Alemere, Lelystad, Netherlands
70F architecture
Post By:Kitticoon Poopong
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The house is a one-storey bungalow, while the site asked for a response to "living at the water."
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The latter is accomplished by making a
veranda along the entire length of the building (south), at the most important rooms of the house; from bedroom, to wardrobe, to the
master bathroom, to hobby room to the kitchen and finally to the dining- and around the corner the
living room. Along this line, there is a transition from water to veranda, to completely glass façade with doors behind which all mentioned areas are.
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To break the flat polder landscape, the roof of the living /
dining room is slightly sloping. At the non-waterfront (north) of the house there are the children's rooms with their bathroom, a
utility room and the living room. The existing artificial 'hills' on the premises we accentuated, and the carport with storage room is half buried in one of them. The sauna with
garden shed is placed on another hill, and is the highest of the three buildings. From the sauna is a view over a
Cor-Ten steel waterfall that runs along the open-air terrace at the gable of the house, sloping towards the
water feature that runs along the plot.
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With the spread of the buildings, a residential area is created, more than a house with outbuildings. The transparency and direction can be seen in the interior, providing the ultimate inside - outside experience, emphasized by the slopes on the plot. The structural challenge of the T-shaped gable wall with glass corners, results in a phenomenal experience of the indoor and outdoor space in the living and dining room. The structural and architectural tension of the solution in this wall is experienced almost everywhere in and around the house.
Description from the Architects:
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Project Data
Project name: Villa Frenay
Location: Alemere, Lelystad, Netherlands
Program: Single family house
Gross floor area: 386 m2
Design Year: 2008
Completion Year: 2010
Building cost: € 460.000
The people
Client / Owner: The Frenay Family
Note>>Location in this map, indicate city/country but not exact address.
