Danish studio Norm Architects has created a retreat for gastro-tourists on an old farm in Sweden, positioning seven wooden villas around a lake and using glass corridors to amplify "connections with the surroundings".
Sjöparken is designed to accommodate the rise in gastro-tourists visiting the area, following the transformation of the farm into one of Sweden's largest producers of sparkling wine with a Michelin-starred restaurant.
Positioned around a lake, Norm Architects' design is intended to resemble a "floating" village that takes cues from Nordic and traditional Japanese architecture.
Norm Architects has created the Sjöparken retreat in Sweden
The villas are accessed by glass corridors that aim to maximise the relationship with water, drawing specifically on "Japanese temples and gardens where the approach to the shrine is staged", the studio said. "The glass corridors on water are just that ? a very special feeling of walking on water, changing the experience of arriving at your room," Norm Architects told Dezeen.
"Transportation spaces in architecture is often a very overlooked element," it continued. "It is often reduced to a purely functional element, that is not getting the same attention as the main spaces. But often the approach, the access or the transition can be an equally exciting spatial and phenomenological experience."
It references traditional Japanese architecture
Serving as covered walkways...