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Domus Houthaven Residential Complex / Shift Architecture Urbanism

Paula Pintos — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:00:00 +0000

Domūs Houthaven is a residential ensemble featuring 235 smart compact apartments and an array of shared facilities on a plinth of commercial spaces The complex is designed as a family of interconnected blocks surrounding a raised communal courtyard. The interconnectedness and the generous collective facilities encourage interaction among residents. In Domus, you live alone, or as a couple, without being alone.

4 Solutions for Roofs without Eaves (and their Construction Details)

Eduardo Souza — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 04:00:00 +0000

In his Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright created an ingenious arrangement of public and private spaces that slowly moving away from the street through a series of horizontal planes. Pronounced eaves made the interior space expand toward the outside. Considered the first phase of the American architect's career, the so-called Prairie Houses had marked horizontality, mainly due to the enormous plans created by slightly inclined eaves. Eaves are ubiquitous in most traditional architecture, and in addition to their aesthetic role, they serve several important functions, the primary one being to keep rainwater away from the building's walls and structure. But for some time now, we have seen plenty of projects with sloping roofs without eaves, forming pure and unornamented volumes. This brings us to the question: in these projects, how are practical issues such as draining rainwater?

Offices with Integrated Greenery: 7 Notable Examples

José Tomás Franco — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 04:00:00 +0000

Offices have evolved tremendously in recent years. They are becoming more and more like a domestic space, incorporating new color palettes, flexible furnishings, warm textures, and even greenery as part of the design. In the latter case, it is not simply an aesthetic addition, but the greenery is integrated in such a way that it completely transforms and enhances the work experience of the people inside. How can plants become protagonists of the workspace? Let's review 7 cases that creatively integrate them in favor of the well-being of users.

Wooden House / derksen | windt architecten

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Near the South Holland dunes, a special house has been realized, which consists of a visible structure of laminated wooden columns, beams, and floors.

Rag Doll House / Delmulle Delmulle Architecten

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 07:00:00 +0000

In this neighbourhood, homeowners like to give their homes a name. The name of this house was “Rag Doll”. A rag doll is a stuffed doll, made from different incoherent pieces of material and parts, forming a coherent ensemble. This house is just that.

Krinkels BV Headquarters / Paul de Ruiter Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:00:00 +0000

This feature staircase at the headquarters building for Krinkels BV – specialists in creating environmentally sustainable spaces – is the result of a four-way collaboration between Eestairs, an international manufacturer of feature staircases and designer of innovative stair systems, Paul de Ruiter Architects, wood artist Jakko Woudenberg and Winters bouw en ontwikkeling. Krinkels’ brief was for a building that co-existed with its landscaped site, providing a low-stress environment and sense of well-being. Paul de Ruiter Architects has delivered a highly transparent, energy-efficient building with a circular central atrium featuring a Ficus Amstel King tree and green walls.

Transformation Watertower Nieuw Lekkerland / Ruud Visser Architecten

Valeria Silva — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

The transformation of the watertower in Nieuw Lekkerland by RV Architectuur, won the Dutch Watertowerprize 2020. The prize is awarded every year to owners of the best transformed watertower. This year the honour goes to two cousins. Both born and raised in a house right next to the watertower. In the year 2013 - only aged 21 at the time - they managed to buy the tower. The idea was to work gradually on the transformation during the next 10 years. Yet they did intend to start living in the tower as soon as possible. And not just by themselves. In the meantime, they both got married and started a family. Now the proud parents of 2 children each.

VDG Van Dijk Groep Office Building / Denkkamer

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Located at a roundabout, near the village of Gemert, the Netherlands, the new VDG Headquarters building marks the gateway to the local business parks Wolfsveld and Smartpark.

Upstairs Mixed-Use Building / HILBERINKBOSCH Architecten

Andreas Luco — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:00:00 +0000

Since 1995, an industrial area west of the railroad that runs through ‘s-Hertogenbosch is being redeveloped into a new premium residential quarter. An occasional industrial relic, like the saw-tooth complex, has been included in the development plan. Winning the architects selection in 2016, led to the design for a residential building on the smallest plot in the quarter. The 1050 m2 plot on the intersection of the Bordeslaan and the Vijverlaan is tucked away behind the saw-tooth complex, and next to the six-meter-high bridge made of Corten steel that crosses the railways to connect the quarter with the historic city centre. To the west, a new hotel will shield the residential area from the railway.

