Hermetic Dwelling-workhouse HDT by Hoogte Twee Architecten
The structure located in a small quarter with free lots, which form the transition between an industry terrain and a housing estate. The aim of the design was to make this home as an hermetic, folded abstract volume, moulded and shaped to a true strange, but imaginative speaking form, familiar with its tenants. Combination between freedom of design, with the clear “image quality plan” and the standard solutions, which are generally the results from this plan, form the basis for the development of the design, in which both extremes have been tested to each other continually.
The slanting roof levels and the slightly yielding fronts take care of a spatial dynamics which can be felt everywhere by the free plan. A bath furniture, lifted until just under the roof takes care for functional divisions and reinforces the spatial experiences. The apparent dark and closed mass has been illuminated with three patios which provide air and light to the liveable spaces. Mutual relations between living and working are reinforced with this or just avoided: a subtle game in which the playing with the theme ‘distance’ is central.
Location : Nijmegen Area, The Netherlands
Architects : Hoogte Twee Architecten – Arnhem
