Swedish structure and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has designed a Scandinavian vacation residence that includes residing areas interspersed with courtyards that body views in the direction of the ocean.
The studio headed by Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune designed Home of Many Courtyards for a tree-lined website set amongst sand dunes on the Scandinavian shoreline.
The permitted constructing space for the home was simply 170 sq. metres however the consumer wished a home twice that measurement, so the architects have been confronted with the problem of maximising the property’s perceived space.
The staggered plan comprising interconnected bins flanked by courtyards ensures the residing areas take pleasure in views of the environment while additionally sustaining their privateness.
“Within the facade, every protruding field is a closed wall whereas full glazing is used contained in the courtyards – generally at their deep finish, generally sideways dealing with,” the architects identified. “In addition to framing every view, the outlooks turn into very personal.”
A 40-metre-long hall kinds a central backbone that connects every of the person bins and extends the ground house of the assorted rooms. The various heights of the rooms assist to distinguish them from each other, each internally and externally.
“Every field was given a novel ceiling top in accordance with the operate and proportion of the room, like a strand of beads of assorted sizes,” the studio added. “This makes shifting by way of the home an ever-changing spatial expertise.”
The sense of house is elevated by glazed openings that look onto the interior courtyards. Sliding doorways connecting the rooms with the outside areas will be opened to successfully double the useable house.
A pared-back materials palette is used all through the constructing, together with pale brick partitions, hardwood ceilings and limestone flooring that extends from the residing areas to the exterior terraces.
The Kolumba bricks from Danish agency Petersen have been chosen to match the color of the sand on the close by seaside, whereas their proportions and sample are echoed within the flooring and ceilings.
On the southern facet of the constructing is a terrace accommodating outside eating and lounge areas. Stone steps lead all the way down to a swimming pool and a separate patio searching in the direction of the ocean.
Claesson Koivisto Rune was based in Stockholm in 1995. The studio initially targeted on structure however has steadily expanded right into a multidisciplinary follow working additionally within the fields of inside and product design.
The agency’s earlier residential initiatives embody a home created in collaboration with architect Todd Saunders that options angular terraces overlooking the Norwegian metropolis of Bergen.
For an 18th-century mansion within the south of Sweden, the studio added swimming swimming pools and spa buildings clad in zigzagging parquet, whereas one other Swedish home options colour-shifting picket partitions that curve round an oak tree.