PH House | Amsterdam

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The client initially wanted a stairs to combine two separate apartments into a duplex ground floor

residence. Next to an addition in the garden BaksvanWengerden Architecten proposed a radical

change in the structure of the building at ground floor level. By incorporating the structural elements

in fixed furniture pieces the living space around it has become generous and continuous.

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The full height glass folding doors in the addition open towards the garden and create the impression

of a single continuous space. This is most effective in summer, when the open-air living room

merges with the outside deck and garden. The walls and roof of the addition are cladded with thick

recycled pvc. weatherboarding; sustainable, maintenance free and eco friendly.

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Upstairs the space is divided in a working area and a bedroom by a central box, containing

the bathroom, washing room and storage. The continuous, spacial experience at this level is

emphasised by frameless glass sliding doors.

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Client Private
Programme Alteration and addition of a duplex residence
Area 140m2
Team Gijs Baks, Jacco van Wengerden, Dennis Bruijn
Structural engineer Adviesbureau van Beest

Contractor Van Berkel Aannemers B.V.

Interior fit-out BEMA Interieurbouw B.V.

Project cost Confidential
Status Completed October 2009