The house is built on a high hill, with a magnificent view to the sea. The house is configured of clearly distinctive parts, with forms and materials that reflect the modern era – rationality and diversity. The architecture utilises the vigour and the poetic character of steel, combined with the beauty and gentleness of wood.
The driveway leads the visitor towards the white, protective wall. The undulating eaves on the western elevation, and the tall, slanted steel columns are only partly visible, hinting at the dual character of the house. A steel bridge leading across the water basin takes the visitor to the tall glass cut on the white wall, where the main entrance is found.
Facade
to the sea.
Inside the house, the tall glass wall opens up to the wide terrace and the sea beyond. The tall entrance lobby and stair hall is the core of the house that joins the various spaces together, both functionally and visually. The whole house can be grasped from the lobby. On the entrance floor, the bedrooms are found on the left side and the sauna facilities and the swimming pool on the right side. The kitchen with the dining area and a breakfast balcony are located on the left side of the first floor, with the living rooms and the afternoon balcony on the right side. The basement with various recreational and service facilities can also be seen from the lobby. The garage located under the terrace can also be accessed from the basement.
The house has been built for a single man who entertains a lot. Thus, the role of reception rooms and recreational facilities has been emphasised, while the bedrooms and service spaces are relatively small.
The central lobby space features several vertical architectural elements. The stairs wind up as a three-storied sculpture of steel and wood. The folded plywood plate with a varying radius is supported on light steel bar and wire structures. The glass brick wall running through all the floors reflects light onto the stairs. The white, plastered stone tower in the centre of the house contains two soapstone fireplaces, one in the living room and one in the pool room, as well as the three chimneys of the house and store rooms on each floor. The tower rises from the bottom floor up to a total height of over 14 m, penetrating the elliptic rooflight on the terrace.
Lobby
space, a light, steel framed stairway winds up in space as three-storey
high sculpture.
The house contains several fixtures and luminaires especially tailored for the architecture based on uniform entity.
The frame of the house consists of a steel frame with wooden beams and
girders. The vertical steel structures are 80 x 80 x 5 or round 88.9 x
4.5 pipes, and the horizontal structures either IPE- or U-beams. The wooden
roof beams are supported on round stainless steel columns and HE 140 A
girders. The bottom floor and the chimney tower are of reinforced concrete.
The tower and the curved external wall stiffen the house horizontally.
The cladding of the external walls consists of vertical boarding painted
white, strong-profiled battening and pine plywood. The roofing is mechanically
seamed flat sheet metal roofing. The firewood sheds in the courtyard have
steel frames, covered with bright plastic sheeting. The internal walls
are mainly of pine plywood. The floors and the visible wooden parts of
kitchen fittings are of cherry. In the fireplace tower soapstone has been
combined with a perforated steel plate wall in dark silver.
Total area 187.0 m2
Photographs: Jussi Tiainen, Jyrki Tasa