The Tree House

A research project investigating the architectural qualites and other factors that are important when creating a home. General architectural qualities that affect the experience of a builing are use of materials, spaciousness, movements, lightning, views and axes. However, personal factors sush as self image, future dreams and memories of past homes creates an individual pallette of preferences and decisive factors that influence weather a building feels lika a home. This building and interior spaces was a result of that investigation. It is a single-storey u-shaped house which, with its foundation of pillars, climbes the hill to cause as little damage to the surrounding nature as possible. The house has three large axes where you can see through several rooms and out to nature. This creates connections between the residens indepentently where your are in the building. The house playes with a variation of open and closed spaces which makes the house both accessible and yet private. The house has two terraces, one more private facing north forest enclosed by the body of the bulding, and one facing south and the garden, with direct contact to the kitchen. The spaces are well designed with bespoke furnitures and well proportioned to create intimate spaces. All rooms have doors leading out to a dec that runs around the house, which connects the residents to the outdoor surroundings. The house is clad with a wooden panel treated with iron vitriol and a large corrugated metal roof to protect against the sun and create a pleasant indoor environment.