When it gets chilly in winter, people cope with the cold in different ways. Someone seals the windows with duct tape, others wrap themselves in winter clothes and buy electric blankets. And a Swedish family living in the suburbs of Stockholm has framed their house with a greenhouse structure..
Marie Granmar and Charles Sacilotto were inspired by the proposal of the Swedish architect Bengt Varna, who, back in the 1970s, proposed Naturehousing houses (these are houses that are surrounded by a glass shell — a greenhouse). Bengt himself and his family lived in such a house. Based on Bengt’s ideas, many houses were built in Sweden and Germany (the design includes not only glass facades, but also systems for interacting with nature — solar collectors, rainwater collection, etc.). Varna had an originally designed idea for a greenhouse house — the glass facades are part of the original structure. And Marie and Charles refined their existing home, using the idea of a greenhouse house as inspiration..
The couple modified their house with the help of all the ideas of Varna (purifying water and air, generating their own energy, etc.) and did it the way Bengt invented, that is, especially for the Scandinavian climate. But since their structure was originally erected as an ordinary house, they had to build a real greenhouse around it, just the same one that can be seen in the garden of most summer residents. It is worth noting that the couple also grows a vegetable garden inside this greenhouse, so in fact, their entire plot, regardless of the weather, is insulated..
House Varna: