PlayHouse
Street Monkey Architects + Bjerking
ARCHITECTS
Bjerking, Street Monkey Architects
VENTILATION
Exengo, Wojtek Banda
BUILDER
Ingrid Westman
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Magnus Jönsson
STEEL FABRICATION
Wieslaw Olowski, Jarek Wasielewski, Elmot
ELECTRICITY
Dan Purra, Exengo
ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Street Monkey Architects, Bjerking Ab, Thomas Björk, Cage Copher
PHOTOGRAPHS
Robin Hayes Photography
AREA
175 m²
YEAR
2013
LOCATION
Värmdö, Sweden
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by architect.
This debut project for SMA is on a forested sloping site on an island suburb just outside of Stockholm.
The client’s wish was to create a habitat for social and outdoor living, with enough space for the fluctuating number of children required in many Swedish households today.
The challenges from the client were: - Create enough space to accommodate the program while remaining generous to the natural beauty of the site. - Make it energy efficient and 3. Build it with prefabricated modules.
The solution was a simple L floor plan and a cantilevered second floor. The second floor cantilever stretches out to make place for the master bedroom while maintaining a volume that still sits light in the landscape.
Thick, well-insulated walls, an air-tight building envelope and solar power reduce the energy demand of the house significantly compared to conventional Swedish construction and the façade materials are rustic and industrial like a piece of old farm equipment.
The result was 6 prefabricated modules placed on site in two days and a very happy family of 5.
