Comments on: House M / Marc Koehler Architects

By: ERLING BERG

ERLING BERG — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:28:46 +0000

House M // by Marc Koehler – http://t.co/2Vx382GY Form / Function + Colors #architecture #design

By: Jasem Nadoum

Jasem Nadoum — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:42:42 +0000

House M / Marc Koehler Architects | ArchDaily http://t.co/sLndDxBw via @archdaily

By: Mohsen Bawab

Mohsen Bawab — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:24:38 +0000

woah! i want to be a person that can do something like THIS! http://t.co/WCnuLSQ via @archdaily

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By: richie

richie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:13:09 +0000

I don’t necessarily love it, but i like it a lot.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:49:36 +0000

I also dislike the Pergo flooring, or rather the bad installation of it; the joints show and belie their claim. If you *must* use Pergo, install it gently. That way, the joints dont upfold. How an architect could allow such a simple and avoidable downfall, I do not know. What happened to honesty in materials?

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:41:34 +0000

Thanks C.P.T.L.

I enjoyed your soundoff. Also, you write in a way that reading it makes me feel like the still moments of laying down after a day in the ocean. After each woosh is a good, sturdy point that, much like the tide, sucks in and then outwardly displays yet another good sturdy point. I might read a novel by you if I didn’t suffer from easy motion sickness.

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By: Matt Krygowski

Matt Krygowski — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:04:38 +0000

House M / Marc Koehler Architects for ~US $455K http://tinyurl.com/bkuxtu

By: Keomi

Keomi — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:43:39 +0000

Very nice building but why take the photos of the building when the landscape isn’t even installed let alone established? The planting is part of the setting of the building and should not be treated as bit of frill around the edges.

By: fuchsia and sunshine « My Milk Glass Heart

fuchsia and sunshine « My Milk Glass Heart — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:12:08 +0000

[...] This $1/2 million home in the Netherlands designed by Marc Koehler Architects still maintains a wide open floor plan and clean lines. This home is part of a movement towards a more enclosed environment, providing privacy and utilizing wide glass expanses carefully, with seclusion in mind. The yellow kitchen could become old after a while but the warm fuchsia is an element I could get used to (via Arch Daily). [...]

By: hj

hj — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:21:47 +0000

I like the project. It’s a good starting point, the architect’s first built commission (for his parents I believe). The play of volumes is interesting and shows a differentiated building from all angles. The colour diagram is ,in my opinion, about the different colour atmospheres in the different parts of the house and how this resonate outwards. If you see this project in its normal grey cloudy context, I think it works rather well.

By: Rocket Valentino

Rocket Valentino — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:49:29 +0000

Thank you, C.P.T.L.

Yes.

By: C.P.T.L.

C.P.T.L. — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:31:51 +0000

I have hesitated to air these comments which I assembled about a month ago; I like architects and architecture and have been unwilling to be a harsh messenger. But seeing Rocket Valentino’s comment there, well, here it is.

The following comments do not apply to this entry alone, but are of a general nature, applying to many, perhaps the majority of Archdaily entries:

Most unfortunately in the field of architecture, plain description has become displaced by extraordinarily self-conscious flights of language replete with inane word twists and juxtapositions and those who would appreciate a design must suffer foolishness masquerading as importance, along with the photos of the thing itself. If a picture is worth a thousand words, and the website allows some dozen or so of them, why muck it all up with this absurdity? And believe me, it is absurd.

Few, if any of the entries here at ArchDaily come without some measure of it, and it is a source of continual wincing amazement to me that architects, who are artists, of all people, would allow or even encourage the immaterial addition of anything at all to the plain, quiet appreciation of a design. Who is better equipped than a painter, sculptor or architect to understand that, once a creation is brought into existence, the thing itself speaks for itself and is its own best testament?

Since we all cannot witness each of these buildings first hand, the ‘lens’ through which we take them, here at ArchDaily, a website, is photos and words. So, in short: let’s have as many pictures as possible, especially of the buildings during construction; and more facts – as many as possible, with no wordiness.

By: Rocket Valentino

Rocket Valentino — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:41:53 +0000

Hehe, good point, C. :-)

By: test

test — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:18:51 +0000

I like the steps out front.

By: Carlo

Carlo — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:12:20 +0000

The dividing wall is an intervention to alleviate the pain, that the badly placed entrance causes to the dining area.
And lets ignore the first floor plan…

By: Rocket Valentino

Rocket Valentino — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:56:48 +0000

I think the dividing wall creates an intimacy to the dining area, and separates it nicely from the entrance area. Totally agree on the volume above this wall, though…

Who’s interested in -isms, anyway?

By: Carlo

Carlo — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:14:28 +0000

They definetely fell in the postmodernism trap!!
Horrible how the volume of the staisr cuts into the dining space!
Not to mention that dividing wall, that destroys the generosity that the dining area could have had.
That would be the worst ikea kitchen i’ ve seen in a long time.

By: Rocket Valentino

Rocket Valentino — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:27:44 +0000

“House M is a contemporary response to a changing cultural environment in the Netherlands which is characterized by a growing demand for monumentality, solidity and enclosure as dominant aesthetic values to be expressed in the architecture of the private house.”

Huh?

Why camouflage the obvious response towards street in such a ridiculous language? I would assume that at least 90% of people building a villa want it to be open towards the garden and closed towards the street…

I don’t understand the diagram with the colours, either. Please enlighten me! I’m merely a daft student…

That being said, I think they have gotten a lot out of just $450′ (assuming that includes the plot). I thought real estate (particularly villas) were immensly expensive in Holland?

Thank you, archdaily, for showing us so many projects from around the world! It’s a great inspiration!