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Groote Scheere
Gramsbergen, Netherlands
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Groote Scheere
Gramsbergen, Netherlands
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2009
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$100K - 500K
As with many other country estates in the Netherlands, the owner of country estate De Groote Scheere was forced to seek new ways to provide for the upkeep of his estate. Funds were required to maintain the woods, and the agricultural sector was going through a difficult period. In 2003, the former Fortis Vastgoed Landelijk (Fortis real estate, national office) commissioned Bureau B+B to create a vision and visual quality plan concerning residential use of the estate, with newbuild as one of the project’s economic mainstays.
De Groote Scheere is characterized by a simple and modest form of development in an extremely variation-rich cultural landscape in which woods, European ash trees, stream valleys, retention areas and peat polders alternate. The firm’s ambition, in its early phase, to apply an architectural approach to landscape architecture is most clearly manifested in this project.
Ten new homes are located at the most attractive, and in landscape terms most meaningful spots of the estate. One or two homes are always visible from the estate’s main roads, from different vantage points. Thus, the structures are not carefully ‘tucked away’ in greenery, but on the contrary are at prominent view locations on the 800-hectare estate. Both their positioning and visual effect make the estate recognizable as a unified whole.
Bureau B+B designed the pilot home, dubbed the ‘entrance house’, which was completed in 2009. This structure demarks both the end of an old fen ribbon village and the beginning of the estate. The spatial arrangement, design and materialization of the home were inspired by the underlying historical principles of development of the farms on the estate. With its uncluttered lines, the building resembles a simple barn. Both home and farmstead were constructed from the same type of material, so that the two appear to merge into a single long, narrow strip. As a result of the small height difference present, the wooden terrace is located just above the landscape, rendering a demarkation of the private space unnecessary.
Shutters play an important role in the façade’s appearance: they open upwards and thus also function as awnings. Black, open-seamed floor planks used as a façade cladding result in a unusual light incidence. The reed of the roof does not, as customary, hang over the external walls, but is sunken into the roof. As a result of the structure’s flexible framework, there are no walls in the interior, yielding a single large interior space. In accordance with the principle of an old hayloft, the upper floor is suspended in the middle of this open space. The interior is furnished in accordance with the wishes of the future resident.
De Groote Scheere is characterized by a simple and modest form of development in an extremely variation-rich cultural landscape in which woods, European ash trees, stream valleys, retention areas and peat polders alternate. The firm’s ambition, in its early phase, to apply an architectural approach to landscape architecture is most clearly manifested in this project.
Ten new homes are located at the most attractive, and in landscape terms most meaningful spots of the estate. One or two homes are always visible from the estate’s main roads, from different vantage points. Thus, the structures are not carefully ‘tucked away’ in greenery, but on the contrary are at prominent view locations on the 800-hectare estate. Both their positioning and visual effect make the estate recognizable as a unified whole.
Bureau B+B designed the pilot home, dubbed the ‘entrance house’, which was completed in 2009. This structure demarks both the end of an old fen ribbon village and the beginning of the estate. The spatial arrangement, design and materialization of the home were inspired by the underlying historical principles of development of the farms on the estate. With its uncluttered lines, the building resembles a simple barn. Both home and farmstead were constructed from the same type of material, so that the two appear to merge into a single long, narrow strip. As a result of the small height difference present, the wooden terrace is located just above the landscape, rendering a demarkation of the private space unnecessary.
Shutters play an important role in the façade’s appearance: they open upwards and thus also function as awnings. Black, open-seamed floor planks used as a façade cladding result in a unusual light incidence. The reed of the roof does not, as customary, hang over the external walls, but is sunken into the roof. As a result of the structure’s flexible framework, there are no walls in the interior, yielding a single large interior space. In accordance with the principle of an old hayloft, the upper floor is suspended in the middle of this open space. The interior is furnished in accordance with the wishes of the future resident.
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