Studio Holmberg designs pine-clad vacation dwelling to blends into Swedish seaside setting

This pine-clad summer time home on a rocky outcrop on a small island in Sweden’s archipelago of Gothenburg options minimal plywood interiors designed to focus on the island’s dramatic panorama.

Created as a vacation dwelling for a retired couple, Villa Vassdal was designed by Gothenburg-based Studio Holmberg to mix with its coastal surrounds.

The home is constructed on an island with historic connections to Gothenburg’s fishing and delivery industries. Immediately the island consists of household homes which are occupied year-round in addition to vacation houses which are largely used in the summertime.

Overlooking the ocean and surrounded by uncovered cliffs and wild vegetation, the home’s low profile is made up of a cluster of pitched roof volumes. Organized in a staggered structure, the volumes are designed to mix in with the rocky panorama.

The home is oriented in order that the clean-lined inside areas absorb views of the ocean however are additionally shielded from the neighbours and the glare of the solar.

Studio Holmberg selected to clad the home’s roofs and facades in untreated heart-pine to match the cliffs. Sourced from the north of Sweden, the pine will climate over time steadily turning into extra gray and enabling it to mix with its surroundings even higher.

Every of the 4 volumes that make up the home are allotted a selected operate. The primary is for sleeping and bathing in addition to storage, the second is for cooking and eating, and the third is for the lounge.

The fourth smaller quantity on the again capabilities as a software shed however can also be used as a summer time visitor room for the purchasers’ grandchildren.

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The volumes’ staggered structure additionally creates quite a few sheltered outside areas for eating and stress-free.

The home’s exterior heart-pine cladding is echoed within the calming inside areas the place partitions and ceilings are lined in birch plywood.

“The minimal expression goals to focus on the volumes, with the identical materials used for the partitions and roofs,” Studio founder Mathias Holmberg informed Dezeen.

“Birch plywood provides a texture with a pure sample, though a really refined one, making a monolithic expression and mirroring the wood exterior facade. It additionally gives a heat to the inside that each contrasts and connects with the uncooked cliffs outdoors.”

The home is entered from the again permitting visitors to maneuver from a sequence of smaller areas into the big open-plan dwelling space with views out to sea.

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Unfold throughout two of the pitched roof volumes, this dwelling space combines an area for eating, a kitchen and a lounge with a wooden burning range. A grid of floor-to-ceiling shelving spans the rear wall reverse two giant units of sliding double doorways that open out onto a big deck with views throughout the water.

Bedrooms and loos are positioned in a 3rd quantity to the south of the open-plan dwelling space. A main bedroom with views of the ocean opens out onto the entrance deck, whereas a hallway with wardrobes and a small workplace space results in a second bed room, a utility space and a toilet, that are positioned in the back of the property.

Studio founder Mathias Holmberg informed Dezeen that he needed every of the inside areas to take care of an in depth however totally different relationship to the outside.

“Transferring by way of the home gives a choreographed expertise with shifting sight traces, culminating with a view out in direction of the ocean,” he defined.

“It is also designed from the angle of on a regular basis dwelling. There’s a separation of capabilities with potentialities for each interplay and seclusion or additionally for 2 totally different actions happening on the similar time, in line with the purchasers needs and wishes. There’s a visible connection between nearly all rooms, however on the similar time a transparent division of area.”

Holmberg mentioned that the idea of blurring of the indoor and outside area can also be prolonged to different capabilities and areas inside the home. For instance, the hall extends to the facade the place there’s a dwelling workplace, whereas the kitchen and eating room extends into the lounge.

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In 2010, Swedish studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter accomplished a concrete summerhouse with a zigzagging profile on an island within the Stockholm archipelago. Oriented in direction of the bay, the broad and shallow home was designed to stretch throughout its website like a line of boathouses, creating 5 pitched rooftops with various proportions.

Images is by Markus Bülow.