Arvesund Catalog 2012, Swedish barn houses and cabins

Swedishbarnhousesandcabins

R ecently we found out that every fourth visitor onArvesund’s homepage come from USA! That meansthat thousands of visitors every month are lookingfor information about barn houses. Compared to

Sweden, the notion “Barn House” is big in USA, where they forquite a long time have used the barn as a basis for modernarchitecture. And considering the fact that the Swedish red-painted barn has been a part of the open landscape for hund -reds of years, it seems a bit strange that we are behind inSweden. Because, we have seen it and recognized it. Regardingshape and function it goes without saying.

Our own affection for the Swedish barn started more thanten years ago. The recycling of the timber from tumbledownbarns was the foundation of the company Arvesund. During thelast years we have consistently continued our work and in thiscatalog you see our interpretations. Quite informally, it’s abouthouses looking like barns. With shutters closed and slidingdoors drawn it could just as well be a barn. But that’s not all.If you give the Swedish barn a closer look, you find many ideasthat bring both exiting details and functional planning to themodern house.

Our model range now covers the needs for most of our custo-mers, from hermit’s living on 7 square meters to the expecta-tions from a family with children on 200 square meters, fourbedrooms, hall, laundry room and kitchen island. In order toachieve what we offer, we have joined forces with one of themost reliable producers in Sweden, A-hus, within the Deromegroup. Their profound knowledge of wood has evolved duringhalf a century on the market and we know that we have thepartner we need, to construct, produce and deliver on a highstandard.

Where, when and how you want to build is your decision.Our ambition is to offer beautiful, functional and fuel-efficienthouses. Houses that are so simple and genuine in shape anddetails that they blend in no matter where you put tem, intown as well as on the country side.

Welcome to acquaint yourself with our barn houses and cabins.

Åre March 1 2011

Gunnar FröbergArvesund Living AB

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1-storeyed barn houses with loft

1-storeyed barn houses with loft

2-storeyed barn houses

1,5-storeyed barn houses

Barn houses and cabinsArvesund is a house company that in collaboration with establishedarchitects and house producers designs and creates the modernbarn for living and recreation. Our barn houses and cabins complywith Swedish building standards and meet the requirements regar-ding energy and sustainability that is expected from a modern con-struction.

Together with some of the leading designers in Sweden,Arvesund also develops furnishing details connected to living.

Nyland Page 12 Kaxås Page 20 Heljesund Page 28

Kolåsen Page 44 Hara Page 84 Marieby Page 96

Hunge Page 104 Hallen Page 110 Sikås Page 114

Nytorp Page 36 Vistet 140 Page 78 Vistet 36 Page 78

Alsen Page 50 Slåtteråsen Page 56 Goije Page 64

Bringåsen Page 124

Ocke Page 130 Eremitens koja Page 136 Eremitaget Page 142

Bodsjö Page 146 Byom Page 152 Buustamon Page 158

Kläppe Page 154 Lit Page 162

1,5-storeyed barn houses

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Design PrinciplesA barn house should:• Contribute to the landscape.That the barn houses go well with thesurroundings is a basic principle. Nomatter where a barn house is builtand how the exterior is designed, itshould still be perceived just as natu-ral as timeless. In a town as on thecountryside.

• Borrow the expression of thebarn. The barn has a number of over-looked details that give extra qualityto our modern living. A defused rangeof colors creates peace and stability.Architectural elements such as slidingdoors, shutters and open passagesopen up for the beautifully filteredbarn light. Moreover, they give thesurplus that the house is possible tolock up completely when nobody isthere.

• Have a lot of feeling of wood.Uncolored window frames, panels,solid wooden floors. Wood creates awarm and friendly indoor milieu.Today there is an enormous supply ofwooden panel, boards and openwooden structure on the market. Weminimize the use of plaster.

• Be functional. In the same way asthe old barns were built – and enlar-ged – to meet the demands of the far-mer, we do the same. It should beobvious that the house is drawn andconstructed based on how it will beused.

• Be ingenuous. Windows, doors,cases, eves are all as simple as possib-le. The barn is simple in a minimalis-tic way with a lot of feeling for thematerial. That should also go for abarn house.

• Be variable. All barn housesshould be easy to change, extend andenlarge. They have an open structureup to the ridge and an extensionshould be perceived just as natural onbarn house as on a barn.

• Have a profile of sustainability.The future houses have to be sustai-nable from all aspects. Together withour partner A-hus we are already inthe frontline of the complex process ofsustainability certification. Our hous-es must fulfill comprehensive criteriaregarding environment, economy andfairness.

A rvesund already offers the log house,Vistet, that Anders Landström toget-her with Thomas Sandell and BertilHarström created in 1998. A great

deal was written about Bertil Harström’s treecabin, The Birdnest, at the spectacular hotelproject in the village Harads, north of Boden inthe north of Sweden. Vistet was produced as a“wooden important” example of the ecologicalliving of the future. It has been timbered andshown at the Nordiska museet in Stockholm. Inthe new barn house series for Arvesund thereis a clear congeniality with Vistet. Less massi-ve, of course, but with a classic, Swedish associ-ating expression.

– Already a year ago we had a discussionwith Arvesund about taking part in develo-ping the barn house idea.

But so far Anders Landström has consi-stently declined to create “catalog houses”.

– To draw group houses that are taken careof and built by a developer on a certain place,that’s one thing, but to draw a single type ofhouse without knowing anything about thebuilding site, that’s another matter.

Now he’s confirming the rule with oneexception.

– The barn houses stand for something thatis connected so clearly to Swedish buildingtraditions; they are so right in our landscape,in our climate.

– Through the partnership with a stableproducer such as A-hus, Arvesund has securedthe realization. I can be assured that thecustomer gets what has been promised withall the guaranties that come along with it.

That’s why he said yes! And he did it withpleasure. Because the barn house concept hasinspired him – as well as many of the collea-gues at the office. They have had great funwhile producing the new models.

Anders Landström has grown up in thenorth of Sweden and has a passion for wood.That’s important to know. It’s a material thathe has taken, and still takes, a special interestin. Today wood is of great immediate interest,not only as building material but also as avisible surface on furnishing.

Anders Landström’s passion for wood haseven deeper roots. In 1996 he was awarded

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Ander Landström callsthe barn houses “a pro-duct for all landscapes”The Nyland, Nytorp, Alsen and Kläppe – four completely new con-tributions to the catalog of the year, drawn by one of the mostrenowned of Swedish architects, Anders Landström. He has beeninternationally praised for, among other things, the new Swedishembassy in Pretoria. In Sweden he is at the moment in focus ofattention as originator of Skansen’s new big educational house forchildren, “Skansen's new Children's Zoo”, to be inaugurated inthe beginning of 2012.

The Timber Prize for Anders Zorn’s textilechamber in Mora(an architectural prize insti-tuted by the Swedish Forest IndustriesFederation).

– The year after, I was appointed additionalprofessor of wooden architecture at theUniversity of Lund. And I think we were quitea bit ahead regarding “much more wood…”.

Later the national wood building programwas started. Together with the Swedish forestindustries and the Ministry of Industry, trai-ning for increasing the useof wood in bigger buildingswas made top-priority.Sweden is a large-scaleexporter of sawn timber,boards and planks, whichthen are worked up some-where else in the world.

– If we increase the pro-cess value of the woodenraw material, much more ofthe profit will stay in thecountry, in more than oneway. There is also an aspectof labor-market policy, anidea of decentralization.Many of the new jobs wouldland up in the ruraldistricts.

– The potential for development of increa-sing the use of wood in the building sector isenormous. But we have to make attractivearchitectural products. It’s all about image.

He takes Mats Theselius’ universallyknown Hermit’s Cabin as a very evidentexample (see page 136).

