Lead. A green, low-density residential community on the grounds of a decommissioned regional airport at the edge of Hamar. The masterplan turns the airport's defining feature — its long, straight landing strip — into a landscape axis: a green spine that organises new neighbourhoods, holds them together, and connects the site back into the older Hamar fabric around it.

Site & brief. The Stavsberg airfield sits between Hamar's northern suburbs and open agricultural land — a flat, generous site already part of an established settlement pattern, but cut through by a runway that no longer flies. The brief asked for a residential-led masterplan that respected the site's ecology, integrated with the surrounding landscape rather than overwriting it, and offered a mix of housing types and densities suitable for a long-term suburban community.

Idea. Keep the runway, change what it carries. The former landing strip becomes a green axis running through the heart of the masterplan — a linear park instead of a road grid — with housing clusters distributed along it like settlements on a path. Each cluster is small, varied in typology, embedded in mature trees; density rises gently toward the axis and falls toward the surrounding forest.

Resolution. Buildings are kept low: a kit of single-family, terrace, and small multi-family types grouped in clusters of mixed scale and roof form, with green roofs and timber facades that let the buildings recede into the canopy. Civic and sport functions — including an athletic track at the northern end of the site — anchor the masterplan and connect Stavsberg to the wider neighbourhood by walkable green corridors rather than new roads.