Dyke
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Project • By Mirck Architecture • Private Houses
Daylighthouse 4
Dikes protect the Dutch country side from flooding. On top of a dike a little house was built in the 1950s. It fell into disrepair and was sold. The new owners asked Mirck Architecture to design a new dike house, using the beautiful views, daylight, and wood. Mirck proposes to open out the living space to the north, by cracking the dike house volume away from the dike, into the polder landscape.
Katja Effting
The outer corner of the crack is fully glazed and brings in plenty of daylight into the large open space. The facades are also open to the best views in the north. The combination of the abundant natural light and the many views, creates a room-in-a-view: the sensation of being part of the landscape.
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Project • By Mirck Architecture • Private Houses
Daylighthouse 3
Text by Anneke Koning-Corveleijn:
Katja Effting
A country house that is not only situated on top of a dyke, but is an integral part of it; in a polder landscape with panoramic views of trees, straight ditches running through meadows and a nature reserve across the stream that flows alongside the house.
Katja Effting
The house is sleek and contemporary, yet blending in with the landscape. Concrete lends substance to the house, glass gives it transparency and the red Corten-steel cladding – a particular wish of the client – adds colour and warmth.
Katja Effting
Inside, panoramic window fronts, windows and sky lights in the open plan living area reveal spectacular views of water, sky, meado... More