Meadow House
Two curved stone wings around a wild garden
Architecture, Landscape, Interiors
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2021–2024
Meadow House from the meadow, late summer
About the project
A family of five asked for a house that would feel different at every hour. We gave them two low stone wings that curve around a wild meadow, so that one side is always in sun while the other rests in shade.
Typology
Private house
Status
Completed 2024
Location
Møn, Denmark
Client
Private
Size
240 m²
Site
1.2 hectares
Partner
Ida Lund
The east wing and its red door
Living room in the west wing, afternoon
The concept
Two wings, one meadow
The site is a sloping field that runs down to a line of old oaks. Instead of placing one large house in the middle of it, we split the rooms into two wings and bent them around the existing meadow, leaving the grass and wild flowers untouched.
Bedrooms sit in the east wing and wake up with the sun. Kitchen, living room and studio sit in the west wing, where the light turns warm in the late afternoon. A glazed passage joins the two and frames the view to the oaks.
Kitchen facing east, morning light
Material and light
Local stone, deep windows
The walls are built from split fieldstone gathered within twenty kilometres of the site, laid by hand by a local mason. They are half a metre thick, so the windows sit deep in the wall and every opening becomes a small room of light.
A narrow clerestory runs along the top of each wing. It brings daylight into the back of every room and lets warm air out on summer nights.
One day in the living room
Morning
07:00
Midday
12:00
Afternoon
16:30
Dusk
19:45
Night
22:00
Bedrooms and kitchens face east, so the day begins with low, cool light across the walls.
At noon the sun stands high in the south, and the deep roof keeps the living room bright without glare.
In the afternoon the light turns warm and low, reaching across the floor to the far wall.
At dusk the west windows hold the last colour of the sky while the room slowly falls quiet.
At night a few low lamps take over, and the windows turn into dark mirrors of the garden.
Credits
Architect
Clerestory
Partner in charge
Ida Lund
Landscape
Anna Berg
Interiors
Sofie Dahl
Project leader
Karin Vik
Engineer
Holm & Vestergaard
Contractor
Møn Byg
Mason
Peder Lauritsen
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