Ebeltoft, Denmark

The house stands on a high plateau in the moraine landscape outside Ebeltoft, on the Djursland peninsula of Jutland, a new family home of 140 square metres finished in 2024 by Høyer Arkitektur with the architect Maria-Therese Grant. It is laid out as twelve rooms of 3.6 by 3.6 metres in a column-and-beam timber structure around this central atrium, with no hallways or corridors: the atrium is the heart of the plan, joining the rooms to each other and the house to the sky and the ground, with views out to the four points of the compass.

The roof is carried by the outer walls and continuous top straps alone, so the internal partitions can come down and go back up as the family changes, and a colonnade holds the deep overhang to form a terrace running right around the house. The walls are unfinished spruce cross-laminated timber inside and out, the kitchen is pale pine, and the atrium floor is river stones around a single tree.

Høyer Arkitektur

Høyer Arkitektur is the practice of Thomas Høyer, an architect MAA, founded in 2022 and based in Ebeltoft on the Jutland peninsula, working on projects that explore the relationship between architecture and nature.

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Architecture Høyer Arkitektur (@hoyerarkitektur), with Maria-Therese Grant. Photography Hampus Berndtson (@hampusper). Seen via @gtsantilas.

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Researched September 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.