V House | Alkmaar

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BaksvanWengerden Architecten is commissioned to design and realize a single-family house on a

self-build plot, part of a new housing developement, Nollen-Oost, located to the north east of Alkmaar.
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The client requested a spacious house in which most of the programme is situated on the ground

floor. The relation to the surrounding garden was leading aswell. In addition to this the client wanted

a ’solid´ stone cladded house. The position and proportions of the plot result in a north south

orientation on ground floor level; the main direction on the upper level is east west. The orientation

on both levels was also derived from the different views and the privacy aspects. Futhermore the

municipal development plan and beauty commission specification prescribes clear regulations on

heights, roof shape and colouring. All this was taken in account when testing the various models for

the house.
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A shed on a bungalow

The ground floor is organised around a free-standing box, containing the supporting hardware for

the spaces around it. The living area on the south opens to a more formal front yard; the kitchen has

a central position and the eating area is oriented to the more informal back yard. On the upper floor

the sleeping rooms level with the roofgarden on both the east and west side. This elevated landscape

generates a sense of grandeur and privacy.
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As the building could be described as a shed on a bungalow BaksvanWengerden wants to

simulateously raise above this concept by cladding it completely in one material. The result can be

regarded as a new typology.

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Client Private
Programme Single-family detached home
Area 206m2
Team Gijs Baks, Jacco van Wengerden, Rui Duarte

Structural engineer Van Rossum Raadgevende Ingenieurs bv

Project cost Confidential

Status Commenced February 2010, ongoing