Avanto Arkkitehdit, Oy

Pokrinniemi

Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy

POKRINNIEMI

Avanto Architects Ltd

PHOTOS
Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy , Avanto Architects Ltd

STATUS
Built

SIZE
3000 Sqft - 5000 Sqft

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Hämeenlinna, Finland

TYPE
Residential › Private House

The location of this private house is unique: even though the site is just a couple of kilometers away from Hämeenlinna city center, the small cape surrounded by a lake is completely in its own privacy.

Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy
Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy

There are long pastoral views over the lake to fields and forests.

As the area’s landscape is valuable, the city’s master plan set tight regulations to new buildings.

Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy
Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy

The new building was to be placed on the footprint of an old villa that was demolished because of its bad condition.

The massing, roof shape, height, and façade materials needed to be in harmony with the surrounding old buildings.

Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy
Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy

The concept of the building is clear. The building volume with square shape conceals a cross-shaped open space as in the “Four Cornered Villa” we designed earlier.

The closed rooms are situated between the four wings of the open space.

Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy
Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy
Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy

Interesting views to four different directions open up at the ends of the cross-shaped central space.

The light in the space changes constantly as the sun circles around the building.

The five meter high central space, where the four wings meet, receives light also from a skylight.

Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy
Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy

As the father of the three children family is a musician, a grand piano was positioned in the heart of the house.

In the basement there are sauna spaces with a fireplace room, as well as a workshop and a closed room to play instruments.

Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy


Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy
Pokrinniemi
© Kuvatoimisto Kuvio Oy


Pokrinniemi
© Avanto Architects Ltd
Pokrinniemi
© Avanto Architects Ltd
Pokrinniemi
© Avanto Architects Ltd
Pokrinniemi
© Avanto Architects Ltd
Pokrinniemi
© Avanto Architects Ltd
Pokrinniemi
© Avanto Architects Ltd

Avanto Arkkitehdit, Oy
T +358 50 3531095
Avanto Arkkitehdit, Oy
Kalevankatu 31, 00100 Helsinki, Finland