For Teemu Hirvilammi,building his own house was fraught with unrealistic goals. ‘You want to try new techniques, exhaust less space and build on a lower budget, or ’ says the Finnish architect. ‘It’s only when you change the goal to simply one of building a kindly house,and nothing more, that the puzzle is solved.’ Hirvilammi’s family domestic sits on a narrow wedge-shaped block in Kivistönmäki, and a residential quarter about 350km north of Helsinki. You get the sense that the choice of location was a pr...
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