general architecture: summer house in arboga

  ‘summer house in arboga by general architecture

materialized by precisely joining individual elements that form a coherent unity, swedish general architectural studio have built a house on an existing small granary for sale outside borlänge, in the dalarna region of sweden. the house was taken apart and moved to an old pasture along the shores of lake hjälmaren, a few kilometers from arboga, where concrete plinths are cast as a new foundations before the dismantled barn is resurrected. between the 15th and the 16th timber row, a new load-bearing wooden framework is installed to allow for a full-height upper floor.

the interior walls of the new addition was designed using floor-height trusses, spanning between the perimeter walls, making it possible to leave the ground floor totally open without any support for the upper level. internal materials were selected based on availability and price: oak wood from the site, and plywood from the local building merchant.

exterior

the openings in the outer walls follow the logic of the design, with large windows in the massive timber wall and standing narrow windows fitted into the module of the new fabric of the house. the floor plan distribution is as simple as the volume, with a kitchen and living room in the ground floor and two bedrooms. externally, the new additions are treated with the same red paint in a similar way as the original parts. 

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