The Author’s House by SLETH is a getaway cabin located in a forest near Aarhus, Denmark. Offering a working-living space for a writer, the brownish-red volume, clad in a copper façade, coexists with the surrounding environment thanks to a muted colour and material palette. Sliding doors and skylights maximize views of the forest.
Boundaries of inside and outside are blurred, allowing for a seamless transition. The interior follows the character of the exterior with the use of copper and wood, as well as the shared use of mottled stone flooring.
Inside, walls serve as bookcases while Dinesen Douglas wooden planks are used as a dominant interior element, lining the kitchen, ceilings, staircase, windows, and walls. Leftover planks are used as furniture and other interior elements.
Slightly recessed openings cover the copper façade, allowing light to enter the interior and improve ventilation. As time passes, the copper will oxidize gradually, transforming the house into a greenish hue that will allow it to further integrated into the nature that surrounds.
Inside, there are no walls, only bookcases. It is an office get-away for a writer to work and to reflect.
‘In our process, it has been vital to understand the client and how she envisioned the house to perform and function – and at the same time to build the house on nature’s premises, emphasizing and embracing the given reservation of the protected landscape, ‘ says Søren Leth, partner at SLETH and architect on the project.
