Sweden | Concept Study | 2025
This house takes Villa M’s structural foundation and strips it to its essential components. It’s a testing ground for minimal means with maximum clarity—fewer materials, tighter budget, bolder experiment. I reduced the palette to timber cladding and large glazed panels. No deep overhangs or terraces here—just the core volume testing how simple the form can get before it loses character.
The facade is a rhythm of vertical timber slats alternating with floor-height glass, creating privacy where needed while flooding the interior with light. Upper-level openings frame views without competing with the ground-floor transparency. This project let me test ideas that were too risky for a client commission. Can the structure be this exposed? Does the minimalist exterior feel cold or calm? How does the house sit in a leafy suburban context without decorative softening?
The roofline stays flat and deliberate, refusing to mimic traditional pitched forms. Its architecture reduced to proportion, material, and light. Working at this level of simplicity forces honesty. There’s nowhere to hide mistakes behind molding or applied detail. Every junction, every material edge, every window placement has to be exactly right. The result is a house that shows its thinking clearly—bold form with nothing extra.
