architect's own summerhouse, denmark
architect: michael sten johnsen, b. 1938
interior. warm light reflected off the exposed brickwork.
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architect's own summerhouse, denmark
architect: michael sten johnsen, b. 1938
one of my bosses built this summerhouse for himself over a period of three decades, from the seventies to the nineties, reusing existing walls and foundations of two older houses, a strategy made necessary by the extreme proximity to the sea - a zone in which all building activity is banned except for refurbishments.
as such, the house became an exercise in the incidental, in the ability to read into a given situation of constraints possibilities, poetry, order...
today, we demand entire philosophies of our star architects or diagrammatic concepts that contain the project in all its complexity like a seed - this house, rather, upholds the belief that we express our values in every single choice made by the architect, provided that every choice is based on personal observations and experience.
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architect's own summerhouse, denmark
architect: michael sten johnsen, b. 1938
the full set.
Tags: michael sten johnsen michael sten johnsen summerhouse sommerhus house hus architect arkitekt architecture arkitektur vandkunsten recycled brickwork brick denmark danmark seier+seier creative commons CC
architect's own summerhouse, denmark
architect: michael sten johnsen, b. 1938
as you have probably gathered from the number of photos, I was moved by this house. we spent the better part of a day there with plenty of time to simply enjoy the place, discovering the logic - or some of it - of its many twists and turns, the architect's gift of place-making and pondering that rare thing: the home as a personal document, almost an autobiography, of its maker.
original house, in front: 1933
first changes: 1974
final addition, at the back: 1992
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