lvdb04 – private house with psychotherapeutical office

client: private
location: Leonidasterrein, Rotterdam, NL
size: 230 m2
status: 2015 – present

The Bungee Way Out How to combine a residence for a six-headed pachworkfamily with a psychotherapeutical office, while the zoning law of the municipality is aiming with their footprint to plot ratio on a pavilion-like building surrounding in the green? That’s only possible when you cutting the edges.So we provide a stabile core for the house and shaping the edges of al the surrounding facilities and uses until al of them find their logical place and comfortable size.The side effect of such a design strategy is, that we can manipulate the angles of the outside walls as well in relationship with the surrounding. So we can control the views of every single room in relation to the park in the front and the back of the residence and frame them with an artwork-like window. The angles are controlled in a way, that the volume appears much smaller to the streets as a simple box would do.Gladded with black burned wood this wonderful house will fade into his surrounding quite elegant!