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Stockholm, Sweden
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House on a Cliff
Stockholm, Sweden
Firm
Type
YEAR
2009
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
The clients wished for a living in
interplay with the experience of this environment
The site is found in an area of
temporary dwelling where small, elemental wooden houses from the mid 1900’s
provide holiday housing. At the very tip of a cape, the house overlooks the bay
from high up on a cliff.
The clients pictured dwelling here
as an interplay with the experience of this environment, with the possibility
both of privacy and transparency.
The house turns away from the
settlement, towards the water.
Two distinct volumes take hold of
each other to create the conditions for the life that is led here. One of the
volumes contains elemental cells for sleeping, which have a direct connection
to the outside via a separate entrance. There is also a large bedroom with an adjacent
terrace, and a bathroom, which is open to the sky. The other one of the two volumes
houses a generous living room and a kitchen, where the public aspects of dwelling
take place. The kitchen presents a degree of simplicity and abstraction, which aesthetically
as well as functionally brings it into the same realm as the living room.
As a release between the two
volumes, an internal light well forms itself where light cuts down through a
large lantern. The idea is to allow this release to define a conceptual cut between
the two parts of the house; the closed space that turns inwards, and the
generously outward looking, open volume.
The spacious living room blurs the
boundary between inside and outside. Part of the volume forms an outside space
with nothing but a roof as protection from the elements, this part transitions
into the large terraces. The clients envisioned terraces to bring the house and
the cliff together into a whole. Thus, in order to retain a concentrated
totality of form, the generous terraces formally belong to the main structure
while they connect it to the ground. On the outside, steps are carved out of
the volume to connect the bedroom terrace to the roof.
Materials and
details are chosen with care to emphasize an architectonic whole. Elemental
panelling consisting of boards of varying dimensions has a coat of iron
sulphate and mitred corners; it follows the fluctuating profile of the form,
internally as well as externally. Throughout the building, the floors are covered
with soaped spruce, and in order to accentuate a unity within the form, so are
a few of the vertical surfaces. Concrete
cast on site and details out of sheet zinc are other materials used.
Our intention
has been to create something sustainable through the use of materials that age
with dignity, to enhance the experience over time, both of the house and of the
site.
The open
foundation rises above ground and leaves the site untouched. There is a strong
desire to inflict as little damage on the site as possible, visually as well as
conceptually.
Structural engineer: Peter Bojrup, Structor AB
Contractor:
Svanberg bygg AB
Photographs: Åke
E:son Lindman
interplay with the experience of this environment
The site is found in an area of
temporary dwelling where small, elemental wooden houses from the mid 1900’s
provide holiday housing. At the very tip of a cape, the house overlooks the bay
from high up on a cliff.
The clients pictured dwelling here
as an interplay with the experience of this environment, with the possibility
both of privacy and transparency.
The house turns away from the
settlement, towards the water.
Two distinct volumes take hold of
each other to create the conditions for the life that is led here. One of the
volumes contains elemental cells for sleeping, which have a direct connection
to the outside via a separate entrance. There is also a large bedroom with an adjacent
terrace, and a bathroom, which is open to the sky. The other one of the two volumes
houses a generous living room and a kitchen, where the public aspects of dwelling
take place. The kitchen presents a degree of simplicity and abstraction, which aesthetically
as well as functionally brings it into the same realm as the living room.
As a release between the two
volumes, an internal light well forms itself where light cuts down through a
large lantern. The idea is to allow this release to define a conceptual cut between
the two parts of the house; the closed space that turns inwards, and the
generously outward looking, open volume.
The spacious living room blurs the
boundary between inside and outside. Part of the volume forms an outside space
with nothing but a roof as protection from the elements, this part transitions
into the large terraces. The clients envisioned terraces to bring the house and
the cliff together into a whole. Thus, in order to retain a concentrated
totality of form, the generous terraces formally belong to the main structure
while they connect it to the ground. On the outside, steps are carved out of
the volume to connect the bedroom terrace to the roof.
Materials and
details are chosen with care to emphasize an architectonic whole. Elemental
panelling consisting of boards of varying dimensions has a coat of iron
sulphate and mitred corners; it follows the fluctuating profile of the form,
internally as well as externally. Throughout the building, the floors are covered
with soaped spruce, and in order to accentuate a unity within the form, so are
a few of the vertical surfaces. Concrete
cast on site and details out of sheet zinc are other materials used.
Our intention
has been to create something sustainable through the use of materials that age
with dignity, to enhance the experience over time, both of the house and of the
site.
The open
foundation rises above ground and leaves the site untouched. There is a strong
desire to inflict as little damage on the site as possible, visually as well as
conceptually.
Structural engineer: Peter Bojrup, Structor AB
Contractor:
Svanberg bygg AB
Photographs: Åke
E:son Lindman
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