The Cliffhanger Riverside Villa seamlessly integrates the landscape and surrounding nature into daily life. Moreover, its design reflects the outdoor environment beyond expansive glass walls, while a carefully chosen color scheme creates visual connections to the surroundings.
The Bodrum Loft Hotel, embedded in its setting, is inspirational in how it blends into the landscape. Stones, excavated on the site, are re-purposed and used in façades, pedestrian walkways, retaining walls, and structural elements alike.
Approaching the corner in which the front door lies, there is a powerful immersion in the darkness of the charred wood. The darkness shuts down the surroundings and builds up to a perceivable silence.
Newly-completed summer Kimito Island cabin project in the Finnish Archipelago, called Project Ö, where “Ö” means ‘an island’ in Swedish. We purchased the 5-acre island, on the edge of the Archipelago National Park, two years ago and have since built the main cabin with a sauna and the workshop.
MK5 is the latest project of Ortraum Architects, built for one of the partners of the office and his family of five. The Angular house is placed on a south-west sloping 500m2 site, located on the Jollas Peninsula east of the Helsinki city centre.
Stormvillan is a Finnish house situated right at the heart of the historic villa district. The main floor opens out to three directions: The living room to a long view out to sea, the lounge west for sunsets across the dining terrace and the master bedroom takes in the junipers and wind blown pinetrees of the cliff it stands on.