– A fantastic little house product! It’s thefeeling, it’s so Swedish. The same goes forVistet; it’s being brought out and shown allover the world. But commercially it is not asimple product, in spite of its modern design.With a building technology belonging to the19th century, Vistet is more of woodworking –a house loved by many but built only by ent-husiasts.

– In that sense, Arvesund has done theright thing. They have been very competent infinding the combination of building tradition,adaptation to the landscape and great experi-ence in building technology. This contributesto the feeling that the barn houses really aretrue Nordic products; ready to be produced for

a broad market.Anders Landström sees the prospects: a

barn house can be solo – in the archipelago, inthe mountains – he puts two houses togetherand gets a “yard shape”; or places them in agroup, making a village.

He calls the barn houses “a product for alltypes of landscape”.

– They are good in the north of Sweden,good on the island of Gotland, good in thesouth of Sweden; because we are many who

still have a passion for thecountryside in our back-ground.

– And it’s gratifying to beable to develop a scenery byadding houses that peopleexperience a kind of affec-tion for, the very experienceof “I recognize this”. It’sabout the same kind of loveyou can have for a place or aclassic make of car – likeSAAB, why do we as anation care so much forthat?

But if the recognitionfactor is important, there isanother component that iseven more significant for

the Landström architecture, something like adistinguishing-mark. He puts it like this:

– I always try to find a friendly tone inwhat I do. And then a beautiful light makesquite a big difference.

– The idiom of the barn gives the possibilityto open up the ground floor and let the lightcome in. In the new barn house series forArvesund we let the light reflect against thefloor by using large windows going down tothe ground but also upwards towards the roof,in the models where the second floor hassmall windows high up.

– Using the big sliding doors you can choo-se if you want to be very private or very publicin your way of living – like a piece of fashion,Anders Landström declares. The sliding doorsalso have another function, they help you con-trol the indoor climate and save energy.

– And that’s an important aspect in allkinds of building today: you should be able tofeel that your house is healthy.

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Alsen 95

Nyland 134

Nytorp 60

Kläppe 15

Anders Landström’s Nyland is com-pletely new for Arvesund and has aclear relationship to the big Vistet,that was created over ten years agoby Anders in collaboration withThomas Sandell and Bertil Harström.With shutters, extended entrance, flatroof-angle and substantial eaves overthe long sides, Nyland is a barn housemodel that goes well on the country -side as well as in an urban environ-ment. Just as much a classic farm-house as a modern barn house.

Nyland’s planning can be variedaccording to the customer needs.

In its basic design it circles aroundthe centrally situated kitchen/toiletpart where also the staircase to thesecond floor is. With this as a baseyou can choose to have a living-roomopen up to the ridge, one or twobedrooms downstairs or an open plan-ning all around. If you add an openpassage, it is then possible to extendwith a studio/guestroom across thepassage.

We start out from two basicmodels. On the following pages weshow some planning variations combi-ned in a number of different ways.

Nyland

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Nyland 134The planning starts from the central cube in the middle of the ground floor of the house.There you find toilet, shower, kitchen and staircase to the second floor. An open planningall around incorporates the entrance and the door at the back of the house. On thesecond floor there are three bedrooms, laundry room and bathroom. By stretching up tothe second floor the extended entrance gives you a hall big enough to use as study or TVcorner.

Living space 134 m2

Building area 69 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 6 x 12 x 7 mArchitect Anders Landström

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Nyland 168 alternativeIn the bigger Nyland the living room is open up to the ridge. The central cube has analternative planning. Under the loft are kitchen, bath room, laundry room and staircase tothe second floor. If you need more room space, you can extend the second floor over thewhole living room, which gives you a living space of nearly 40 square meters and roomfor another couple of rooms.

Living space 168 m2

Building area 110 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 6 x 18,5 x 7 mArchitect Anders Landström

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Nyland 182In this extended version of Nyland 134, an open passage is added. It connects the houseon the ground floor to a really big extra room. A studio, a guest room or a study. Thesecond floor is joined with the loft over the open passage. Depending on how you wantto use the separate room, you can open up the second floor and also tie together theground floor with extra doors. The same extension can also be done on the Nyland 168.

Living space 182 m2


Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 6 x 21 x 7 mArchitect Anders Landström

Most people in the north of Swedenhave a relation to the old classic“härbre” that adorned many a tilledland in the counties of Jämtland andVästernorrland. A high narrow stockbuilding for grain and hay, oftenchocked up over the ground to keepwild animals out. Small wall-openingson the second floor let the wind drythe harvest and at the bottom biggergateways made it easy to drive inwith a tractor and cart.

The Kaxås model from Arvesund isan interpretation of this narrow,beautiful and functional barn.

Through its height it has two storeysand the house is considerably biggerinside than what the exterior gives animpression of. No more than fivemeters broad, is a measurement thatmakes great demands on a smartplanning.

Kaxås can easily be extended andeven angled, if you need more extraspace. We show it in three differentsizes. From a week-end version ofabout seventy square meters up to areally big family barn of well over onehundred and fifty.

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Kaxås 75In Kaxås 75 the whole second floor is planned for three rooms. The ground floor makesa big family room. Additionally, there is also space for a big shower room and toilet. Thesmallest Kaxås has only a shelter from the winds as entrance, but it can be extended toa built-in entrance like on the bigger Kaxås models.A plain holiday cottage with room for 5 – 6 beds.

Living space 75 m2

Building area 53,5 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 5,5 x 9 x 6,5 mArchitect Gunnar Bäckman

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Kaxås 105The planning for Kaxås 105 fulfills the requirements for a year-round living. Two bath -rooms, one on each floor, and a big laundry room with the possibility to build a sauna.The kitchen is in the middle of the big room on the ground floor. If you need extra livingspace, the entrance can be extended or angled out.

Living space 105,5 m2

Building area 68 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 5,5 x 11,5 x 6,5 mArchitect Gunnar Bäckman

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Kaxås 153The biggest Kaxås has an open planning with only one secluded room on the groundfloor. The second floor can be planned in different ways with up to four rooms. Kaxås’high and narrow profile makes it possible to angle the house without making it losing itscharacter.

Living space 153 m2

Building area 96 m2


Heljesund is the neighboring villageof Arvesund. And after Arvesund,comes the village Goije before youarrive farthest out on the peninsulaof Hammarnäset. Those villages on apoint of land in the western part ofthe lake of Lake Storsjön have givennames to both the company and acouple of the barn house models. Thiswas where it all started, on one of themost beautiful places in the county ofJämtland. Visit Arvesund and take atrip with the well-known steamboat!

One of Arvesund’s most demandedmodels is actually Heljesund with its

characteristic exterior. It’s the biggerbarn house – where two storeys wereused for storing the hay – that hasgot its idiom interpreted inHeljesund’s architecture. Above thebalconies on the short sides we haveextended the ridge beam, and themodel thereby gets its very own cha-racteristic look.

Even if we have opened up a thirdof the second floor Heljesund is acommodious house. With room forthree to four bedrooms it has a plan-ning that meets all the needs of afamily, but still it feels open and airy.

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Heljesund 111Heljesund 111 has the same planning as the bigger 149, apart from the gable rooms onboth storeys. Heljesund is partly open up to the ridge in the living room on the first floor,which means that there are only two bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor.

Living space 111 m2

Building area 86 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 6 x 11 x 8,5 mArchitect Gunnar Bäckman

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Heljesund 149Heljesund’s bigger model has a symmetric shape with balconies in both directions. In thishouse there are three or four bedrooms, two toilets and a sauna. Since the ground floorpartly goes up to the ridge – the second floor covers no more than three quarters – bothfloors are connected in an open planning.

Living space 149 m2


Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 6 x 15 x 8,5 mArchitect Gunnar Bäckman

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Heljesund 178Heljesund’s biggest model partly has another planning, which makes it possible to sec -lude a big room on the ground floor, but still keep up to four rooms on the second floor.The same open planning in the middle of the house, but a bigger entrance giving the biggest Heljesund a specific character.

