M.B. House

The client’s aim was to add a semi-detached extension to a family house, located in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden, in order to accommodate the only son of the family, who was supposed to be able to enjoy his own privacy while having access to some service areas of the main house.

To reach that, the Swallowtail diagram – one of the seven elementary catastrophe nets by Rene Thom – was devised as a volumetric/structural mesh element, creating a bifurcated loft space which provides access to the main house at level (-1) and forms a cantilever structure at level (+1), leaving the ground level as an exterior space.

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Also the main entrance and the garage are reorganized in the proposal in order to reduce the need for future additions/modifications to the site. The garage is formally designed as a continuation of the Swallowtail surface onto the ground which diagrammatically gets balanced by the continuation of the landscape underneath the structure through a wide green entrance ramp on the opposite side.

•  cinematic cross section/perspectives showing the spatial quality of the loft   transforming from 1 into 3 parallel spaces.