What should the ideal Swedish home be like?Stockholm-based architects have created a project for the average Swedish family based on a study of the preferences of 2 million visitors to the country's most popular online resource for finding real estate. We studied the experiment in detail to find out what people in Sweden prefer and why, and what you can use it for. Archikliktura is what the employees of the Swedish website Hemnet and the architects of the Stockholm studio Tham & Videgård Arkitekter call their bold experiment. To create Hemnet house, they had to process more than 200 million clicks on 86 thousand real estate listings and translate dry statistics into the language of architecture. The goal was to form a fundamentally new approach to the construction of standard housing. The result is a house with an area of about 120 square meters, which combines the cubic forms of functional modernism with centuries-old traditions.
Bolle Tham and Martin VidegårdMartin Videgard, architects: — Hemnet provided us with the main parameters that are important to Swedes: size, price, number of rooms. Interestingly, in the process it turned out that Sweden currently has two iconic architectural images: the classic red wooden cottage, built taking into account national construction traditions and history, and the white functional box, which embodies modern thinking and optimism. Having understood this, we tried to combine both. Judging by the number of visits to the "home" site, we hit the mark. tvark.se
According to Hemnet data, 100-120 metersThe Swedes consider it the ideal size for a family of 3-4 people. This is the figure that provides the optimal ratio of free space with reasonable utility bills. The height is also traditional for Scandinavian construction - one and a half floors. Half of the house is designed on two floors, and the most socially significant areas are in a large space with high ceilings.
The most popular number of rooms is 4,including . The kitchen clause became the only point of contention between the designers and the site. The architects studied not only the figures, but also the discussion of popular projects, and realized that modern Swedes are actually looking not so much for an open-plan kitchen, but for a universal social space that has room for a dining area, a public area, and even a business area. That is why the kitchen-living room is located in the brightest and most spacious part of the house - with a ceiling height of 5.6 m and an additional window.
The biggest surprise, they admit, wasarchitects, there was a general desire to have a terrace or balcony, while no one was particularly eager to build a sauna in the house, traditional for Scandinavia, calling it an expensive excess. As a result, the project included a semi-closed terrace, located on the roof of the second floor in the form of a multifunctional space that each family can use at their own discretion: for an additional room, a winter garden or a recreation area. Its unusual location on the one hand provides enough sunlight, and on the other protects from curious neighbors.
The facade of the house really does resembletraditional Falu cottage. Only the wooden slats of the outer siding are nailed vertically instead of horizontally. But the color is still the same - terracotta Falu paint, which has been used to paint houses here for several centuries.
Inside the house, the design is very simple in appearance,also based on the study of "public opinion", but using only natural, organic materials. Thus, white or very light pastel walls, according to the Swedes, help the house look light and spacious inside. But they also provide an opportunity to place personal accents - hang family photos or posters of favorite artists.
But in Sweden they prefer to walk, just like200-300 years ago, on wood. Light parquet boards are everywhere. In the two bathrooms - a full bath for the family and a small shower for guests - white mosaic tiles on the walls and terracotta clinker on the floor.
In the kitchen decoration, the Swedes and necessarily stonetabletop. According to users, it provides a high level of comfort due to its seamless design and gives a solid look to even the cheapest furniture.
The first of these houses will appear in Sweden in 2016. And they are ready to pay about 2.8 million kroner for it. This is about 23 million rubles at the current exchange rate.
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