Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has accomplished the Simonsson Home within the metropolis of Boden, Sweden, cladding it solely in red-painted planks of native pine.
Positioned simply south of the Arctic Circle, the dwelling is designed by Claesson Koivisto Rune consistent with a collection of strict planning rules on the positioning.
These dictated a most top and flooring space for Simonsson Home and in addition required it to have a purple roof to match different buildings close by.
To minimise the visible impression of the constructing quantity, Claesson Koivisto Rune break up the 220-square-metre residence into two trapezoidal, mono-pitched types, every dealing with in reverse instructions.
“[The project] designed itself out of factual limitations, practicalities and requirements,” studio co-founder Mårten Claesson advised Dezeen.
“One of the simplest ways to grasp a correct second flooring, working inside these restrictions and, on the similar time, benefiting from the views in direction of the river, was to make use of a single pitch roof building.”
Inside, the biggest of the 2 volumes accommodates Simonsson Home’s foremost residing areas. This contains visitor bedrooms and a kitchen on the bottom flooring, and a lounge and foremost bed room on the primary flooring 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 foremost bed room are positioned to get pleasure from views of the panorama and a close-by river by means of massive home windows, every paired with an openable vent.
“The home was designed on a strict building-cost funds,” defined Claesson. “By making all of the home windows mounted, we may obtain appreciable financial savings.”
“Every window dimension and place corresponds to the inside perform and the most effective view from each room,” he continued.
The inside finishes are pared-back, with white partitions contrasted by a paved floor flooring and carpeted higher flooring 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 embody a prototype city corridor for villages throughout Ukraine that was because 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 pictures is by Åke E:son Lindman.
