The SiOO X Story – Protecting the Planet - Book - Page 79
Case Study 11
With SiOO: X, the roof and facade adopt the dominant colour of
the island: grey that changes between white and silver, depending on the light and the weather. The cladding also matches with
the light concrete on the balcony and the paths of limestone
gravel in the garden. As an architect, Patrik Windisch likes to
work with materials that evolve naturally. For his own holiday
home, he used the property of the silicon technology to accelerate the natural maturation of the wood.
Windisch Summerhouse
Gotland, Sweden
Architect, Patrik Windisch
The barren limestone island of Gotland in 2014 inspired architect
Patrik Windisch to design and construct his own dream house, a
compact and modern building, characterised by a scaled-down
simplicity. Like a Gotland rauk, the house stands firmly in the middle of the greenery near the beach, a silver-grey monolith, which
gets its lustre and hardness from the specially treated timber.
The design objective was to achieve a durable and beautiful
exterior shell for the house where roof and wall would become
a unit, with the same material and shade over time, giving an
even bright grey surface. With the treatment applied to local
pine, built by a Gotlandic construction company with its own
carpentry on the island, it made the house a locally produced
and environmentally friendly project.
The oblique wooden roof catches the eye first. It is, like the walls
of the house, clad in Gothic nuclear pine and leans far across the
patio where the family spend their summers. The bold design
originates from an ancient Gothic construction method – it is a
modern interpretation of the ceiling. On Gotland, roof boards,
so-called falas, were usual in the past covered with tar.
Even inside, the house is almost entirely made of wood. The
living areas have walls and ceilings in standing white pigmented
pine panels. Throughout the entire house, a 22 mm square strip
in the same type of wood and treatment works as flooring, door
Photo: Karin Björkqvist.
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