Dutch studio Francois Verhoeven Architects has accomplished Villa K340, a home in The Hague shaped of interlocking blocks completed with contrasting timber and plaster.
Francois Verhoeven Architects designed the villa within the residential district of Vroondaal, which sits near the seashores and dunes on the coast of the Netherlands.
The world, which is characterised by its architectural range, has been divided by metropolis planners into a variety of “residential atmospheres”, with Villa K340 occupying a website meant for extra trendy designs.
“Villa K340 is located within the residential environment known as ‘De Hoogte’ the place trendy villas are allowed to be in-built a panorama of artificially constructed hills,” defined the studio.
Inside, the residing areas within the wood-clad block are extra enclosed to supply privateness from the road to the south, whereas the plaster-lined quantity is extra open, with residing areas overlooking a backyard by way of massive home windows.
The place the block-like types interlock, small cut-outs and overhangs are created. The storage on the entrance of the house is topped by a inexperienced roof.
A big pivot door that blends in with the picket cladding offers entry into Villa K340 and, at evening, small gaps between the picket planks permit mild to shine by way of.
“The architectural design is characterised by a composition of picket components and a lime plaster,” mentioned Francois Verhoeven Architects. “These pure supplies, of their most uncooked type, distinction with the aesthetic divisions of the facades and slender aluminium window frames.”
Villa K340 has a split-level inside, negotiating a mild slope on the location. The doorway corridor centres round a small glazed terrace, with a skylit staircase main right down to a sunken residing, eating and kitchen space and as much as a workspace and bedrooms.
On the rear of the house, full-height glass sliding doorways join the residing space to a concrete patio, which extends out in direction of a small backyard. Designed with panorama studio Biotoop, it includes a small pond surrounded by rocks.
“The design of the villa includes a split-level format that strikes with the contours of the hill, [creating] a dynamic interaction between panorama and structure,” mentioned the studio.
“From a centrally positioned staircase and an related outside house, there are views of all of the rooms on the completely different flooring,” it continued.
Francois Verhoeven established his eponymous studio in 2021, having beforehand been a co-director of the structure observe FillieVerhoeven Architects with Dennis Fillie.
One other villa by Francois Verhoeven Architects is K2, a timber-clad residence close to Groningen with a big roof that extends to shade deep-set terraces. The studio additionally accomplished Villa SG21, a blackened wooden house with a turfed roof in Rotterdam.
The images is by François Verhoeven.
