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Type: Five dwellings Location: Almere Overgooi Client: Villa van Vijven Team: Michel Schreinemachers, Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk with Joost Lemmens, Filipe Pocas, Esther ten Brink, Rolf Pederson, Maria Salinas Floor area / size: 1.300 sqm Cost: Euro 1.500.000,00 Contractor: Bouwbedrijf Siebenga Build engineer: Adviesburo Nieman, VDW Bouwadvies Construction: Pieters Bouwtechniek Installations: Van Duin Installation Management, Installatiebedrijf Hoekstra-Mildam First design: 2008-03-01 Start building: January 2007 Completion: April 2008 Status: Completed

2008-04-17 golden nomination 2008-03-03 scaffolding removed

The Overgooi project concerns a villa-like residential building with five specific accommodations commissioned by the Villa Van Vijven (Villa For Five) Association that consists of five private clients.

The opportunity arose to develop five residential units on a 5000 m² lot – with the restriction that they had to look like a single villa.

Based on this fact and on various qualities of the environment we implemented a series of transformations on the building volume. On the basis of a number of workshops with the residents this resulted in five specific accommodations, each with its very own character.

Each storey has been rotated a quarter turn in relation to the others, giving the residences exceptional orientation, incidence of sunlight and spatiousness. Subsequently, the entire building was raised to give each residence a second floor view – over the dike – of the Gooimeer.

Type: Master plan + Dwelling Location: Eck en Wiel Client: Stichting Locus a/d Rijn Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water, Claudia Linders with Joost Lemmens, Rolf Pederson Collaborator / associate: Labeled / Claudia Linders Floor area / size: 600 sqm Cost: Euro 720.000 Contractor: Aannemersbedrijf van der Helden BV Construction: Goudstikker - de Vries Installations: Walter Jansen Special thanks to: Landscape advisor:Thijs van Hees Landschapsarchitectuur First design: 2007-10-20 Completion: July 2007 Status: Realised

2007-12-01 Huis te Wiel in De Gelderlander 2007-10-01 Huis te Wiel nears completion

The design for the ‘Huis te Wiel’ estate is a careful composite of the existing farm, two new houses and an annex.

By adding the new buildings, we created a courtyard. The existing farm, a national monument, has preserved its main building status and the hierarchy is strengthened as the new buildings are constructed like this farm: its slanted roof and the different directions of the ridges of the front of the house and of the attached barn are copied in the new buildings.

The buildings’ unity and coherence are increased by adding structuralizing elements – duckboards and platforms – that mark the transition between the collective and the private. The decoration of the yard includes elements – a hedge, formal beds of plants – that refer to the location’s past. The master plan design echoes the various strata of the country estate’s rich history.

The materialization of new buildings refers to an agricultural past, the yard and the composition refer to the history of ‘Huis te Wiel’.

Type: Student dwellings Location: Haidian District, Beijing, China Client: Beijing Normal University Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water Floor area / size: 49.000 sqm Competition: Invited competition 2006, second prize First design: 2006-09-24

Chinese university dormitories are strictly divided worlds of girls and boys. For this typical university dormitory, 12 sqm rooms are shared by four students; each room has a closed balcony.

The building will be accommodate a total of 3.500 students.  In order to maximize the distance between boys and girls, two L-shaped buildings are situated opposite each other. The boys’ dorm is situated to the south; it is two floors lower and by reducing the building height sunlight is guaranteed to reach the two enclosed courtyards.

The two buildings are connected by a recreation program that can be used from both sides.  The elevation concept is derived from nature and abstractly resembles the growing of ivy. Balconies embrace the building and create a play between the individual rooms and the building complex as a whole.

Type: Dwelling Location: Enschede Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water Floor area / size: 200 sqm First design: 2006-09-09 Status: Competition

This competition entry for a town house presents a residence with unprecedented spatial contrasts. The combination of a belle etage with cascading stairs results in a cross shape that forms the centre of the house.

The cross functions as a spatial, functional and organizational foundation. It carries the daylight onto the heart of the residence – usually the darkest part of the house. Several private rooms for personal use, such as studies, bedrooms, a bathroom and a roof garden, have been arranged around the cross. 

The façade is an important part of this house as the contrast between open and closed is expressed optimally in the materials: glass for the open belle etage and a dark brick front for the private rooms.

Type: Prototype of a dwelling Location: IJburg, Amsterdam Client: ING Real Estate Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with David Spierings, Remco van Gijzen Floor area / size: 220 m2 Cost: Euro 370.000,00 Competition: May 2006 First design: 2006-08-01 Status: Preliminary design

The Beauty of Simplicity
 

In short, building is nothing but connecting and stacking modular units: an upgraded kind of Lego. And the simpler the connecting and stacking is, the more efficiently one can build.

