"Transforming Atmospheres of Colour and Daylight: The Experience of Nature in Halldor Gunnløgsson House" presented at the NAF/NAAR Symposium 2025: Light and Colour in Architecture
BLOGPOST: CARMEN GARCIA SANCHEZ / DATE 13.11..2025
Autumn in Danish architect Halldor Gunnløgsson´s house, Rungsted (Denmark) © Carmen García Sánchez.
I participated in the NAF/NAAR Symposium 2025 Light and Colour in Architecture, hosted at Department of Architecture and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim
Halldor Gunnløgsson’s own house, built in a magnificent natural setting on the coast of the Øresund in Denmark (1959) represents a unique expression of the interrelation between light and colour in architectural interiors. The way the daylight and colour create a dynamic communication linked to the cycles of life, defines a unique domestic setting that enhances the experience of nature. My presentation revealed the unexplored moving forces resulting from the dialogue between the surrounding nature and the interior space, as expressed through the rich interplay of the mutual dependency between light and colour in this Danish masterpiece, to allow the intriguing phenomenon of shifting atmospheres to endure.
I am grateful to my former colleague Dr. Katja Büllov, from the Royal Danish Academy Architecture Design Conservation, for the nice time we spent talking about and visiting the iconic Danish house.
Focused on the 17 UN´s Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)
It has received funding from the European
Union’s H2020 research and innovation
programme under the MSCA grant
agreement 896651. The present action
reflects only the author’s view and it does
not engage in any way the views of the
European Commission.
It has received funding from
Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation.
Grant number GA23-SE-0084.
