Sebastian Skovsted and Søren Johansen have reconstructed a house dating from 1905 that had been planned in part by Ivar Bentsen. Infested with vermin and ultimately uninhabited, there had been no alternative but to demolish the former structure.
With its sang-de-boeuf painted wood-boarded facade and white window frames, the new building - in a modern timber post-and-beam form of construction - outwardly resembles its predecessor, which was originally erected as a log house.
Internally, this new belvedere is bright and airy. The wide, horizontal pine boarding is reminiscent of the visible round beams of the timber log construction. On top of the exposed rafters, a lightweight roof structure has been laid with compression-resistant wood-fibre sheet insulation.
In addition, the former layout has been slightly modified. Certain partitions between rooms were not incorporated in the new house, and a change was also made in the floor finishings. On the other hand, the sharp edges at the transitions between untreated wall and soffit surfaces and those painted in pastel colours recapture the spatial structure of the original building.
In this way, Johansen and Skovsted have managed to recreate the mood and residential quality of the previous house, translating it at the same time into a contemporary style.
