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News • News • 4 Dec 2020
Villa Fifty-Fifty has equal parts indoor and outdoor spaces
As the name suggests, half of the house of Villa Fifty-Fifty, designed by Studioninedots, consists of indoor and the other half of outdoor spaces.
By alternating them in a checkerboard pattern, reminiscent of floorplans by SANAA, the office has made them into equal parts.
Frans Parthesius
“You’re neither inside nor outside, you move from inside to outside to return inside and end up somewhere outside.” Jurjen van der Horst, Architect at Studioninedots
Frans Parthesius
The villa is located in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on the edge of Strijp T and an adjacent estate. The residents wished for a home that sets the conditions for a more minimalist lifestyle and stronger connection to nature. Studionined... More
Project • By MARLENE ULDSCHMIDT ARCHITECTS STUDIO • Private Houses
Casa Vale de Margem
Some houses are made to be looked at, others to be lived in, others again to be walked on.
Once a farmhouse, tucked into rural Algarve (Southern Portugal) and surrounded by the luscious vegetation of a natural reserve, is now a conceptual space tuned in with the land topography and flooded with light and air.
Roof therapy should be the next trend, crossing spacial boundaries is liberating, empowering, and challenging.
This’s probably why the roof of Casa Vale do Margem is walkable.
The entire house is about movement.
Stepping from one room to another is an escalation of geometrical perfection, the additional wing gave sinuosity to the structure and a long external retaining wall marked the transition betwe... More