Jaja architects. Pierre Bernard Architecte. Accueil : le bureau baroque. Powerhouse Company. Rooms with many views Villa 1 was Powerhouse Company’s first project: our chance to present our manifesto to the world. We were a fledgling practice then, working from kitchen-table offices in Rotterdam and Copenhagen. But we knew exactly what we wanted to build (a house with great spatial qualities and meticulous detailing) and how we wanted to build it (in a smooth, service-driven process). The design of Villa 1 was inspired by the site, the clients’ paradoxical desire to live “in a modern glass house with all the cosiness of an old farmhouse”, and by Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and the work of Saarinen. The project embodies our ideas about professionalism. Architects are generalists. They have to cooperate with engineers and specialists and accommodate the wishes of the client. The site: a manufactured forest The plot was in a wood which, like so much of Dutch nature, is entirely manmade.
Our clients’ desires were rather contradictory The brief: contradictory desires Why oh Y? Group8. Architecten de vylder vinck taillieu. Architecten de vylder vinck taillieu. PEZOVONELLRICHSHAUSEN_00.
H Arquitectes. STAR strategies + architecture – Rotterdam. Elmo Vermijs || Architectonische Vormgeving. BUREAU A. Joly&Loiret | Agence d'Architecture. Atelier Bow-Wow.