INTERACTION, PERMEABILITY, TRADITION, MODERNITY
MEF architects: www.mef-architects.nl
How can modernity interact with traditional architecture, when the destination of the site is for agriculture s use and the urban prescriptions dictate precise orientations about new interventions? ai???Buildings must not break the atmosphere of the surroundingsai???.
Thus existing farmhouses, materials, traditional volumes are those instruments to work with, by relating them to new human needs and the different ways of life of today. Therefore an accurate analysis of the environment and its local habits determined every choice and every physical part of the project. This way, traditional architecture was not only a model to consider, but also an inspiration source to deny sometimes by affirming that architecture evolves and trigs other thinking mechanisms, new technologies and, above all, other functional and aesthetical concepts of itself. Therefore by re-interpreting the essence of the Dutch farmlands a new project was set up, which reveals its contemporary identity in all the details, where tradition has been formulated by another handwriting. Not to mention the beautiful portions of the natural context facing the house, as framing sections of the landscape which was brought inside as important scenery of the interiors settings. As a result the new architecture is so well integrated to its surroundings to result even permeable because in a constant relationship with the untouched atmosphere which entirely enwraps it.
CREDITS
Studio: MEF architects
Project name: Country villa
Year: 2010-2012
Location: Vinkeveen, Holland
Client: Private
Floor area: 220 m2
Building Company: D. Kroese B.V.
Furniture realization: Creavorm, Mijdrecht
Photos (o3-06-07) courtesy of: Denis Guzzo
Photos (o1-02-04-05) courtesy of: Joost van Selm
