Architect(s): diederendirrix architecten
Address: Jan Olphert Vaillantlaan 43, AMSTERDAM, Netherlands
Latitude/Longitude: 52.36239478569647,4.978612200997038
Photographs: Arthur Bagen
In contrast to the surrounding multi-coloured diversity, diederendirrix designed the front facade of the Steigerland house as a black hole. The closed frontage is made of black painted concrete and a noticeable deviation to this is the opaque glass and wooden front doors on the ground floor.
Colour is barely used in the interior, the only exception being the bright red walls of the patio on the roof. Because only two of the five storeys can be seen from the front elevation, the spatial layout of the house is concealed. The kitchen and dining room, both located on the garden side of the ground floor, are invisible from the street. Behind the large window on the first floor is a four metre high living room and above this, behind the strip window in the front facade, is the first bedroom storey. The second bedroom storey and the roof terrace are again hidden from view. Inside the house the split-level interior generates taller rooms on the ground and first floor and accentuates the length of a relatively compact living room.
Steigerland house was nominated for the Gouden AAP (Amsterdam’s Architecture Prize) 2008.
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Project team: Paul Diederen, Fabianne Riolo
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