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PRIVATE HOUSE NAALDEN

DOM J.TH. VAN DER LAAN, -1982, Bakpers 9, Best

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Dom Hans van der Laan

ASSISTING ARCHITECT:
Hans van der Laan

BUILDING TYPE:
Freestanding houses

The monk-architect Van der Laan was one of the few contemporary architects to succeed in applying a meticulously described architectural theory to a built oeuvre. The basis of his theory is a series of dimensions and proportions, the 'plastic number', which brings together all building components in a harmonious, measurable sequence. The Naalden house, a subdued composition of three rectangular masses in a few similarly subdued materials ranged around a courtyard, shows that the plastic number theory can produce an architecture of great power.