Djupvike House and Studio
Djupvike House and Studio
Ateljé Ö
ARCHITECTS
Atelje O
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Joel Winsnes, Mats Wahlström Walter
LOCATION
Östergarn, Sweden
CATEGORY
Residential Architecture, Houses
Text description provided by architect.
Ateljé Djupvike is an artist's vision of a combined home and studio designed and brought to life by Ateljé Ö.
It is an extremely thought-through house that was thoroughly formed in a several-year-long collaboration between the architect and the client, along with a number of artisans and artists (all friends and colleagues of the client).
The small compound – the estate consists of five different structures, including a root cellar – sits on a wild, flower-clad field by a rocky cove on the east coast of Gotland.
The air is filled with the soft smell of the sea, and when the sun rises out of the ocean, it makes the house shine bright like a diamond in the hilly landscape.
The single-story buildings have an obvious horizontality with their flat roofs and the entire ensemble framed by low stone walls drawing lines in the landscape.
The site was home to the remains of an old farm, and the new buildings were erected following that farm's layout. In that way, the orientation and spatial relations of the new houses anchor the project with the history of the place.
The house is a sophisticated, calm creation with playful features, a bathroom is dressed in pink apricot marble terrazzo, and a bedroom ceiling is filled with a big, blue painting of vines, monkeys, and birds.
Huge floor-to-ceiling windows open the main house up towards the Baltic Sea. The movement of the water, the small Island on the horizon, and the elements create a serene but ever-changing view.
A combination of concrete, carefully treated pine wood inspired by the surrounding landscape, and plaster makes a tranquil inside of the houses.
The walls of the project, inside as well as outside, mirror the colors of the sun-burnt field that lies between the house and the ocean.
