Textual content description supplied by the architects. The T-Home makes use of and challenges the most typical know-how options of our time in a difficult-to-build location, a typical problem in a metropolitan location at the moment. The home maximizes the amount throughout the zoning restrictions on a steeply sloping plot in a longtime residential space.
There’s room for each an aged disabled particular person and enjoying youngsters in well-functioning indoor and outside areas. With recognizable components and recognizable constructing know-how, a transparent physique is created that stands out and awakens feelings. The T-house is a home for a household with a separate visitor residence.
The timber round the home have been preserved and the home rises within the foliage. Within the slender physique, the kitchen-living room is positioned as excessive up as attainable to be able to get the views and the sunshine. For good accessibility and performance, the stairwell is within the middle of the physique from which all tales and features are reached.
The T-shape allows minimal excavation because it solely requires a small basis on the backside (Swedish regulation requires full accessibility with a wheelchair). The form additionally offers an advantageous symmetry within the construction which stands unbiased of itself with out attachment to the bedrock. Solely the terrace components are connected to the r
ock. A prefabricated construction offers a managed development course of.
The sandwich panel with the mould facet inwards permits for a manually raked therapy of the facade floor which visually blends with the bark of the timber. The selection of concrete as a constructing materials derives from the moisture-exposed place within the rock. Supplies have been used with untreated surfaces along with easy know-how options similar to using thermal inertia. The inside has a heat character with the uncovered picket surfaces in distinction with the laborious exterior.