Cubo summer holiday home
Cubo summer holiday home
The black wooden house with large glass walls is located high up on a slope, facing due south. Pine woodland is growing behind and above, and below there is a magnificent undulating land-scape with gentle ridges where the sun and sky change colours and shapes throughout the day. Straight ahead you can see an old Danish farmhouse, which is now in use as a studio for a local craft artist. On the slope next to the house wild meadow flowers thrive during the summer months.
If you follow the road a short distance, you arrive at the beach at Århus Bugt, the sea passage leading in to the city of Århus with its lively harbour and reassuring backdrop of light when the dark descends. Even though the city is less than six miles as the crow flies from Mols Hoved to the city on the other beach, the drive is 30 miles by road.
The Nielsen family’s characteristic Danish summerhouse, which is in use year-round, is built on one level, size of 120 square metres, and with a big veranda that links the large right-angled building to a smaller building. The larger building contains a large living room with an open kitchen design, a bedroom, a studio and a guestroom. The smaller building contains a guestroom and a storage/workshop. Most of the wall facing the veranda features glass sections from floor to ceiling. Indoors, the house has sliding doors and most of the interior fittings are mounted on the walls. The house has a green sedum roof.
Other than the indoor exposed concrete right-angle wall surrounding the lobby and the bathroom, the house consists of pure wood. Floors, walls, ceiling and shelves are made of Norwegian pine in uniform robust dimensions, but with different surface treatments. The wooden floor and walls have been treated with lye and waxed, while the ceiling has been treated with white lacquer. The veranda floor consists of narrow boards in heat-treated pine. The façade is clad with black-painted spruce panelling.
With its modern and timeless design, this house contrasts well against the landscape – at a distance melting together with the surroundings. A house to live comfortably in, but still in the midst of nature.