Travel Notes _ Case to Begin the adventure Ypenburg
Progettisti: The Architect Group Loerakker Rijnboutt Ruijssenaars Hendriks garnish Mastenbroek example: Bjarne Mastenbroek, with Floor Arons and Michiel Raaphorst
MVRDV: Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries with Mike Booth, Joost Glissenaar
Strutture: ABT Delft
Client: Families Koek - Wesseling
Country: Netherlands
Location: Hageneiland, Ypenburg
Dating Project: 1995-1997
Project Size: 300 m2
The recent proposal to build a large architectural residential area with pursuing this now widespread tendency to interact with the world of art and images.
long rows of one-and two-family houses such as the other type, pattern and texture distribution volume, distinguished only by the skin surface and the different organization of the garden:
houses with large garden on the main front
homes with only the rear garden and houses with gardens on both sides.
The specificity of the proposal is ultimately in the approach and setting a formal subtle nuance between "houses" all the same with traditional gable roof, made icons of themselves through a contextualization of the material used as coating and in which the the material is to characterize, through the surface of the skin, to use a term of great fashion, the entire architectural object, including walls and roof, a process that generates, in continuity, a complete abstraction from reality.
The exclusive use of monochromatic and clay roof tiles, wood, aluminum, asbestos, and the user creates in the viewer a deep emotion and a backdrop, despite the repetitiveness of the settlement pattern. Clearly, the contemporaneity
leads the architect to work as an artist that prevails among whose ambitions to shape the material, icons and images to produce a strong narrative impact, then the materials are part of a design research and essential elements of language. The value of
tettonicita and texture of the building as well as its durability, are completely replaced by the new rule figurative image that characterizes urban scenes, landscapes changing and unstable.
Laura Andreini
From Area number 64, September / October 2002
link http://www.ypenburg.nu/ http://www.denhaag.nl/smartsite.html?id=25101 photo of Luca Incerti
April 5, 2008