Villa Sonderfors

The client wanted a unique house with a light indoor environment. The house should consist of one floor with one master bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and living room.
A guesthouse should be included with a kitchen, bathroom and three bedrooms.
The site is divided in three types of nature: red rock, a lower part with grass and an old water filled mining hole.
The solution became a 5 x 40 meter house reaching over the mining hole. The house shape made it possible to have great views in all rooms and also to make a logical plan with two seperate entrées with the living room as a meeting point over the mining hole. A system of doors makes it possible to select view and to divide the house into sections.


Exterior perspective


The site

Facade

Plan

Noble Savage

A pavilion was going to be erected next to an old spa hotel in a small village in the Swiss Alps. There used to be a pavilion on the site, but a fire demolished it, and the only thing that is left is the old cellar where they storaged ice.
The old ice cellar is revealed by removal of the roof. The pavilion is then divided in two parts by a rotating wall. Roses is covering the south side of the wall, facing a pool. The north side of the wall is made of a self luminance tactile rubber coating facing a cool room with a floor covered with opaque white glass stones.The floor in both areas has floor heating. A cor-ten passage is linking together the two areas with a path to the hotel.

Day time
The cool area is a nice place to walk around barefoot on the glass stone pile and feel the warmth against your feet while you experience the cool shade in the room.Maybe just lie down in a newly dug pit and read the morning paper.The other half of the pavilion is a pool that is facing south and a mountain backdrop.This side of the wall is the one covered in roses and is taking advantage of the southern sun.

The cool area is a nice place to walk around barefoot on the glass stone pile and feel the warmth against your feet while you experience the cool shade in the room.Maybe just lie down in a newly dug pit and read the morning paper.The other half of the pavilion is a pool that is facing south and a mountain backdrop.This side of the wall is the one covered in roses and is taking advantage of the southern sun.


Exterior Day time

Section Day time

Night time
The flower wall is now in a horizontal position and is no longer dividing the room.The lights in the wall structure are now turned on and make the white glass stones change into a reddish color.The flowers which are now a roof over the pool is also lit up from above the light.The rubber roof is self luminant and has absorbed the last sun hours of the day and is now glowing in the dark.The tactile rubber is perfect to lie down on and watch the stars, or maybe take a sneak peek through the roof at the ongoing socializing inside the pavilion.the jury never received the entry because their mail server broke down.Maybe it will be realized in a different location for a different purpose someday. We hope so.


Exterior Night time


Section Night time

Plan Day time

Plan Night time

Detail of the wall

The existing Spa hotel