In a Remote Norwegian Forest, a Family Home Sprouts Inside a Luminous Greenhouse

An architect and ardent locavore designs a residence with a glass shell that allows her to garden all year round.

At the end of a long road that winds through a dense spruce forest, just north of the small town of Kongsberg, Norway, sits an enormous greenhouse by a stream. Inside, an abundance of fruit trees—figs, grapes, citrus, cherries, and plums—and vegetables of all sorts grow, at odds with the surrounding snowy landscape. Alongside this vegetation sprouts something even more unusual: the family home of architect Margit-Kristine Solibakke Klev, her husband, physicist Arnstein Norheim, and their two young children.

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Mandi Keighran
Design and travel writer based in London.

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