Fresh House Villa Rotterdam 2

Boom, fresh house idea. Designed by Rotterdam-based studio Ooze, the Rotterdam Villa 2 project is a complete renovation of an existing detached house built a few decades ago and extended several times since then. Located in Rotterdam in The Netherlands, the now 4,300 square foot residence has six bedrooms and five and a half bathrooms. Look around.

“This detached Rotterdam house had been extended several times in recent decades. Ooze architects translated the owners? desire to recycle the ‘soul’ of the house by transforming it in an unusual way." Ooze

The young architectural firm began with a commission to design a kitchen that then evolved into a complete renovation. The design was based on the maximum building envelope, ridge height, as well as the depth of the extension was defined by the zoning plan. What do you think? 

The house on which Ooze began to work had gradually grown over the years. It now consisted of two perpendicular building volumes with a pitched roof, a lower semicircle building in between connecting the two parts, and several extensions on the other side in the angle of the hook-shaped house. The owners wanted to reform these incoherent parts into a logical and comprehensive whole. The pre-defined maximum envelope formed the guideline for a new skin that wraps around the old house and shapes new spaces for inhabitation.

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