Living space 178 m2


Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 6 x 18 x 8,5Architect Gunnar Bäckman

If Sikås is Gunnar Bäckman’s inter-pretation of the old härbre, thenNytorp is the same but with Nylandas basic model. Anders Landström’slittle cottage has got the proportionsfrom Vistet and can, just as Sikås,work as the compact holyday cottageor the guest house on the yard.

With a broad, horizontal bond-linepanel, Nytorp gets a simple as well asa pure expression that doesn’t domi-nate too much. With iron sulphate orblack color on the walls you can al -most make the 60 square meters ofliving space disappear in the surroun-ding.

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Nytorp 60 A little cottage with two full storeys with only 36 square meters of building area. Upstairsyou have two bedrooms and on the ground floor a compact kitchen close to toilet andthe staircase to the second floor. The placing of the windows upstairs can be varieddepending on need – and view.

Living space 60 m2

Building area 36 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 6 x 6 x 6,5 mArchitect Anders Landström

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A nd wood is friendly. Not least for theenvironment. Building with wood isten times more environment friendlythan building with concrete.

In Sweden, and in the world, research projectsare in process for how to increase the use ofwood, in order to draw less on the resources ofthe earth. Wood is the building material of the21st century: renewable, climate neutral andrecyclable. Building with wood, you don’t con-sume rock, natural gravel or petrol. In thesustainable Swedish forestry, replanting ismandatory: nothing should be taken withoutbeing brought back. It takes a long time for atree to grow and during its whole lifetime itcontributes by the photosynthesis to the bin-ding of CO2 . That’s why an increased use ofwood products could help decreasing the CO2emissions.

Arvesund is striving for creating a long-term and sustainable architecture. This objec-tive underlies the production collaborationwith A-hus, which is part of the Deromegroup, the company croup that is number onein processing forest raw material in Sweden.

Derome group is the biggest family-ownedwood industry in Sweden with more than sixdecades of business experience. In 1947 thecarpenter Karl Andersson started his first

sawmill on the Swedish west coast. Today thecompany is run by the second and third gene-ration of the owner family.

For Derome, wood is the main thread, andit is green. They know everything about wood.The different companies of the group makethe most of the raw material and further pro-cess it in one long chain. From a tender littleplant with a light green needle crest at thetop to a proud and well-built tree, ready forcutting 70 years later. If the timber doesn’tcome from their own forest, they buy it fromother forest industries in the neighborhood,for environmental reasons. For each housethey build, they replant 75 trees.

Because in the Derome group they have anenvironmental thinking in every part, andwork actively to secure that the products theyproduce and sell, once will be possible to reuseand recycle with the least amount of resour-ces. Today the Derome group comprises fore-stry services, three sawmills, bio fuel produc-tion, nine construction material warehouses,prefabrication of structural components(Derome Träteknik is the biggest supplier ofroof timbering in Sweden), house-building,land development, and administration.

All residues from the forestry and saw-mills, everything from stumps to chips and

A-hus is one of the oldest houseproducer in Sweden and has builtthousands upon thousands housessince 1947 By tradition 80 – 90% of all Swedish small houses are built ofwood. It’s the natural material in our country. Forest is what wehave most of, over 23 million hectares (almost 57 million acres).But there is also something else with wood, a sensation. Wood isnot only solid, durable and hardy; it feels like a warm and friendlymaterial to build with.

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sawdust are converted to bio-fuel. That pro-duction is so big that it not only covers theirown needs, the bio-fuel every year heats equi-valent to 120 000 homes. Moreover, the strate-gy for the recycling and sustainability alsoincludes bringing the ashes (full of nutritionand minerals) back to the forest. Already in2012 the Derome group will be self-supportingwith renewable electricity from windmills,among other green energy sources. The majo-rity of the Derome business areas are also cer-tified according to ISO 9001 (quality) and ISO1400 (environment). The A-hus production sitedelivering to Arvesund is of course one of thecertified ones. Derome is on control of eve-rything from A to Z, from woods to finishedhouse.

On top of that, Derome group has a com-pletely tangible nearness to the living materi-al of wood. The A-hus CEO, Peter Mossbrant,being the third generation of the owner family,puts it like this:

– Somebody once said “It feels like youhave your roots in the woods”. And I thinkthat could be true. I grew up next to a saw-mill. I was early part of the forestry withplanting and clearing. I signed my firstcontract of employment at eleven. The job wasto gather and sort timber, standing after theplaning-machine and ripsaw.

What is your personal relation to wood, doyou do woodwork?

– No, I don’t. But the craftsmanship isfascinating: how the craftsmen have workedup the wood over the years. My father hasestablished a woodworking museum here inDerome, with everything from the 18th cen-tury hand-tools to a planing-machine forwooden roofing shingle and a wood woolmachine. So, I know the production line. If ourfactory would be short of personnel, I couldeasily step into the breach.

Do you live in a wooden house?– Oh, yes, there is no other option!And you often take a walk in the woods?– No, that’s such a pity. I don’t do it at

nearly to the extent that I would like to. Myjob just doesn’t give me that time. But I missit. Just sitting there, quietly, breathing all thescents, listening and taking in all that’s hap-pening – and that’s not happening – thepeace. That’s a fantastic meditative feelingthat the woods give you.

All residues from the forestry and saw-mills, everything from stumps to chips andsawdust are converted to bio-fuel. Thatproduction is so big that it not only coverstheir own needs, the bio-fuel every yearheats equivalent to 120 000 homes.

At the very northern part of LakeKallsjön is the small community ofKolåsen, on the border to Norway witha fantastic mountain massif at ourvery doorstep. When Daniel Franzéncreated his big beautiful barn house, ofcourse it had to be this name.

Kolåsen is a big barn, really big.Straight or angled with goodly spacefor a family. With an angled extensionyou can create room for a dining-roomrelieving the pressure on the bigliving room.

The roof windows give a sensation ofgreen room. If this house is positionedin the right point of the compass theroof of the angled extension is well sui-ted for solar cells or sun panels.

In the angled version we separateone room with an open passage, aroom that can be reached also fromthe angled second floor. And if youwould need an extra study, the openpassage can be walled in.

Kolåsen is a barn house worth itsname.

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Kolåsen 170The angled version of Kolåsen actually consists of two houses that is joined on the secondfloor where there is room for three bedrooms. Depending on how you would like to plan thespace on the ground floor, you can either wall in the open passage or keep it open.

Living space 170 m2


Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 17 x 7 x 7 m. Angle 10 x 5 x 7 mArchitect Daniel Franzén

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Kolåsen 190The big Kolåsen has a very open design with possibilities for different types of planning.This version can hold four bedrooms and a study spread on both floors. Over kitchenand living room it’s open up to the ridge. The straight Kolåsen is at one of the gablesfinished with a dining-room that with its roof windows and picture windows give the sensation of a veranda.

Living space 190 m2


Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 22 x 7 x 7 mArchitect Daniel Franzén

We often get the question if we produ-ce “barn house studios”. The connec-tion between the barn’s space andvolume and a modern studio is evidentto many. With a high ceiling and bigpicture windows on one of the gables,Alsen is close to that vision. At thesame time this is a perfect house bythe sea or in a mountain environmentwhere the view is the essential thing.

Anders Landström’s new model

Alsen came about through a discus-sion about the barn house studio.Now we have a series that fulfilsmany purposes, even if we have givenpriority to open spaces with a disre-gard for many small rooms.

Stop by at the church in the villageof Alsen, a few miles north ofArvesund, and look down to the lake.Then you will understand the possibi-lities with gable full of windows!

