Designed by: @hoyerarkitektur

Captured by: @hampusper

Ebeltoft sits on a moraine peninsula in eastern Jutland, where glaciers shaped a landscape of Scots pine scrub and sandy ridges. On one of its plateaus, Høyer Arkitektur has placed a low timber-panel house elevated above the surrounding coastal heath. From the outside, it reads as a single horizontal volume defined by pale spruce CLT panels, a pitched roof with deep overhangs and a colonnade of square timber columns set on concrete footings. The house is designed to maintain a close relationship with its surrounding landscape while keeping a restrained material expression.

The roof is the main organizing element of the project. It spans the full footprint and is supported only at the outer walls by continuous top straps, leaving the interior free of load-bearing partitions. As a result, the internal walls can be moved or adapted as the family's needs change. The roof extends beyond all four elevations, carried by the timber colonnade to form a covered terrace finished in spruce boards. Along the edges, a narrow rooflight separates the roof plane from the walls, introducing a continuous strip of northern light into the house.

At the centre of the plan, an atrium replaces the conventional central room. The courtyard is finished with gravel and river stones and contains a single slender deciduous tree. It is enclosed on all four sides by floor-to-ceiling sliding panels combining timber frames and glass, allowing views through the courtyard towards the rooms and landscape beyond. Each side frames a different direction of the surrounding moraine, while the open court brings the changing northern light and seasonal landscape into the centre of the house.

Inside, CLT is used continuously across walls, ceilings, partitions and kitchen cabinetry, all finished in pale pine. A pale grey polished resin screed covers the floors, while a dark olive-green cast-iron log stove and matching enamel flue define one corner of the living space. Individual ceiling rooflights bring additional light to the children's room and bathroom. The bathroom combines square off-white ceramic tiles up to mid-wall with timber above. The same material system extends from exterior to interior, creating continuity throughout the house.