Arriving at Veddinge, a location on the northern tip of Zeeland near Copenhagen, the landscape undergoes a change from lowlands to grassy hills. A cabin from the 1950s sits on a slope overlooking the sea, offering extensive views along the coastline.

Förstberg Ling designed a new, detached, extension that provides additional bedrooms and a living room to accompany the kitchen and living spaces of the old cabin.

The house consists of four volumes of different height, arranged to create a hidden enclosed space at their center. While moving around the house, you encircle the hidden space, connecting the rooms which range from narrow and taller, to wider and lower.

La entrada House with a hidden atrium se publicó primero en Global Spaces.

“House for mother” is a house that balances spatiality with intimate rooms – formal simplicity with strong materiality. The facade in raw corrugated aluminium creates a variable play with light and shadow during the day, a rich materiality contrasting with it’s simple expression. The wooden beams and trusses along with the walls lined with plywood give warmth to the interior. The concrete floor is a durable and beautiful surface for everyday use, folded to a low bench along the perimeter of the building.

The division of the house into two volumes, slightly shifted from each other, emphasizes how narrow the plot is. While standing in the open for now, the future urban context will eventually not expose much more than the gables to the neighborhood.

Text provided by the architect.

La entrada House for mother se publicó primero en Global Spaces.