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Alsen 95Alsen 95 has an open planning with a big room, open up to the ridge, inside the glazedgable. Behind the kitchen there is space for a room and on the loft additional rooms canbe made. Depending on how much of the wall should be glazed, there is a number of different gables to choose from.

Living space 95 m2

Building area 72 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 5,5 x 13,5 x 6 mArchitect Anders Landström

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Alsen 154In the same way as many other barn house models, Alsen can be extended with an openpassage and an extra room joined together on the second floor. This version shows thepossibilities to add an extra living space with connection on the loft.

Living space 154 m2


Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 5,5 x 22,5 x 6 mArchitect Anders Landström

On the peninsula of Rödön not farfrom the Östersund airport, is the vil-lage of Slåtteråsen situated. We havechosen this beautiful local name forone of our most beautiful and deman-ded models.

Daniel Franzén’s Slåtteråsen is aclassic long barn in a modern version.With or without an open passage, youcan open up the house in the centerto create a veranda. In other respects,it’s exactly the same as for most oflong barns: narrow, long and with alittle loft with almost full headroom;room for some extra beds. The win-

dows are irregularly positioned inorder to create a lifelike light.Moreover, if you draw the big slidingdoors, you get an exciting interiorwhere the light is filtered from diffe-rent angles.

There are two basic models withonly the length distinguishing themfrom each other. If you want to wall inthe central open passage, we use bigfolding doors that can be opened upcompletely when you want to give thesummer free passage right throughthe house.

Slåtteråsen

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Slåtteråsen 69Slåtteråsen 69 has an open passage in the center of the house. In the summertime it’slike a veranda. In the winter the planning makes it possible to live in only the part withkitchen, toilet etc. and just close the other part of the house. Over kitchen, entrance andbedroom there is a loft that can be reached by a wall-ladder in the hall. The living spaceis limited with an open passage, but you get a unique planning when the rooms are ope-ned up to the passage.

Living space 69 m2


Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 5,5 x 19 x 5,5 mArchitect Daniel Franzén

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Slåtteråsen 78Slåtteråsen 78 is based on the same framework as Slåtteråsen 69. Instead of an openpassage, there are two big folding doors – in several parts – that when they are open create an open passage. The doors are folded inwards, which makes it possible to keepthem open even when the big sliding doors are drawn. Over kitchen, entrance andbedroom, is the loft that can be reached by a staircase in the big room.

Living space 78 m2

Building area 93 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 5,5 x 17,5 x 5,5 mArchitect Daniel Franzén

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Slåtteråsen 85, 102The bigger Slåtteråsen can – like the smaller one – be built with or without an open pas-sage. With an open passage the heated part of the living space is limited to 85 squaremeters. Also here there is a loft over the kitchen, entrance and bedroom. It is reached bya wall-ladder or for the bigger model a staircase, respectively. If you choose a passagethat is open, you reach it from both the building parts by the big glazed doors inside thepassage. Without an open passage, the house is opened up with two big folding doors.



Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 5,5 x 23 x 5,5 mArchitect Daniel Franzén

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Arvesund’s first house was built inthe village of Gåje. We rented thestaircase joinery from the AnderssonBrothers where we assembled thevery first Hermit’s Cabin on the back-yard. That’s over ten years ago now.Nobody understood what we weredoing, but now the cabin is a classic.Neither did anybody in Gåje unders-tand our spelling of the village name,but with the alternative spelling thename is easier to pronounce interna-tionally.

Goije is a really classic barn drawnby Gustaf Karlsson. It could well besituated in the middle of a field with -

out anybody imaging that there was ahouse inside of it. Just as classic assimple. With its breadth of fully fivemeters it has the beautiful short sideof a narrow barn with full headroomon a big part of the loft. On the otherhand, the length of the long side hasno limit.

On the following pages with diffe-rent versions of Goije, we show whatis possible to do with many of ourmodels: extend, shorten, angle; add anopen passage. That’s how the housecan be adapted to everybody’s ownneeds, to cardinal points and to theconditions of the grounds.

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Goije 46The smallest Goije is a simple holiday cottage or backyard house with a living space of46 square meters. The loft over the kitchen and bath room holds one bedroom. The littleGoije is easiest to build on a reinforced concrete slab, but if you want the barn to “hover”over the ground, you can put floor blocks on plinths. Then you give the house anothercharacter.

Living space 46 m2

Building area 48 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 5 x 10 x 6 mArchitect Gustaf Karlsson

Gustaf Karlsson is a skilled architect butalso active as a designer. It was the littlelamp housing (see page 72) that startedthe collaboration with Arvesund.

– The objective with the Goije barn houseseries is to create an architecture wherefunction and esthetics interact to a whole. I have tried – through a simple planning,careful placing of the windows and wellbalanced proportions – to create a barnhouse series that is classic and modern atthe same time.

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Goije 70Goije 70 holds, apart from toilet, kitchen and living room, and a bedroom on the groundfloor. The loft gives extra living space to make one or several rooms. The house is easiestto build on a reinforced concrete slab, but if you want the barn to “hover” over theground, you can put floor blocks on plinths.

Living space 70 m2

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Goije 89Goije 89 is in the middle separated by an open passage. Over the open passage is a loftwith full headroom of such a good size that there is space for a couple of bedrooms anda study. You can also leave out the open passage in favor of a bigger coherent livingspace. Then you get a planning like the one in Goije 147 without angled extension.

Living space 89 m2

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Goije 147The biggest Goije model is fully equipped for year-round living. Laundry room, separatetoilets, several bedrooms and a big kitchen at right angles to the living room that is openup to the ridge. The loft can be planned according to your own imagination.

Living space 147 m2


Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 5 x 22 x 6 m. Angle 10 mArchitect Gustaf Karlsson

A rvesund is a design company. Behindthe barn houses there is a very con-scious idea regarding design, expres-sed in seven design principles (see

page 6). According to the same logic, Arvesundhas engaged a network of eminent Swedishdesigners. It’s all about a holistic view, a feel forthe values that together represent beautiful –and functional – design. Be it a house, a pieceof furniture, an interior detail; there is a com-mon denominator: the nearness, the spontanei-ty. The feeling of “Yes, of course, that’s how ahouse, a chair, a candlestick should look like”.

This feeling also goes for Anki Gneib: she isnot a troublesome person.

– If I should try to describe my idiom, Iwould say that it’s playful, maybe more play-ful than that of other Scandinavian designers.

Sometimes it’s on the verge of the childish, thecommonplace. But also distinct. One should beable to embrace the design immediately.Simply, see what it is. All I produce should beeasy to understand. I start out from myself,and I’m an uncomplicated, honest person, aperson who can’t lie about the smallest thing.

Accordingly, she is also honest to the mate-rials she is working with. Wood is far from theonly material, but “living in Scandinavia, onehas a natural relation to wood”. At the Collegeof Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, AnkiGneib took the study program for interior andfurniture design. As qualifying piece of workshe chose to create a piece of furniture, awardrobe of birch-plywood with doors coveredwith irregular laminate (it was then producedby Cbi).

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ANKI GNEIBArchitect, MFA, MSA/SIR

In media she has been called “Sweden’s most international desig-ner”. Still, Anki Gneib is so Swedish when designing for Arvesund.Anki’s box, made of old barn timber from northern Sweden, hasconfidence based on importance: it is naturally beautiful, solid,simple and useful. Just as immediate now as when it was launchedin 2002. Actually, even hotter in the current recycling period! Manydesigners are following today.

– The college had a big, wonderful joinery.It’s a long time since I created something ofwood. Still, I’m fond of “hands-on”, whichmeans that my role in a project goes beyondthe drawing-table. I like that!

