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Mads Øiern (f. 1987)
Arkitekt
+47 40309860
mads.oiern@aho.no
Studio
SOLO
Maridalsveien 3
0178 Oslo
A quarry is a byproduct of extraction — an absence that enables something elsewhere, both beautiful and marked by loss.
This proposed project responds by reaching upward from the depression, seeking to restore a sense of level. It proposes a tall structure on four scissor lifts, with a vast horizontal disc clad in asphalt. Rising to the surrounding ground level, it evokes the missing mass and frames the void as a space transformed.
Where: Brøtsø, Tjøme
Year: 2026
Team: Mads Øiern
The proposed church room offers a compelling architectural experience alongside its religious function. Light enters through a cross in the ceiling, which is both symbolic and structural, tying together roof and walls.
Curved wooden elements form 28 chamber-like spaces, balancing privacy with a sense of community. The façade is clad in fiberglass panels — reusable components already used in the fish farming industry.
Where: Nordhavn, Copenhagen
Year: 2023
Team: Christine Petersen and Mads Øiern
Exhibition for Oslo bys arkitekturpris 2025.
The 2025 exhibition is designed as a yellow bridge spanning the reflecting pool in front of Deichman Bjørvika, with small “platforms” displaying models and images of the nominated projects.
Where: Anne Cath. Vestlys plass in Oslo
Year: 2025
Team: Sebastian Sanders, Mads Øiern and Mesen, commissioned by Plan- og bygningsetaten, Oslo kommune
Stavlegje is a bold, original proposal: a long, east–west timber pavilion raised on piles, extending toward the fjord. Its form evokes early industrial buildings while its red timber façade references local agricultural traditions.
The two-level structure is organized around a continuous ramp, integrating circulation with the visitor journey. Public functions occupy the ground floor, with exhibitions above. Elevated above the site, it minimizes landscape impact while maintaining a restrained connection to the surrounding garden with its beautiful apple trees.
Where: Urnes, Lustrafjorden
Year: 2021
Team: Christine Petersen, Louis Gervais, Mads Øiern and Jonas Gunerius Larsen
Renovation of a small cabin with a sea view. The project explores how sober adaptation, meeting minimal needs and a simple approach to materials can form the framework for a life in close contact with nature.
Where: Brunlanes, Vestfold
Year: 2026
Team: Mads Øiern
A House for the Stone of Sisyphus is a sculptural building in wood, metal and glass, drawn as a competition entry especially for Hall XII at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo. The installation is designed to house an ancient Greek myth, namely the myth of Sisyphus. The installation offers a spatial experience where the individual is confronted with the question of his meaning and task in the world.
Where: Vigeland Museum, Oslo
Year: 2022
Team: Mads Øiern
The proposed viewing center is a slender, elongated structure elevated on columns to minimize site impact, with a minimal ground-based entrance accommodating vertical circulation.
This raised form preserves continuity with the sloping terrain and embraces a garden at the back. Its narrow span enables efficient construction using standard local components. The building is primarily timber, with a façade in tar-treated, charred, or untreated pine that weathers naturally.
Where: Nikolai Astrups v. 1135, 6847 Vassenden
Year: 2024
Team: Christine Petersen, Mads Øiern and Lu Hsin.
Swirling geometric shapes form arrays of spaces, which can only be identified as villas thanks to the doorways in the walls. Each villa has its own geometric logic, which arranges the plan and creates configurations and thresholds. Although the drawings are constructed on the computer, the textures of the Risograph screen printing and the paper give the impression of a more manual technique.
Where: On paper
Year: 2020
Team: Jonas Gunerius Larsen and Mads Øiern
The suggested installation “Ledestjerne” comprises a series of “Ledekors” placed in careful dialogue with the terrain along Granerudsjøen in Stange to guide pilgrims on their way to Nidaros Cathedral. Cast locally at Furnes Jernstøperi from recycled scrap iron, the elements measure 900 mm diagonal by 130 mm high - large enough to sit on yet ambiguously neither furniture nor building. Positioned in visual relation across the landscape, the linked objects reflect light subtly and create resting points for reflection and orientation.
Where: Granerudsjøen, Stange
Year: 2024
Team: Christine Petersen and Mads Øiern
An additional winter garden on a log cabin on an island, deep in the woods.
The project explores how to build an island, with scarce resources. Windows are transported over the ice in winter. The columns are transported in a canoe. And the beams are rowed over by rowboat.
Where: Torsbyveien, Finnskogen
Year: 2022
Team: Jonas Gunerius Larsen and Mads Øiern
A preliminary project culminating in a 1:25 model in stainless steel, textile, copper, and birch. Et tempel uten tomt explores a sacred space shaped by Buddhist rituals — meditation, concentration, and contemplation — whose prescribed sequences of movement and time inform the geometry and structure.
Developed solely through hand drawing and physical models, the project is intended for a mysterious client Petter met eight years ago on a mountain in China, and has yet to be presented.
Year: 2022
Team: Petter Kveseth and Mads Øiern
A Studio for a Composer
Where: Nesodden
Year: 2022
Team: Jonas Gunerius Larsen og Mads Øiern
