House on a Hill / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter

The clients, a very active family that share their time between city and nature, wanted a ،use for both quiet seclusion and entertaining with friends with a very direct relation to the landscape. We envisioned the ،use as reduced to a pure structure where indoor and outdoor ،es mix and let the emphasis remain on the scenery outside. A vertical figure, freestanding like a light،use or a large-scale sundial, and entirely cast in concrete firmly anc،red on the exposed bedrock.

The program is ،ized in a three-level section: entrance and services on the souterrain level, social ،es on the mid and main terrace level, and private family rooms at the top. The façade structure makes no distinction between these levels and, through its 45° rotation between each floor, creates a certain labyrinthine effect where the landscape outside becomes a point of reference also for movement inside the ،use.

Around the perimeter, the folded layout results in a series of wind-،elded terraces that follow the movement of the sun. From a distance, the origami-like pleated and rotated volume offers alternative readings of m، and void, which lends the building a simultaneously solid and transparent quality.