In the big commissioned assignments thereare also quite a lot of furniture design, that is,the architect draws the fixed furnishing (eve-rything from kitchen to reception desks, downto in-detail level). But to form a public envi-ronment holds so many other components: it’sabout the people working there; how theycommunicate with each other and how theyget along together; and it’s about how youwant to be per-ceived based ona company cultu-re, that thearchitect has tounderstand inorder to transla-te it so that it isreflected in thefurnishing.

Anki Gneibwas one in thequartet thatstarted thearchitects’ officeDAPstockholm AB in 2006, where she in thecapacity of Creative Director worked with ove-rall solutions for both private and public mili-eus, interior design projects such as UniversalMusic’s premises in the Garnisonen officeblock in Stockholm and HQ Bank’s office inthe Sahlénhuset office building. Those werethe days!

Today, more than four years later, she hasleft DAP for the liberty of choice again:

– I would like to reconnect to my Swedishnetwork. I haven’t had time to entertain mySwedish connections.

Anki Gneib has worked a lot in Italy, andstill does. She has created a lamp, Honkong, forAV Mazzega, that translates the traditions ofthe Venetian Murano glass to modern design; achair series, Perfo, for Frag; indoor/outdoor fur-niture for Varaschin; and she has a completelynew collaboration with Slide around plasticrotary molding for furniture.

Why Italy?– My big light sculpture, Reef, was exposed

at the Swedish Style fair in Milan in 2005. It

had a great deal of attention that gave manyItalian openings.

But now you want to find your way back tothe roots? At least a little bit. Why?

– I’m at the beginning of collaboration withtwo Swedish companies: Örsjö regarding ligh-ting and Voice regarding secondary storagefurniture.

And then Arvesund, of course! Anki Gneibwas there at the start. It is almost ten yearsago since she for the first time came to the joi-nery in the county of Jämtland, where the oldbarn timber was taken care of. At that timeshe had won the Swedish Form competition

with the collec-tion Hambo, aseries inspiredby peasant fur-niture from thecounty ofHälsingland.

– I instantlyfell in love withthe material,how the colorand structure ofthe wood ischanging depen-ding on in what

cardinal direction the barn once sat. I createdthe Box. It was really an eye catcher. On someof them we even kept the moss. And I createdcabinets with laths or herring-bone pattern,the X-chair and the X-table – all at one sweep.After that I have used the barn timber for acontrast wall in a boutique in Barcelona, SnowMito Nordica, they only sell Swedish design.

Now it could be time for a new collabora-tion project. Arvesund has asked Anki Gneibto work out how the idiom of the barn housescould be introduced in the urban environment.And as regards herself, she would like to takethe concept even further:

– It would be cool if you could present thehouses outside in, that the fixed furnishing“breathes the house”, that every detail is con-summate: banisters, switches, fittings, eve-rything that is built in – a furnishing guidewith design in harmony with the house, wouldshow that Arvesund really cares, not to men-tion making the choice easier for the customer,of course.

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V istet is a timbered housewhere the details and fee-ling in the craftsmanshipis more than enough. The

main-body of the house has a simpledesign with horizontal logs. Classicand simple, but that’s no reason forbeing nostalgic. Windows, doors, bal-conies, etc have derived their shapingfrom today’s architecture and idiom.

The outer walls only consist ofmassive wood, giving us a range ofadvantages. Massive wood has a goodability to store heat or cold. In orderto bring about a healthy indoor clima-te, we have opted out the “plasticbag”, that is, the house has no vaporbarrier. This means that the indoorclimate is balanced with the seasons.Floor and ceiling have traditional

insulation. Ventilation and heating issupplied by a heat pump that effici-ently re-uses the energy.

But Vistet is more than a beautifulhouse with high rated values regar-ding energy and environment, it isalso a discussion. From being a mat-ter of course in the 18th – 19th centu-ries, the role of the massive timberingin Swedish house building has todaybecome more obsolete. The Swedishbuilding rules do not support the tim-bered houses in the same way as inNorway and Finland. But with increa-sing focus on sustainability and goodchoice of material, the timber iscoming back.

Vistet is probably a substantiallymore modern house than we think.

A modern Swedishlog houseFew houses in Sweden have been so much discussed as theVistet. It was created by Anders Landström, Tomas Sandell andBertil Harström. The little Vistet was shown already in 1999 at thehousing exhibition, H99, in Helsingborg and the bigger version inStockholm outside the Nordiska muséet. Today, more than tenyears later, Vistet still is a classic within Swedish architecture.

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Vistet 140Vistet 140 is a type house system for house living that goes well on different places andlandscapes. The house is divided in two parts, one part with common rooms like hall, kitchen and living room, and one secluded part with bathroom and bedroom. Vistet has abig joint space for cooking and social life – all gathered around a fireplace – kitchen withlarder and cubby-hole minimizes the need of kitchen fixtures and gives a beautiful livingspace. The bedroom section with light partition walls so that different private rooms canbe easily arranged according to your needs. Caring and storing of clothes are locatedclose to the wet room on the second floor; extra toilet on the ground floor.

Living space 140 m2

Building area 78 m2

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Vistet 36The Little Vistet is a compact house, made as a do-it-yourself kit with a little bit of thesame feeling as caravan living or the summer weeks in the boat. The dwelling space is27 square meters plus a sleeping loft of 9 square meters that can be furnished with different numbers of beds. The house is made of massive wood with a 5,5 x 5,5 meterssquare planning and with a ceiling height of 5 - 6 meters. The design of Vistet 36 is sogeneric that it will go well where ever it is placed.

Living space 36 m2

Building area 30 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 5,5 x 5,5 x 6,5 mArchitect Anders Landström och Thomas Sandell

Gunnar Beckman’s series Hara is inmany respects an exact copy of thebarns spread all over the fields innorthern Sweden. You see every -where. Even if most of them today arenot used, they still are a part of thescenery. The classic meadow barnsthat had only one purpose: to storethe hay on the place where it was cut.Exteriorly, we have spent all oureffort on emulating a classical barn.There should be no doubt about fromwhere the inspiration has been deri-ved for the three Hara models.Straight, simple and classic lines

with out any extra excesses. Bymaking the best use of the main partof the second floor, we can makeliving spaces up to 180 square meters.

The village Hara is situated closethe water of lake Storsjön in the coveleading down to the southern end ofthe lake. It is in this neighborhoodthat our local “Loch Ness Monster” hasbeen visible most frequently. There -fore, please, don’t go too close to thewater the next time you want to seethe classic meadow barns in theirown element!

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Hara 76Hara 76 is on the ground floor lengthwise divided in two parts. The front part holds toilet,laundry room, entrance and a staircase leading up to the second floor, where two orthree bedrooms can be made. The back part consists of a big open living room with kitchen along the whole house.


Building area 54 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 5 x 9 x 7 mArchitect Gunnar Bäckman

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Hara 130Hara 130 is a complete house with three bedrooms on the second floor and a big hall.The ground floor has the same planning as the smaller Hara, with kitchen and living roomalong the whole house. Shutters for all the windows on the ground floor make it possibleto close the house so that it looks like a meadow barn.

Living space 130 m2

Building area 81 m2


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Hara 178The big Hara has a staircase in the middle of the house, which gives you a big secludedkitchen with a big larder. With four bedrooms and large joint areas make Hara 178 to ahouse for the big family. Shutters for all the windows on the ground floor make it possibleto close the house so that it looks like a meadow barn.

Living space 178 m2



In its own environment

“There is no end in itself to make all our houses to look like barns.But the look of the houses and the potential of the details make itpossible to achieve considerably more exiting environments than ifyou base it on a traditional villa.”

Gunnar Fröberg and architectGunnar Bäckman have for a coupleof years had the barn from themiddle of north of Sweden as basis

for the Arvesund barn house. The conceptionbarn house emanates from the USA, wherebarn houses have been an established archi-tecture for a long time. Earlier in Sweden theexpression and function of the barn houseshaven’t been used in thesame way.

