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Architects: Björn Lundquist Arkitektur
- Area: 167 m²
- Year: 2012
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Photographs:Åke E:son Lindman
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Manufacturers: Focus-Lighting
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Text description provided by the architects. The H House is a wooden vacation house overlooking lake Sommen in southern Sweden.
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Its floor plan layout forms a symmetrical capital H with the volume facing north containing private spaces, while its twin volume facing south gather interlocking social spaces turning towards the vast view of the lake.
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Connecting the two parts on the axis of the main entrance is the kitchen, facing two open courtyards capturing the morning and evening sun of the east and the west.
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Windows and glass doors on all sides of each courtyard allow movement and visual contact in multiple directions throughout the house, keeping the lakeview present at all times.
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The sharp barn-like volumes respond to the vernacular building typologies of the surrounding rural area, in a gray color scheme reflecting the characteristic granite rocks of the lake.
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