The Author’s House by Sleth
The Author’s House is a remote office located in Aarhus, Denmark, designed in 2020 by Sleth.
Description
Inside a forest near a lake lies a house. A house for an author, designed by SLETH. The author comes here every day to work. To get inspired, to think, to read, to write. The house is her workspace. Not her holiday home. There are no walls ? only bookcases. Stone, wood, and copper is what the house is made of. A palette of colours and materiality found in the nature in which it sits.
A collaboration between the client and nature
SLETH was contacted by the client. She had bought a house on a scenic location in a forest near Aarhus. She wanted to build a new house that should function as her everyday office get-away. The house lies in a natural protected area. Thus, the new house had to be placed within the frame of the existing plinth. The colours also had to blend in natural with the surroundings. The house is a direct result of a careful collaboration between the client – her needs and dreams for the house – and the nature that surrounds it: ?In our process, it has been vital to understand the client and how she envisioned the house to perform and function ? and at the same time to build the house on nature?s premises, emphasizing and embracing the given reservations of the protected landscape? says Søren Leth, partner at SLETH and architect on the project. A workspace
The function as a workspace rather than a classical holid...
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