A steep, pine-clad roof shelters this straightforward log cabin within the Swedish mountains, designed by London-based architect Tina Bergman.
Named The Hat Home after a Swedish youngsters’s ebook through which a bunch of youngsters reside in an enormous hat, the 100 sq. meter cabin was designed for a household of 5 and their canine. It’s set within the forested panorama of Tänndalen in western Sweden.
Located on a gently sloping meadow, the two-storey chalet gives residing, eating, kitchen and sleeping areas alongside a small sauna and faces the mountain panorama with a picket decking space.
“I traveled to the positioning with my shoppers on an unseasonably heat weekend on the finish of Might: met with that deep inexperienced of recent spring birch leaves and nearly full silence, our objective was to discover a place to the situation of the constructing”, he mentioned. Bergman.
“We quickly discovered it: a naturally shaped clearing set again from the forest street, with views of the mountains and a lake to the south and west, and yellow orchids rising to the east,” she continued.
The doorway to the cabin results in the rear of the constructing, the place two bedrooms, a rest room and a drying house are positioned within the extra enclosed half of the constructing, trying again into the forest.
The ground degree descends gently into the guts of the cabin, the place a double-height lounge is organized with a seating space at one finish and a eating desk and kitchen on the different, separated by a hearth with a big chimney.
Massive wooden-framed home windows line the sting of the lounge, eating room and kitchen, opening onto a raised picket terrace that enjoys expansive views of the encompassing mountains and Lake Tänndalssjön.
Above, a mezzanine underneath the pitched roof accommodates three curtained visitor sleeping alcoves, related by a walkway that overlooks the areas beneath from balconies with picket balustrades and steel mesh.
“The form of the cabin mirrors this system and the mild slope of the positioning: you sleep underneath the roof and bathe beneath and go down a number of steps the place you possibly can see the lake,” Bergman mentioned.
Each the construction and inside of the house had been constructed solely of timber, with Kebony-treated pine on the outside and spruce linings within the residing areas, with spruce block flooring.
“The hat home is a home designed to be lived in and to final inside it,” Bergman mentioned.
“Its spruce ground will likely be scraped by ski boots and canine paws, its pine heartwood will likely be marred by snowdrifts.”
“It’s a home that keenly follows the seasons of the yr; the dim blue mild of winter, the bursting inexperienced of latest summer season, the misty yellow of autumn mountains,” she added.
Earlier initiatives designed by Bergman embrace a summer season home overlooking the ocean on the east coast of Sweden, which changed a 1950s cabin with a picket construction on prime of an current stone wall.
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Photograph by Jim Stephenson.