Anders Berensson Architects

Garden Stair House

Garden Stair House 

Anders Berensson Architects

Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Anders Berensson

PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Sydkustens Bygg

MANUFACTURERS
Plannja

DESIGN TEAM
Marie Ekblad, Eva Sachs

PHOTOGRAPHS
Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson

AREA
39 M²

YEAR
2024

LOCATION
Skurup, Sweden

CATEGORY
Residential Architecture

Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson

Text description provided by architect.

Garden stair house is an extension to a 1960th vacation home on the south coast of Sweden.

The house is situated alongside a garden stair that continues into the house becoming an amphitheater for socializing, watching movies, or playing video games.

Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson
Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson

Doing an extension in a quite complex terrain we decided to continue the expression of the existing building in materials and colors and let the local adaptions and shifts in heights become our main design opportunities.

The house follows the slope on the garden side and lets the concrete garden stairs continue into the house.

Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson
Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson

On this side, the continuation of the stairs becomes a social amphitheater with big glasses connecting it to the garden.

The garden stair is also the entrance to the main building and is covered by a cantilevering roof protecting the stairs but also creating a sense of common space with the inside.

Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson
Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson
Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson

The backside of the house is carved into a hill where two bedrooms are located. The concrete foundation becomes a concrete wall where the floor level is below ground.

All windows are placed on top of the concrete foundation. The shifts in heights create different relations between the openings and their surroundings.

In the bedrooms below ground, you get the meadow at eye level offering a close look at flowers and insects right outside the window.

Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson
Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson

The social room is connected to a loft. From the loft, you reach a viewing platform underneath an openable skylight from where two people can sit and get an ocean view.


Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson
Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson
Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson
Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson


Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson
Garden Stair House
© Anders Berensson & Per Helgesson


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Front Elevation
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Back Elevation
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Side Elevation


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Plan
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Roof Plan

Anders Berensson Architects
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Anders Berensson Architects
Nytorgsgatan 36A, 116 40 Stockholm, Sweden