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© Tiia Ettala
Playhouse by Anna & Eugeni Bach
Located in their grandparents farm, surrounded by rural finnish landscape and apple trees, the Playhouse is an only 10 m² small cottage created by Anna and Eugeni Bach for their two children.
Architects: Anna & Eugeni Bach / Bach Arquitectes
Location: Pälölä farm, Nummi Pusula, Finland
Photography: Tiia Ettala
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This “house” was all built by two persons (architect couple themselves), with the help and collaboration of two little helpers and grandparents, they only spent two weeks and 800€.
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The whole cottage is made of wood; structure, floors, walls and roof, using traditional construction techniques used in Finnish barns. Its structure is very simple: repeated in two equal modules but oriented in opposite directions, one of these modules is double-height, another one has two levels connected by a little ladder.
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Inspiration from architect:
When an architect couple has young kids, there will arrive a day when they ask:
– Mom, dad,… You´re architects, aren´t you?
– Yes…
– And you make houses for people?
– Yes, of course,…
And then comes the key question:
– So why don´t you do a house for us?
In such a situation, there are two possibilities: find an excuse to avoid it, or promise them that you will make a house especially designed for them.
We found ourselves in this stuation last summer, and we promised them that we would build a house for them on their grandparents farm in Finland. And, of course, at the kids insistence we fulfilled our promise.