V35K18 – private house

client: private
location: EWR -terrein, Leiden, NL
size: 160 m2
date: 2006-2010 (completed)
photographer: Marcel van der Burg

One of eleven private houses of pasel.künzel architects on a former industrial site located in the historical city centre of Leiden.‘Black Diamond’ is unless his relatively small volume a magnificent cornerstone of a new city block. The various functions of the house are stacked in a classic manner: from working on the ground floor to living on the Bel-Etage to sleeping on the upper floor. By means of a triple floor height void, comprising a sensational cascade stairway, all functions are connected in a vertical way.This ‘gap’ is rather an urban void than part of the inner circulation space of the residence. Changing floors means meandering through the city.