images: Rauno Traskelin
This house by friman.laaksonen architects is located close to the centre of the old iron-works community of Fiskars, which has lately become a centre for culture. The wooden monolithic building can be seen as a typical peasant house split lengthways. The spruce-clad facade is unostentatious, whereas the tall-galvanized corrugated-steel clad facade is punctuated with large, freely placed windows, their placement determined by the requirements of the interior spaces. The living spaces are divided into three multipurpose sections: two larger rooms and a volume between them comprised of auxiliary spaces and a loft.▪
South, there’s an open expanse to the field, on the West side is a courtyard delimited by outbuildings and the east side overlooks a lake via a densely forested slope.
Here are some more details, given to us by friman.laaksonen architects:
Project name: House Humlegard
Type: Private Apartment
Location: Fiskars, Finland
Client: Private
Area: 130 + 50 m2 (basement)
Architect: Kimmo Friman
Interior design: Jouko Jarvisalo (kitchen)
Construction engineer: Tero Aaltonen, Stefan Forsten/Innostructura Oy;
Yrjo Kinnunen/Peruskonsultit Oy (preliminary phase)
HPAC engineer: Jukka Penttinen/BSC Busecon Oy
Electrical: Antti Syrjanen
Carpenters: Risto Niilimaki, Mikko Immonen
Progress: Design and building Permission 2002, completed 2007
