Project name: Hur Vill Du Bo?
Client: Hem och Villa Mässan
Object: Three conceptual private houses
Size: 100sqm - 200sqm
Stage: Exhibition
Team: Joakim Kaminsky, Fredrik Kjellgren
Photo: Malin Hedman

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THREE STORIES, THREE HOUSES
KKA interviewed three families about their problems and challenges in daily life. With a vision of unordinary houses for ordinary people we then designed three conceptual villas answering the needs of each family.

VILLA "ALL-IN-ONE"

Some weeks we are four, some weeks one. Thats my family. As so many other modern families our needs are continuously changing. My three kids stay with my former wife every second week and my current girlfriend is travelling with her job six months a year.

In the beginning I choose between buying a small apartment in the city or a row house. But none of the alternatives suited me; the apartment would have been too small when my kids where there, yet a row house would seem so empty when I'm alone.

I wanted a house with all-in-one. Isn't there a way to use the kids rooms while their gone? So their not just empty? From this question an idea for a house was born. With a system of rotating doors as room dividers we where able to create infinite flexible variations of open, semi open and closed rooms.

When I'm alone in the house I usually position the doors so that the whole building becomes a single room, then I can enjoy a space that is truly a luxury. During the weeks when my kids are here, the doors are positioned so that all of us have our own rooms. 

VILLA "GROWTH"

The house is made out of light transmitting polycarbonate, when we need another room we carve it out from the block. There are no corridors in our house as all the rooms are positioned next to each other. They are connected in a network in the order they where added. To start with there where just four rooms in one side of the house but now we have ten, almost filling the house.

I often read books lying in bed and with time the bedroom has become my favourite place in the house. Through my window I can see a picture that changes slowly, not suddenly as when you turn a page or switch channel, but continuously in the rhythm of days and seasons. Around the window the walls are filled with a soft light, it's the daylight that penetrates the translucent insulation. 

VILLA "9-5"

It hasn't been storming for quite some time, so the leaves can stay on the trees. They age firmly connected to their branches acquiring a colour range otherwise only seen on the ground; yellow, red, green and all possible nuances in between.

The tree I'm watching stands in all its colour in the atrium of my house. I can see it from the living room where I'm lying on the sofa writing. One can see that autumn has arrived and it gives a sense of calmness that I enjoy.

With time my family too has found calmness in a rhythm we enjoy. Ours days are divided in a practical way that gives continuity and security to our lives. Our house is divided in this rhythm too. The rooms form a circle, a cycle, round the atrium and its tree. The idea for the plan came from something as trivial as a clockface.

Each room is positioned so that its function relates to the context of views and daylight conditions. The sun sets in our living room and rises in our kitchen. The working room faces the street, while the bedroom is on the quiet side of the house. From the living room one can see the best view of the surroundings.

I turn around and look at the sea, the sun sets on the horizon and I finish my notes for the evening and head for a walk along the beach.

VILLA "ALL-IN-ONE"

VILLA "GROWTH"

VILLA "9-5"