Architects, since 2009

Built to last a hundred winters.

Okkerlund is a studio of twelve. We design housing, schools and buildings in timber, and we give old warehouses a second working life.

Six buildings, 2020 to 2025

Photography to come

Selected work

Six buildings from the last six years. Most are homes and schools for the municipality. Two are warehouses we were asked to keep.

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Kalkværket

Kalkhavn · 2024 · Renovation, housing

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Birkeby School

Birkeby · 2023 · School, timber

Toftegård

Østerlund · 2025 · Housing, timber

Nørre Pakhus

Old harbour · 2021 · Renovation, library

Lindholm Kindergarten

Lindholm · 2022 · School, timber

Søvang Rowhouses

Søvang · 2020 · Housing

Case 01

Kalkværket

The quay side. The loading doors are now front doors.Photograph to come

Client: Kalkhavn Housing Association
Programme: 54 homes, a winter garden per block
Area: 6,400 m²
Structure: Kept brick shell, new floors in cross-laminated timber
Status: Completed, spring 2024

A lime warehouse from 1912 stood empty on the quay for twenty years. We kept the brick shell, the roof trusses and the loading doors, and built 54 homes inside it in timber.

The first brief was a study for demolition. We counted the bricks instead: about 410,000, most of them sound. Keeping the shell saved an estimated 2,100 tonnes of carbon against a new building of the same size.

Inside, five floors of cross-laminated timber stand free of the old walls, so the brick can breathe and the two structures can move on their own. The gap between them became the stairs, the light wells and a winter garden for each block.

The mortar was mixed with lime from the same coast the warehouse once shipped it from.

Stair in the gap between old and new.

A winter garden, third floor.

The 1912 trusses, cleaned and left exposed.Photographs to come

Studio

Twelve of us in one long room above a joinery. We hear the saws from the drawing tables, which keeps us honest about how things are made.

The long table, second floor.Photograph to come

Approach

Start with what is there.

Before we draw anything new we measure what stands on the site. The greenest building is usually the one already built.

Timber where it earns its place.

We build in wood when it is the right material for the span, the fire strategy and the budget, and we say so when it is not.

Draw slowly, build once.

Most of our time goes into the first year of a project. Fewer changes on site means fewer surprises for the people who pay for them.

Who we work for

Six municipalities
Four housing associations
Two school boards
and one rowing club

Open positions

We hire slowly and keep people. Three roles are open this autumn.

01
Architect, housing
Full time · From January · Three years in practice or more
Open
02
Constructing architect, timber
Full time · From March · Detailing and site follow-up
Open
03
Student placement, spring term
Six months · Paid · Model workshop included
Interviewing

Send a short letter and no more than twelve pages of work to jobs@okkerlund.example. We reply to every application within three weeks.

Contact

For a new project, a visit to one of our buildings or a question from the press.

Studio: Tømrervej 14, second floor
Above the joinery, ring once
Write: studio@okkerlund.example
Press: press@okkerlund.example
Hours: Monday to Thursday 8 to 16
Friday 8 to 14