BOXHOME provide visitors with diverse spatial experience using light, materials and layout. The building is a collage of four rooms with different atmospheres built in an outer frame of 5.5 x 5.5 x 2.5 m. The rooms are meeting the essential daily needs in a home.



With the BOXHOME Rintala ask a number of important questions about our building traditions, our housing politics, and dwelling philosophy.

BOXHOME with it’s 22 sqm residential area on a 14 sqm plot and production costs of about 1/3 of an apartment with the same residential area is also
a commentary on today's overheated housing market in our big cities.




The project encourages architects to achieve the greatest possible integration between architecture and interior, between the building and interior components. To achieve this in a credible way they have been in contact with a number of the most prominent suppliers of building products and interior products on the Norwegian market to gain support for the project.

We have achived financial or material support from Aspelin-Ramm and infill AS, Glava AS, Pilkington float AS, Optimera Industri AS and Ruukki AS. Vitra Scandinavia and SM-Light AS have contributed furniture and interior.