Villa SR / Reitsema and Partners Architects

The overhang supplies a shaded summer time terrace over the complete width of the home. A second terrace within the patio behind the brick façade is good for breakfast within the morning hours. The lee of the carport kinds a super further night patio. A sliding door makes it attainable to shut the area off from the streets, whereas offering shelter from the wind.

By involving the development engineer already on a really early stage, the design group managed to ensure most transparency in direction of the panorama. Solely three 100 mm partitions and three 60 mm diameter chrome columns assist the concrete roof. Offering an open flooring plan, large doorways, and most daylight the buildings flexibility is optimized.

Asking the brick provider so as to add yellow clay and to fireplace the bricks very near the fireplace, we had been capable of create a richness of colours and occasional glazed results, providing a brand new interpretation of a neighborhood product.

Encouraged by the design, father and son – each skilled carpenters – constructed the villa themselves. Personally concerned they had been dedicated to very correct execution whereas inspiring the collaborators to enhance their efficiency additional.

Sustainable Aspects of the Work

Energetically, by combining the compact set-up with high-quality thermal insulation, together with a inexperienced roof, a warmth pump, a low-temperature flooring heating system, a cooling ceiling, and photo voltaic panels, vitality consumption is minimized. At the identical time, choosing well- designed options made a design optimization attainable to such extent that hardly any waste was produced throughout the development course of.

Socioculturally, the Villa’s reference to the panorama, each within the group as in materialization, has already confirmed to play an exemplary position for related places. Offering a view on the panorama, the type of the Villa provides high quality to the general public area of its surrounding neighborhood. Cooperatively designed and constructed by the purchasers, their intensified engagement ensured that the small print turned top quality and had been constructed very exactly.

Economically, the challenge’s long-term cost-scope design technique leads Villa SR to be an inspiring instance of sustainable structure, additionally when it comes to feasibility. 

Originally printed on June 29, 2015.