Department of Architecture

SKANSI - Shelter under Skansin Ý SKANSI - Refuge embedded in the landscape

The work consists of the design of a shelter for the young staff of a bathing lagoon and hotel at Skansinn in Vestmannaeyjar. The building does not rise from the landscape either...

Maríanna Rún Kristjánsdóttir · 2026
Department of Architecture

We, lava ÅRFN By, lava

The lava is mysterious It is powerful, beautiful, exciting and possesses a force that draws one in. At the same time, existence is...

Laufey Sólmundardóttir · 2026
Department of Architecture

BIGHEAD

Iceland's spectacular nature has been harsh and ruthless to the people of the country for centuries. Between nature and humanity, a kind of game of tables played out. The forces of nature...

Júlía Guðmundsdóttir Gähwiller · 2026
Department of Architecture

SUN MESSAGE

In the landscape of the West Indies, this verb appears in a concrete way, where nature itself testifies to destruction but also to restoration. In...

Irena Sveinsdóttir · 2026
Department of Architecture

SEE

The SÆ project is based on the experience of the nature of the Vestmanna Islands and the sea that surrounds the island, where the visitor perceives his smallness towards the forces of nature. Out...

Hildur Ása Halldórsdóttir · 2026
Department of Architecture

Channel

Seamanship has long shaped society and business life in the West Indies It is accompanied by materials that have completed their mission and will remain as...

Helena Ósk Kristjánsdóttir · 2026
Department of Architecture

Boy

From the ground rises Drangur, half covered, half visible He stretches out of the landscape as if he had sprung straight out of...

Guðrún Hlín Sigurðardóttir · 2026
Department of Architecture

Achievement Center - Achievement Camp in Vestmannaeyjar Đ Vestmannaeyjar Performance Camp

At the edge of the new lava, where the power of the eruption can still be perceived, a building formed by ideas of achievement and recovery rises There are...

Embla Kristjánsdóttir · 2026
Department of Architecture

Ship cave

Skipahellir is a new shelter designed with the needs of fish processing workers in mind. The building rises at the end of the harbor where there is now an N1 convenience store, the Building stands...

Ellert Sigurðarson · 2026
Department of Architecture

Palimpsest

After the Heimaeyjar eruption in 1973, a new territory was created that expanded the island considerably, but the new lava also buried part of the settlement. Still on...

Egill Rúnarsson · 2026