Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has accomplished the Simonsson Home within the metropolis of Boden, Sweden, cladding it fully in red-painted planks of native pine.
Positioned simply south of the Arctic Circle, the dwelling is designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune in keeping with a sequence of strict planning laws on the positioning.
These dictated a most top and ground space for Simonsson Home and likewise required it to have a pink roof to match different buildings close by.
To minimise the visible influence of the constructing quantity, Claesson Koivisto Rune cut up the 220-square-metre house into two trapezoidal, mono-pitched kinds, every going through in reverse instructions.
“[The project] designed itself out of factual limitations, practicalities and requirements,” studio co-founder Mårten Claesson instructed Dezeen.
“The easiest way to understand a correct second ground, working inside these restrictions and, on the identical time, profiting from the views in the direction of the river, was to make use of a single pitch roof building.”
Inside, the most important of the 2 volumes incorporates Simonsson Home’s essential dwelling areas. This consists of visitor bedrooms and a kitchen on the bottom ground, and a lounge and essential bed room on the primary ground beneath the steep pitch of the roof.
Within the smaller quantity are a storage and a sauna, topped by a roof terrace that’s accessed from the first-floor lounge and sheltered by a excessive parapet.
Simonsson Home’s entrance is tucked right into a nook created the place the 2 volumes meet.
On the rear of the house, the kitchen, front room and essential bed room are positioned to get pleasure from views of the panorama and a close-by river by means of giant home windows, every paired with an openable vent.
“The home was designed on a strict building-cost price range,” defined Claesson. “By making all of the home windows fastened, we may obtain appreciable financial savings.”
“Every window dimension and place corresponds to the inside perform and one of the best view from each room,” he continued.
The inside finishes are pared-back, with white partitions contrasted by a paved floor ground and carpeted higher ground beneath the Swedish pine-lined ceiling.
A big central staircase, constructed from Swedish birch, is framed by outsized balustrades that double as slatted timber screens and create a play of sunshine and shadow.
Claesson Koivisto Rune is an structure and design studio that was based in Stockholm in 1995 by Claesson with Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune.
Earlier structure initiatives by the studio embrace a prototype city corridor for villages throughout Ukraine that was on account of be rolled out previous to the Russian invasion and the conversion of a Twenties financial institution in Tokyo right into a boutique resort.
The images is by Åke E:son Lindman.
