This Norwegian vacation home is fjord good

The splendour of the Norwegian fjord panorama varieties an unimpeachable backdrop to this vacation dwelling by Workplace Inainn. Set excessive on the slopes above the water in Valldal on the nation’s spectacular western coast, the home is designed to comply with the contours, a viewing platform that’s additionally a heat and welcoming place to remain.

Exploring the Norwegian fjord via this vacation dwelling’s hanging vistas

In selecting to not degree the steep web site, the architects set themselves a structural and programmatic problem, one which formed each side of the design. As a substitute, a concrete basis serves as a raised platform on which the only degree home is constructed, flanked by a pair of terraces which might be raised up above the void.

The home itself is shaped from two rectangular volumes, barely misaligned, with a taller, narrower quantity offering a top-lit entrance and entry hall that runs the size of the positioning. It’s flanked by a decrease construction containing the lodging, cantilevered out above the slope. The place the tall quantity is austere and full missing in home windows on the doorway façade, the view is revealed through a future of glazing trying throughout the fjord. On the higher degree, a band of clerestory home windows brings mild into the primary hall.

On the ends of the home, the 2 volumes are intertwined, with cladding that wraps across the constructions to create an enclosed entrance porch, reaching all the way down to the bottom to root the home within the panorama. This sense of one thing that has grown out of the slope, reasonably than been imposed upon it’s additional heightened by the darkish wooden cladding.

The doorway sequence, alongside a slim path between the rock and the constructing, is successfully continued by the tall, top-lit entrance hall, with its polished concrete flooring. The architects describe it as a ‘light transition from wild panorama to heat inside.’ Guests go a cloakroom and the doorways to the three modest, cabin-like double bedrooms and one in every of two bogs earlier than they attain the linear residing/eating house and the dramatic reveal of the fjord and mountains past. Cautious framing enhances the drama of the panorama, with a separate vista offered off the kitchen, which additionally has entry to a different terrace.

Darkish wooden cabinetry by Limstrand is paired with timber flooring and olive paintwork in the primary house. Window frames are additionally darkish, with ground to ceiling top-hung curtains to cowl the huge panes of glass. Furnishings was equipped by Fjordfiesta. All these supplies had been sourced domestically the place attainable and stored intentionally muted with a view to foreground the majesty of the environment. ‘We didn’t wish to add to the panorama,’ says observe founder Maksymilian Sawicki, ‘We wished to proceed it.’

The shopper, who has a longstanding connection to the world, specified that nature was to guide the undertaking at first. At a really modest 127 sq m, the vacation home is neither grandiose nor ostentatious but nonetheless conveys a richness of craft and element that’s completely befitting its spectacular location. Primarily based in Ålesund, Workplace Inainn describes its work as having a ‘deal with simplicity, performance, and sustainability.’

The studio is dedicated to minimising the environmental impression of its initiatives with out compromising a dynamic and spectacular relationship with panorama. With this spectacular undertaking they’ve greater than succeeded.

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