Folkets Hus - a timber enclosure relating to granite horizons

The proposed Folkets Hus - light plays a key role within the building, as does the granite stage, allowed to come through from the ground below and serving as an anchor in the seasons.

The relationship between granite and timber is constant but varying in character.

A window behind the stage brings the afternoon light and also the archipelago into the room throughout the year.

A window seat within the wall allows views of the morning light playing on the rock outside, through the board on board timber cladding. This cladding is a reinterpretation of the local vernacular, adapted to include a seat and glazing. Below, an image taken at Badholmen.

At night, light from within the building plays on the rock outside.

The following collages describe the relationship between granite and timber further. A window in the walled garden lines up with the new lookout on Kråkholmen island, bringing the archipelago into the space.