The Icelandic artist Guðrún Kristjánsdóttir and her husband, Ævar Kristjánsson, a well known Icelandic broadcaster, had spent years looking for a brand new house and studio—“a distant place with a view”—when their son introduced them to a derelict, fragmented farmstead overlooking the Breiðafjörður Nature Reserve in western Iceland.
The location is a three-hour drive from Reykjavík and an hour away from the closest city. The closest inhabited farm is a number of kilometers away. “When our son discovered this place we purchased the land with him and his spouse, primarily to assist them,” explains Kristjánsdóttir. “It’s fairly completely different from our earlier house and studio—a Nineteenth-century wood home within the outdated centre of Reykjavík—and, at the moment, we weren’t conscious how profoundly this place would have an effect on us,” she explains. “We have been quickly hooked on it.”
The household approached the architectural follow, Studio Bua, who’ve been tasked with reworking the complete website, linking the present areas to create a neighborhood of buildings that can be utilized by household and buddies. The studio has just lately accomplished section one of many venture. Here’s a glimpse of the story thus far:
When Studio Bua (Mark Smyth in London and Sigrún Sumarliðadóttir in Oslo) visited the location to evaluate the buildings, they inspired their purchasers to start work on a ruined concrete barn, initially in-built 1937. The primary a part of the present construction was constructed from thick concrete with a corrugated metal roof, and the standard of that concrete—together with distinctive lichen development and native pebble mixture—has been retained.
