Dutch structure studio i29 has positioned a bamboo-clad home among the many timber in Limburg, the Netherlands, with the purpose of connecting its inhabitants to the encompassing forests.
Referred to as the Open Park Villa, the house provides a number of views of the outside, with in depth sight strains criss-crossing the constructing.
Based on i29, this design responds to the consumer’s temporary, which requested the studio to create a house that embraces the encompassing greenery.
“The consumer needed a house that felt like the house was everywhere in the land, however was current in a really trustworthy approach in relation to the inexperienced environment,” the studio informed Dezeen.
Open Park Villa is an element of a bigger improvement that has remodeled the location of former army land right into a inexperienced residential space full of 43 distinctive properties.
Clad in untreated bamboo, the home is outlined by 5 interconnected orthogonal volumes positioned round present timber, every damaged by giant glass home windows and doorways.
Inside it includes a spacious floor flooring with residing areas and an open plan kitchen organized round a central courtyard, whereas three bedrooms occupy the primary flooring.
Dutch studio i29 oriented the volumes to make sure that pure gentle can transfer by means of every inside at completely different instances of the day.
Every of Open Park Villa’s residing areas is uniquely handled with completely different ceiling heights and finishes to create a various residing expertise. Within the residing space, this was achieved by immersing the room within the panorama, which i29 says creates a “surprisingly completely different ambiance” from the remainder of the home.
“Regardless that it has an open connection to the kitchen, it seems like a very completely different room with a distinct connection to the surface,” mentioned director Chris Collaris.
There are customized particulars all through the house, together with built-in cabinetry for inside storage and customized furnishings for the alfresco eating space on the wood-covered patio.
Clear bamboo is used as cladding inside and outdoors the constructing, with fasteners hidden behind the panels for a minimalist look.
This facade end additionally helps the home mix into its inexperienced environment with complementary tones of sand-coloured cement flooring and stone, oak and fir particulars all through.
For the i29, this allowed it to attain its objective of sustaining a reference to the outside, “even on the deepest level inside the house,” it says.
Whereas preserving the panorama, the positions of the orthogonal volumes between the timber additionally assist to maintain the Open Park Villa cool in the summertime.
This pure cooling method works in tandem with top quality insulation and an air supply warmth pump.
Based by designers Jaspar Jansen and Jeroen Dellensen in 2002, i29 is a Dutch studio specializing in structure and inside design.
Different current initiatives embody a floating residence in Amsterdam and the renovation of a 17th-century canal home.
Pictures is by Tim Van de Velde.