Gammelgarn Mattsarve
GAMMELGARN MATTSARVE
LLP Arkitektkontor
ARCHITECTS
LLP Arkitektkontor
PHOTOGRAPHS
Robin Hayes
AREA
62.0 m²
YEAR
2012
LOCATION
Sweden
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by architect.
The summerhouse is located along an old countyside road going inland from Katthamarsvik on Gotlands eastern coast.
The site borders the road to the south and heathlike pastures to the north.
The very small house is kept low and has been placed In the middle of the site, with a garden with some fruit trees facing the road and a private side facing the heath.
The entrance to the road is withdrawn under a roof of corrugated polycarbonate greenhouse panels.
To the north a series of window doors. At the entrance it is possible to look right through the building from north to south.
An open kitchen/livingroom extends from the entrance with a fireplace and further along the windows to the north, with a separate entrance in the western wall.
A cloakroom and bathroom with elevated windows facing the terrace. Bedrooms to the east. Floors of pine, walls withe.
Exterior in larch combined with fibre cement boards on the retracted wall at the terrace and on the roof. Windows in tree/aluminium, Exterior sheet metal in aluminum plated steel. Foundation and terrace in concrete.
Windows in tree/aluminium,Exterior in larch combined with fibre cement boards on the retracted wall at the terrace and on the roof.
