Designed by Hans Murman and Ulla Alberts, the Juniper House in Katthammarsvik, Gotland, Sweden is one of the short listed projects for last year’s world architecture festival award in Barcelona. In Gotland, Sweden the Juniper House becomes barely visible, mirroring its surroundings with its facade. From a centrally placed kitchen and living room you have the feeling of living in the nature.

The facade of Juniper House is a playful comment on allowing modern architecture to be visual in the landscape. The house design allows you to experience color, texture, surface, material, transparency and light on and through the facade. A photo of the existing junipers was used as the base for the tailor-made cloth that is 35 meters wide and 3 meters high and wrapped onto three sides of the Sweden house design. The net vinyl cloth is put on a galvanized steel construction at a distance of 40 centimeters from the facade.

On the north and south side of the house the cloth is extended for privacy and to hide the outdoor shower. The wooden facade is treated with a combination of turpentine, tar and linseed oil. The floor is ash, oiled with white pigment. The walls and the ceiling are painted white and the kitchen sink is concrete board from a local factory whilst wide glazed sliding doors work as temperature regulators in the summer.

The slow growing junipers that enclose the house are green throughout the whole year. A photo of the existing junipers was used as the base for the tailor-made cloth that is 35 meters wide and 3 meters high and wrapped onto tree sides of the house The net vinyl cloth is put on a galvanized steel construction at a distance of 40 centimeters from the facade. On the north and south side of the house the cloth is extended a few extra meters for privacy and to hide the outdoor shower from the neighbors. The wooden facade is treated with a combination of turpentine, tar and linseed oil.

The sliding glass parts are clad with aluminium from Velfac and full aluminium from Scücho. The large glass partitions is insulated in the same plane as the façade elements fixed to the angled profiles made of aluminium.

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