– The Swedish villa, forthat matter, doesn’t have auniform architecture. If youbrowse through a housecatalog, there are usually anumber of styles to choosebetween. But lookingaround, you can easily seethat it is not that simple toput a modern villa on apiece of land at the out-skirts of a town. With thebarn houses we add yetanother style representingsimplicity and beauty, andin addition have a connec-tion to one of the mostknown design elements inthe Swedish scenery, theSwedish barn.

Interested in awholeFor Arvesund it’s notenough to draw houses thatthen are placed somewherewithout respect to the sur-roundings. They take a big-ger grasp and incorporatetheir offerings in a context.With Arvesund’s designprinciples as basis, themodel range of houses,sheds and cabins, can beutilized so that they formfarmyards as well as urbanmilieus. In a number of pro-jects for more coherent sett-lements Arvesund hasshown how the barn houseconcept – studios, saunas

and greenhouses – also can be embraced in ayard milieu.

– There are a number of different functionsthat we would like to include in the concept of“farm buildings”, which could lead to that wedeliver an overall solution rather than just asingle house. There is nothing wrong with thetraditional carport, but we insist that youcould do so much more of an annex when crea-

ting the living of the future.More and more people choo-se to work from home, andwith modern building andheating technology, an extraroom in a “farm building” iseconomically justifiable.

Genuine feeling for woodArvesund as well as thepartner Derome group baseall their products on wood.In structure and design,wood is the common deno-minator. From an environ-mental point of view woodis the only sensible buildingmaterial in a country likeSweden. Wood is flexible inanother way than, forexample, plaster and conc-rete. With today’s produc-tion technology there is awide range of panels,boards and more or lessworked up surfaces to choo-se from.

– With the right choiceof colors, with doors,details and other designcontributions, the expres-sions of our houses andyard milieus will be nume-rous and varying. Behind asliding door there can justas well be a carport as a bigstudio window. The “openpassage” is just as naturalin a barn house as a way ofcombining a house with ajoiner’s workshop for thefuture.

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Gunnar Fröberg, Arvesund

In our new model series Marieby wehave broadened the barn houses sub-stantially. With a breadth of almostnine meters, there is room for a moretraditional planning with rooms inboth directions. Here we are gettingcloser to the architecture of themanor house. We even dare to openup a part of the roof to add a dormerwindow like they had a century agoas an entrance to the hayloft of thebarn.

The origin to the houses is in the villa-ge of Marieby on the opposite side ofthe cove towards Östersund. There, bigred houses on the farms are common.Like they did with the old log houses,the Marieby houses are partitioned offevery four meters with vertical jointsand horizontal panel between them,like they did with the old log houses.That gives us an exterior that capturesthe classic architecture from oldertimes in a modern shape.

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Marieby 155Marieby 155 is a barn house with full breadth, which makes it possible to plan the roomsparallelly. Here the dormer window gives extra space to the hall between the four roomson the second floor. The exterior is covered with horizontal panel, which is regularly inter-rupted like the beam joints on old log houses.

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Marieby 155 alternativeThe same framework as for Marieby 155, but without dormer window and with a differentplanning. With an extra big hall you get workrooms adjacent to the entrance. The secondfloor can partly be opened down to the ground floor, or you choose to keep it as a wholefloor in order to get room for up to four bedrooms. The balconies double as entranceroofs, and if you wish you can add a “greenroom” in connection to the living room. Withthis type of façade you can have two colors on the house.

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Marieby 183This is the same house as Marieby 155 but with one more section added to one of thegables. This section gives you on the ground floor an extra big living room. The addedsection is open up to the ridge. The kitchen is in this version integrated with the extra bighall. The balcony doubles as roof for the entrance. With this type of façade you canchoose to combine two colors on the whole house or on just a part of it.

Living space 183 m2



Hunge is a modern version of a mea-dow barn from the north of Sweden.By accentuating the joint between thetwo floors with big doors, panel andchoice of color, we create a modernexpression starting from an old form.

It was also with our first version ofHunge as a starting point that webegan to work with the studio barnhouse. On our very smallest versionof Hunge – about seventy squaremeters – we opened it up with win-

dows on one of the gables coveredwith laths. An airy way of shuttingout; but at the same time keeping thelight and the view of the scenery.

In this catalog you see a number ofversions among which our studio isthe most spectacular. The origin toour big Hunge is stolen with pridefrom a barn along the road to the vil-lage of Ås, a slanting roof over theextension almost to the ground.

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Hunge 71Hunge 71 is a compact little house where the staircase doubles as a wall towards the kitchen. The second floor can hold 2 – 3 bedrooms. Roof windows, special shutters anda mix of horizontal and vertical panels create possibilities for variable coloring.


Building area 46 m2


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Living space 71 m2

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Hunge 109Hunge 109 can – like the smaller models – be parted horizontally in the middle betweenvertical and horizontal panels. Shutters with wooden color and panel are broken againsta black second floor and a shiny tin roof. The second floor holds up to three bedroomswith roof windows. Since Hunge has a compact shape, it allows for adding verandas,orangeries and terraces on all sides of the house. The model can also be extended incase of need for a bigger living space.


Building area 73 m2


Hallen is the village opposite Arve -sund across the Lake Storsjön whereit’s sloping abruptly down to thewater Storsjön. You recognize peoplefrom Hallen on their uneven suntan;as always when living on a slope youhave the sun behind you.

The Hallen model is like the villa-ge: one big slope. A half house with avery special planning. The high backwall gives fantastic possibilities todock a lean-to greenhouse, a larder,guest-house, green room.

We started sketching this model in acontext where we were drawing a far-myard milieu and wanted to make abarn house look like the long farmbuilding you always found on the oldfarms, a building for carriages, firewood, timber, etc. Now it has grown toa full big house that has demands onits surrounding but also – if it’s tur-ned in the right direction – can cap -ture the sun even better than the people living in the village Hallen.

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Hallen 96Hallen 96 is a half house with a ground floor that at each end is covered by a loft. In themiddle it is open up to the ridge and on the back wall are the staircases leading up to thetwo lofts, one bigger and one smaller. The big roof can usefully be used to store solarheat. On the backside the house can be extended with a variety of functions.

Living space 96 m2

Building area 82 m2


This is how it has looked like for cen-turies. Small timbered “härbres” inthe middle of the tilled land. It hasbeen popular to move them to thegardens and turn them into guesthouses. Sikås is our copy of the classichärbre. Small building area but fasci-natingly big when you get on the loft.

Most people love the little house as itis, but perhaps some extra squaremeters wouldn’t do any harm. There -fore we have made a couple of ver-sions where we have extended it oreven docked another Sikås to anotherSikås to another Sikås – twin, twin…

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Sikås 33, 42Sikås has a completely open planning on the ground floor and a big loft of about eight square meters with full headroom in the middle. A toilet can be placed either in an exten-sion outside the house or just to the left in the entrance. The glazed double wing door inthe living room opens up the house in the summer. When you are not there, the shutters areeasily closed and you have a little well insulated, compact holiday house for two persons.

Living space 33 m2


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Sikås in a row, 80–120Two Sikås can usefully be put together having a common entrance. This way a house ofup to 80 square meters is created and can be planned according to your own needs.Both lofts have full headroom which means that you can make use of most of the areafor bedrooms and storing. With three Sikås in a row you get a house with a living spaceof up to 120 square meters.

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It’s not supposed to betaken literally, though:

– But I really enterinto how it would beliving in the houses Idraw. I want eve-rything to be optimal.As an interior designerI work inside out, rat-her than the oppositeand I guess that ismany times an advan-tage. Historically youcould say that youhave “thought from the outside” when drawinga house. Then of course the placing of the win-dows is an effect of how the architect wantsthe facade to look.

