At the end of a long road that winds through a dense spruce forest, just north of the small town of Kongsberg, Norway, sits an enormous greenhouse by a stream. Inside, an abundance of fruit trees—figs, grapes, citrus, cherries, and plums—and vegetables of all sorts grow, at odds with the surrounding snowy landscape. Alongside this vegetation sprouts something even more unusual: the family home of architect Margit-Kristine Solibakke Klev, her husband, physicist Arnstein Norheim, and their two young children.
“I’ve always been fascinated by greenhouses,” says Margit, who grew up on her family’s nearby farm and spent her childhood gardening and cooking with her grandmother. “My main hobby is to grow and cook my own food.” In 2005, while studying architecture in Trondheim, she inherited a small plot of forested…
