spruce up well

Here is a project whereby the clients pictured a dwelling for experience - an interplay of privacy and transparency. Petra Gipp Arkitektur have created 2 distinct volumes that hold of each others conditions. One of the volumes contains elemental cells for sleeping, which have a direct connection to the outside via a separate entrance. There is also a large bedroom with an adjacent terrace, and a bathroom, which is open to the sky. And the other, a generous living room and a kitchen, where the public aspects of dwelling take place. The kitchen presents a degree of simplicity and abstraction. In between the two volumes, an internal light well forms itself where light cuts down through a large lantern. This is to release and define a conceptual cut between the two parts of the house; the closed space that turns inwards, and the generously outward looking, open volume. The spacious living room blurs the boundary between inside and outside.

Part of the volume forms an outside space with nothing but a roof as protection from the elements, this part transitions into the large terraces. Materials and details are chosen with care to emphasize an architectonic whole. Elemental panelling consisting of boards of varying dimensions has a coat of iron sulphate and mitred corners; it follows the fluctuating profile of the form, internally as well as externally. Throughout the building, the floors are covered with soaped spruce, and in order to accentuate a unity within the form, so are a few of the vertical surfaces. Concrete cast on site and details out of sheet zinc are other materials used.