Fjällbacka | GIPP arkitektur

The west coast fishing town of Fjällbacka, with its winding roads, wayward wooden houses and vast boulders is a place where the imprints of mankind throughout the years have been subordinate to the elements of nature.
In the periphery of the small town an intimate space is opened, where the open seascape meets the wild Bohuslän topography. On the edge of a cliff, wedged among existing houses, a building in in-situ concrete. The volume is spanning over the edge of the cliff, and through its cross section, the inner landscape meets the outer - the interior spaces are intertwined with the levels and topography of the site.
 
In the entrance, the inner beings of the building is revealed; levels and sightlines gets clarified. A passage spans in the whole length of the building, connecting the upper rooms with the lower. The kitchen opens up towards the upper and lower exterior spaces. A cast in place chimney is spanning the space vertically, leading the visitor down to the rooms that engages the whole building height. Here, the inner volume is weaved with the the outside; light and landscape are pressed in and borders are blurred.
 
The buildings massiveness and weight; its construction in in-situ concrete infuse a distinct robustness towards the powers of nature.
On the inside of the building, the material is wood; refined and treated in relationship to the spaces, the elements and the details.
 
Like an element from the buildings inner world, a wooden stair leads us up to the roof of the structure, the living room of the sky, a space without physical constraints, where human and nature are weaved together.

Team: Petra Gipp, Emil Bäckström, Emma Carlén