This wooden summerhouse raised off the forest floor on three concrete beams was designed by architect Johan Sundberg for a patch of woodland by the Swedish coastline .
Swedish studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur planned the summertime retreat for a couple with two youngsters in Beddingestrand, on Sweden’s southern coast.
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Named Sommarhus Akenine, the cabin consists of a single timber and glass volume, perched on an embankment among sandy dunes and woodland.
3 concrete beams are employed to level the internet site and raise the wooden structure just above ground level. The beams protrude from either end of the extended volume, but are not visible from its two long sides, offering some protection from the danger of increasing tides.
“The terrace floor appears to hover slightly above the ground,” Johan Sundberg told Dezeen.
“I wanted the home to sit lightly on the ground, to feel elevated and transparent to the visitor arriving from the north.”
The single-storey developing is faced in smooth-planed Siberian larch and sits in the centre of a massive roughly hewn timber platform that creates a wrap-about terrace.
Larch is the predominant material both inside and outdoors, and is employed in a range of therapies that assist to subtly define decking from interior floor and cladding from roof.
“Using a variety of types and treatment options of wood is a way for the style to stay focused, straightforward and meaningful. In a summerhouse a certain quantity of reduction may well be soothing to the mind,” said Sundberg. “It is also very considerably in our Scandinavian architectural DNA.”
The flat roof overhangs the terrace to generate shelter from the components. Small spotlights are set into the overhang to light the area after dark.
At either finish of the terrace, wooden walls with big rectangular apertures provide additional weather screens, but also frame views of the surroundings.
Wide timber measures at the north side of the house bridge the gap between ground level and terrace.
Inside, two pairs of bedrooms sit at either finish of the cabin with an open-program living and dining region sandwiched in the middle. Windows afford views of the Baltic Sea to the south, and woodland views to the north.
“Its timber and glass frame lends it a distinctive form that at when melds with and sets it apart from the surrounding landscape,” said the architect. “From inside, there are breathtaking views of the surrounding expanses of sea and forest.”
The pale timber floors and white walls utilized all through the interior are contrasted by a brightly coloured, diamond-patterned wall and a black wood-burning stove in the living space.
Photography is by Peo Olsson.
Project credits:
Architect in charge: Johan Sundberg
Project architects: Daniel Gerse, Max Germundsson
Structural engineer: Anders Sandgren, Rambˆll
Construction: SAWI Byggnads AB in Trelleborg, Bengt Hansson
Interior carpenters: Malmˆ kˆk & inredning, Andreas
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