The design for this house is evidently strongly shaped by its location and site.
The most important aspects were the fact that this was the last house on the street, that the adjacent wooded nature reserve could also be the "front" and the strongly sloping terrain. Taking this into account, we really dug the house into the slope.
Integration and interaction between garden/environment and home was very important.
The house extends over 2 levels or layers. An upper living level that corresponds to the garden, terrace and swimming pool behind. This floor with floor-to-ceiling 3-sided glazing creates a very open view and panorama over the surrounding landscape, meadow, garden and forest.
The low-lying floor is partly underground and this is where the night rooms and service areas are located. These functions are more privately shielded from the environment by garden walls or, for the spaces below ground level, equipped with skylights that provide a lot of natural light but do not create insight.
In order to anchor architecture and environment, we opted for a regional brick finish. A materialization that is continued in both the living volume and the garden walls.
A thorough and pure elaboration of the interior, with noble materials, makes this home a total design.