Concrete Split-level House / derksen | windt architecten

Paula Pintos — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Surprising spaces and beautiful use of materials show that so much more can be done with a typical Dutch terraced house. For the new construction of this corner-house, derksen | windt architects made a design, which turns out to be a powerful sequence of ever-changing spaces. And it is realised in a very nice combination of robust and light materials. This has resulted in a house with a spatial quality that is normally only seen in luxury villas or museums.

KeenSystems Headquarters / Denkkamer

Andreas Luco — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000

KeenSystems headquarters is situated along the ring road around the village of Gemert. The decision to not establish their new office building for the rapidly expanding telecom provider in the city of Eindhoven comes from the desire to operate from a very much green and inspiring environment. Their technology does not necessarily needs a physical relation with a city or a high-tech campus.

13KV Dordrecht Health Center / RoosRos Architecten

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 11 May 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Reuse of materials results in a forward-looking building with a monumental look. The new KV13 health centre recently opened in Dordrecht. The multifunctional care centre of the Stroom GP partnership is housed in a striking former transformer building. This industrial monument has been transformed by RoosRos architects with respect to its rich history. During the renovation, as much as possible of the original character was preserved and indeed enhanced. Where possible, existing materials from the building were used. The name KV13 is a reference to the original name: ‘13kV electricity distribution station'.

Trippenhuis Complex / Office Winhov

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 13:00:00 +0000

The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) is the proud tenant of the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam. The Trippenhuis is part of a complex of several buildings along the Kloveniersburgwal in the historic center of Amsterdam and is owned by the Central Government Real Estate Agency. The Trippenhuis was built between 1660 and 1662 for the brothers Louis and Hendrick Trip, rich traders in arms and ammunition. The design is by Justus Vingboons. The Trippenhuis is one of the leading examples of Dutch classicism in Amsterdam and one of the few canal houses with both a monumental front and rear façade.

Industrial Building / derksen | windt architecten

Andreas Luco — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:00:00 +0000

The demand for a practical and sustainable business premises has been answered by derksen|windt architecten with a striking design that revolves around rhythm, daylight and the right proportions. The architectural result for this collection of business units is a direct and indirect reference to the typical sawtooth roof construction.

Schubertsingel Den Bosch Office Building Transformation / Houben / van Mierlo

Andreas Luco — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Transformation office building Schubertsingel Den Bosch. Diagonally opposite the county hall in Den Bosch stood the former Rijkswaterstaat office building (1977). It was built in a brutalist, no-nonsense concrete architecture, but placed within the neighbourhood with surprising sensitivity and modesty, as if it were a guest. Yet it is here to stay.

Gym Loft / eklund_terbeek

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:00:00 +0000

The Gym Loft is situated in the former gymnastics building of an early 20^th century school complex in Rotterdam North.Eklund_terbeek architects were responsible for the transformation of the dilapidated buildings into seven unique homes. This loft-like apartment, for a creative family involved with dance and theatre, occupies the ground floor gym room and its adjacent service spaces.

Barnhouse Werkhoven / Ruud Visser Architecten

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 21:00:00 +0000

We started our design process with a ‘gable roof’. At the cusp of the roof (the ridge), we divided the house into two parts. One part is empty-space up to the ridge. The other part is a closed space. Here we situated the bedrooms, bathroom, and kitchen. Houses on a rectangular plot are positioned in the front of the plot, facing the street. Dividing the plot into a small front yard and a big back yard. But because our plot has a triangular shape, the Barn-house can’t be situated in the front of the plot. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

The Sixteen-Oak Barn / HilberinkBosch architects

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 24 May 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Traditionally, most farmhouses in the Meierij of ’s Hertogenbosch, a former administrative realm or bailiwick, have their separate parts such as living quarters, storage space and cowsheds integrated into a single building. Over time, however, these compact buildings frequently became too cramped to house all of these functions and a separate barn was added. These were usually built from locally available materials and largely followed the structural pattern of the farmhouses themselves.