By Linus at 4:46 pm on October 28th, 2008.
Categories: Architecture, Index, Interior Design, Music. Tags: Architecture, daily Architecture, Exterior Design, Interior Design, Interior Design, Powerhouse-Company, Villa 1.
Set in the woodlands of Holland, the program of Villa 1 is oriented optimal towards the views on the terrain and the sun. Half of the program is pushed below ground to meet local zoning regulations.
This creates a clear dichotomy in the spatial experience of the house – a glass box ground floor where all mass is concentrated in furniture elements and a ‘medieval’ basement, where the spaces are carved out of the mass.
And then we have the ultra hype modern car park, you drive under the house and an electronic door detects your car via RFID and opens. Then there is a turning plate in the garage that can spin your car so you don’t have to reverse to get out.
If you like your share of books and music why not spend your afternoon in the relaxing woodland surrounded library with a grand piano.
So to end this little covering of a house that i like and another day in the life of We Are Super Famous, head over to powerhouse company and check out the floor plans and other goodies.
By Linus at 11:14 am on October 27th, 2008.
Categories: Index, Interior Design. Tags: Architecture, Charles Eames Lounge Chair, daily Architecture, Dupli Casa, Exterior Design, House, Interior Design, Interior Design, J Mayer, Jurgen Mayer.
No we have winter time in Sweden ( or daylight saving time ) we turned our clocks backwards yesterday so we gained an hour. So with that extra hour i hunted down some nice architecture. Mondays are one of those days that i actually like.
La Villa Dupli Casa was designed and built back in 2005 with a strong team of Jürgen Mayer, Georg Schmidthals, Thorsten Blatter, Simon Takasaki. I like the futuristic part in this house, normally I’m not so found of biological smooth lines, but more and more of that is lurking it’s way into the parts of my brain that communicates what i like or don’t like.
And as you can see on the photo above, this building and the Charles Eames Lounge Chair has something in common… The timeless design or just that fact that it speaks to you in an unconventional way. They go good hand in hand though and i like em both.
Then you have the big gorgeous swimming pool on the entrance floor, I believe that the pool are is larger than our current apartment by 5 times.
UPDATE:
I’ve now learned that the house itself was first built back in 1984 and then re-architectured a couple of times before landing in the current state.
