Project: Dutch Mountain
Surface area: 709 m2 BVO / GFA
Start design: 5/ 2008
Start Construction: 6/2010
End Construction: 11/ 2011
Client: Private
Address: Undisclosed
Architect: denieuwegeneratie architecten | Sanne Oomen,
Thomas Dieben, Oscar Vos
Contractor: De Kamper
Sustainability: Arup
Installations: Van Veldhuizen Energie, Sloof Elektrotechniek
Structural Engineer: van Rossum Amsterdam
Interior: 13 Speciaal
Lighting (LED): Erco
Chromatic Advice: Asmir Ademagic
Photography: Jaap Vliegenthart | John Lewis Marshall
Completed in December 2011 this private residence excites, inspires and fits right in with the friendly eco system. With only half of the house apparent to the naked eye there is nothing like cutting through a hill with glazing to bring a tear to the eye. A note to those out there, this never fails to grab our attention. The embedding in the hill simultaneously functions as both a camouflage and as a blanket, hiding the house from view from the north side and using the earth as thermal insulation. One enters the house literally through the mountain, sided with panels of slowly corroding scrap steel. The grand glass facade is framed in timber, which guides the transition from the artificial to the natural. The canopy regulates sunshine through the seasons and allows for a large terrace along the full width of the house. The terrace follows the split-level of the ground floor and jumps up to the higher west façade creating a henhouse underneath. Finally, it curls back up to become the canopy. The frame is constructed out of lark wood, forested from the immediate surrounding
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