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Finland
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Other Projects by Ateljé Sotamaa
Atelier House
Finland
Project Featured on Apr 11, 2016
Firm
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
'The smart home of the Finnish studio Ateljé Sotamaa in not so much a prefabricated system as a philosophy for living. It blends into the landscape, integrating nature and technology, and defines new neighborly relations'. (ABITARE magazine issue 550 article on Atelier House: Being Open to Everything Around Us by Knud Walter).
In Finland research has shown that despite the efficiencies of urban density, the countryside lifestyle outside the city results in considerably smaller carbon footprints per individual than the traditionally urban lifestyle. Encouraged by these findings, our ambition is to create a contemporary, digital, sustainable, urban vision of countryside living. The aim is to attract a demographically mixed group of inhabitants with a many inherently urban, working professionals and create a new vibrant community outside the city.
The first prototype of the Atelier House was built in 2015 in Hvitträsk, Finland. Currently, Ateljé Sotamaa is working on a seaside community thirty minutes from central Helsinki. The construction on the site is estimated to begin in the Autumn of 2016. The houses in Finland are made from locally and sustainably sourced spruce and birch. The aim over the next few years is to test the concept in for example Asia using Bamboo.
The Atelier House -design strategy enables an evolution of a community over time, instead of the execution of a one-time rigid plan. This results in a richer, more layered collective. Each Atelier House is a unique version of the type, designed for its inhabitants. A community of Atelier Houses will be a collection of nuanced differences, rather than radical differences or monotonous repetition. In other words, the Atelier House community will stage a new, more coherent social and political relationship between the individual and the collective. The architectural typology of the Atelier House also work towards the emergence of a community. The sensation of openness created by the large deck areas encourages the formation of shared social spaces, and thus the emergence of an urbanity in the form of a village, rather than a suburban residential area. Furthermore, the technologies embedded in each house will be networked in order to create a smart community, which for example optimises waste management and energy consumption, and enhances the social sustainability and social life of the community.
The idea of community and how architecture contributes in its formation is an inherent part of our building design. At another scale, all the furniture is conceived as part of the architecture, and it operates both in concert and in contrast to the architecture, introducing detail, functionality, and softness into the folded, forms of the building. The furniture designed for the house is both freestanding and integrated. Some of it is literally embedded in the surfaces of the building. For example, the gaps between the striated wood planks hide LED lighting and hold support structures for a steel shelving system entitled Blade. The other integrated furniture includes kitchen and bathroom furniture. The freestanding furniture include a glass table with wooden saw-horse legs, wooden lounge chairs, an aluminum chair, a bed with an integrated wooden headboard/table, a scalable bookshelf, and a wooden cabinet.
Our ambition is to make technology in the house so sophisticated it disappears. We believe that the home is a new interface to digital services. We are currently working in order to find solutions which leave visible nothing but the service they provide for example for young families – helping them live in a smart and adaptive house that makes their life easier, safer and more flexible, or old people – helping them live longer and more safely in your own home.
The Atelier House is a new housing typology and perhaps more significantly, a new way of working with people who wish to purchase a designed home. It is a projects which re-imagines wooden housing within the digital paradigm. The Atelier House combines a strong architectural vision with a possibility of customization. The architectural vision is uncompromised: It is based on the idea of an almost primitive lean-to –shelter, a structure created by a juxtaposition of black solidly articulated surfaces (walls and roof) to a radically open deck area with a strong connection to the surrounding community, and nature. Within that architectural vision, each house is a unique variation, designed based on people's dreams and needs. Starting from sketches and then moving to 3D digital models, we allow our clients to engage in every step of the design process, with the aim of creating architecturally high quality, affordable, bespoke homes.
In Finland research has shown that despite the efficiencies of urban density, the countryside lifestyle outside the city results in considerably smaller carbon footprints per individual than the traditionally urban lifestyle. Encouraged by these findings, our ambition is to create a contemporary, digital, sustainable, urban vision of countryside living. The aim is to attract a demographically mixed group of inhabitants with a many inherently urban, working professionals and create a new vibrant community outside the city.
The first prototype of the Atelier House was built in 2015 in Hvitträsk, Finland. Currently, Ateljé Sotamaa is working on a seaside community thirty minutes from central Helsinki. The construction on the site is estimated to begin in the Autumn of 2016. The houses in Finland are made from locally and sustainably sourced spruce and birch. The aim over the next few years is to test the concept in for example Asia using Bamboo.
The Atelier House -design strategy enables an evolution of a community over time, instead of the execution of a one-time rigid plan. This results in a richer, more layered collective. Each Atelier House is a unique version of the type, designed for its inhabitants. A community of Atelier Houses will be a collection of nuanced differences, rather than radical differences or monotonous repetition. In other words, the Atelier House community will stage a new, more coherent social and political relationship between the individual and the collective. The architectural typology of the Atelier House also work towards the emergence of a community. The sensation of openness created by the large deck areas encourages the formation of shared social spaces, and thus the emergence of an urbanity in the form of a village, rather than a suburban residential area. Furthermore, the technologies embedded in each house will be networked in order to create a smart community, which for example optimises waste management and energy consumption, and enhances the social sustainability and social life of the community.
The idea of community and how architecture contributes in its formation is an inherent part of our building design. At another scale, all the furniture is conceived as part of the architecture, and it operates both in concert and in contrast to the architecture, introducing detail, functionality, and softness into the folded, forms of the building. The furniture designed for the house is both freestanding and integrated. Some of it is literally embedded in the surfaces of the building. For example, the gaps between the striated wood planks hide LED lighting and hold support structures for a steel shelving system entitled Blade. The other integrated furniture includes kitchen and bathroom furniture. The freestanding furniture include a glass table with wooden saw-horse legs, wooden lounge chairs, an aluminum chair, a bed with an integrated wooden headboard/table, a scalable bookshelf, and a wooden cabinet.
Our ambition is to make technology in the house so sophisticated it disappears. We believe that the home is a new interface to digital services. We are currently working in order to find solutions which leave visible nothing but the service they provide for example for young families – helping them live in a smart and adaptive house that makes their life easier, safer and more flexible, or old people – helping them live longer and more safely in your own home.
The Atelier House is a new housing typology and perhaps more significantly, a new way of working with people who wish to purchase a designed home. It is a projects which re-imagines wooden housing within the digital paradigm. The Atelier House combines a strong architectural vision with a possibility of customization. The architectural vision is uncompromised: It is based on the idea of an almost primitive lean-to –shelter, a structure created by a juxtaposition of black solidly articulated surfaces (walls and roof) to a radically open deck area with a strong connection to the surrounding community, and nature. Within that architectural vision, each house is a unique variation, designed based on people's dreams and needs. Starting from sketches and then moving to 3D digital models, we allow our clients to engage in every step of the design process, with the aim of creating architecturally high quality, affordable, bespoke homes.
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