New build project showcasing VELUX roof windows - weekend hut in Luleå
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New build project showcasing VELUX roof windows - weekend hut in Luleå - site plan
Architect: Josefine Wikholm and Andreas Lyckefors; Photos: Carl Axel Bejre

Lyckefors Arkitekter is an architectural office founded by Per Bornstein and Andreas Lyckefors in 2011. It quickly grew – with a third partner, Johan Olsson and 24 employees in Göteborg and Stockholm – to one of the most innovative offices in Sweden.

Although the multiple awarded office deals with a wide range of scales and topics, there is a common theme in most of the projects: a down-to-earth, friendly approach to the material and relationship between the house and the surrounding landscape.

The tiny Granholmen cabin, built by Andreas Lyckefors together with Josefine Wikholm for their family, is an excellent example of this attitude.

Rational design decisions led to a little piece of wooden poetry standing in the middle of a fairytale landscape.

The remote cabin on a tiny island can be reached by boat only, yet through numerous articles, it became wide known across various architecture platforms and magazines.

New build project showcasing VELUX roof windows - weekend hut in Luleå
Architect: Josefine Wikholm and Andreas Lyckefors; Photos: Carl Axel Bejre

Andreas Lyckefors

architect at Bornstein Lyckefors Arkitekter

My favourite feature of the cabin is the presence of the outside. You still have an impression of being in nature while being in the house. The views open in all directions, not just horizontal, but also up: thanks to it from the living room you can see the ocean and the sky at the same time.

New build project showcasing VELUX roof windows - weekend hut in Luleå
Architect: Josefine Wikholm and Andreas Lyckefors; Photos: Carl Axel Bejre

A small footprint provides space for the very few things necessary during weekend escapes. A large table, a kitchen, cosy lounge area and enough beds to house a big, happy company and a guest bed are occupying the ground floor. An open space with bunk beds and niches on the attic, tucked symmetrically under the roof, leads to a generous master bedroom.

As the cabin is used only during the warm season, sanitary facilities they are traditionally accessible from the outside.

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New build project showcasing VELUX roof windows - weekend hut in Luleå
Architect: Josefine Wikholm and Andreas Lyckefors; Photos: Carl Axel Bejre

Especially a small space becomes richer with light is coming from many directions. In Sweden, the transcendence from day to night lasts for hours. The light paints the room in many different ways through the course of the day: shadows move across the walls, colours evolve – there is so much going on in this tiny cabin. One can compare architecture to photography: both are an act of painting with light, the image appears through the introduction of openings.

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Project:  Summerhouse
Location: Kallaxön, Luleå, Sweden
Architect:  Josefine Wikholm and Andreas Lyckefors
Area:  40 sqm
Year: 2017
Photos: Carl Axel Bejre