Se huset - en studie kring förvaltarskapet av den svenska sextiotalsvillan

Sammanfattning

Se huset - See the house is a thesis presenting the ownership of the single-family house as a type of stewardship. An entrusted care. As a point of departure I have taken the Swedish villa from the 60s, with its characteristics and the social and political context of its development, and looked into the consequences of attitudes towards this category of housing. My inquiry is led by questions of value and preservation attached to houses that for a long time have been changed and renovated in careless ways. A low degree of protection, status and understanding has allowed many of them to be transformed into houses lacking both character and identity. A house must sometimes adapt to time, necessity, or even desire. But not be distorted. Transformation or insensitive renovation will have an impact on the neighbourhood for generations to come. Even a group of mismanaged villas, originally built in a uniform character, can lead to a collective pale cast of thought. Based on a villa built in 1964, and against the backdrop of the spirit of the time, I have proposed a few strategies of care in varying degrees, culminating in three proposals for extending the living area: one addition and one extension - where the architectural language of the 1960s remains legible - and one small underground extension visible only as a glowing prism. With this work I want to contribute reflective thoughts to the eagerness for restoration and transformation. Ultimately, I would like this thesis to become an accessible publication encouraging a closer reading of our villas from the 1960s, so that we actually see the house.