fjordfront living
The house was originally a fishermans house built in 1938 on the old fishing village site. It was used for storing nets and fishing equipments. The house has been renovated by the owner Per Arne Log who is an architect and designer. The first renovation was in 2000 and the second in 2016 after the storm «Synne» made big damage to the house. Today it is a cozy house welcoming guests from all around the world who love an immersive nature experience.
Logbua with its simple architectural form. Photo from before the renovation job started.
“Today it is a cozy house welcoming guests from all around the world who love an immersive nature experience.”
When the extreme weather "Synne" hit Åna-Sira in 2015, the rising water in the river met a spring tide from the sea. The water rose sixty centimeters up the wall and currents make the whole building flow. The supporting structure is destroyed, and there is a danger that the entire building may collapse. To be prepared for todays extreme weather the three floors house was jacked up one metre above ground level on supporting pillars.
Now it will resist future floods and storms.
The simplicity of the cubic forms is playfully undermined inside and out. Interiors step gradually upwards from the ground-floor living spaces to create a series of shifting volumes and galleries
To sit down by the fireplace in the living room overlooking the fjord on a stormy day is a wonderful experience, you really feel the closeness to the nature. In Nordic residential buildings the fireplace plays an pivotal part, creating a focal point for everyday living and placing the idea of warmth at the hearth of the home.
“ Being inside the house gives you the best experience, exposed to the contantly changing scenery.”
The house manages to feel both light and open through a combination of spatial dexterity using double height spaces within the floor plan together with the skylight windows.
The huge roof windows create a house that is sustainable and economic in its consumption of energy. It largely light itself and on sunny days it keeps itself warm too. The use of plants are a part of the interior design and a lot of natural light makes them grow well. Plants are beneficial for our mental and physical health. Increasing a sense of calmness and relaxation, while decreasing feelings of stress, depression and anxiety, houseplants have the ability to boost our self-esteem and sense of self-control and even purify the air.
“Roof windows and inner walls of glass make the rooms feels larger than what is real. ”
Heated by two heating pumps and two fireplaces the house welcomes in the landscape and seascape in the summer and provides a sturdy sanctuary during the formidable winters along the shore.
The view of the sea and the mountains is unique and increase the realationship between man and nature.
“Reconnecting People with Nature through Architecture, Art and Design.”
In the bathroom and kitchen, the use of italian glas mosaic from Sicis and Cararra marble reinforces the crafted and beautifully detailed in the house. The same does the use of teak.
The dimmer function can create a relaxing light mood and turn the bathroom into your own spa retreat. Waterfall shower heads from Gessi Bathroom Design gives you the feeling of water surrounding you from your head downwards, and can be incredibly refreshing and relaxing.
“Mental happiness is total relaxation.”
“Goccia features an innovative design inspired by the fluid and natural shapes of water. ”
“To transform the bathroom into a private spa.”
“The Art of Making Mosaic.”
“The shower zone is the room itself, and gives you the relaxing feeling, as a spa does.”
Everyone who enter the house feels imediately at home. There is a sense of peace, serenity and happiness. It is a total retreat for the senses.
Roof windows and the many inner walls of glass make the room feels larger than what is real. The interior draws inspiration from japanese architecture. All this makes the rooms communicate and generate a continuity that helps to comprend the project as a big space collegated and not as a sum of many small rooms. The view to the sky gives a lot of warms to the ambient.
The stairs in the house are projected to occupy minimal space. Bathrooms take little of the total area as well. The shower zone is the room itself, and showers from Gessi design gives you the relaxing feeling, as a spa does.
Kitchen is a central part of the house and handmade in Venice. We are agent for kitchen made in Venezia, please go to this link>>> for more info or send us a request to post@lpd.as
Original details of the house can be seen throughout the house.
Doors from the italian door manufacturer Invisibile totally flush to the wall. We are agent for doors used in the house. For more info please send to post@lpd.as
Light flows through the triple height ceiling over the staircase with a huge roof dome window, a part of the house which was originally the space where the fishing nets were hanging for drying after been washed in oil.
It is a living space that function in vertical. Each floor is associated to an activity in privacy and in intensity. Double height living space gives you the feeling of living in a industrial loft , as artists do in cities like London and New York. The lofty interior provides many spaces for retreat. Spend a quiet moment in a corner lost in a book, unwinding from the day.
Brings guests face to face with panoramas fit for a viking. One of the rooms are just big enough for one big bed under a huge roof window and it lets you sleep under the stars.
The new outdoor stairs in corten is prevaled as sculptures and let the house tells the story, before and after the storm «Synne».
The Art of Living Well
It all start with an idea and a sketch. We choose the raw material and together with our artisian carpenter from Florence we make the furniture. All by our own design. Tuscany is one of the Italian regions better known for its excellent craftsmanship. Tables are custom designed for the house. The long dining table for 12 people, structure of steel that occupy little space and a a thick table top of teak, heavy and very stabile. Two side tables for the kitchen, tables on wheels that can be moved around, and can be used for serving inside or outside of the house. Structure of teak and top of Cararra marble. Wheels from the leading italian manifacturer of design wheels for furniture.
Furnitures of Italian and Scandinavian designers are presented through all house.
We are agent for doors, garden furnitures, floorings, mosaic tiles, bathroom, kitchen and other products, all of very high quality and Made in Italy.
Designer/architect Per Arne Log
For more info: www.lpd.as - post@lpd.as
“ The excellent quality of the interior is strongly based on the Made in Italy philosophy and on the skilled local craftsmanship.”
“The stairs in the house are projected to occupy minimal space.”
“A room is not a room without natural light. Louis Kahn.”
“Original details can be seen throughout the house.”