This holiday home designed by architecture office KRADS features large openings that frame views of Iceland's Lake Thingvallavatn, and a turfed roof to help it blend in with its natural surroundings.
The property is located on a lush hillside that slopes north towards the rift-valley lake in southwestern Iceland that is known locally as Ăžingvallavatn.
KRADS designed the building to complement the landscape and make the most of the impressive views, with a blackened-timber cladding and green roofs to help it blend in with its surroundings.
Above: the holiday home overlooks Lake Thingvallavatn. Top image: large windows frame views of the landscape
The clients for the Holiday Home by Thingvallavatn are two of Iceland's biggest music stars, Danish singer-songwriter Tina Dickow and Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Helgi JĂłnsson. According to the architects, the couple's backgrounds as performing artists made them especially appreciative of the creative process and keen to be involved in the design.
A green roof helps it blend in with its surroundings
"This led to a journey that was characterised by an enthusiastic exchange of thoughts and ideas," explained KRADS, "which were anchored in a common understanding of materiality and general expression."
The building's position on the sloping plot was carefully chosen to minimise disruption to the landscape and to make the most of the elevated setting.
It is clad in blackened-timber
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