So... we based Casa Duplo on the Lego brick. The design consists of a number of connected and stacked simple volumes. The efficient way of connecting and stacking results in terraces, loggias and a large overhang that can serve as a carport, with the interior-exterior relation playing an important part. 

The need to secure adequate privacy is at odds with the wish to bring as much of the exterior into the interior as possible. Casa Duplo’s window openings each face a different part of the environment, thus directing the eye to the space between the surrounding buildings. The façade, which consists of horizontal wooden slats, lets the daylight in and allows a view but obscures   the view into the house.

Type: Housing Location: Delft Client: DARE project development Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water, Joost Lemmens Floor area / size: 680 sqm Cost: Euro 1.515.000 Competition: Competition, nominated First design: 2004-09-09

‘Hoeksteen’ (Cornerstone) is a design for a residential building at the far end of Zuiderstraat that not only serves as a “lantern”, but is also the link between Delft’s city centre and the Zuiderpoort area that is currently under construction.

The meeting of these worlds is literally rendered perceptible: behind the old façade, we placed a new structure in the urban tissue.

The intersecting lines between the old and the new shape the new volume; the shape is adapted, on the one hand, to link up with the old buildings along Achterom and, on the other, manifests as part of the Zuidpoort area. The structure at the Achterom side underlines the old façades by making a cut between the old and the new. The incisions scale down the structure itself.

The commercial premises on the ground floor face all-round. Three small volumes are created that each face a different street side, held together by the courtyard on which all of the front doors are located. Two staircases, on Asvest and on Achterom, lend access to the courtyard. Passersby can look into the courtyard through the large opening in the façade on Zuiderstraat. It provides a view of the private world hidden behind the façade.

Type: Housing, urban plan Location: Chile Client: Elemental Chile Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water Floor area / size: 10.000 sqm First design: 2003-11-01

Wallhouse is a flexible strategy that combines possibilities for a wide diversity of housing types with a great differentiation of urban spaces. 

This competition asked for an urban housing plan for lowest income group in Chili. I ddemanded for flexibility in such a way that the inhabitants were able to extend their houses in the near future. The main element in this spatial strategy is a construction wall that contains the basic amenities necessary for a house: a bathroom, stairs, a kitchen and an entrance. Each individual house can be extended towards the back by adding rooms. At the same time the wall is a structural urban element. It creates an urban plan with two faces: a clear and formal front side towards the streets and a characteristic informal side towards the back.

Type: Dwellings and commercial space Location: Den Bosch, The Netherlands Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Marion Mischke Floor area / size: 650 sqm First design: 2001-12-01 Status: Competition

Twist is a design for three work-at-home residences on the Brugplein in ’s-Hertogenbosch.

Over a commercial ground level with a small footprint, three volumes are positioned to face the various urban conditions of the location: Brugstraat (busy, noisy), Havensingel (quiet, idyllic) and Brugplein (dynamic, wide view).

The three volumes accommodate working, sleeping and living facilities respectively. The residences, therefore, rotate through these volumes. As different floor levels are indicated for different facilities the three volumes differ in height.

The residences are accessed from a central point on level +1. Two tapered staircases from Havensingel and Brugstraat lend access to this central point.

Each residence covers three floors and has a roof garden. The external staircase is literally the pivot of the project and it emphasizes the transition from one function to another. It creates distance between the various programme units and in doing so creates a great residential experience.

Type: Dwelling Location: Werkhoven Client: G. Van Echtelt Team: Michel Schreinemachers with Joost Lemmens, Wout Smits, Vincent Heck, Shyla Rietveld, Patrick Maisano, Floris de Ridder Collaborator / associate: JMA, Amsterdam Floor area / size: 200 sqm Cost: Euro 255.000,00 Contractor: Timmer- en aannemersbedrijf J.H. de Vries Build engineer: Pieters Bouwtechniek Photographer: Jeroen Musch First design: 2001-10-01 Start building: May 2004 Completion: December 2005 Status: Completed

The wish of the client was to create a house which draws on the ideals associated with the traditional farmhouse.

The volume is created through a number of subtle manipulations such as the vertical and horizontal displacement of the main elements along a sort of a fault-line: this shift reinforces the perspective of the surrounding landscape, optimising the view of the vast horizon.  The floor plan has been organized in such a way that it achieves a continuity between the different  functions involved with a residential program, while separating service areas such as the main entranceway, bath and pantry. 

The main area is built using traditional details. Relying on knowledgeable specialists, we were able to construct the house using bricks and straw. The bigger window openings cut though this volume, open up the interior and connect it to the landscape.