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Location: Espoo, Finland Year of construction: 1998 Architect: Jyrki Tasa Photography: Jussi Tianeti & Jyrki Tasa |
This design by Jyrki Tasa combines a poetic exercise with a rational development. The most advanced precision techniques have been applied to transform the symbolic forms of this modern, sensual, and imaginative structure into reality.
Standing on a tall hill facing west toward the sea. Into House appears to perch on the rock, clinging to it, and sheltered by a curving white wall pointing in the direction of the evening sun.
The building is clearly organized into sectors. Although this system is methodical and practical, the use of steel – powerful and poetic – and of wood – beautiful and inviting – creates a warm and friendly environment and removes any sense of rigidity or lack of movement.
The road leads the visitor to the protective white wall at the rear of the property. From the winding approach road you can catch occasional glimpses of sections of the undulating eaves and the tall columns of the west elevation that hint at the dual nature of the building.
The main entrance is a narrow glass opening in the elevation reached by a metal bridge over the pool. This bridge marks the point at which you leave behind neighboring houses and other developments and prepare to enjoy nature, either in terms of the house itself or, in its untamed state, from the terraces and balconies.
The hallway acts as a visual and functional link with the other areas of the house, its great height and tall glass windows offering magnificent views of the sea. The entire house can be seen and read from this one space that connects the public living areas with the more private rooms.
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Inco House stands proudly on top of a solid rocky outcrop. The design is a metaphor of che traditional nomadic structures. The metal roof rests on cylindrical poles like a protective canopy. |
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Right-hand page: The structure unfolds like a fan, enclosing within it a warm and welcoming house, its back curned to the cold north aspect. |
The staircase is a piece of precision engineering. A sheet of pine pleating is supported on a light structure of steel tubes and metal cables.
The material that dominates the interior is wood. The floors are of cherry wood and the vertical partitions are pine. This finish creates environments that are practical and functional but also comfortable and esthetically expressive. The natural lighr that streams through the skylights and picture windows brings out the varied textures of the wood in all their splendor and changing character.