Heatherhill Beach House
Vejby, Denmark
Heatherhill Beach House is a holiday home that Norm Architects finished in 2024 at Vejby on the North Zealand coast, a second home for a family who use it as a getaway from everyday life in Copenhagen. The idea, in the practice's words: "With this ground-up project, we have worked to explore the notion of a traditional Danish summerhouse set in wild nature." The barn form is pulled into two cedar-clad volumes around a courtyard under a sedum roof, the sedum being the owner's wish, a memory of a childhood home with the same roof; inside there are 232 square metres, four bedrooms and two bathrooms.
The timber lining is lye-treated Douglas fir from Dinesen, boards 300 millimetres wide and up to 15 metres long, finished in lye and white oil, and the floor is brick, which Sofie Bak of Norm calls "another way of twisting tradition". The living room is sunk a few steps below the kitchen to follow the sloping site, and both face the sea, the Kattegat. The lighting was designed with Møller and Rothe. Heatherhill itself is the reserve of heather hills above this stretch of the Kattegat, protected since 1958.
Norm Architects
Norm Architects is a Copenhagen studio founded in 2008 that works across architecture, interiors and products. The photograph is by one of its partners, Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen, an architect and art director as well as a photographer.
Architecture and interior design Norm Architects (@normarchitects). Photography @jonasbjerrepoulsen. Seen via @studioblackinteriors.
The picture comes from this post on Instagram.
Researched September 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.