Widlund House by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Claesson Koivisto Rune have designed the Widlund House in Sandvik, Öland, Sweden.
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Description from the designers:
This house is like a funnel of light, space and sea views. The location is the west coast of the Baltic island of Öland. The white concrete box is “corsetted” in the middle, creating slightly sheared wall and roof angles. This gives the house both its direction and character, while also marking the difference between the rear private two-storey bedroom part and the communal double ceiling-height front part.
Precast concrete is perhaps not the most common choice for a private house at this scale, but was ideal for achieving the ultimate precision in manufacturing tolerance and colour/finish.
The concrete is not painted or surface-pigmented but solid white, which gives it a wonderful glow. The joints between the concrete elements are carefully designed and positioned so that – instead of interfering with – they become part of the building’s geometry and expression. The sealant in between is gray to enhance the graphic effect rather than matching the concrete surface.
Visit the Claesson Koivisto Rune website – here.
Photography by Åke E.son Lindman
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Zaedrus on 11 May 2012 at 5:40 am #
Someone please help upright the horse.
Maarit on 14 May 2012 at 5:47 am #
A great example of Scandinavian plainness. Even though I’m not a huge fan of double height spaces (due to acoustics, useless space, high heating/air-conditioning costs etc.) in this case I see the point. There would have been no other way to capture that unison of the sea and the endless blue sky. And the solid white concrete is beautiful.
Olgi on 14 May 2012 at 1:06 pm #
This architecture is nice, and calm. But it brakes that scupture. Badly. I don’t understand, why want to anyone see a “dead” horse thrue window.. Is it kind a maffia style?
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Rudy on 15 May 2012 at 6:15 am #
agree with the above comments on the dead horse sculpture. Looks like a discarded broken artwork and totally conflicting with the great architecture and view. The bed zebra cover on the bed is awful too.