Structure studio Atelier Heyman Hamilton renovated and prolonged Torö, a vacation house on an island of the identical title in Sweden, specializing in the “assembly of constructing and website”.
The cautious renovation sought to honor the house's 1970s Folkhem structure, a Swedish motion that mixed trendy supplies and mass-production programs with native and conventional varieties.
Atelier Heyman Hamilton (AT-HH), based by James Hamilton and Malin Heyman, needed to discover how new site-specific development strategies might be mixed with an current catalog home – a prefabricated modular house chosen from a catalog .
“I began this undertaking by grounding the design work with a way of curiosity in regards to the ambiguities that come up when new site-specific items, specifically designed for the context of the present constructing and visibly tailored to the location, are inserted into the overall design of the catalog of at house, which isn’t designed for a particular website and context,” Heyman informed Dezeen.
“By the renovation and addition, we needed to focus very a lot on the assembly of the constructing and the location by way of views, house and tectonics, engaged on the muse, the form of the roof and the entrances.” she added.
The home is situated on rocky land on Torö, an island within the archipelago surrounding Stockholm.
In addition to including an 18 sq. meter extension, which holds a bed room and a studying room, the designers tailored the present format to go well with multi-generational dwelling.
“The main strikes of the brand new plan create extra distinct areas for various household constellations to assemble and search privateness,” Hamilton informed Dezeen.
The objective was to create a design that revered the present constructing with out being nostalgic about it.
“A non-sentimental respect for the present home was central to our work on this undertaking,” added Hamilton.
“Within the curiosity of sustaining each the quantity of waste produced and the usage of new supplies, whereas coping with an current constructing in disrepair, the renovation and extension work changed into an intensive train in encountering new at any scale, in every single place. within the constructing.”
Hamilton and Heyman designed Torö's kitchen, eating room, corridor and toilet as a sequence of medium-sized rooms.
They act as a gathering level for the 2 unique bedrooms and the bed room and studying room within the extension.
AT-HH eliminated partitions affected by black mould, reduce out worn decrease sections of the home's broken roof and constructed new eaves. These are coated with tar roofing paper, which continues over the brand new extension.
The roof construction and lounge ceiling had been additionally eliminated, creating the necessity for a brand new ridge beam which the studio determined to make into a visual factor.
“The seen construction – the results of adjustments to the inner construction of the roof of the present home – turns into a central spatial factor on this group, each separating the dwelling areas from the service areas with a pillar and lintel portal the place the corridor, lounge and eating room intersect and ties them collectively visually and structurally in the lounge,” stated Hamilton.
Plywood paneling covers most of Torö's inside, which was designed by Stockholm studio Matsson Marnell, creating an area that nods to conventional summerhouse design whereas providing a clear, modern really feel.
“We really feel that the spatial qualities of the interiors, in addition to their relationship to this particular website, are bolstered by the inside design by Matsson Marnell,” defined Heyman.
“The sculptural furnishings – that includes Matsson Marnell's personal design from the skog sequence – is complemented by a number of choose items that create a low heart of gravity and deal with pure supplies and type,” she added.
“The inside design displays the contrasts of texture and scale which can be current within the structure of the present, modified and added.”
The general alternative of fabric was an essential facet of the renovation and extension of Torö, which now measures 93 sq. meters, with the architects aiming to make use of a palette that displays and respects the present.
“The undertaking launched as little new materials as potential,” Hamilton stated.
“The supplies we selected so as to add are very a lot a response to probably the most prevalent current supplies: the black-brown tar paint on the facade and the inside pine paneling,” he added.
“The tar paper on the roof and facade are, for us, in clear dialogue with the darkish brown-black ferrous pigment of the present facades, whereas the pine plywood inside is a nod to the pine paneling within the ceiling current. inside.”
Different Dezeen summer time properties embrace a cedar-clad home in Denmark and a residence on stilts in Sweden.
Images is by Andy Liffner, with inside styling by Matsson Marnell.