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V36K08/09 by Pasel Kuenzel Architects
Here's another house by Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects located on a former industrial site in Leiden, Netherlands as part of their series of eleven town houses for the area.
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Called V36K08/09, the zinc-clad building comprises two separate dwellings for a mother and son, each with its own patio.
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A wooden gate encloses leads directly onto a patio, which acts as the entrance area for the house.
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On the upper part of the building, floor to ceiling windows in the living spaces look out onto a terrace.
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This series of houses is part of an urban masterplan by Dutch architects MVRDV (See our previous stories on homes by Pasel Kuenzel Architects here and here).
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Photographs are by Marcel van der Burg, primabeeld.
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The following information is from the architects:
V36K08/09 - URBAN DIVA
On a former industrial site close to the historical heart of the renowned Dutch university city of Leiden, emerges one of the biggest urban developments of private-collective dwellings in the Netherlands.
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In their series of eleven town houses, Rotterdam based architects pasel.künzel architects present yet another exceptional residence.
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V36K08/09 is the front end of a terrace that is built on a collective parking garage.
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The residence comprises two separate dwellings for mother and son, including two spacious and hidden patios.
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The dark pre-patinated zinc façade with its subtle disposition of seams gives the building a calm but yet spectacular appearance.
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Looking from the outside, the house appears rather compact and closed - a fortress in the urban tissue.
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Only by entering the estate through the heavy wooden gate, one gets into an utterly different inner world - an oasis of tranquillity, a living space that is generous and open, where inside and outside merge into each other.
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