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Sixteen years, one way of building.

Monolith is a small practice in Copenhagen. We keep the studio deliberately narrow so the partners stay on every project, from the first walk of the site to the day the formwork comes off.

Philosophy

Mass is not weight for its own sake. It is permanence you can feel— a wall thick enough to hold the day’s heat, a roof that reads as one piece, a room that will outlast everyone who drew it.

We design against the disposable. That means fewer materials, chosen for how they age, and details that admit the building was made by hand. Board marks stay. Joints are shown, not hidden. The light does the decorating.

Concrete interior with raking daylight across a board-formed wall

What we hold to

One material, honestly used

Concrete carries structure, surface and light at once. We rarely reach for a second skin.

Light before lamps

A room is planned around the sun it will get. Artificial light only finishes what daylight begins.

Detail you can read

How a thing is joined should be visible. The seam is part of the design, never a thing to cover.

Slow on purpose

We take few projects a year. Each gets the partners’ full attention from site to handover.

The partners

Copenhagen
01

Ingrid Hald

Founding partner

since 2009

02

Tomas Refn

Partner, construction

since 2011

03

Marit Sólen

Design lead

since 2015

04

Aksel Vinter

Associate

since 2018

Monolith

An architecture studio working in concrete, stone and northern light. We build slowly, and only what will stand.

Studio

14 Quarry Lane
Copenhagen K, 1051
studio@monolith.example
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