Today we will show you the beautiful Villa Altona in Sollentuna, Sweden, a project by The Common Office. This place is charming and inspiring. The surroundings are breathtaking and also give the house an intimate feeling. Layout, materials, colors and the use of glass are great. The wood - concrete combo is also very nice. Take a look.
Make sure to check out The Common Office website for further information about this and other inspiring projects. See you next week. :)
Description from the architects: Villa Altona is located in Törnskogen, in the municipality of Sollentuna. The site is rather steep with a height difference of nine meters between the ground floor and street level. The immediate surroundings are characterized by a mix of villas from the latest four decades. But the north border to an untouched piece of forest, a very beautiful piece of nature formed by the last Ice Age. These two, almost opposite, characters of the site has generated form, placement and the colors for the building.
The building is orientated in east - west direction parallel to the height contours. this marks the border between the two different site characters. in the south a more traditional villa garden is shaped in the terraced landscape, whereas in the east, west and north the untouched nature continues right up to the facade.
The building is divided into four very narrow units, each 2,85m wide. this makes the building very naturally adopts its footprint to the terrain. Furthermore are the four units offset to each other both horizontally and vertically. The facade seems to fold itself in the landscape, avoiding trees and boulders and provides light from all points of the compass. A large centrally placed and retractable sky light (3,0 x 2,2m) fills the interior with light and contributes to the transparency of the building. The interior is almost one continuous room. the building units offset relative to each other creates smaller private spaces within the large room.
We found this house at Contemporist.
Photos by Mikael Olsson.
