House Bierings / Rocha Tombal Architecten

Oct 2009

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Architects: Rocha Tombal Architecten / Ana Rocha, Michel Tombal
Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
Project team: Iwona Wozniakowska, Enrique Otero Neira, Elena Cabrera Vacas
Client: Fam. De Haas-Bierings
Construction: Pieters Bouwtechniek Delft bv
Contractor: Aannemingsbedrijf de Hek bv, Giessen/Oudekerk
Constructed Area: 239 sqm
Budget: $1,716 Euro/sqm
Project year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Hennie Raaymakers from DAPh & Ana Rocha

From a basic form, defined by the municipal urban plan, sculptural “eyes” emerge with direct views to the varied countryside landscape. The form and orientation of the building avoid visual contact with the adjacent houses: at the ground floor the angled ceiling of the kitchen accentuates the intensive contact with the garden. On the first floor, the different shaped openings in the roof and façade offer, like “fingers of light”, varied daylight experiences.

concept sketch

The routing through the house starts in the hall, a section of the ground floor volume. After experiencing the entrance area and passing the gigantic pivoted door, the visitor arrives at the “heart of the house”, the kitchen. Here he looks through the big glass wall straight into the garden, which suggests being outside again. Behind him, the stair cuts a wooden wall inviting to follow the route towards the first floor. Its angled form and extreme proportions (small and high) and the daylight entering from the ceiling, offer the feeling of walking in a medieval street.

section 01

At the end of it he discovers the living room, a quiet, north-lighted attic space, from which a big opening exposes the surrounding green like in a framed painting.

: © Hennie Raaymakers

: © Hennie Raaymakers

: © Hennie Raaymakers

: © Hennie Raaymakers

: © Hennie Raaymakers

: © Hennie Raaymakers

: © Hennie Raaymakers

: © Hennie Raaymakers

: © Hennie Raaymakers

: © Ana Rocha

: © Ana Rocha

: © Ana Rocha

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: © Ana Rocha

: © Ana Rocha

: location plan

: ground floor plan

: first floor plan

: section 01

: section 02

: concept sketch

: interior sketch

: model

Cite:
Saieh , Nico . "House Bierings / Rocha Tombal Architecten" 05 Oct 2009. ArchDaily. Accessed 25 May 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/36737>

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2MACoff says:

Очень клево, порадовало… любл когда белым бело…..

# October 5, 2009 at 06:44

Ewelina says:

Well done Iwona and team :) congrats!

# October 5, 2009 at 22:16

kevin says:

looks really great, love that wood. I m just a bit worried about how the wood will change its surface over the years as
the surfaces will be stressed differently by the wind and weather.

# October 5, 2009 at 08:21

wilber says:

funny shape ) and exterior wall finishing is pretty cool!

# October 5, 2009 at 08:23

Mie says:

simply is nice:) but i don’t like only white…

# October 5, 2009 at 08:26

Arthur Francisco says:

Why do the doors open to the hallways?

# October 5, 2009 at 08:32

ron brenner says:

This house is very drammatic. The zero detail edges and those pop outs make this house plan very striking. But boy is this thing going to weather poorly! All those surfaces so exposed.

# October 5, 2009 at 09:13

amonle says:

O wow – it’s actually a house! … love it

# October 5, 2009 at 09:39

z99 says:

it feels inviting

# October 5, 2009 at 10:37

clint eastwood says:

… the proper wood, properly managed (tecnicaly)can last for at least 50+ // se no problem here… everything nice & clean, from concept2realisation, good attention to detail – unless somebody burns it down

i’d just add some colors, graphics… hmm… owner has a nice place for … hmmm … enjoying art :)

# October 5, 2009 at 11:13

pathos says:

I can appreciate the rigor and the discipline with which the house was detailed (I know how difficult it is to achieve this simplistic minimal look!) Love the warm wood venners, not so much the white floors, and they could really benefit from an Interior Designer. Very interesting exterior form and floor plan. Well done!

# October 5, 2009 at 12:13

Joel says:

Superb Architectural DETAIL gives SMALL HOUSE big bang. Vertical wood siding climbs exterior neatly! Interior design has as much pizazz as the outside. Overall a succinct and original piece of art in the form of a home! Can I have a duplicate for my yard, please?

# October 5, 2009 at 12:38

Oflodor says:

I love the interiors and how the light enters to them.

# October 5, 2009 at 14:22

oscar falcón lara says:

Oh wow, so absolutely Cool!, simplistic yet quite complex, quirky and elegant I love it!

# October 5, 2009 at 23:20

Andrew Geber says:

great stuff

# October 6, 2009 at 03:32

Terry Glenn Phipps says:

It must be nice to have a house this full of light in the Netherlands. From what they have shown it looks like an excellent adaptation to the building code without sacrificing an interesting parti and privacy in the fenestration. That cannot have been easy to reconcile.

Terry Glenn Phipps

# October 6, 2009 at 07:19

arnold says:

very impressive modern architecture (exterior) forms. Maybe (in my opinion) here’s to much come out forms from the main house structure, but novelty of this arch.decision is taking me admire of it.

Interior looks a bit like “museum” of living spaces :-). conceptual minimalizm, but without life. Machine for living (or smth, how Le Corbusier said once..).

# October 6, 2009 at 07:55

harry says:

To me it’s looks like to chilly

# October 6, 2009 at 09:33

PB says:

looks neat, but rather cold. I wish it was warmer and more human, it’s a little institutional.

# October 6, 2009 at 11:15

Ill says:

a strange memory of Japan seems to fly around

# October 6, 2009 at 14:22

g0o0z says:

.Agradable revestimiento exterior de madera, un detalle hermoso de la casa, es lo que más me agrado, no tanto así el interior, sin embargo, de tener unas buenas aberturas de iluminación bien logradas

# October 6, 2009 at 15:46

Julie says:

I would love to know how those bookshelves are engineered to carry so much weight!

# October 9, 2009 at 15:34

Vitaliy Alt says:

Fashions, it is similar to the sea lavatory basin washed ashore. Very beautiful.

# October 10, 2009 at 18:14

Al says:

It’s very pure. Nice details. A house, piece of sculpture. But sculptural masterpiece of that excellent kind isolates itself from the real material world and everyday life. It might not suit for living, it mostly is for being. I prefel some warmer house.

# October 24, 2009 at 09:21

Rouan says:

gorgeous, love the crisp lines and silhouette-like nature of the house with the clouds behind. Awesome detailing, tried looking for gutters but really well disguised. Where the heck does the water go though? im guessing the gutter line is visible through the window but thats one damn fiddly detail, waterproofing mustve been a bitch. Epic house nonetheless, wouldnt work here in South Africa

# December 7, 2009 at 16:13

Marco Bejarano says:

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# December 9, 2009 at 15:31

marianne amodio says:

idea of home from the dutch (*sigh*) http://www.archdaily.com/36737/house-bierings-rocha-tombal-architecten/

# January 8, 2010 at 18:47

May Pantaleon says:

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# February 4, 2010 at 18:31

architetende says:

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nice house!

# March 10, 2010 at 19:06

robert says:

My guess for the detailing : very traditional house underneath a wooden skin that is standing in free air. That is; the wood only touches the actual moisture proofing on some chosen points, and thus get’s aired out pretty well.

# March 11, 2010 at 03:48

maia says: