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House & Studio Arets
House & Studio Arets
D'Artagnanlaan, Maastricht, Netherlands
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House & Studio Arets
D'Artagnanlaan, Maastricht, Netherlands
YEAR
1997
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
An interpretation of the specific
restrictions on the site imposed by various building regulations dictated a
maximum volumetric envelope. It is into this simple volume that the complex and
diverse home and office program was installed. The confrontation between the
restrictions of the site and the complexity of the brief framed the subsequent
architectural manipulations. Set on a sloping corner allotment in a suburban
housing and villa area on the edge of the historic centre of Maastricht, this
disjunction between the simplicity of its appearance and the complex spatial
arrangement of the interior accentuates the perverse qualities of suburban life
explored by David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’. The building uses the natural slope of
the site to articulate a section that allows one to enter the house from street
level to a interior mezzanine before descending to the garden level or rising
tot the third level the building is divided vertically by a technical space,
cocooned in turn by a diaphragm party wall into the two programmatically
different areas of the office and the home. The sectional deviation allows the
building to maximize its prescribed envelope of 1.5 stories above and 1.5
stories below street level and to increase inter-floor communication. A
concrete box is embedded into the site with primary views through large
openings to the garden and court; the second more private wooden box is set on
top, fronting onto the street and the garden behind. The top level within the
wooden box contains the sleeping rooms of the house and the meeting room,
administration and directors office. One descends to the ‘ground floor’, which
contains the living areas and the kitchen and opens onto the expansive garden,
swimming pool and terrace. The ‘ground floor’ office space and project room
opens to the side facing away from the private garden to a walled court with
glass brick floor. The lower level is for the office. It extends under the
house and contains the drawing room, archive, workshop and preparation areas.
Light enters through the glass bricks of the walled courtyard and through
windows that open onto areas of the garden that are scalloped out and shielded
from the inhabitant of the house sections.
restrictions on the site imposed by various building regulations dictated a
maximum volumetric envelope. It is into this simple volume that the complex and
diverse home and office program was installed. The confrontation between the
restrictions of the site and the complexity of the brief framed the subsequent
architectural manipulations. Set on a sloping corner allotment in a suburban
housing and villa area on the edge of the historic centre of Maastricht, this
disjunction between the simplicity of its appearance and the complex spatial
arrangement of the interior accentuates the perverse qualities of suburban life
explored by David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’. The building uses the natural slope of
the site to articulate a section that allows one to enter the house from street
level to a interior mezzanine before descending to the garden level or rising
tot the third level the building is divided vertically by a technical space,
cocooned in turn by a diaphragm party wall into the two programmatically
different areas of the office and the home. The sectional deviation allows the
building to maximize its prescribed envelope of 1.5 stories above and 1.5
stories below street level and to increase inter-floor communication. A
concrete box is embedded into the site with primary views through large
openings to the garden and court; the second more private wooden box is set on
top, fronting onto the street and the garden behind. The top level within the
wooden box contains the sleeping rooms of the house and the meeting room,
administration and directors office. One descends to the ‘ground floor’, which
contains the living areas and the kitchen and opens onto the expansive garden,
swimming pool and terrace. The ‘ground floor’ office space and project room
opens to the side facing away from the private garden to a walled court with
glass brick floor. The lower level is for the office. It extends under the
house and contains the drawing room, archive, workshop and preparation areas.
Light enters through the glass bricks of the walled courtyard and through
windows that open onto areas of the garden that are scalloped out and shielded
from the inhabitant of the house sections.
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