‘House for Mother’ by FAF // Linköping, Sweden.

The living room in this minimalist house located in Linköping, Sweden, is divided into two parts by finishing the walls and floors white – raw vs. painted. Very cool!

The kitchen, bathroom and laundry are housed within a small interior cabin.

This beautiful house-to-be is designed by Malmö-based architecture studio Förstberg Arkitektur (FAF). That’s right people – you are looking at extremely realistic and super beautiful 3D renderings of “House for mother”. Insane. In the membrane.

This work-in-progress residence is located on a 325sqm site in the Southern Swedish city of Linköping. Built for the Linköpingsbo 2017 home exhibition, the house is divided into two parallel structures slightly shifted from each other, creating spaces both in front of and behind the building. Oriented to the park in the north and the alley in the south, “House for Mother” is a reflection of it’s neighbourhood plan, which incorporates a variety of housing types into relatively small blocks of land.

The studio has a double height space. The wall of books covers the full height of the double volume and access to the second storey section is via a plywood mezzanine.

At the back of the home a small courtyard accessed from the living room, which fills the void created by the staggered volumes of the home and the attached greenhouse.

The first volume contains the kitchen, dining room and living room, with the bathroom and laundry housed in a smaller cabin within the structure. The second volume houses the bedrooms and a small studio.

Facades and roof are lined in raw, corrugated aluminium while the interior is warm with an exposed timber structure and walls lined with plywood. The polished concrete floor folds up along the perimeter of the building and transforms into a bench and a shelf. A simple but not simplistic plan that draws on simple living – no room for unnecessary things, only intelligent design solutions. Construction on “House for mother” begins this August.

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[Images courtesy of Förstberg Arkitektur Och Formgivning (FAF).]