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PRIVATE HOUSE VAN BUCHEM

VAN DEN BROEK & BAKEMA, 1960-1961, Offenbachlaan 5, Rotterdam

EXTENSION:
Van den Broek & Bakema

ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Van den Broek & Bakema

BUILDING TYPE:
Freestanding houses

Bakema's robust and expressive functionalism informs the architecture of this private house. The main shape is a more or less square plan which groups the spaces around an internal court. Spatially the design is configured as a sequence of increasingly open spaces, from introverted bedrooms by way of a half-open entrance cum kitchen block to the living zone fanning out to the south. The materials are restricted to concrete, fair-faced brick and wood. A window band of varying height threads between the concrete upstand wall and timber roof line.
In 2011 an underground extension was added.