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Stockholm · Tacoma
Stockholm · Tacoma
Why we build in a factory.
Norrhus draws six houses in Stockholm and builds them in Tacoma, Washington, for land in four states.
A house built on site is built in the weather, by whoever is free that week, from drawings that change as it goes. We would rather draw a house once, build it indoors to an eighth of an inch, and bring it to you closed against the rain.
Stockholm
The drawing office
Six models, drawn and redrawn until every dimension is a decision. The permit set for your county is drawn here too.
Tacoma, Washington
The factory
Sections are framed, insulated, glazed and roofed indoors, then wrapped and trucked to your site in one load.
From drawing to doorstep
Five steps, six to nine months.
Configure
Site visit and permits
Built in the factory
Set in a day
Finished on site
Principles
Four rules on every sheet.
- P-01
Draw it once.
Six models, drawn properly, beat a hundred drawn quickly.
- P-02
Publish the price.
If we can't tell you what it costs, the drawing isn't finished.
- P-03
Build it dry.
Framed, insulated and closed indoors. Sections leave the factory sealed.
- P-04
Electric only.
No gas on site, ever: a heat pump, good ventilation and a small stove.
Materials
Timber from the Northwest, energy from the grid.
Frames, cladding and floors come from forests managed for timber in Washington and Oregon. Every house is all-electric and solar-ready, so it can run on the grid it is connected to, or on its own roof.
