There is far too much ground covered with asphalt for parking cars in the world. A single normal parking space covers over 12 square metres of the Earth with an ecologically unproductive surface, and it often lies completely unused when no one has parked there. This is a rather silly situation. What can be done with these existing parking lots? I have recently been exploring how new dwellings and residential areas could be built on parking lots, instead of on previously unbuilt ground. Naturally it is always possible to see a site covered with a parking lot as a blank page, and build something there that does not relate at all to the parking lot's strict organisation. In a lot of contexts such an approach will be best, but in other cases it will be necessary or advantageous to retain the strict area limits of the parking spaces. This project is an attempt to test out how this original spatial structure can form the basis for new modular houses, where the typical outer dimensions of a s

Recently I have been working on concept sketches which solve the common problem of "What can we do with this space?" This is one of my favourite questions to be asked, and I always like to respond with a drawing. I have begun to turn these concepts into a short video series on my Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/adamic_studio/). In the videos I share some of the thinking behind my design when I develop environmental concepts. As usual I draw everything by hand on an iPad with the Procreate app. Here are some examples from my latest projects. 01) The interior of a 3-room apartment currently for sale in Lillestrøm Before: After: 02) The garden around a house currently for sale in Hafrsfjord, Norway Before: After: 03) The interior of an apartment currently for sale in Oslo Before (a very awkward space): After: 04) The garden outside of a house currently for sale in Kristiansand Before: After: 05) A commercial space currently up for rent in Oslo Before: After: If you ever need hel

Some early images/sketches of a concept for the renovation of a small café and bar in Split, Croatia.

Also on the drawing board right now is an expansion of a small cottage in Salangen kommune in the north of Norway. The cottage was originally built with a log structure (Norwegian laft), and in 2006 it was expanded with a larger addition on the south side which appears today to be the primary space. The log cabin is in quite poor technical condition, and needs to be repaired and rebuilt. The owners also wish to expand the living space in the newer part, especially to create a better visual connection with the landscape outside. As is typical for the north of Norway, the place has fantastic qualities. The cottage is a simple structure with pitched roofs in two directions, and it made sense to plan new additions as natural extensions of these roofs. The owners often rent out this cottage in the summer to tourists, and therefore in the concept phase of this project I tried to come up with solutions that could turn this cottage into a bit of a unique destination. The living room is expande

Unique solutions for urban balconies and terraces. Even in an apartment block in the middle of a dense city, it is possible through careful design to feel connected to nature. Recently I have noticed that there is an astonishing number of boring balconies in the city. I live and work in Oslo, but this observation applies to pretty much all modern cities. Such balconies can be found everywhere: uninteresting concrete plates that protrude from the sides of apartment blocks like ruffled pages from a notebook, usually without any plants and without any real spatial qualities or character. In the best of cases the inhabitants have set out a couple of patio chairs and a small table on them, but most often these balconies are empty spaces exposed to noise and wind that have been hung onto the side of buildings as an afterthought, and they become completely unpleasant whenever the sun disappears. I have always considered it somewhat insulting that this type of standard balcony is considered to

There is a lot of unrealised potential in existing cities, which for whatever reason I happen to notice. While walking home from my studio in the west of Oslo every day, I happen to climb up this weed-covered hill. It lies to the side of a building which is used partly by a local university. It houses also offices for Selvaag, a research laboratory and a training centre, which entails a lot of pedestrian traffic in the local area. For some reason the original planners placed the only constructed path that leads up to the entrances on the second level to one side of this long building, meaning that if you come from the other side (as most visitors seem to do), you are asked to walk about 200 meters along the lower level first, up a path, and then about 175 meters back in the opposite direction to get to the door. Naturally no one does this, and instead a typical "desire path" has been created here by people that choose just to take a shortcut up through the grass. This trail has actuall