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Späckhuggaren

  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman
  • Photo: Åke E:son Lindman

Jury’s statement

The heritage landscape has gained a new feature with the sensitive addition of a simple, restrained home. The surrounding landscape and fragments of the past merge with a very contemporary design. The movement through the house is key, with the rooms articulating the needs and dreams of the family. The rooms, levels and light are connected in a dynamic upward spiral.

References to the local vernacular are clear in the choice of shape, materials and colours. The art of the log cabin is distinctly evoked in the Falu red façade, while untreated Kerto beams, plywood panelling and sheets of fibreboard lend the interior a distinctly modern feel. Delivered with extreme precision, different materials complement and contrast with each other, as the structure and details intersect. The past and present are cleverly interwoven.

An exciting and ingenious home has been created within the confines of a limited space. The attention to detail is impeccable both inside and out.

 
 

 

Section AA 1:200 

Späckhuggaren
 

Type of building Villa


Location Kärna


Builders Kalle Lindvall


Architect Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter genom Andreas Lyckefors, Per Bornstein, Johan Olsson, Caroline Jokiniemi, Viktor Stansvik.

Building contractors Rejnäsvillan

Year built 2016–18


A word from the architect Späckhuggaren is a loose timber house with a wooden frame. The rooms run into each other across both floors and sections. Long diagonals create a special space and glulam wood has been used to withstand the larger spans. The exterior is clad with vertical straight rebated grooved boarding treated with a light red paint from paint manufacturer Falu. The interior with visible Kerto beams in the ceiling is interspersed with pine plywood and tinted grey wood fibre boards on the walls.

Located in a vulnerable cultural environment, the contemporary building is contextualised by the use of wooden details from historic buildings on the site. Examples of this are how the end-grain outline from local timber buildings is interpreted in the cladding of drainpipes, and how sunscreens are designed as thin, partly transparent barn doors, reminiscent of the old warehouses in the area.