House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter

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Värmdö, Sweden
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  537
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2022
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Åke E:son Lindman
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Focus, Sky-Frame
  • Lead Architects: Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård
  • Program: Private house
  • City: Värmdö
  • Country: Sweden
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House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade
© Åke E:son Lindman

Text description provided by the architects. Only a twenty minutes drive from the city center, this house is built on a site that exemplifies the close access to untouched nature not far outside central Stockholm. In this case, a large piece of land reaches from the waterline, where a boathouse sits on the water, up through a steep forested slope to an open plateau at the top of the hill where the main house is located.

House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade
© Åke E:son Lindman

The access road rises along a steep cliff from the landside which means that the house is approached from below and that the extraordinary position of the house with wide views out over the archipelago landscape can only be fully understood once arrived at the main level.

House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter - Exterior Photography
© Åke E:son Lindman
House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Åke E:son Lindman

The clients, a very active family that share their time between city and nature, wanted a house for both quiet seclusion and entertaining with friends with a very direct relation to the landscape. We envisioned the house as reduced to a pure structure where indoor and outdoor spaces mix and let the emphasis remain on the scenery outside. A vertical figure, freestanding like a lighthouse or a large-scale sundial, and entirely cast in concrete firmly anchored on the exposed bedrock.

House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter - Interior Photography, Stairs, Lighting
© Åke E:son Lindman
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Plan - Ground floor
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Plan - 1st floor

The program is organized in a three-level section: entrance and services on the souterrain level, social spaces on the mid and main terrace level, and private family rooms at the top. The façade structure makes no distinction between these levels and, through its 45° rotation between each floor, creates a certain labyrinthine effect where the landscape outside becomes a point of reference also for movement inside the house.

House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter - Interior Photography, Chair
© Åke E:son Lindman
House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter - Interior Photography, Kitchen
© Åke E:son Lindman
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Section 01
House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter - Interior Photography, Living Room, Chair
© Åke E:son Lindman

Around the perimeter, the folded layout results in a series of wind-shielded terraces that follow the movement of the sun. From a distance, the origami-like pleated and rotated volume offers alternative readings of mass and void, which lends the building a simultaneously solid and transparent quality.

House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter - Interior Photography, Glass, Facade
© Åke E:son Lindman

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Cite: "House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter" 29 Apr 2024. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/992961/house-on-a-hill-tham-and-videgard-arkitekter> ISSN 0719-8884

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