Year
2024
Status
Completed
Design
Bloot Architecture
Client
Private
Photographs
Jeroen Musch
Contractor
Riezebos Bouwbedrijf
A Solitary extension
In Lelystad, a detached house for a retired couple was renovated and provided with an extension, making the house suitable for lifelong living. The existing garage was made somewhat smaller; it now houses a bathroom and a built-in wardrobe. The extension houses the new bedroom, which is virtually freestanding in the garden.
it is attached to the existing house like a peninsula
The structure has the solitary character of a garden house, because it is attached to the existing house like a peninsula
Floating roof
The glass wall runs above the low build in cabinets. The glass runs around both corners, making the large roof seem to float here and the space optically continues. The glass corners, lacking the Accoya wooden frames, reinforce this. Because the glass starts at bed height, you can look out into the garden from your bed. In principle, the window blinds are not necessary from a privacy point of view, because the neighbours cannot look in here.
Floating corten steel roof
Concept of the architecture
The architecture of the existing house is fairly neutral, it is a so-called catalogue house. The quality of the place is mainly in the large garden, which has become quite ‘mature’ after about 20 years. The beautiful garden and the existing house gave rise to the idea to cut the extension as much as possible from the existing house and in this way position the extension freely, but still connected to the house in the garden. As a result, the architecture of the extension does not have to enter into a dialogue with the existing house, but can profile itself as a room in the garden.
