Courtesy of Pasel Kuenzel

• Architects: Pasel Kuenzel
• Location: Leiden, The Netherlands
• Area: 180.0 sqm
• Photographs: Courtesy of Pasel Kuenzel

Courtesy of Pasel Kuenzel

From the architect. Home to a patchwork family and space for a living and working environment, this house serves several ambitions.

Courtesy of Pasel Kuenzel

With just one façade facing the narrow alley, zenith daylight is directed through a central light well reaching all spaces of the residence. The spacious atrium is the core element of the building, providing a space of specific neutrality and merging the living areas on the ground floor with the home office of the client photographer on the top floor. From the outside the house hides its spacious qualities, from the inside it unfolds a world of visual connections and provides a framework for social diversity.

Model

Under the Dutch skies, natural daylight creates an ever-changing ambience of light and space, being the essential elements of the photographer to work with.
A hidden roof terrace connects the home with the stars…

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Over the past 20 years, many of the most renowned European cultural institutions – including ARTE France, Les Films d’Ici, the Louvre, the Ministry of Culture and Communication Department of Architecture and Heritage, Centre Pompidou, City of Architecture and Heritage, Musée d’Orsay and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe – have come together to produce more than 50 architecture documentaries devoted to the most significant achievements of architecture, its beginnings, and the latest creations of the great architects of today. Now, these videos are accessible to the public via the YouTube Channel ACB (Art and Culture Bureau).

Each documentary is approximately 26 minutes long, and focuses on the genesis and impact of a single building that has played a role in the evolution of architecture. Narration is in English, and many of the videos of newer buildings feature interviews with the architects themselves. Check out some of the videos below, or find the entire list here.

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© Adrià Goula

• Architects: Sergi Pons architects
• Location: Sarrià, Barcelona, Spain
• Area: 120.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2016
• Photographs: Adrià Goula

• Collaborators: Anna Giralt
• Construction Company: GdR (Grup de reformes)

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From the architect. We find ourselves on ground floor of a building constructed in the year 1930, in the historical centre of Sarrià, a district in the upper part of Barcelona. It was a well-known establishment, since it had been a confectionary shop in the neighbourhood for many years. 

Plan

Our clients, a couple of young entrepreneurs, called us to see if we could turn this space into a home despite being in fairly poor conditions. When we were moving forward with the survey, we realised that there was a false ceiling covering up the traditional Catalan vaulted ceiling, made in delightful ceramics, which could give the finished home a great deal of character. 

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The door to the street leads into an entrance hall and the main bedroom. Then we have an open plan kitchen, living room and dining room with the vaulted ceiling, and two other bedrooms, one of which looks out onto the patio and the garden.

There is a gallery designed as a reading room that leads on to the patio.

© Adrià Goula

We created wooden steps to cover the slope between the house and the garden, which was on a higher level where there is a hundred-year-old acacia.

Section

We have combined natural oak wood with geometric mosaics. The doors, some made of pine wood, give us the feeling of quality that we wanted to achieve.

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© Suzanne Paap

• Architects: Lab-S
• Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
• Architect In Charge: Lab-S
• Project Year: 2015
• Photographs: Suzanne Paap

• Structural Engineer: Remco Luijendijk
• Builder: Somniare

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From the architect. Dutch design studio Lab-S has renovated a 30’s row house in the city of Utrecht (the Netherlands) and added a contemporary two story extension in harmony with the old house. The house has been made suitable for a young family with three kids as each floor has been given a new layout. Also, the old extension at the back of the house has been replaced by a new one of the same size. The design of this new façade is inspired by the old rear façade, with its large amount of window frames. Lab-S chose to keep the steel structure of the new extension in sight and add new steel window frames in the same colour. The result is a robust and at the same time slender looking extension that lets natural light enter deep into the old building.

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The new living room on the ground floor is positioned at the back of the house, near the garden. This space is separated from the dining room and kitchen through high (glazed) steel doors that not only function as a room divider, but also serve as an eye-catcher in the living area.

Section

Two new bathrooms are located in the middle of the house on the first and second floor. Since these bathrooms are not positioned at a facade, Lab-S proposed a large skylight in the middle of the roof bringing in natural light into the two super imposed bathrooms. A gap in the master’s bathroom floor on the second floor lets daylight reach the children’s bathroom on the level below.

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