Stockholm studio HelgessonGonzaga has accomplished a darkish timber cabin within the coastal nature reserve Tjurpannan in west Sweden and coated it in tar to reference the close by boathouses and jetties.
Aptly named Home Tjurpannan, the cabin is designed by structure and design studio HelgessonGonzaga as a easy, open and versatile vacation house for its shoppers to make use of on weekends.
It will also be used as a base for out of doors actions on the nature reserve.
The design of the 90-square-metre Home Tjurpannan is knowledgeable each by the uncovered nature of its web site and the numerous boathouses within the space, that are perched above the bottom to mitigate the danger of flooding and coated in black tar for cover from the tough climate.
“The positioning of the home follows a standard prepare of ideas, paying shut consideration to topography, path and significance of parts within the cultural panorama,” co-founder Andreas Gonzaga informed Dezeen.
“The spatial construction suggests the potential for spontaneous and sudden use, therefore the home might be seen as an expensive means of tenting,” he continued.
A pure path that passes an outdated stone wall results in the house, assembly a picket ramp that provides entry up onto its raised flooring plate.
Each of the lengthy edges of the cabin function massive, full-height glazing, offering the dwelling areas and bed room with double-aspect views of the panorama and entry to slender picket terraces sheltered beneath slatted canopies.
Easy partition partitions within the centre of Home Tjurpannan enable every of the rooms to movement into each other, with solely the lavatory being extra contained in its personal area.
The structural grid of the home, which relies on standardised lengths, has been left uncovered inside.
This uncovered construction is teamed with ceilings lined with planks of pale timber and partitions completed in panels of dark-stained wooden that echo the tar-treated exterior.
Darkish, minimal fittings and furnishings complement these picket interiors, that are meant to focus consideration in the direction of the encircling panorama.
“The general quantity of the home is typical and the structural grid is basically outlined by customary picket parts within the native ironmongery shop,” defined Gonzaga.
“We needed a darkish inside to border nature outdoors. By drawing consideration to nature on this means, we increase the spatial boundary and join the home to its particular exterior context,” he continued.
HelgessonGonzaga was based in 2012 by Gonzaga and Isabell Gonzaga.
