A TWO-HOUSE VILLAGE

In an idyl­lic apple orchard fram­ing a high-qual­i­ty mod­ernist house in Mälarhöj­den, an upscale Stock­holm sub­urb, we’ve pro­posed a small addi­tion con­sist­ing of two small hous­es gath­ered around a com­mon court­yard. The L‑shaped lay­out mir­rors the shape of the main house which is also wrapped around a pro­tect­ed out­door space. The new build­ings turn away from the exist­ing house cre­at­ing its own context.

Both hous­es have sim­ple plans. The big­ger one has kitchen and bath­room placed at eighter end with a sleep­ing loft placed on top of the bath­room. The small­er one is an open space intend­ed to be used as a work­space or an addi­tion­al bedroom.

The build­ings are car­ried out in a wood­en post-and-beam con­struc­tion on a con­crete foun­da­tion. The facades are clad in hor­i­zon­tal and ver­ti­cal wood­en pan­el. Win­dows and doors are car­ried out in wood. The roof is clad in gal­va­nized sinus-cor­ru­gat­ed sheet met­al. The com­mon court­yard is cov­ered with gran­ite slabs save for a stretch fac­ing the street that is left for cultivation.

A wood­en trel­lis sur­rounds the whole com­plex help­ing to sep­a­rate the court­yard from the rest of the gar­den and allow­ing plants to climb to cre­ate fur­ther privacy.