Villa R / Saunders Structure

Villa R / Saunders Structure

Textual content description supplied by the architects. The Røksunds and their two kids had been residing on one of many islands within the Bømlo district to the south of Bergen for a few years once they found plans for a brand new street and bridge would have a major affect on their current house. On condition that the household liked the setting and environment, the answer was to construct a brand new home on a hilltop website additional away from the street that additionally provided a mesmerizing open vista throughout the islands. 

As an skilled engineer, Reinert Røksund determined to handle the development course of as a self-build venture. However then Judit Røksund, a schoolteacher, fell sick with most cancers, and their plans have been thrown into query whereas she started a course of remedy. They determined to press forward with the brand new home, seeing it as a optimistic step ahead into the long run for the entire household.

For Saunders himself, the venture took on contemporary relevance and resonance. Working with shoppers on the design and construct of a household home clearly entails a relationship that’s each private {and professional}, however right here the venture took on a brand new stage of significance for all concerned.

The design of the home itself maximizes the potential of the hilltop website whereas working across the rugged topography, together with rocky outcrops and the mature bushes that populate the sloping land because it dips away towards the water beneath. A lot of the home is organized on one, principal stage, together with an built-in storage and storage room at one finish, alongside the principle entrance. Past this, a line of circulation line passes the main bedroom and a devoted research, each of that are oriented in the direction of the view, earlier than reaching an open plan residing house holding the kitchen, eating space, and sitting room, with a lined terrace past.

Saunders describes this house as a type of ‘rural penthouse’, providing a framed panorama of the water, the bushes, and the neighboring islands. The elevated place of the home signifies that this house, with its wall of floor-to-ceiling glass framing the vista, has the texture of a complicated treehouse or commentary level floating above each land and sea. On the similar time, a wood-burning range types a key focus right here and enhances the sense of heat.

The primary physique of the steel-framed, timber-clad constructing types a type of bridge stepping over the decrease portion of the positioning and spanning a sheltered undercroft that types an extra out of doors room. One finish of the bridge, across the storage and entrance zone, is supported by the rock outcrop whereas the opposite finish is held aloft with the assist of a modestly scaled decrease stage that pushes again from the remainder of the home at an angle of ninety levels. This decrease zone holds a media room, two bedrooms for the Røksunds’ kids, and an extra bed room for company. 

The considerate design of the home signifies that day by day residing turns into simpler and extra easy. The firewood retailer, for example, is within the storage that means the household doesn’t need to go exterior once they want extra timber for the range. For a household with a love of crusing, with the ability to change moist garments within the retailer room and laundry alongside the doorway can also be very sensible. Such components make on a regular basis life extra pleasurable.