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Cliff House by Petra Gipp Arkitektur and Katarina Lundeburg

Anna Kidman - Thursday, September 29, 2011

 

This house on a cliff by Petra Gipp Arkitektur and Katarina Lundeburg is situated on the top of a cape, overlooking a bay from high up on a cliff. They explain their design:

Two distinct volumes take hold of each other to create the conditions for the life that is led here. One of the volumes contains elemental cells for sleeping, which have a direct connection to the outside via a separate entrance. There is also a large bedroom with an adjacent terrace and a bathroom, which is open to the sky. The other one of the two volumes houses a generous living room and a kitchen, where the public aspects of dwelling take place. The kitchen presents a degree of simplicity and abstraction, which aesthetically as well as functionally brings it into the same realm as the living room. The spacious living room blurs the boundary between inside and outside. Part of the volume forms an outside space with nothing but a roof as protection from the elements, this part transitions into the large terraces. The clients envisioned terraces to bring the house and the cliff together in a whole.