A gabled wall provides the entrance to this holiday home in a Swedish coastal village, which also features rooms arranged around a garden and cherry tree.
Summerhouse Bjäre was designed by Gothenburg studio Maka Arkitektur for a village at the tip of the Bjäre peninsula on Sweden's west coast.

The architects' aim was to create a stripped-back version of the area's traditional houses, with their angled roofs and simple materials.
"The house builds on a long tradition of one-and-a-half-storey pitched-roof houses in the area, but is reduced and condensed in form and adapted to the site," they explained.

"Design and materials are carefully assembled to give a timeless background and resemblance to the traditional, local building techniques with brick and stone courtyard houses, while still being contemporary," they added.
The property needed to be able to accommodate three generations of the same family at any one time, so is designed to make the most of its 500-square-metre plot while retaining plenty of outdoor space.
It features a straightforward orthogonal plan comprising a main living area and two wings at either end, one of which is detached to provide a private guest annex.

The cluster of volumes is positioned around a central courtyard garden, which provides shelter from the strong winds that blow through the exposed fishing village. Residents are also offered shade in summer, thanks to the mature cherry tree here.

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