Öijared Resort " The hotel " Architecture
Our unique architecture
In 1988, Öijared's clubhouse & Gert Wingårdh were awarded Sweden's finest architecture prize, the Kasper Salin Prize. A surprising choice for a then unknown architect.
Kasper Salin Prize
When Öijared's clubhouse and Gert Wingårdh were awarded Sweden's finest architecture prize, the Kasper Salin Prize, in 1988, it was a surprising choice for a then unknown architect during the extreme building boom in Sweden.
Gert Wingårdh had designed a buried building with the ground as its roof - a building structure designed in strong symbiosis with the local nature. As much landscape as building. Even by international standards, Gert Wingårdh was an early adopter.
Only in the mid-90s, when Snøhetta and other offices appeared, did the building type become widely used.

Gert Wingårdh

Gert Wingårdh, architect SAR, has been working as an architect since 1975. Controversial, daring and original are just some of the epithets he has received over the years.
The air traffic control tower at Arlanda, Öijareds Golf Club, AstraZeneca Hässle's research facilities and the Swedish embassies in Berlin and Washington are just a fraction of the buildings that bear his signature.
Gert Wingårdh is the only architect to have won the Kasper Salin Prize five times, most recently in 2007 for the Swedish Embassy in Washington. In 1999 he was also awarded an honorary doctorate at Chalmers.
The 1989 Stone Prize was awarded to Gert Wingårdh for his design of the Öijared Clubhouse. The Stone Prize is an architectural prize awarded by the Swedish Stone Industry Association to projects in Sweden where natural stone has been used in an aesthetic, sustainable and innovative way.
A fault crack
The rash hole is on the roof and from a distance you can only see an extended glass wedge. Gert Wingårdh himself likened the facade to a fault crack in the hill.
The layout of the clubhouse follows the hill and the interior is effectively a single room held together by a large undulating roof. Red limestone is a key feature. Mostly with rough hoof surfaces. But the further in and higher up, the finer the workmanship.
The glass facade, facing south and west, consists of glass sections with angular steps at 54 corners and rises from 7 decimeters to 7 meters in height.
Inauguration in 1988
The clubhouse and the newly constructed Park course were inaugurated on September 28, 1988 by Princess Baroness Desiré Silfverschiöld. Ingemar Stenmark inaugurated the first shot from the roof. And to the applause of a large audience, the ball landed just off the green.
The hotel 2014
Based on the clubhouse, the architect Johan Brandström at Kjellgren Kaminsky has designed our hotel, also called the pavilion. The hotel was completed in spring 2014.
Gert Wingårdh's clubhouse is a room under a hill where the horizontal limestone reinforces the feeling of being underground. The hotel or pavilion is a light structure that "floats" on top of the hill where the vertical and roughly sawn façade planks, like the trees, filter the house against the sky and make it blend into the forest edge. An advanced triangular system underpins both the clubhouse and the hotel. This allows for five unique views.
The hotel consists of 34 rooms where residents can experience the silence of the forest. There is also a conference room, a library and a lounge where you can experience the enchanting and unifying power of fire.