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Tina Bergman
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Tina Bergman
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Tina Bergman - Tina Bergman Architect
The Hat House, Tänndalen, Sweden
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The architect: A cabin in the Swedish mountains by Tina Bergman Architects, London. Dubbed The Hat House, for its resemblance to a Swedish fairytale about three children living in a...
The architect: A cabin in the Swedish mountains by Tina Bergman Architects, London.
Dubbed The Hat House, for its resemblance to a Swedish fairytale about three children living in a hat, this small cabin lies hidden in a birch forest in the Swedish mountains, just below the treeline and with a meadow underfoot.
With a brief to house a family of five, a large fluffy dog, and lots of visitors, I travelled to the site with my clients on an unusually warm weekend at the end of May: met with that intense green of newly sprung birch leaves and a near complete silence, our aim was to find a spot to place the building. We found it soon: a naturally formed clearing, withdrawn from the forest road, with views to the mountains and a lake to the south and west, and with yellow orchids growing in the east
The Hat House is built in an area where buildings must be small; with a footprint of just 100 m sq, the cabin's form mirrors the program and the gentle slope of the site: you sleep under the roof and you bathe below; and you gather a few steps down where you can view the lake. Its shape is in- formed by the need for warmth and the need for shelter; centring around the fireplace and the chimney, it pulls its hat down over its ears.
The Hat House is a house designed to be lived in and to withstand its set- ting. Its floor of spruce will be scraped by ski boots and by dog paws, its pine heart cladding be weathered by the piling of the snow. It is a house intensely following the seasons of the year; the blue faint light of mid- winter, the bursting green of new summer, the misty yellows of the autumn mountains.
Dubbed The Hat House, for its resemblance to a Swedish fairytale about three children living in a hat, this small cabin lies hidden in a birch forest in the Swedish mountains, just below the treeline and with a meadow underfoot.
With a brief to house a family of five, a large fluffy dog, and lots of visitors, I travelled to the site with my clients on an unusually warm weekend at the end of May: met with that intense green of newly sprung birch leaves and a near complete silence, our aim was to find a spot to place the building. We found it soon: a naturally formed clearing, withdrawn from the forest road, with views to the mountains and a lake to the south and west, and with yellow orchids growing in the east
The Hat House is built in an area where buildings must be small; with a footprint of just 100 m sq, the cabin's form mirrors the program and the gentle slope of the site: you sleep under the roof and you bathe below; and you gather a few steps down where you can view the lake. Its shape is in- formed by the need for warmth and the need for shelter; centring around the fireplace and the chimney, it pulls its hat down over its ears.
The Hat House is a house designed to be lived in and to withstand its set- ting. Its floor of spruce will be scraped by ski boots and by dog paws, its pine heart cladding be weathered by the piling of the snow. It is a house intensely following the seasons of the year; the blue faint light of mid- winter, the bursting green of new summer, the misty yellows of the autumn mountains.
