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Celerity

(44,477 posts)
Thu Sep 21, 2023, 01:59 PM Sep 2023

Spridd slots T-shaped house into rocky hillside in Stockholm

Spridd is a Swedish architectural office in Stockholm that was founded in 2005 by Klas Ruin and Ola Broms Wessel.

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/09/18/spridd-t-shaped-house-stockholm-residential-architecture/







Raked concrete covers this T-shaped house, which architecture studio Spridd has slotted into a sloped site surrounded by trees on the island of Nacka in Stockholm. Appropriately called T House, the home was created by Spridd for a family, along with a separate guest apartment for an elderly relative.







To minimise excavation of the steeply sloping, south-facing plot, the studio designed a narrow central body for the house that slots between rocks. It expands outwards at its top storey, forming two cantilevered volumes that accommodate a generous open-plan living space. "The T-shape enables a minimal excavation as it only requires a small foundation at the bottom," Spridd told Dezeen. "The shape also provides an advantageous symmetry in the structure which stands independent of itself without attachment to the bedrock."





T House is constructed from prefabricated sandwich panels covered with concrete. Inside, the panels have a smooth finish while a raked treatment was manually applied externally. The raked-concrete facades ensure the house is in dialogue with the textures of the rocky cliffside site and the bark of the surrounding trees. Externally, brown-framed ribbon windows on the south, east and west facades give the home a modernist feel.







Inside T House, a curved staircase leads from the level access ground floor to the guest apartment on the first floor and a main suite on the second floor. On the third storey, smooth concrete walls, floors and ceilings are teamed with warm plywood joinery in the kitchen, the stair bannister and a dividing wall between the kitchen and living area. "The interior has a warm character with the exposed wooden surfaces in contrast with the hard exterior," said Spridd. Large doors in the kitchen open to an outdoor terrace, where metal stairs lead to the roof. Both spaces give views over the rocky hillside and hardy shrubs and trees.

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Spridd slots T-shaped house into rocky hillside in Stockholm (Original Post) Celerity Sep 2023 OP
Ugly and cold. . Srkdqltr Sep 2023 #1
I love it. Different strokes and all that............... Celerity Sep 2023 #4
Thank goodness we all like different. Would be awful if all houses were alike. Srkdqltr Sep 2023 #6
no cap Celerity Sep 2023 #7
Too stark (neo-Brutalist?) for my liking, but a beautiful location. Ocelot II Sep 2023 #2
Neo-Brutalist is a good descriptive,it is also called Neubrutalism Celerity Sep 2023 #5
Wouldn't want to deal with those exterior steps wnylib Sep 2023 #3

Ocelot II

(116,559 posts)
2. Too stark (neo-Brutalist?) for my liking, but a beautiful location.
Thu Sep 21, 2023, 02:05 PM
Sep 2023

If you're sitting by a window looking outside you don't have to look at the inside.

wnylib

(22,229 posts)
3. Wouldn't want to deal with those exterior steps
Thu Sep 21, 2023, 02:10 PM
Sep 2023

in a Swedish winter, especially not the long twisting one in the 3rd photo.

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