Article source: Helin & Co Architects / Pekka Helin, Ritva Mannersuo 

A small remote island in the Gullkrona Archipelago offers a panorama of changing seasons in the northern Baltic: late sunsets fill open skies and early sunrises dramatise rocky islands. In spring, constant birdsong greets the end of severe winter. Warm calm midsummer days are filled with scents of pine and juniper. Autumn storms drive huge waves over the rocks to freeze gradually, generating abstract formations of drifting ice. Finally, all is covered with snow. The villa is built to experience all this and counteract periods of urban hard work.

Image Courtesy © Pekka Helin

• Architects: Helin & Co Architects / Pekka Helin, Ritva Mannersuo
• Project: VILLA KRONA
• Location: Kimito Island, Finland
• Photography: Pekka Helin, scale model photographs/Mandi Tuominen
• Year of completion: 2010
• Floor area: 130+42 sqm
• Site area: 1,3 ha

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