Archipelago House by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
Tham & Videgård Arkitekter designed a house located in the Swedish archipelago.
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Description from the architects
A light-weight building in glass and wood, a summerhouse in the Stockholm archipelago.
The layout of the plan is generated by the specifics of the site. The house is placed on the flat surface between two mountain rocks, and turns simultaneously towards the sun in the South and frontally towards the sea in the West.
Movement, ambiguous spaces and light. With the small rooms located in the back, the rest of the house stands out as an open platform criss-crossed by panes of sliding glass. The zig-zag layout also offers several outside spaces sheltered from strong winds.
An outline towards the horizon. The horizontal character of the black stained exterior relates to the verticals of tall grown pines.
A continuous dissolution of space in three steps. The house is organised in layers, the big rooms expand with an open relationship to the wooden deck. A horizontal wooden trellis diffuses daylight and enhances the character of one continuous space, where the distinction of interior/exterior becomes subordinated.
For the interior, the starting point has been the direct relationship to the dramatic archipelago landscape, with the objective to offer within a simple frame – a platform – several diverse readings of the relation between space and nature.
A multiplicity of readings. As a result of the large glass panes and the prevailing conditions of light, reflections and mirror-like effects, a quality is created where nature, space and horizon all interact together.
Architecture: Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
Photography: Åke E:son Lindman
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Rube on 03 Oct 2012 at 7:35 am #
The slight imperfections on the interior walls where paint can’t quite hide the cracks between the wood gives this house a quality sometimes lacking in contemporary projects. Very nicely done!
Raul Alfaro on 04 Oct 2012 at 2:08 am #
WOW. Very nice and formalist housing project. Modern and risky project with class and really good design. Nice outside and inside spaces, specially the big terraces. Nice use of materials, colors and textures. Very quite furnitures and complements. Really homeful.
EXCELENT JOB. Congratulations from Barcelona.
Karkasinis Namas on 04 Oct 2012 at 4:41 am #
Well I’m impressed, so much light in it and the natural feeling coming from the pictures leaves me amazed.
Oscar on 04 Oct 2012 at 6:17 am #
Like it very much. It´s simple & clean. I miss the floor plan.
Pierre on 04 Oct 2012 at 12:50 pm #
For me this is probably the most beautiful house/home that I have EVER seen on CONTEMPORIST, or anywhere else. When it come to User-Friendly Design jhe Swedes have something the rest of the world will never have. This is a wonderful house to read a book in. Imagine !!!!