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Danish studio Norm Architects has created a retreat for food tourists on an old farm in Sweden, placing seven wooden villas by a lake and using glass corridors to enhance “the connection with the surrounding environment.”
After transforming the farm into one of Sweden’s largest sparkling wine producers and owning a Michelin-starred restaurant, Sjöparken aims to accommodate the region’s growing number of gastronomic tourists.
Norm Architects’ design, located on the edge of a lake, aims to mimic a “floating” village and is inspired by Nordic and traditional Japanese architecture.
The villa, which is accessed through a glass corridor, was designed to maximize the relationship with the water, drawing specifically on “Japanese temples and gardens, which serve as pathways to shrines,” the studio said.
“The water glass corridor is such a very special feeling of walking on water, changing the experience of arriving at the room,” Norm Architects told Dezeen.
“Traffic spaces in buildings are often a very neglected element,” it continues. “It is often reduced to a purely functional element and does not receive the same attention as the main space. But often, an approach, passage or transition can be an equally exciting spatial and phenomenological experience.”
Corridors serve as covered walkways between hotel rooms, connecting the entire scheme together and offering unobstructed views of the lake.
The lake is artificial, filled with concrete blocks, and the various buildings on the lake are elevated to create the illusion that the villas are floating on the water.
Each villa has a private swimming pool hidden beneath the lake, accessed through a wooden deck that leads to the master bedroom and sitting area.
There are also stone ensuites and a wooden sauna on the water’s edge with a stove sunk into the floor.
To balance the need for privacy, maximize light and relationship with the surrounding nature, wooden blinds and latticework are used throughout to filter daylight and reflections in the water.
“The space is constantly changing due to the reflection and filtering of light,” said Norm Architects.
“The moving reflections of the water on the ceiling and walls and the streaks of light passing through the lattice screen make the space very visually stimulating while also being super calming.”
In the glass corridors, wooden columns were also designed with privacy in mind, with the studio controlling their depth to prevent guests from seeing neighboring rooms as they move through the space.
The hotel room interiors are designed with warm materials and finishes, including oak cladding, soft furnishings and ceramic parts.
“The material palette was carefully designed to interact harmoniously with the ever-changing Swedish nature outside the windows,” said Hedda Klar, interior designer at Norm Architects.
“Instead of competing with the exterior landscape, it serves as a balanced base, providing warmth and coolness, softness and hardness, tactility and smoothness.”
Sjöparken features full greenery and green roofs, designed to visually soften the development and help it blend in over time.
While touring the vineyards and villas, visitors can also enjoy the Michelin-starred restaurant, also designed by Norm Architects.
Norm Architects was founded in 2008 by Kasper Rønn Von Lotzbeck and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen.
Sjöparken is not the studio’s first reference to Japanese design, with previous projects including the Trunk Hotel in central Tokyo, which featured rattan partitions and décor.
Photography is by Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen.
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