Darkish timber and stone function all through Dalarö Home, a summer season vacation dwelling that US studio Olson Kundig has added to a rocky waterside web site in Sweden.
Designed to mix in with the panorama, the house is constructed round rocks and options uncovered pure supplies that reference the encircling stones and pine timber.
“Dalarö Home was a chance to create a constructing that’s aware of its environment and encourages its occupants to work together with that atmosphere,” stated Olson Kundig principal Tom Kundig.
“All through the design course of, we wished to keep up a sensitivity to this particular place and create a house that’s quiet and deferential to the context,” he advised Dezeen.
Drawing on the straightforward dwellings discovered within the native space, Olson Kundig designed Dalarö Home with a blocky kind that’s composed of interconnected rectangular volumes topped by overhanging roofs.
It’s elevated on a concrete base, which includes a pair of elongated steps that stretch right into a rocky outcrop in entrance of the house.
“The shape is a response to the context of straightforward vernacular houses, and serves as a counterpoint to the attractive and rugged pure panorama,” stated Kundig.
Extending past the home and right down to the water beneath is a curving stone path, which additionally bends up across the entrance of the house to attach with the stepped porch.
Inside, a roughly textured concrete accent wall stretches all through, framing the totally different areas and lengthening to the entrance porch. Right here, it has been punctured with an oblong opening to create an outside fire.
The vast majority of the exterior partitions are glazed, punctuated by black frames that match the darkish timber used all through the constructing.
Whereas virtually all of the water-facing partitions are totally glazed, the again of the house that opens onto a sloping hill has glazed parts in addition to black and red-toned partitions that reply to the colors of the neighbouring cottage.
“Referred to as falun crimson, the native pigment is used all through the area’s villages and houses,” stated the studio.
Inside, the studio continued to include darkish colors, choosing darkish timbers and finishes that provide a distinction to the brightness of the summer season months.
“As a result of the home was meant to be used primarily in the summertime, we moved away from the lighter palettes which might be conventional to Scandinavian structure, and as an alternative use darker supplies as a refuge from the sunshine,” stated Kundig.
The principle quantity of the house incorporates an open kitchen and residing house with a full wall of glazing that provides views of the water beneath. Bordered on one aspect by the lengthy concrete function wall, the residing house is crammed with mild furnishings that match the tone of the concrete.
Darker tones function within the adjoining kitchen and eating space, the place there may be an oak ceiling, flooring and joinery to create an area with a contrasting really feel.
The oak ground stretches by means of the remainder of the rooms within the dwelling, which embrace a toilet in addition to bedrooms that sit to both aspect of the principle residing house.
All through the bedrooms, the studio paired deep-toned timber partitions with parts of glazing, whereas textural tiled partitions and black flooring function within the rest room.
Different Swedish houses just lately featured on Dezeen embrace a home fully clad in red-painted native pine and a villa set inside an apple orchard that has been refreshed with a larch-clad extension.
The images is by Magnus Mårding.
