jørn utzon / ARTON, architect: villa herneryd, laröd, helsingborg, sweden 1961
villa herneryd, laröd, helsingborg, sweden 1961.
architects: jørn utzon (1918-2008) with ARTON (partners erik and henry andersson).
the second villa by utzon in the small town of laröd on the Swedish west coast was designed in 1961 which is late for a single family house from his hand. utzon was moving into the business of monuments.
rigorous is the word that comes to mind when studying the plan, not least following the wandering walls and wooden posts of the nearby villa banck. the house is very nearly square with a square courtyard in it which - surprisingly - relates only to circulation.
I wonder how you would use it in your daily routines when both kitchen and living room turn their backs to it. courtyards make such sense on the coast where views are matched by wind, but I cannot help feeling that I am missing something here. remember how utzon made the courtyard a room in the house in elsinore - I have a photo here - and I think you'll see what I mean.
perhaps the point was to make the circulation spaces more liveable. villa banck and herneryd are very large by utzon standards and more formal too with servants' quarters and room for dining and entertaining. the separation of social functions makes for long corridors, a type of room barely present in his other, smaller houses.
my photo shows the side of the great copper-clad roof. it is more of a shape than the exposed construction, you would expect from the architect's more famous houses. I miss the poetry of his tectonics, but then again, the masters are not here to satisfy our expectations.
the roof comes to good use on the facade facing water and sunset where utzon offers a line-up of different spaces to enjoy the view from under it.
I don't have a photo of that, but the restless aerial photographers of the internet search engines show us just enough of that fluidity of planning which finally occurs where utzon confronts us with nature and which makes this a house to remember.
if you have the 'arkitekturguide för helsingborg' or certain other publications from the local municipality, they will mention other utzon houses in the vicinity. however, these buildings were designed by the gifted norwegian architect, jørgen michelsen, who worked with utzon at ARTON and later took his place in the company. michelsen's works deserve attention in their own right as does his relationship to utzon. I hope to be able to tell you more at a later date.
more utzon here
jørn utzon / ARTON, architect: villa herneryd, laröd, helsingborg, sweden 1961
villa herneryd, laröd, helsingborg, sweden 1961.
architects: jørn utzon (1918-2008) with ARTON (partners erik and henry andersson).
the second villa by utzon in the small town of laröd on the Swedish west coast was designed in 1961 which is late for a single family house from his hand. utzon was moving into the business of monuments.
rigorous is the word that comes to mind when studying the plan, not least following the wandering walls and wooden posts of the nearby villa banck. the house is very nearly square with a square courtyard in it which - surprisingly - relates only to circulation.
I wonder how you would use it in your daily routines when both kitchen and living room turn their backs to it. courtyards make such sense on the coast where views are matched by wind, but I cannot help feeling that I am missing something here. remember how utzon made the courtyard a room in the house in elsinore - I have a photo here - and I think you'll see what I mean.
perhaps the point was to make the circulation spaces more liveable. villa banck and herneryd are very large by utzon standards and more formal too with servants' quarters and room for dining and entertaining. the separation of social functions makes for long corridors, a type of room barely present in his other, smaller houses.
my photo shows the side of the great copper-clad roof. it is more of a shape than the exposed construction, you would expect from the architect's more famous houses. I miss the poetry of his tectonics, but then again, the masters are not here to satisfy our expectations.
the roof comes to good use on the facade facing water and sunset where utzon offers a line-up of different spaces to enjoy the view from under it.
I don't have a photo of that, but the restless aerial photographers of the internet search engines show us just enough of that fluidity of planning which finally occurs where utzon confronts us with nature and which makes this a house to remember.
if you have the 'arkitekturguide för helsingborg' or certain other publications from the local municipality, they will mention other utzon houses in the vicinity. however, these buildings were designed by the gifted norwegian architect, jørgen michelsen, who worked with utzon at ARTON and later took his place in the company. michelsen's works deserve attention in their own right as does his relationship to utzon. I hope to be able to tell you more at a later date.
more utzon here