DESIGNED FOR SPACES.
BUILT FOR STUDIOS.

DESIGNED FOR SPACES.
BUILT FOR STUDIOS.

DESIGNED FOR SPACES.
BUILT FOR STUDIOS.

Every section is shaped to give your projects more breathing room, combining structured pages, quiet spacing, and editorial rhythm to make your studio feel calm, considered, and easy to explore.

Every section is shaped to give your projects more breathing room, combining structured pages, quiet spacing, and editorial rhythm to make your studio feel calm, considered, and easy to explore.

Exterior view of Kōan House at dusk, a minimalist Japanese concrete residence with vertical amber light strips flanking the entrance
Exterior view of Kōan House at dusk, a minimalist Japanese concrete residence with vertical amber light strips flanking the entrance

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Kōan House

Commercial

Landscape

Residential

Tokyo, JP

2026

01

Kōan House

Commercial

Landscape

Residential

Tokyo, JP

2026

01

Kōan House

Commercial

Landscape

Residential

Tokyo, JP

2026

02

Steinhaus Pavilion

Commercial

Landscape

Interior

Oslo, NO

2025

02

Steinhaus Pavilion

Commercial

Landscape

Interior

Oslo, NO

2025

02

Steinhaus Pavilion

Commercial

Landscape

Interior

Oslo, NO

2025

03

Gråfjell Retreat

Commercial

Landscape

Interior

Bergen, NO

2025

03

Gråfjell Retreat

Commercial

Landscape

Interior

Bergen, NO

2025

03

Gråfjell Retreat

Commercial

Landscape

Interior

Bergen, NO

2025

04

Lichten Office HQ

Commercial

Landscape

Commercial

Berlin, DE

2024

04

Lichten Office HQ

Commercial

Landscape

Commercial

Berlin, DE

2024

04

Lichten Office HQ

Commercial

Landscape

Commercial

Berlin, DE

2024

05

Oslo Cultural Centre

Commercial

Landscape

Cultural

Oslo, NO

2024

05

Oslo Cultural Centre

Commercial

Landscape

Cultural

Oslo, NO

2024

05

Oslo Cultural Centre

Commercial

Landscape

Cultural

Oslo, NO

2024

06

Murano Residence

Commercial

Landscape

Interior

Venice, IT

2023

06

Murano Residence

Commercial

Landscape

Interior

Venice, IT

2023

06

Murano Residence

Commercial

Landscape

Interior

Venice, IT

2023

Featured —

Oslo Cultural Centre

Where the city meets the fjord.

A civic building conceived as a series of cascading public terraces stepping down toward the water. Each level is a space for gathering, performance, and pause — architecture as threshold between urban life and open landscape.

Featured —

Oslo Cultural Centre

Where the city meets the fjord.

A civic building conceived as a series of cascading public terraces stepping down toward the water. Each level is a space for gathering, performance, and pause — architecture as threshold between urban life and open landscape.

Featured —

Lichten Office HQ

Light, steel, and seven floors of intent.

Seven floors of glass and dark steel built around a central atrium that pulls daylight through the entire structure. Designed for a Berlin technology firm that wanted a headquarters as precise as their thinking.

Featured —

Lichten Office HQ

Light, steel, and seven floors of intent.

Seven floors of glass and dark steel built around a central atrium that pulls daylight through the entire structure. Designed for a Berlin technology firm that wanted a headquarters as precise as their thinking.

Featured —

Kōan House

A house that breathes.

Raw concrete. Ancient cedar. A meditation on the relationship between shelter and landscape.

Exterior view of Kōan House at dusk, a minimalist Japanese concrete residence with vertical amber light strips flanking the entrance
Exterior view of Kōan House at dusk, a minimalist Japanese concrete residence with vertical amber light strips flanking the entrance

Featured —

Kōan House

A house that breathes.

Raw concrete. Ancient cedar. A meditation on the relationship between shelter and landscape.

Exterior view of Kōan House at dusk, a minimalist Japanese concrete residence with vertical amber light strips flanking the entrance
Exterior view of Kōan House at dusk, a minimalist Japanese concrete residence with vertical amber light strips flanking the entrance

Philosophy

“We don’t build monuments. We build thresholds
the space between arrival
and belonging.”

Studio NAVE, founding statement

Process

From listening to living.

01

Listen

We begin with silence. Understanding the site, the brief, and the lives that will inhabit the space.

01

Listen

We begin with silence. Understanding the site, the brief, and the lives that will inhabit the space.

02

Sketch

Hand-drawn before digital. We explore spatial ideas through physical models and analogue drawing.

02

Sketch

Hand-drawn before digital. We explore spatial ideas through physical models and analogue drawing.

03

Refine

Every detail is questioned. Materials are tested, proportions adjusted, light studied through the seasons.

03

Refine

Every detail is questioned. Materials are tested, proportions adjusted, light studied through the seasons.

04

Realise

We stay on-site from first pour to final finish. The building is completed when it feels inevitable.

04

Realise

We stay on-site from first pour to final finish. The building is completed when it feels inevitable.

Selected Works

Press & Recognition

"Nave represents a new sobriety in European practice — architecture that serves the body before the eye."

Dezeen

2024

"The Kōan House is among the most considered residential projects we have encountered this decade."

ArchDaily

2024

"Their work in Oslo proves that cultural architecture can be both radical and rooted."

Wallpaper

2023

"Nave represents a new sobriety in European practice — architecture that serves the body before the eye."

Dezeen

2024

"The Kōan House is among the most considered residential projects we have encountered this decade."

ArchDaily

2024

"Their work in Oslo proves that cultural architecture can be both radical and rooted."

Wallpaper

2023

Process

We design from the inside out — understanding how people move, gather, and rest before the first line is drawn.

Architecture is not the making of objects. It is the making of experience.

Services

Architecture

Interior Design

Landscape

Exhibition Design

Recognition

18

Projects

12

Years

21

Awards

5

Countries

NAVE Studio © 2026

Architecture & Interior Design

Process

We design from the inside out — understanding how people move, gather, and rest before the first line is drawn.

Architecture is not the making of objects. It is the making of experience.

Services

Architecture

Interior Design

Landscape

Exhibition Design

Recognition

18

Projects

12

Years

21

Awards

5

Countries

NAVE Studio © 2026

Architecture & Interior Design

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