Bureau Fraai has completely renovated a 50?s farmhouse and extended the existing old barn next to the house with a contemporary extension. With the design of this extension the architects realized a harmonic relation between the existing and the new.

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Architects: Bureau Fraai

Location: Aalten, Netherlands

Architect In Charge: Bureau Fraai

Design Team: Rikjan Scholten, Daniel Aw?

Area: 195.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Wim Hanenberg

Client: Private

Material Extension: Black pre-weathered titanium zinc

Floor Area Extension: 42m2

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From the architect. Bureau Fraai has completely renovated a 50?s farmhouse and extended the existing old barn next to the house with a contemporary extension. With the design of this extension the architects realized a harmonic relation between the existing and the new.

© Wim Hanenberg

The young family living in this farmhouse in the east of Holland had the wish to completely renovate the out-dated interior while also opening up the house to it?s beautiful surroundings. Bureau Fraai realized this by opening up the whole ground floor plan of the existing house and by adding a spacious extension creating a strong visual connection to the big garden.

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