Year
2017
Status
Completed
Client
Private
Photographs
Ossip van Duivenbode
Landscape design
Hendriks Hoveniers b.v.
Extending with air
The villa is situated on the edge of National Park Veluwezoom, a nature reserve. The many small rooms of the original house have been reduced to a small number of light and spacious spaces and a concrete extension with patio was added to the house. Although the various living spaces are in open connection with each other, the separate rooms retain their own intimate atmosphere.
Sunken Extension
Extending with air
Glas floor in the two stories high entrance hall
A playful House
The concrete beam in the façade of the original house still defines the characteristics of the villa. Parallel with this beam, is the underside of the new with plant-covered concrete roof of the addition. The original concrete beam is only 2.3 metres high (from floor to underside of the beam), therefore the addition was partly built into the ground to create more height. This way the addition lies sunken in the garden and blends naturally with the surroundings. The split level provide playfulness to the house; you can sit on the low concrete wall of the extension partly in the garden and partly inside the house. They also provide a subtle distinction between the different spaces.
