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Celerity

(49,430 posts)
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 09:49 AM Apr 10

Note Design Studio completes timber home to "withstand time" in Swedish mountains

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/04/08/villa-ottsjo-note-design-studio-timber-home-swedish-mountains/





Swedish firm Note Design Studio used a pared-back palette of local materials to create a house in the mountainous village of Ottsjö, Sweden. Named Villa Ottsjö, the dwelling is the first full-scale architectural project for the Stockholm and Copenhagen-based studio, which has previously worked across the fields of interior and product design. Tasked with designing a home that would closely connect its clients with the outdoors, Note Design Studio created a row of cabin-like forms that are nestled into the sloping site.







"[It is] a house for an active and social life in the mountains," said Note Design Studio co-founder Johannes Karlströmand and interior architect Jesper Mellgren. A house that will withstand time, aesthetically as well as functionally," they told Dezeen. "It is designed for that specific spot in that specific area. All these factors are used to inform the layout, material selection and the overall look of the house."







Villa Ottsjö is comprised of three gabled volumes that were organised in a staggered row, ensuring that each block benefits both from sunlight throughout the day and views of the mountains to the east. Each block has a different purpose. The first contains a utility, bathroom and staircase alongside the entrance, while the central block has a double-height cooking and dining space and the end block contains the living area. On the first floor, two bedrooms at either end of the home with large windows are connected by a footbridge that crosses the dining area below.







"We wanted the house to have a certain level of dramaturgy built in to it, spatially – a journey of discovery, from its entrance throughout the house, where different rooms give different experiences," Karlström and Mellgren told Dezeen. "That journey culminates after crossing the footbridge on the upper floor, when stepping into the master bedroom with its deep window niche to the east, and the dormer to the south with a squared floor to ceiling window, capturing the impressive views of the local mountain," they added.

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Note Design Studio completes timber home to "withstand time" in Swedish mountains (Original Post) Celerity Apr 10 OP
Steep roof side should face north so snow falls off bucolic_frolic Apr 10 #1
We know snow here in Sweden. We also do high, high quality builds. Celerity Apr 10 #2
Yes, when I look at it again, it is the snow that is the light part bucolic_frolic Apr 10 #3
The interior kind of looks like a sauna. LudwigPastorius Apr 11 #4

bucolic_frolic

(49,927 posts)
1. Steep roof side should face north so snow falls off
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 09:59 AM
Apr 10

Flatter roof side south so snow melts. Not understanding the dark part of the steep roof. That's plastic or metal for durability and snow slides, but why the different color?

Would like that in smaller design. Good luck finding quality anymore. Build me a plywood house.

Celerity

(49,430 posts)
2. We know snow here in Sweden. We also do high, high quality builds.
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 10:21 AM
Apr 10

And I have no idea what you are talking about here:

Not understanding the dark part of the steep roof. That's plastic or metal for durability and snow slides, but why the different color?


The roof is all the same colour.

It is partially covered with snow in some of the pics.

for instance:

bucolic_frolic

(49,927 posts)
3. Yes, when I look at it again, it is the snow that is the light part
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 12:00 PM
Apr 10

That confused me! It was early in the morning when I looked at it, that's my excuse. THanks!

LudwigPastorius

(12,252 posts)
4. The interior kind of looks like a sauna.
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 12:39 AM
Apr 11

Still, I think I'd wear more than just a towel around the house.

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