Hill Hut / Visiondivision
Visiondivision‘s latest project, a residential extension for two children in Stockholm, utilizes a landscape surface that is enhanced by elements around and inside the house. The young children will be spending most of their day enjoying the outdoors, so Visiondivision “wanted to give the two new citizens a safe base where they can explore their new surroundings and be able to appreciate it to the fullest.” By deliberately choosing inexpensive building components, such as windows and façade materials, the architects saved a bigger part of the budget to create as many playful elements as they could.
More about the Hill House after the break.
The landscape becomes not only a series of hills and valleys for play, but a series of much more intricate spaces that include an outdoor cinema and a sledge slope. A carpet of artificial grass blankets the artificially made hill to blend in with the natural grass. This carpet continues out onto the terrace as well as down the hallway between the children’s rooms, as an attempt to unite the exterior with the interior environment.
A custom made grass sofa, and a couple of grassy knolls that also function as lighting make the interior “more organic and enhance the nature experience even further”. These artificial hills can be moved around and can be put outside, as well.
The excavations that provided the necessary dirt for the hills left a large void under the house which Visiondivision turned into “two secret caves”. Made from concrete with in-cast IKEA drinking glass as small lanterns, the caves leads to a different grassy places for play.
The house itself is clad is white corrugated metal sheeting which looks like wood from a distance, since wood is the predominant material in this region. Yet, as one gets closer to the home, the cladding is “more alive and reflecting…and gets nice shadow effects from the surrounding trees. Choosing metal sheets also allowed us to have the walls and the roof in the same material which creates a very consistent building.”
All images from Visiondivision
Architects: visiondivision
Location: Stockholm
Design team: Anders Berensson & Ulf Mejergren
Construction year: 2009
Project area: 55m2
Photographs: Clive Jenkins
love the economic way of thinking and playfulness! Great work!
just wow!
I want a cave into my room !
can i go back in time and have this place?
Brilliant. It’s another example of how to leverage the surrounding features of the landscape and integrating it to the overall design. Rather than fighting the surrounding physical features, hillside and spacing is used cleverly into the overall design. It seems like an ideal place for batman’s batkids…
Masterful drawings and great creativity!
Superbly performed project and I agree with previous comment, those drawings looks like paintings. Very inspiring project, as always from visiondivision. Thanks for the feature.
imagine growing up there! i agree with drewcore, please give me a timemachine so i could have this happy childhood house! love the playfulness! and when they get older they can have top secret meetings in the cave, i love it!
100% happy kids will come out from that place! thanks for thinking about the kids and for your great portion of creativity! inspiring work!
wow, very complex than I first thought it to be at first glance. great movement aspects and a very unique piece of architecture.
speachless.. amazing!
5:28 PM Jan 13th
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5:32 PM Jan 13th
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5:35 PM Jan 13th
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5:52 PM Jan 13th
damn hill hut in stockholm has its own custom landscaped grassy knoll http://is.gd/6dwwV i better startwork or ill never have a grass hill
10:29 PM Jan 13th
architecture: Hill Hut, Stockholm / Visiondivision (22pics) http://bit.ly/4IH4xB (archdaily)
12:30 AM Jun 10th
I've never been so jealous of little kids. I want to live here! http://bit.ly/aKk9KB