*ongoing project*
Örtbo is a new built addition to a family homestead for summer use, located in the Swedish archipelago outside of Stockholm.
As new generations are settling on the plot, increasing in numbers, the compound is going through refurbishments, transformations, and new builds.
Örtbo represents the second phase, a new built 45 m² cabin to house a couple and their future family during lazy summer days.
The cabin inherits its name from its context- grandmother's herbal garden.
Strict regulations limit the cabin to a 30 m² + 15 m² footprint, with constrained roof heights. The strategy is therefore to build the two volumes, which cannot be combined or share roof, into something experienced as one cabin.
The following image sequence shows how the volumes interact while framing various external spaces. Coherent to the mansard roof typology replicated from the neighboring cabin, lofts are used to add extra space to the small footprint. Yet, limited heights suggest uses like sleeping spaces- and play for children. By connecting the two lofts we multiply their effect by creating "an upper world" for the young ones.
The following image sequence shows how the volumes interact while framing various external spaces. Coherent to the mansard roof typology replicated from the neighboring cabin, lofts are used to add extra space to the small footprint. Yet, limited heights suggest uses like sleeping spaces- and play for children. By connecting the two lofts we multiply their effect by creating "an upper world" for the young ones.
this project was developed in collaboration with
Kanika H. Berg