Rever & Drage Architects has created a tall and slim wooden home named Zieglers Nest overlooking the town of Molde and the Moldefjord on the western coast of Norway.
Set right into a hillside above the town, the four-storey house was constructed with a timber body wrapped in giant beams of timber which were dovetailed collectively in a way just like a log cabin.
“The purchasers wished for contemporary options resembling giant home windows and a roof terrace, however on the similar time using a standard, log development, which makes use of pure supplies that enable the constructing to breathe,” defined Rever & Drage Architects co-founder Tom Auger.
The tall constructing’s kind was designed each to minimise the scale of the concrete foundations and to present the home views throughout the town in direction of the fjord.
A concrete basement stage, which accommodates a storage and five-metre-high utility house, was excavated into the hillside with three timber flooring above.
“The construction is tailor-made to swimsuit the excessive location with broad views and a steeply sloping website,” Auger informed Dezeen.
“With the intention to present a average footprint, and thereby restrict using concrete for foundations, the constructing was designed tall and slim,” he continued.
“The placement of the constructing in direction of the western finish of the location preserves the neighbours’ views, whereas additionally offering a heat south-facing backyard, sheltered from the westerly winds.”
Rever & Drage Architects envisioned the house as a gaggle of tall wood blocks, which have giant home windows and vertical timber ending on their primary facades and horizontal panels and extra sober articulation on the edges.Related storyRever & Drage builds one third of a house for a deer hunter in Norway
“As a embellished shed the principle field is articulated as a mix of ornamented tall volumes with a heavier ornamented entrance and a much less ornamented aspect,” stated Auger.
“Clustered collectively as oiled wood objects the composition takes the type of your grandmother’s load of cabinets.”
Above the basement stage, a ground accommodates two youngsters’s bedrooms, which have views of the fjord, together with a toilet.
The primary ground above this accommodates the double-height front room on the entrance of the home with a library and kitchen on the rear.
The library opens onto an out of doors house on the hillside, whereas the kitchen expands right into a conservatory that faces the sheltered backyard to the east.
The main bedroom suite is positioned on the highest ground above the kitchen and library the place a steep stair results in a roof backyard.
“The rooms are organized by the view and daylight and on the similar time their cleanliness or dirtiness,” defined Auger. “Dirtiest rooms on the backside and the cleanest on the high,” he continued.
“Home inhabitants discover their pure place on this association based on age, temper and time of yr.”
Auger experiences that the owners are appreciating the timber house and its pure aesthetic.
“These now dwelling in the home report that they love the pure feeling all through the home, with its ‘wood’ ambient gentle, scent, tactility and airiness,” he stated.
Norweigan studio Rever & Drage has workplaces in Oslo and Flekkefjord. It beforehand accomplished a triangular, aluminium toilet on the nearby Farstadsanden beach in addition to a cabin with a retractable roof and a hillside house overlooking a fjord.
Images is by Tom Auger.