House R / Eek en Dekkers

The client was clear from the very first meeting: they did not want a special house. Or not as a goal in itself.  The focus had to be the quality of living for the family. Apart from that, the budget was a reason to build pragmatically. We were confident that these principles would lead to an esthetical quality and would unexpectedly produce a special result. To meet the clients' requirements, we chose to use industrial building methods to create a large volume in the form of a barn. The various residential functions are, as it were, composed within the building volume.