House Djurö Refines Indoor–Outdoor Living with Concrete Terrace
House Djurö crowns a cliff on Värmdö, Sweden, where CAMPUS sets a cast in situ concrete house toward the Stockholm Archipelago. The project, designed in 2024, draws the eye seaward with two flanking walls and draws daily life outdoors under a deep pergola. Calm, rigorous, and tactile, it balances hardwearing material with tailored carpentry and precise glazing.
Salt air brushes the cliff as concrete warms under sun. Long walls pull the view toward open water, fixing the house to the archipelago horizon with quiet certainty.
This is a house on Värmdö by CAMPUS, cast in situ and organized by two flanking walls that choreograph outlook, privacy, and weather. The throughline is material clarity: concrete carries structure and ground plane, while timber and steel tune the interior for living. It feels purposeful. Nothing reads as spare for its own sake.
Cast Walls Anchor
Two parallel concrete walls extend beyond the building corners, directing entry and sightlines to sea while screening neighbors at the edges. Their mass reads as landscape, not object, with chamfered openings and an expressive rainwater spout marking each side elevation in a single, legible move. They do the heavy lifting. The house takes its order and calm from these cast planes.
Pergola Frames Entry
A deep pergola gathers arrival and the outdoor dining table into one shaded threshold, setting a social cadence at the door. Sliding panels link this terrace directly to the kitchen, so serving, clearing, and unplanned seconds happen without theatre across a single, level floor. It works every day. Stained spruce at windows, doors, and inset panels softens the concrete’s edge.
Terrace Meets Water
The interior concrete floor runs outward into a broad terrace, turning structure into ground and ground into living room. A frameless glass balustrade holds the edge with barely a line, leaving the Baltic view to carry the distance. The pool sits close. Direct access from living room and main bedroom makes early swims and late-night dips part of the daily loop.
Interior Warmth And Steel
Inside, the palette stays disciplined: cast concrete walls and floors, stained oak panelling and joinery, and a stainless-steel kitchen with a clean, utilitarian stance. The metal’s cool precision plays against the oak’s grain, giving the work zones clarity while keeping the rooms warm to the touch. Details carry through. Full-height interior doors rise floor to ceiling for a quiet, continuous rhythm.
Light tracks across concrete and wood as the day turns, drawing shadows across joints, thresholds, and that long terrace line. The architecture listens to site and weather—then holds steady. In the end, craft and weight feel inseparable from shore and wind.
Photography courtesy of CAMPUS
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