Norm Architects has completed Archipelago House, a pine-clad holiday home on the coast of Sweden that's designed to embody both Scandinavian and Japanese aesthetics.
Copenhagen-based practice Norm Architects created Archipelago House, which is located just north of Gothenburg, for a couple and their four children.
It's a stone's throw away from a holiday home that the mother of the family frequented when she was younger.
Top image: the interior of Archipelago House. Above: the exterior of the home is lined with pine wood
Archipelago House comprises a quartet of pine-wood volumes that stagger in line with the site's rocky terrain.
Each of the volumes features gabled roofs, subtly mimicking the form of the boathouses which appear along the nearby seashore. The kitchen features oakwood cabinetry
"We like to consider the spirit of a place and integrate a new building structure more or less flawlessly into its surroundings,"  partner at Norm Architects Frederik Werner told Dezeen.
"The building should look natural to the site and put the focus on the beautiful surroundings and the life unfolding in the place rather than the building itself," he continued.
"It is important for us that architecture does not feel alien to a site ? especially in a place like this where there is a perfectly harmonised small village on the shore with other wooden houses around."
At the heart of the floor plan is a double-height lounge
Inside, the practice has used natura...