbour, built on a simple conviction: a building earns its place by holding still. We work in a narrow register of material, light and proportion, choosing what to leave out as carefully as what we put in. The result is architecture that ages well and asks little of the people who live inside it.
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Approach
Three convictions we build from
Material honesty
Concrete, timber and stone are left to read as themselves, not as a finish applied over something else.
Built to last
Every brief is tested against a fifty year horizon, long after the first client has moved on.
By the numbers
Fifteen years, one conviction
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Team
Twenty-two people, one table
Ida Møller
Founding Partner
Anders Kjær
Design Director
Mei Lin Tan
Associate Architect
Jonas Berg
Project Architect
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