Finnish studio MNY Arkitekter has accomplished Two Sisters, a picket vacation dwelling in Salo, which is designed to permit two siblings to reside “collectively aside”.
To create a devoted house for every of the 2 sisters, MNY Arkitekter divided the home into two unbiased items joined by a central terrace overlooking the encircling cliffs and pine timber on Finland's west coast.
“In some ways, the location is without doubt one of the typical land and inland vegetation of the Finnish archipelago, and one of many major objectives was to protect as many seen timber and rocks as potential,” MNY Arkitekter founder Mathias Nyström informed Dezeen.
“The equality of viewpoints within the two items was additionally necessary and had a major affect on the format.”
The 2 items of the home “prolong” to offer privateness and keep away from the encircling timber, whereas making room for a sauna, utility room and evening shelter on the location.
Every block has giant home windows at its western finish, looking to sea and pines to the west. The openings to the central terrace have been positioned to reduce the view.
“Being in one of many items, you possibly can solely see the opposite from sure factors, in any other case you are feeling the existence of the opposite aspect probably the most,” stated Nyström.
“You're by yourself, however you are feeling a part of an even bigger entity,” he added.
Every residing house at Two Sisters has been completed with black kitchen worktops, a eating desk and a big freestanding fire. Constructed-in benches present house to take a seat and take within the surroundings.
Within the north block, a mattress is accommodated in a small nook of this residing house supported by a full-height window, whereas to the south the marginally bigger unit affords a double bed room and two single bedrooms alongside the residing house.
Two Sisters has a prefabricated construction of glue-laminated timber, completed externally with vertical spruce boards. Inside, the pale wooden partitions, flooring and ceilings are handled with lye.
“The goal of the environment was to create a uniform, serene house the place nature performs an necessary position – the top outcome could be very uplifting,” stated Nyström.
“The weathered silver-grey wooden will mix the constructing into the panorama with rocks and pines. General, it's a threshold and refined constructing,” he added.
Elsewhere in Finland, MNY Arkitekter created a home on the shore of a small lake in Tenala, utilizing seven various kinds of timber.
Different latest tasks within the nation embody a sauna and restaurant on the shores of Lake Saimaa by Studio Puisto and the steel-clad Dance Home by JKMM and ILO Architects in Helsinki.
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