Article source: Marco Casagrande

Apelle is a wooden one family house located in Karjaa – Finland. The building rests in a natural harbor like a boat in a sheltering pocket surrounded by bed rocks and trees. The interior space of Apelle is a continuous tube that grows gradually along the house and through the main opening and terrace into the forest. Along this axis the collective and private actions are tuned according to the times, functions and needs of the day and night.

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• Architects: Marco Casagrande
• Project: Apelle
• Location: Karjaa, Finland
• Photography: AdDa Zei
• C-LAB: Nikita Wu, Jan Luksic, Shreya Nagrath, Arijit Sen
• Construction Manager: Bengt Öhman / LU-Rakennus
• Master Carpenters: Ingolf Westerholm, Jens Nylund
• Furniture Design: Marco Casagrande
• Furniture Prototype Master: Mirella Peltonen
• Size: 140 m2
• Materials: Wood, black brick
• Completed: 2013
• Wood materials and expertise: UPM Kymmene
• Window structures, manufacturing and assembly: Pilkington + Schüco + Domus
• Roof window structure and assembly: Pilkington + Lasi-Kalle
• Paints: Tikkurila
• Household machinery: SMEG
• Interior details: Domus, Lasistamo, Hansgrohe, Sovella, Teclux