– The interior designer primarily focuses onthe room, on how the light is taken care of; onwhere you want to open up and look out; or onwhere you want to shut or draw the curtain.With that starting point, when planning ahouse, you get a greater variation, both on theoutside and the inside.

Daniel Franzén has created three barnhouses for Arvesund: Slåtteråsen, Bringåsenand now Kolåsen – new in this catalog.Kolåsen is a bit different from the earliermodels. Firstly it is substantially big; secondly

he has used a new gripand given it a slightlydifferent expression.

– I have been inspi-red by the plasteredparts you often see oncowsheds, so Kolåsenhas a ground floor withhorizontal, whitepanel-work – up to aheight of 2,5 meters.The rest of the househas vertical panel-work, painted with iron

sulphate or Falun Red. It gives a fine contrastand is quite rational: the joint you always getin a block built house is conjured away wherethe panel-work changes direction.

Now, plaster is never an option. A barnhouse is built of wood. “Feeling of wood” is oneof Arvesund’s design principles, a principlethat Daniel Franzén naturally sticks to.

He has worked with wood already since thefirst year at the College of Arts, Crafts andDesign in 1997. Mainly because wood was thecheapest material to make prototypes of, butjust as much because he thought pinewoodwas beautiful.

In the old classrooms of the college, thewalls were covered with panel that had aged

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That’s what interior designer and designer David Franzén says.If that were true he would right now have installed himself in a Kol åsen barnhouse, his latest model for Arvesund. Or plan formoving to Barcelona and one of the exclusive apartments that hehas drawn for the top floor in the 100-meters skyscraper close toGaudi’s cathedral La Segrada Familia.

“You always want to livein the house you havedrawn last.”

Euro pallet, low coffee table after famous pattern

and darkened until it gradually looked morelike high-grade wood, hard as oak but with asurface as soft as satin.

– At the end of the 90’s, minimalism waswhat counted. But I felt that all the bare, cold,white needed to be warmed up.

He happened to be a champion for pine-wood to such a degreethat some journalistswrote about him asthe “pinewood man”.In his qualifying pieceof work in 2004 – afully functional 11square meter apart-ment, about which agreat deal was written– he made all surfaceswhite (such a smallarea had to be keptunembellished) –except the ceiling andwalls of the sleeping-loft that were coveredwith sheets of pineveneer.

– Already at thesketching stage I dis-covered how much thepinewood contributedto the room.Something happened.

In his past he spentone year in Yamagata, Japan, which he sayshas made a lasting impression:

– The Japanese are masters of using wood.They do it in the most exquisite way and I amdefinitely influenced by them.

Today he doesn’t have to stand up for hisstubborn use of pinewood anymore since allthat can be wooden now is wooden. Wood isthe hottest material for 2011 according to thepeople who set the trends home in Swedenand abroad. But it has not always been likethat. When he created his bottle-shaped cand-lesticks of pinewood, after his early years ofalternative use of empty wine-bottles, they gota great deal of applause from the designercommunity but hardly from the public.

– I was about to start a bold venture forlaunching the bottles in all shops ofDesigntorget. Not a single bottle was sold andeventually they disappeared from the shelves.

This was in 2005, and he was quite evidentlyahead of his time. But then the bottle candle-sticks reappeared on the front page of ElleInteriör in the home of Filippa K in Paris. Thenit got going in the press. Now they are top-of-the-line design and sold not only in Sweden butalso in Holland and soon also in the US.

His latest woodenproject is the remode-ling of a three-roomapartment onSödermalm inStockholm.

– There I work enti-rely with thin mattvarnished plywood onwalls, floor and ceilingin one of the roomsand as floor materialin combination withwhite in the otherrooms and togetherwith black-marbledwhite marble in thekitchen. It’s so beauti-ful!

But then he alsomakes jewelries, one isworn by Madonna,Unity, a combination ofthe symbols of threereligions, and OneEarth, a combination

of the tree of life and the peace symbol. Andhe creates lamps, furniture, interior details.Why?

– It’s all about passion, I become absorbed.The media reflects what I want to mediate. IfI’m mad about something, it’s easier to ex -press it in a piece of jewelry than in a house.

–Then it’s also that all I do is insanely fun.At the same time I think you keep yourselfmore curious if you diversify. It should neverbe an ordinary day.

That’s why he takes part in the competitionfor the assignment of drawing the skyscraperin Barcelona. Red as a Rioja at the base itstretches towards sun-yellow at the top mee-ting the bright-blue sky. That’s how he visuali-zes it.

– If not otherwise, it has been a very enter-taining exercise – I realize “My god, in fact Ican make a house that is very big”.

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Mr Mudd and Mr Gold" with Franzén's furni-shing was awarded The Shop of the Year 2010

Bringåsen is the younger sister ofSlåtteråsen. Narrower, lower andmore simple. With its barely fivemeters breadth it doesn’t need anycomplicated structure, so it can bedivided with walls according to yourneeds.

In this catalog we show two smallversions with a living space of aboutfifty square meters. Bringåsen shouldbe experienced as – and be – simple.A straight and modest barn possibleto place anywhere.

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Bringåsen 44Bringåsen is a very narrow and simple barn house. Kitchen and bathroom in the middleof the house creates a simple loft for extra beds or storing. The planning can be variedby the fact that the house is so narrow that no inside walls are supporting.

Living space 44 m2

Building area 53 m2

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Bringåsen 63The same simple, narrow house as in the small version but now longer. A bedroom at thegable and a bigger living room at the other end. Can be delivered without any insidewalls or with a planning that covers the demands of a smaller family’s need for a simplerholiday house.

Living space 63 m2

Building area 75 m2

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Back-yardhousesOcke Why can’t Sweden have the samerules as England regarding how big abackyard house should be withouthaving to apply for a building permit?

Some years ago the Swedish rulesfor the “Friggeboden” were changed sothat as long as it wasn’t bigger than15 square meters, you didn’t need abuilding permit. However, they forgota detail in the decision: the heightwas still limited to 3 meters.

A backyard house must be higherin order to keep its proportions. Ourtwo series of backyard houses are 4meters high and up to 30 squaremeters big. Exactly the same measu-rements that are allowed in England.

In Sweden this size of buildingrequires building permit. In order tocreate backyard milieus with smallsimple complementary buildings, weneed houses with these measure-ments.

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OckeArvesund’s backyard house Ocke is only 3 meters broad. The ridge height is limited to 4meters and the length to 10 meters. It is available in three sizes with areas from 15 to 30square meters. Above the little toilet there is room for a loft, or more like a quarter berth.The glazed double wing doors can either be on the long side or on a gable. The housesare delivered without furnishing.

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YtterockeArvesund’s a bit broader backyard house, Ytterocke, is 3,6 meters broad. The ridgeheight is limited to 4 meters and the length to 8 meters. It’s available in two sizes giving abuilding area from 23 to 29 square meters. Above the little toilet there is room for a loft,or more like a quarter berth. The glazed double wing doors, making the entrance, can eit-her be on the long side or on a gable. The houses are delivered without furnishing.

Building area 23 – 29 m2


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Ytterocke 29

“I guess most people connect hermit’s life tomysticism and religion” says Mats “but that iswrong. It’s rather a matter of challenging thehectic city life and taking a natural step back.I want to show the possibility to escape fromthe urban life for a while. The cabin challeng-es the discussions about the individual contrathe society and human needs for solitude. Forthat reason we have filled the cabin with thefew things you need. Here you can eat, sleep,read or just do nothing at all”.

Since 2001 the Hermit’s Cabin has been sold

and exhibited in a number of countries. It hasbeen exposed in Stockholm, Tokyo, Bologna,Cologne, Hamburg and The Hague. A limitededition has been sold all over the world.

On request from our customers it has beenadapted for placing in woods, on cliffs, in olivegroves and by the water. Each customer hashis own request and idea of how his room forsolitude and silence should look. Today thereare cabins for private use as well as for retre-at and stay-over at hotels and conferenceestablishments.

