Överby Lake House near Stockholm by John Robert Nilsson Arkitektkontor

Architects: John Robert Nilsson
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Year: 2009
Area: 2,691 sqft / 250 sqm
Photo courtesy: Åke Eson Lindman, John Robert Nilsson
Description:

Arranged on a characteristic level on a rough headland, the house appreciates all encompassing perspectives over the inlet and the night sun toward the west. The Gotland limestone on concrete establishment is made like a gigantic plinth, building walkways along three of the house’s façades under the rooftop’s profound shades. As an afterthought confronting the ocean, the limestone-secured establishment opens out into a vast porch with an indented swimming pool and recessed sitting territory giving safe house from the wind. The same limestone-shrouded establishment shapes the joined floor space all through the house.

The passageway side of the house highlights a strong façade divider, put and decolored to matte dark. The main interference is a roof high turn entryway with a slender cross section of dark recolored oak separating the light. Alternate façades are comprised of a basic coating arrangement of full glass dividers. The protected glass comprises of an external layer of Optiwhite glass, decreasing sunlight staining, and an internal layer of warm control glass to maintain a strategic distance from condensation and downdraft. The base of the glass casing is totally recessed and covered up between limestone sections, making the limit in the middle of outside and inside essentially non-existent. A shrouded canal around the house, developed of stainless steel with a limestone spread, channels rain and snow water away.

The floor arrangement of the house, a straightforward rectangular shape, is plainly separated into private and social circles. The private circle is further isolated into rooms, bathrooms and capacity, manufactured around an open-idea living space. Rather than customary entryways, most openings are roof tallness. Just turning the corner gives you the impression of entering another room. The developmental thought behind the house was to make a reasonable and gathered structure in checked difference to the encompassing scene. The vicinity of a solid object, unique for the area, additionally elevates the experience of the rich shades of nature.

While a concurrence on the fundamental thought was come to rapidly, settling necessities with respect to quality, precision and tender loving care was a broad venture. Behind the spotless lines shrouds a progression of cutting edge technological frameworks. Faucet water is removed from the ocean and treated in a desalination unit. Warming for the floors, open air pool and high temp water is delivered by a geothermal warmth pump. Area cooling, purported free air-conditioning, is additionally pumped into the house through the stone shaft, which implies that all ventilating is fundamentally for nothing out of pocket. All frameworks are worked by a keen control and observing arrangement, utilizing an online interface, controlled through the web or mobile phone.