magnus.wideroe@gmail.com
tlf: +4797508262
@studiowideroe
My name is Magnus and I recently graduated from the Aarhus School of Architecture. Since childhood, I’ve been captivated by well-crafted buildings and inspiring spaces, which ultimately led me to pursue a career in architecture. Over time, this fascination has developed, leading me to specialize in the intricacies of various materials, the mechanics of architectural details, and the philosophy surrounding the experience of spaces.
DIGITAL SKILLS
CAD
Rendering
Adobe
Rhino, Archicad
Vray, Enscape, D5 Render
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Lightroom
LANGUAGES
Norwegian English
Danish Swedish Spanish
Native Proficiency
Bilingual Proficiency
Full Professional Proficiency
Full Professional Proficiency
Minimum Professional Proficiency
EDUCATION
2014-2017
2018 2019 Jan-Jun
2019-2022
2022-2024
2023 Feb-Jul
Asker upper secondary school
Specialization in math’s and natural sciences.
Military service in the Norwegian forces
Assigned as squad leader for a border patrol at the russian border.
Scandivanian design college (DSDH)
Enrolled in the program ’Architecture and Urban Design.’
Bachelors degree at Aarhus school of architecture
Enrolled in the program ’Technology, building cultures and habitation.’
Masters degree at Aarhus school of architecture
Enrolled in the program ’Art of building and materials.’
Exchange at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Enrolled in various classes, main program in ’Wood construction.’
WORKSHOPS
2019 February
2021 August
2024 February
Playloop
Constructing different playground elements to create a circular trail for children to discover, supervised by DSDH.
Can Lis
Exploring the spaces of Jørn Utzons summerhouse through wooden interventions, in collaboration with Aulets Arquitectes.
Stone Floor Assembly
Assembling a stone floor experiment, designed and supervised by Jonathan Foote.
INTERNSHIP
2022 January-June
Intern Architect at Oslotre
Involvement in multiple projects through all development stages, with special attention to the Lille Ly project.
Stone and wood
(Thesis project)
Site: Larvik, Norway
Year: Spring 2024
This project investigates the architectural potential of Larvikite stones deemed unworthy by the stone industry and aims to replace the excessive use of concrete in modern constructions, while seeking to reinstate older building traditions of using stone and wood. The project proposes to reopen an old quarry as a research area, functioning as a factory to investigate, experiment with, and produce new structural building elements in stone. The program consists of the quarry and four buildings: a production hall (stone cutters’ house), a research facility (stone researchers’ house), a lunch house (stone workers’ house), and a guest house (stone dwellers’ house).
This project was awarded The CEBRA award 2024 .
The site is located in an abandoned quarry that is temporarily frozen due to imperfections in the Larvikite. Despite existing industrial infrastructure and ample stone remaining, the site is being considered for repurposing as a landmass deposit area.
This site is one of many quarries in the area, which make up largest production of massive stone in Northern Europe. Here, rough blocks are extracted to be made into exclusive products, such as tiles and countertops.
Unfortunately, due to outdated industry standards, only a small percentage of the extracted stones is deemed high enough quality, resulting in millions of tonnes of waste stone every year.
A few industries attempt to utilize some of this waste with modern technologies like the diamond wire saw, but the resulting products are primarily practical, such as retaining walls, docks, and coastal protection, due to a lack of creative research.
CNC milled MDF context 1:500 model
The project was developed in close collaboration with larvikite companies such as Lundhs and Larvikittblokka, to be able to understand the existing industrial conditions, ensuring that the project can be realistically implemented in a larger scale.
These industrial processes have been replicated in a workshop by utilizing digital robotics to carve, drill, split, and mill stones. The resulting products are stones that are cost-effective, easy to produce in large quantities, and precise down to the millimeter. This is necessary to compete with and maybe replace some of our modern foundational practises, which involve pouring tons of concrete into the ground.
The project proposes various versions of these structural stones and potential architectural applications.
Elevated cross cutting
Side cut drilling
Elevated cross detail
Side cut detail
Stacked pocket detail
Elevated cross stone
Elevated cross joint
researchers- and workers house 1:50 models
Stone
Stone workers house
The architecture of the project derives from the smaller details, resulting in simple buildings that float atop heavy foundations. The exception being the production hall, which features massive columns and trusses, giving the building a monumental presence.
Stone cutters house 1:50 section model
Stone cutters house 1:50 model
Stone cutters house section model
Stone cutters house
Situationplan
Above and below
Site: Aarhus, Denmark
Year: Fall 2023
This project, located in the historical center of Aarhus, explores the reintroduction of a bathhouse typology on the street of Badstuegate. While navigating a challenging site, the project attempts to reuse the existing buildings character and harmonize with the context through saddled roofs and a suitable scale. The bathhouse explores the duality between a stereotomic/ heavy basement of a ‘pasty’ material to act as a vessel for water, and a tectonic/light ground floor of a ‘dry’ material, culminating in concrete below and wood above.
Visualization of façade
The building is divided into three distinct volumes. An entry room to act as a threshold between the bathing experience and the busier city life. A caretaker apartment, holding the technical spaces underneath. And finally, a vertical bathhouse, for social interaction in a reintroduced typology. Giving the caretaker separate access points to the rooms through suspended bridges, dividing the servant and the served spaces.
1:100 situation model
Exploded axonometric of volumes and construction
Visualization of light filtering down the vertical bath
The design creates a contrast between a dark space underneath in the hearth of the building and a well-lit space above. This interplay is woven into the stairs of the project, serving as light shafts that guide the building’s flow. In the vertical bath, the boundary between these two realms is more fluid, allowing light, air, and sound to move more freely between them. This results in a dark bath where light filters through the roof, and a bright social space above, where steam rises through the floor.
Ground floor plan
The stereotomic process of carving away concrete createss space for pools of water that seemingly float on concrete pillars. Wooden beams are then employed to stabilize against lateral forces, consequently resulting in a porous membrane between the upper and lower part of the bath.
Upper bath visualization
1:20 model of pillar
1:20 model of pillar and wood
The act of observing the creative process while being actively engaged in it has always fascinated me. Allowing the hand to think and understand the intrinsic properties of different materials and forms, while being open to refining designs based on newfound insights. This fascination has fueled a passion for various projects in construction and furniture-making. Spanning from a diverse range of carpenter projects to my own personal hobby creations.
The following projects were all created using cutoffs and leftover materials, giving them new life and purpose through reuse.
Handcraft
Mano Oculata
Wooden shelf
Wooden tv-table
Wooden shelf
Stone floor assembly
Furniture, objects and architecture that are a result from its details, rather than a preconceived design, has always captivated me. When a material is shaped to perform a functional purpose and in the process creates an ornamentation is truly inspiring for me.
Hidden spline miter joint
Wedged mortise and tenon joint
Grooved stone with steel clamp
