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Millhouse by Gert and Karin WinghAn example of a singular modernism in which the materials fit the rural character of the place.
This guesthouse to welcome friends and relatives on a large agricultural estate takes the place of an old abandoned mill near the stables.
Surrounded by woods, next to a stream emanating from a local spring, the construction (50 square meters of overall area) looks from the outside like a contemporary reinterpretation of a traditional Japanese tea house, an exemplary model of lightness, underscored here by the large pool bordered by a cantilevered limestone platform, surrounding the southwestern facade.
Seen from this angle, the house seems truly suspended, ethereal, floating like a lantern over the water, while small stone monoliths - typical elements of Japanese Zen architecture - emerge from the blue pool, to add new sounds, colors and sensory stimuli to the surrounding rural context.
The Swedish architects Gert and Karin Wingh have designed every bit of the external landscape, in pursuit of total integration with nature.
Starting with the entrance gate, a striking wooden texture covered with leaves, set apart on a diagonal, almost like an invitation to rediscover the dimension of a small oriental garden marked by figures of absolute formal, geometric and materic simplicity.
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