FROM WOOD TO ARCHITECTURE |
Holiday Home Gullischen
Hiittinen, Finland, 1993.
Design: Kristian Gullichsen
is located in the Hiittis Island group, near the Bengtskar Lighthouse in the south-western archipelago. Over the years, one small cottage and two sheds have been built on the island with the help of family and friends. A two-hundred-yearold fisherman's cottage has also been moved there. The modest buildings, with shingle roofs, follow the vernacular archipelago architecture, and they have grown grey so that they blend into the rocky landscape.
The new house is a distillation of all these ingredients. The house has no back or front but two identical main facades, one facing east, one west, and a roof covered with boards. The walls have sliding glass doors, which can be opened and closed as sun and wind require. The activities shift from the eastern side of the house to the west as morning changes into afternoon.
The house is tailored for summer use. Once the autumn storms begin, the house closes up to grow slightly greyer by the next summer.
Photos: Jari Jetsonen