This idyllic pine house by the sea outside Stockholm has a glass-fronted lookout loft on its roof.
Completed in 2008 by Swedish architects Waldemarson Berglund, the two-storey Villa Plus is clad entirely in roughly cut Swedish pine that will grey with age.
Only one room occupies the rectangular first-floor loft, while bedrooms are on the ground floor alongside bathrooms and a large open-plan living room.
A separate bedroom is located at the back of the house and can only be accessed by crossing the wooden outdoor deck.
Timber feet raise the building and deck above the ground to prevent flooding when the tide is high.
Some other Swedish houses from our archive include a house with glazing that is flush with the ground and an island cottage with a raw timber interior - see more projects in Sweden here.
Photography is by Åke E:son Lindman.
The following information is from Waldemarson Berglund:
The building settles in the outer extension of the archipelago near Stockholm, in the borderland between land and sea.
The surroundings are simply water with some rocks and little islands cutting through the surface.
The scenery is very dramatic and horizontal. Every change in weather and light is directly reflected by the sea.
Facing the challenge of building so close to the water, the house lands on the site very pragmatically.
Standing on columns, if the sea goes wildly it simply runs under it.
The client's wishes of catching the sea and creating calm and contemplative spaces lead the design.
The house faces openly the sea, turning its back towards the city and the urban life.
Even though being modernly designed, it is built in a traditional and uncomplicated way.
This is due partially to the difficult (sometimes impossible), access, depending on the wind and waves.
The harsh weather conditions, with wind, water and ice, also conditioned the choice of materials, taken from the nature around it.
The load bearing walls are built from hand-picked panels of swedish pine, cut to a rough surface. In time, the wood will turn grey, becoming a part of the great surrounding environment.
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Oh my goodness! I've been following Dezeen for over several years now, and that has to be one of the coolest-looking homes I've ever seen. I could live there in a heartbeat.
Seasonally dry building lot as the Florida real estate agents would say. Good luck to them with this beautiful house. Must be a large family.
That is a dream house.
Put simply, I would like to live there! Very nice and practical. Of course the surroundings make it stunning.
This might be the most beautiful house I've seen on Dezeen
thats properly cool! but really I'm commenting so someone can tell me where to buy the race-horse rocker, now that's really nice… anyone know where they are from?
Seasonally dry building lot as the Florida real estate agents would say. Good luck to them with this beautiful house. Must be a large family
"The client’s wishes of catching the sea and creating calm and contemplative spaces lead the design."
Especially where that ugly duct is coming from the top of the kitchen range hood.
everyhouse is a dream house with that scenario.
I think is a kind of boring and unimaginative if considering the huge amount of good architecture already built.
This is fast pragmatic architecture with bad detailing.
Sorry!
Good architecture doesn't always need to be groundbreaking and eye-catching. Sometimes in enough with understanding the site, building with sense and creating a pleasant and calm space.
I think the fact that you regard "pragmatic" as a flaw says something, and I wonder how do you know it has a bad detailing from this pictures and and big scale drawings…
ppp, I understand your point of view although it's not very conclusive.
This is suppose to be a specific project for a specific client and It just doesn't look like that.
when I say it is pragmatic it is not with the intention to brake the project in two.
I just wanted to emphasise the fact that this is not brilliant and I do can see the bad detailing in the photos.
I've seen several projects with this same big wooden cigar box with a small box sitting on the top.
If I want to exaggerate I could say that you will be able to buy this house in 20 years in IKEA.