Villa Kapla by YAJ Architects – Contemporary Low Energy Villa Design

Villa Kapla by YAJ Architects

Villa Kapla is a three story, split-level house, based on the logic of Kapla planks. It’s an organic, yet rectangular, wooden building, sitting on one of the hillsides of the island of Lidingö in Stockholm. The architect, YAJ Architects, spatializing the program by stacking wooden blocks resulting in a number of randomly protruding volume. A combination of sustainable design, heavy insulation and clean-tech also make Villa Kapla a low energy house.

steel wood structure Villa Kapla by YAJ Architects

This villa aimed to be a clean, right-angled, contemporary expression, a larch cladding and a reuse of the basement structure of the original house. Material used for this project dominated by solid wood on exterior, which also covers the floors on the two upper levels. The first level floors are all covered with a rough but shimmering, grey slate from Offerdalen, which is also found on all bathroom floors, as window-sills and as tops of the double-sided fireplace, that semi-separates the dining room and the living room.

white interior Villa Kapla by YAJ Architects

The house is a three-story split-level building of totally 350 m2. The public zones of the two lower floors of the house are all given gradual transits to adjacent garden spaces. The third floor is the family’s more private sphere of bedrooms, bathrooms, parents’ workplace and a shared family room.
Architects: YAJ Architects
Villa in: Stockholm, Sweden