Danish architect Bruno Jacobsen designed a dream house for his family and is proud of the result with good reason

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A married couple — architect Bruno (Bruno Jacobsen) and his wife Dorte Jacobsen (Dorte Jacobsen) — have long dreamed of building a large house surrounded by forest. A few years ago, they finally managed to find a suitable plot. On one side of the property stretched fields and hills, and on the other grew a mixed forest. In this quiet place in the vicinity of Runners, where only the chirping of birds and the noise of trees can be heard, the family decided to build their own special house — or, more precisely, two separate buildings with a greenhouse that are interconnected.

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Mature trees and shrubs on the site — beeches, pines, oaks, cherries and elderberries — the owners decided to preserve by entering the building into the existing landscape. Before starting the planning of the future house, Bruno spent almost a whole year watching the sun move around the site and watching how the light passes through the trees in summer and winter. Only after that, he sat down at the drawing board and developed a dream house project.

The main building is located further from the access road, it turned out to be long (37 m) and surrounded by a wooden terrace. Closer to the road, Bruno placed a shorter building, with a place for a garage, a workshop and an arch leading to the courtyard. Two parallel buildings were connected by a glass greenhouse with an area of 45 m2, forming an atrium courtyard.

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Although the main body is quite long, it does not seem massive due to the large glass sections and sliding doors — they blur the transitions between the external and internal space. The facades of the two buildings are sheathed in cedar and covered with a steel roof, resembling old barns and farms in the silhouette of the buildings.

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Both outside and inside, Bruno used simple, natural materials. All floors are lined with sandstone, the countertops of the kitchen island are made of it — the only difference is that the floors are sandblasted, and the surface of the kitchen table is polished.

For the ceiling covering in the living room, the architect used sound—absorbing Troldtekt panels with milled grooves – they give the whole structure a stylish, modern look. The rest of the interiors are dominated by natural wood — most of the cabinets, sliding doors, kitchen and built-in furniture are made of Douglas fir to order. The design of the objects was developed by Bruno himself, and they were made according to his drawings by a local master cabinetmaker Nikolai Jorgensen from Aarhus.

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The ceiling in the kitchen-living room area is almost six meters high, the vertical lines are emphasized by the built-in fireplace Rais. For this part of the house, Bruno chose the “classics” of Danish modernism — furniture by Hans J. Wegner, Poul Kjærholm and Fabricius & Kastholm.

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A spacious kitchen-living room with a dining area is the heart of the house. The kitchen is made to order from Douglas fir treated with soap. The same applies to the dining table, which was also designed by Bruno, and made by furniture maker Nikolai Jorgensen. Dining chairs, Bentwood 209, Thonet. Two white Hashira lamps above the dining table, Menu.

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Bruno Jacobsen placed the kitchen-living room in the eastern part of the house, it is separated from the bedrooms by a covered passage that opens a view of the forest.  Private rooms are interconnected, and if you want privacy, you can tightly close the high doors that replace the walls. Thus, the space of the house is easily transformed — an example of the constant interaction of private and general, isolated and open.

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Exotic flowers and plants that do not like the cold grow in the greenhouse, including a 100—year-old olive tree. The family uses this space as a place of rest, arranging dinners and home holidays there and imagining that it is always summer outside the window. Sections of sliding doors are made on both sides of the greenhouse, so that in warm weather it can be fully opened and listen to the noise of trees and birdsong.

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In the second, “short” building there is an office-workshop of Bruno Jacobsen. The architect needs good natural light to work, so the walls of the workshop are glazed as much as possible. He placed a work area on the first level, and a resting place on the mezzanine.

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