On Bragernes, right in the centre of Drammen, developer Birk & Co is creating Kvartal B62: around 180 homes in a FutureBuilt model project, planned with reused building parts and solid wood. Their promise is short: "Hjem som rommer mer". Homes that hold more. We're proud to be part of it.
You get more than your own four walls
Birk & Co starts with how people really live. In Kvartal B62 you get your own home, and you also get access to what they call delemeter: shared rooms spread through the block, built as an extension of your apartment. Guest rooms and other shared spaces add up to 185 m² of extra room you can use when you need it. On top of that come roof terraces, a shared courtyard and a sauna.
The block has everything from larger apartments to compact homes. The compact homes are where we come in.
Birk & Co didn't start here. At Fyrstikkbakken 14 in Oslo, also a FutureBuilt project, they built their homes around delemeter. In Kvartal B62 they've taken the idea further, and with support from DOGA they built a full-size compact home to test what really works in a small space, together with Coera, IKEA, Workshopr and MASE.
22 m² that doesn't feel like 22 m²
To show what a compact home can be, Birk & Co built a full-size 22 m² prototype in its showhouse at Gjetergata 8. Every centimetre is planned. The main room is your living room and your bedroom: a sofa during the day, and at night a bed that comes down from the ceiling.
That bed is ours. When you don't need it, it sits up in the ceiling and the floor is yours, for the sofa, a table, friends over for dinner. One tap and you're back in the bedroom.
Getting the bed in is the easy part. Two of our people deliver it and set it up in 3 to 4 hours. There's no building work and nothing is fixed to the walls or ceiling, so the architects don't have to plan around it. Buyers of a compact home can simply choose it as an option.
"We want the small homes in Kvartal B62 to feel generous. With the MASE bed, one room works as both living room and bedroom, and you don't have to give up the sofa or the bed."
Why this matters
Homes in cities keep getting more expensive, and the average home in Norway now costs just over 5 million kroner (Eiendom Norge, September 2026). At the same time, more of us live alone, approximately 50% of people in Oslo live in single households. Birk & Co shows the answer isn't just more square metres. It's better ones: compact homes that are planned down to the centimetre, generous shared rooms, and furniture that changes with your day.
Come and try it
Curious what 22 m² can feel like? Visit the showhouse at Gjetergata 8 in Drammen, where the compact home and our bed are set up in full size. More about the project at b62.no.