Hasta La Ideas

This L-shaped wooden house by Dutch studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects sits at the water’s edge on an artificial island in Amsterdam.

Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects designed the family home in Grote Rieteiland, one of six islands that makes up the man-made archipelago of Ijburg, east Amsterdam.

Each residence on the group of islands is allocated a similar-sized plot and shaped by strict scale and massing guidelines.

For this house, the architects created a rectilinear building with a three-storey tower on one side and a small courtyard at the entrance.

“Within a strict and complex set of urban rules [we] succeeded to develop a plain and sober urban villa that is unique in its reduced design and compelling in its materialisation and level of detailing,” said the architects.

White-painted wooden boards clad the house’s exterior, interspersed with windows that extend right to the edges of the facade.

A monochrome colour scheme dominates the interior, which accommodates a large open-plan living area on the ground floor and bedrooms and workspaces inside the tower.

Sliding doors provide access from the ground floor to a waterside garden, while the master bedroom opens out onto a large roof terrace.

Other properties built in Ijburg include a two-storey house clad with timber and a house with a spiral staircase climbing its exterior. See more Ijburg houses »

More residential projects by Pasel Kuenzel Architects include a rectangular house with two courtyard gardens behind its exterior and a house clad in a chequered pattern of timber and white render. See more projects by Pasel Kuenzel Architects »

Photography is by Marcel van der Burg.

Here is a short description from the architects:

The Power of Simple Things

Close and compact are the residences lined up along the waterside of Grote Rieteiland, an artificial island in Amsterdam’s hip neighbourhood Ijburg.

Within a strict and complex set of urban rules pasel.kuenzel architects succeeded to develop a plain and sober urban villa that is unique in its reduced design and compelling in its materialisation and level of detailing.

The building is a composition of a horizontal plinth for living and a vertical element comprising workspaces, bedrooms for the kids, a master bedroom and above all a tremendous roof terrace. Due to a 12m wide glazed facade on the south side the main living area relates directly to the water. The house grants access via a patio facing the street and marking the threshold between public and private.

The unusual materialisation of white painted raw timber boards of Douglas fir underlines the compelling power of simple things.

Architect: pasel.kuenzel architects
Team: R. Pasel, F. Künzel, F. Pocas
Client: Private
Location: Amsterdam, NL
Date: 2009-2013
Size: 307 m2

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Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects have completed another house for MVRDV‘s masterplan in Leiden, the Netherlands (see the other houses here).

Called V35K18, the residence is separated from the house behind by a narrow glazed section, which forms the entrance.

The glazing covers a corridor extending the full height of the building, sandwiched between the two houses.

A long staircase reaches from the entrance at ground level right up to the second floor, with landings leading off into each level.

A work space is located at ground level, living spaces on the first floor and bedrooms on the top floor.

The architects have designed 10 other houses on this former industrial site and this residence sits opposite the zinc-clad V36K08/09 house in our earlier story.

Photographs are by Marcel van der Burg.

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Here’s some more information from the architects:

RESIDENCE * V35K18, the Netherlands

V35K18 residence is located on the southern corner of an urban block comprising 18 utterly different houses. Due to its distinct design, clear materialisation and dark color the compact building forms a dominant ‘corner stone’ within the existing urban fabric.

All architectural details are subordinate to this principle. The massive brick volume is detached from the adjacent neighbour building by a glazed void and the square floor-to-ceiling windows are detailed flush into the facade. The smaller but longer ‘Hilversum-format’ of the bricks allows for an surprising elegancy and noblesse, and at the same time the black color of the facade associates directly with the traditional Dutch buildings dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th century.

Functional, the residence is set up in a classical Dutch way: work related program is located on the ground floor, living on the bel-etage and sleeping on the upper floor. The spectacular cascade stairwell situated in the glazed void on the long side of the building, generates an overwhelming space between the public and private realm.

Architect: pasel.kuenzel architects, Rotterdam , NL
Team: R. Pasel, F. Künzel
Client: Private
Location: Leiden, NL

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