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MATS THESELIUSMats is the originator to manyof the pieces of furniture thatattracted most attention duringthe nineties in Sweden. Hedebuted with the Moose-skinarmchair in 1985. It was madeof iron plate and moose-skin.1995 – 1996 he was professorof the HDK - School of Designand Crafts in Gothenburg. Hewas awarded the Grand Awardof Design in 1997, and in 1999he got the price for theFurniture of the Year.

The first time the Hermit’s Cabin was shown, was over twentyyears ago at the furniture fair in Stockholm. Ten years laterArvesund started to collaborate with Mats Theselius and in year2000 the cabin was exhibited in a new shape at the Modernmuseum in Cologne. Inside and outside covered with old recycledbarn timber. As a symbol for solitude and silence, it has after thatbeen at several fairs and exhibitions all around the world.

In its most exclusive design theHermit’s Cabin is covered with oldbarn timber inside and outside. Forthe interior the old timber creates aunique character. By paneling theoutside walls with new calciminedweather-boarding and the inner wallswith old timber you get a contrastgiving a completely other feeling.

Each cabin is custom-made based

on the choices of the customer and isdelivered as prefabricated buildingblocks. This makes it possible to erectthe cabin on the oddest places whereyou want to create your own room forsolitude and silence. The cabin is ofcourse fit for use the year-aroundwith organic insulation in floor, wallsand roof. Galvanized steel sheet forroof, window sills and gutters.

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The Hermits CabinThe Hermit’s Cabin is 7,5 square meters and optimal for one person. Insulated and cosyin order to be used all the year round. The cabin is delivered without furnishing. If youwant it furnished there is a wood stove with water heater, besides there is a furnishingpackage comprising bed, chair, wardrobe and a set of shelves. There is also a textilepackage with curtains, lambskin and bed textiles.


Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 2,6 x 2,9 x 3 mArchitect Mats Theselius

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The Eremitage (the hermitage) isMats Theselius’ latest contribution toArvesund. The Eremitage is originatedfrom a discussion about a bigger nestfor solitude and silence. But with itsfifteen square meters it was so big thatthe conception of a “cabin” seemed toosmall for it. That’s the reason for thenew name.

“In a way the Eremitage is a natu-ral evolution of the Hermit’s Cabin.

Also the Eremitage is a place to go tofor both experiencing and challengingour most basic needs regarding foodand warmth. One thing is important:it should be fun to come to theEremitage” Mats emphasizes.“Everyone, who arrives at the Hermit’sCabin with all the things he plannedto do, will soon realize that it is morefun to make life in the cabin workthan doing what never was done.”

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The EremitageThe Eremitage is 15 square meters big and made for two to four persons. Insulated andcosy in order to be used all the year around. Toilet and shower are either separated andcan be reached from separate doors from the outside or through a common door inside thehouse. (see the planning sketches). The Eremitage is delivered without furnishing. If youwould like it furnished you can add a woodstove/gas stove with a washing-up sink, besidesthere is a furnishing package comprising beds, table and chairs.

Building area 15 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 3 x 5 x 3 mArchitect Mats Theselius

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Taking a trip around the lakes west ofthe village Bräcke, you sooner or laterget to the village Bodsjö. Fantasticnature areas and fishing-waters whereeverybody should spend a couple ofdays of their lives. Our Bodsjö serieshas its shape from the Hermit’s Cabinand the countless hunting cabins youfind all around Sweden.

Thanks to its simple shape, Bodsjöcan be joined to many other versionsfor many other purposes. One purposecould be a quite a big greenhouse. Inthe north of Italy there is a Bodsjösauna. And on the Lofoten Islands aBodsjö is used for sleeping accommo-dation.

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Bodsjö 15Bodsjö 15 has its entrance door on one of the short sides and a back wall completelycovered, no door no windows. With the broad glazed doors the shed can be opened upto the front. It can be planned and used as a shed, guestroom or sauna. It’s deliveredwithout any furnishing.

Building area 15 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 2,5 x 5,5 x 3 mArchitect Arvesund

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Bodsjö variationsBodsjö can be varied in different ways. Half of the house can be made to a veranda. Thesturdily framed roof makes it possible to gradually furnish and wall in the whole or partsof this veranda. The two variations can also be joined together to a long low house. Ifyou have green fingers you will see the potential in Bodsjö orangery. The back wall candistribute solar heat in coils or hold pipes with hot water from the stoves.

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Byom 15Byom 15 is a very simple shed that through its square shape can be planned accordingto the need for living space. On all the walls doors and windows can be placed any -where. The shed is delivered without any furnishing.

Building area 15 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 3,5 x 4,5 x 3 mArchitect Gunnar Bäckman

Kläppe is fifteen square meters bigand three meters high. It has roomfor a sauna or perhaps a room forstay-over-night.

Just like Anders Landström’sNytorp also his little Kläppe blendswell into most of the milieus where

you have use for a little extra house.Next time you take the road fromSvenstavik up towards Åre, turndown over Gärdsta and you will get abeautiful detour of about a Swedishmile close to the water of LakeStorsjön.

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Kläppe 15Kläppe is a shed with large glazed areas, furnished as a sauna or a guest-house. The bigwindows can be placed on the short or long walls depending on where the house will besituated. A slightly slanting roof on top of the compact cube gives good volume indoorseven if the shed isn’t more than three meters high. Externally it is covered with horizontalbond-line panel.

Building area 15 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 3,5 x 4 x 3 mArchitect Anders Landström

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When the first heat radiates from thewooden fired sauna-stove you realizewhat distinguishes one sauna fromanother sauna. Being a producer ofinsulated sheds and not launching asauna model of his own would beregarded as a breach of duty.

Now there are a number of saunamodels to choose from. The exterior isboarded with calcimined weather-boarding. For the inner walls andbenches we use alder or ash wood.

The sauna stove comes from Harviaand is mounted according to standardfire-protection regulations.

After all we should place a saunain the western ski-slope of the moun-tain Åreskutan. Preferably among theArctic birches at the tree limit. Thefact that this would be in the neigh-borhood of the Buustamon mountainhotel, makes it even better. It’s agenuine and well preserved farmfrom the end of the 1900th century.

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Buustamon 10Buustamon is a sauna with two meters long benches which makes it possible to use as astay-overnight cottage. The exterior is boarded with calcimined weather-boarding. Forthe inner walls and benches we use alder or ash wood. The sauna stove comes fromHarvia with a complete installation kit according to standard fire-protection regulations.

The black sauna shed has smaller windows and a more ordinary entrance. The red onehas a bigger entrance and a scenic window.

Based on the structure of the Hermit’s cabin we offer also a smaller sauna for 3 – 5persons. As an option this little sauna is available with old recycled panel indoors which creates both a specific light and a specific feeling.

Building area 10 m2

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Lit 15In this cubistic model Daniel Franzén has created “compact living” in a fifteen square metershed. In spite of its smallness, the planning has all functions you may need. At the front thecube is opened with a broad glazed door and from this side you reach both kitchen, shower and sleeping loft. Through the entrance on the back wall you reach the toilet andthe little living room up on the loft. Storing space is above the toilet and up on the loft.

Lit can also be furnished as a sauna. Half of the area is then used for sauna with roomfor up to 8 persons. Behind this is a toilet, a shower and perhaps a little kitchenette.

Building area 15 m2

Ca. measurements (w x l x h) 3 x 5 x 3 mArchitect Daniel Franzén

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Arvesund Living ABBjörneborgsvägen 11

SE-830 13 ÅreSweden

Phone +46(0)647 325 [email protected]

www.arvesund.com

Arvesund in collaboration with A-hus

Documents

Arvesund Catalog 2012, Swedish barn houses and cabins