Byggðarhorn Búgarður 44

This residential house and workshop at Byggðarhorn were designed as a unified response to the owner’s way of living and working, forming a tailored environment that supports both daily life and craft. Like its neighbouring project, the home adopts an L-shaped form with a traditional ridged roof, positioned carefully on the site to embrace the surrounding views and the natural flow of the landscape.

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The geometry of the building creates a sheltered southwest-facing courtyard — a sun pocket — where the architecture gathers warmth and protection. An extended roof canopy runs along the entire southern façade, offering shade, wind shelter and a comfortable outdoor edge that can be used throughout the year.

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The workshop is conceived as a purpose-built space, shaped directly around the functional needs of the owner. Together, the workshop and dwelling form a coherent whole, where the practical and the domestic coexist naturally, yet each with its own identity.

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Though precise in its placement and shaped by local conditions, the house itself arrived as a prefabricated modular structure from Lithuania. This method allowed for controlled craftsmanship, efficient construction and a clean assembly on site — while still enabling a design deeply rooted in the Icelandic landscape.

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The result is a home that mirrors the logic of its environment: protective, open, practical and quietly attuned to the rhythms of the land.