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Tilburg, Netherlands
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Other Projects by Joris Verhoeven Architecture
A-typical house
Tilburg, Netherlands
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
At first glance, this family home appears to be a fairly typical Dutch house with a gabled roof and masonry. Appearances, however, can be deceiving.
The house was designed for a growing family and takes changing living needs into account. As the family expands, the desire to work from home will increase. In the longer term, the home office can be converted into a ground-floor bedroom. This makes the house suitable for all stages of life and allows it to remain a home for the clients for a very long time. This was also an explicit wish, as the land on which the house stands is the place where the client grew up.
The staircase, which starts outside the main volume, rises in line with the roof and locally pierces the flat roof of the annex. This creates a significant amount of extra usable living space on the upper floor and results in a striking, spacious, high, staircase that leads into the entrance hall located in the side extension.
Instead of the commonly used baked red bricks and roof tiles found in the Netherlands, the house is built with grey concrete bricks and natural slate. All other materials were also selected in color tones ranging from black to grey. This gives the house a coherent and refined appearance. Because the surroundings are very green, the house does not contrast too strongly in color and instead presents itself in a restrained manner.
Another distinctive feature of the house is its crisp detailing. In particular, the junction where three main materials meet stands out. The natural slate, concrete bricks, and anthracite cement-bonded panel come together here very subtly at a single point, as if there were no material thickness at all. This creates a powerful interplay of lines. The recessed depth of the cement-bonded panel softens the robustness of this detail. The layering and depth variations in the other façades, together with the seamless transition of the roof slates down onto the side façades without a gutter, provide the necessary sculptural quality to an otherwise straightforward design.
The house was designed for a growing family and takes changing living needs into account. As the family expands, the desire to work from home will increase. In the longer term, the home office can be converted into a ground-floor bedroom. This makes the house suitable for all stages of life and allows it to remain a home for the clients for a very long time. This was also an explicit wish, as the land on which the house stands is the place where the client grew up.
The staircase, which starts outside the main volume, rises in line with the roof and locally pierces the flat roof of the annex. This creates a significant amount of extra usable living space on the upper floor and results in a striking, spacious, high, staircase that leads into the entrance hall located in the side extension.
Instead of the commonly used baked red bricks and roof tiles found in the Netherlands, the house is built with grey concrete bricks and natural slate. All other materials were also selected in color tones ranging from black to grey. This gives the house a coherent and refined appearance. Because the surroundings are very green, the house does not contrast too strongly in color and instead presents itself in a restrained manner.
Another distinctive feature of the house is its crisp detailing. In particular, the junction where three main materials meet stands out. The natural slate, concrete bricks, and anthracite cement-bonded panel come together here very subtly at a single point, as if there were no material thickness at all. This creates a powerful interplay of lines. The recessed depth of the cement-bonded panel softens the robustness of this detail. The layering and depth variations in the other façades, together with the seamless transition of the roof slates down onto the side façades without a gutter, provide the necessary sculptural quality to an otherwise straightforward design.
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