Danish studio CF Møller Architects has nestled a concrete villa into a shallow hill on a Norwegian farm, creating a pair of stepped terraces with views of the nearby Oslofjord.
Called Villa Aa, the building was designed for the family that owns the farm, who wanted a modern home and office while still respecting the nature and protected status of the site.
CF Møller Architects has nestled a villa into farmland in Norway
CF Møller Architects responded by sinking the 375-square-metre villa into a gentle slope on the site, hiding it from view on approach under a green roof and creating a pair of stepped terraces on the opposite side.
"The villa's layout creates a flow and connection between formal and informal functions, and combines practicality and wellbeing," explained CF Møller Architects. The house is hidden by a green roof
"A green roof on top of the villa acts itself as an upper terrace, [and] a lower terrace and garden include two water features," the studio continued.
"The result is, from the outside, an almost invisible villa snuggly fitted into the landscape with beautiful views towards the Oslo Fjord and defined areas for business and family life."
It is designed to be respectful to its farmland setting
Two sweeping concrete ramps at either side of the home cut beneath its grass-topped roof, which is dotted with skylights and punctured by a courtyard with an additional access stair.
Internally, the layout and material treatments ...