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Timber homes with keys in 14 months

Houses, small schools and summer houses for families and municipalities in East Jutland, drawn by hand in Aarhus since 2009.

64buildings handed over
9schools for three kommuner
14months from first meeting to keys, on average

Hus ved Kalø, Rønde. 168 m², keys in June 2025See the 64 buildings

Dark timber gable of a house with a tall narrow window, against a clear blue sky
What you can build with us

Three kinds of timber building

You come with a plot, a school brief or a tired summer house. You get a timber building at the scale people live and learn in, from 48 to 1,240 m².

Bright timber kitchen and dining room with a long window over fields
41family housesHus i Skåde, 154 m², 2024
Timber facade of a school building with deep-set windows under a cloudy sky
9schools and kindergartensEgå Skole classroom wing, 980 m², 2022
Small dark summer house on a grassy dune under a pale sky
14summer housesSommerhus Fuglsø, Mols, 86 m², 2023
Timber living room with a pale sofa, oak floor and a full-height window onto trees
Skovhuset, Silkeborg. The living room faces the beech wood192 m²
One house, close up

One family, one sloping plot

First meeting

March 2021, on the plot

Keys

May 2022, 14 months later

Frame

Spruce CLT, larch cladding

Budget

Held to 4% of the signed price

See the house in the register
Low oak table and floor cushions on a dark wooden floor, afternoon sun on the boards
Reading corner, first floor2022

From the first sketch
to drawings you can price

Hand-drawn pen plan of a house and garden with trees, a pool, a garage and handwritten room notes

Your house starts as a hand sketch. At the first visit Ida or Jonas draws on your plot with you: where the sun comes in, where the car stops, which trees stay. Three plan options follow within four weeks, each with a price range from a carpenter we have built with.

Before the drawings
  • Site visit and first sketchfree, 90 minutes on your plot
  • Three plan optionswithin four weeks
  • A price range for eachchecked with a local carpenter
From first meeting to keys

Fourteen months, and you know every one of them

The average over our last 30 buildings. Your plan shows the same seven dates from the first week, and you get a short note whenever one moves.

  1. Month 0First meeting on your plot
  2. Month 1Three sketch options
  3. Month 3Design signed off
  4. Month 5Permit sent to the kommune
  5. Month 7Carpenter starts on site
  6. Month 10Frame up, roof closed
  7. Month 14Keys in your hand
Pale timber frame of a house under construction against a clear blue sky
Month 10 at Hus i Hasle, on site now: frame up and roof closed in nine working days148 m²

Wood you can touch from the inside

Frame

Cross-laminated spruce from Swedish forests

Outside

Untreated Danish larch, silver grey within three years

Walls

300 mm of wood-fibre insulation, no plastic film

Glued-laminated timber roof beams crossing against a deep blue sky
Glulam beams, left open to the room belowSpruce
Close view of pale vertical wooden planks meeting at a corner
Cladding corner, no metal trimLarch
Rows of timber roof trusses against a blue sky
Trusses cut in the workshop, raised in a daySpruce
Places

Where the 64 stand

Most within an hour of Aarhus, so the person who drew your house is on site every week.

  • Aarhus14
  • Mols9
  • Ebeltoft8
  • Silkeborg7
  • Skanderborg6
  • Odder5
  • Horsens5
  • Randers4
  • Samsø3
  • Viborg3

schools and kindergartens for Aarhus, Odder and Skanderborg kommuner

Schools planned around the school day

For your school we start with a timetable, not a floor plan. Where do 180 children hang their coats at 7:55? Where does a class read after lunch?

Lisbjerg FriskoleAarhus N1,240 m², 2024 Hjortshøj BørnehusAarhus N640 m², 2023 Egå Skole, classroom wingAarhus N980 m², 2022 Malling Skole, hallMalling720 m², 2021 Solbjerg NaturbørnehaveSolbjerg410 m², 2020 Odder LilleskoleOdder860 m², 2019 Skæring Skole, libraryAarhus N290 m², 2017 Beder Skole, classroomsBeder540 m², 2015 Ry Skole, after-school clubRy380 m², 2012
Long low timber school building with large windows on a green lawn in sunshine
Lisbjerg Friskole: 180 pupils, every classroom opens onto the lawn1,240 m²
Top-down view of a wooden drawing table with a sketchbook of house drawings, markers and a hand on a plan
The long table at Mejlgade 48Since 2009
The studio

Eleven people at one long drawing table

Ida Brask

Founding partner, architect MAA. Six years drawing schools in Copenhagen before Aarhus. She leads every school and signs every school drawing.

Jonas Vinter

Founding partner, architect MAA. Trained as a carpenter first. He leads the houses and checks every joint on site himself.

  • Mette SkovArchitect, schools
  • Rasmus HoltArchitect, site lead
  • Sofie LindArchitect, houses
  • Anders KjærConstructing architect
  • Line BechLandscape architect
  • Peter DahlBuilding technician
  • Nanna JuulArchitect, summer houses
  • Oliver KroghStudent architect
  • Karen FriisStudio manager

Bring your plot, we bring a pencil

Reply

Within two working days, from Ida or Jonas

First visit

Free, 90 minutes on your plot

Area

East Jutland, within 90 km of Aarhus

Sketch stage

DKK 18,000 fixed for three plan options, set against the full fee

Or call +45 86 12 40 09