HOH Architecten

House and garden.

A balancing act between the permanent and the transient. Waiting for the transient to take over.

Acer palmatum, ahrend 2013, ant chair, bambuseae, betula, daw chair, grasshopper, hay new order, hydrangea, jasminum, joyn table, lavendula, LC2, MvS.03, portal, pteropsida, ricinus communis, rosa, slow chair, tray table, tulipa, vinca mayor, vinca minor.

The building embraces two trees of the park.

Outside becomes inside. Inside becomes outside.

From solid to transparent.
From closed to open.
From physical to visual.
Layered.

The sunlight falls onto the screen.
It creates light and dark.
I think I see the light.
I think I see the shadow.

Translucent curtains hang from curved rails. Visually the curtains overlay, creating a fog like condition that becomes denser and denser. A condition that mediates between public and private.

A layer. Reducing the detail.
To reveal the essence.

Two forms of transparency placed behind each other.
Together they form a new reality. In terms of visibility and functionality.

Reflecting heat.

Reflecting cold.

Built as identical twins. Separated from each other during their youth. Living their own lives as if they had no relation to each other. Reunited again after three centuries. Looking for differences, looking for similarities.

Embracing a double faced orientation like Janus, the roman god of beginnings and endings, gates, transition and time.

When ‘Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder’, then the beholder becomes more important than the object of observation. If you want to create beauty, you should focus on the observer and not on the object...

Flexible through order.

Expression through neutrality.

Individuality through collectivity.

Grid and chaos. Overlaid they reinforce each other, make each other visible, give each other meaning.

Walls to sleep in.

Walls to cook in.

Walls to store in.

Walls to take a bath in.

Walls to enter and go upstairs.

Living in between the walls.

All different. In age, size and value. Copied. Black and white. Scaled to fit. Put next to each other. Neutralising. Analysing. Revealing quality.

By copying and rebuilding not only the building is preserved but equally important also the techniques to build it. The act of building is as much a monument as the building itself.

Revealing space.

Trees. Pine and birch.

People. Elderly and students.

Framing rather than demolishing.

To expose the modernity of the past.

A new extension encloses the existing building, defines the border, gives it a facade. Old and new, in between they meet.

Many light curtains.
Placed right behind each other.
Make a heavy door.

A world of chambers.

A surreal and intimate environment.

A place to dine, drink and wander.

Each room has its own atmosphere.

The sequence of rooms supports the emotional passage.

A glass wall surrounds the site.

A transparent ground floor connects site and building.

Defining and composing by stacking and layering.

Between mass and void.

Between unity and diversity.

Between elements and ensemble.

The program of the building is subdivided in smaller clusters and brought back to the human scale.