Swedish architect couple Andreas Lyckefors and Josefine Wikholm have designed and built themselves a home with a decorative lattice facade, plus a matching property next door.
Lyckefors, who is co-founder of architecture firm Bornstein Lyckefors, and Wikholm, who works for Semrén & Månsson, designed Villa Timmerman and its neighbour for a site in the south of Gothenburg, near the sea.
Andreas Lyckefors and Josefine Wikholm built Villa Timmerman as their own home
Developing the site into two properties rather than one was key to making the project stack up financially.
Instead of creating a bespoke design for themselves, the couple decided to make both homes identical. The only difference is in the orientation ? the floor plans are a mirror image of each other. The house sits alongside a matching property, designed for private sale
"We tried different layouts but came up with a scheme that worked really well in both directions," Lyckefors told Dezeen.
By making the homes semi-detached, the architects were able to create a more cost- and space-efficient scheme.
While planning authorities would only permit a certain amount of development on the site, the couple were able to create five bedrooms in both homes.
"The site is pretty much developed to a maximum," said Lyckefors. "There was no room for us to create separate structures and still keep the size of the homes."
The facade features timber beams running in three directions
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