Designed by Marc Koehler Architects, The Dune House, half-sunk into the dunes on the northern coast of the island of Terschelling, rises over the landscape and looks over the dunes providing a breath-taking view of the North Sea.

The forces of nature prevalent in the environment – the sea, the sunlight and the local wind patterns – determine the design in such a way as if they themselves had sculpted the house. It is above all a very contextual design and for this reason, every material was chosen after close examination of the colors and textures found in the environment.
Photography: Filip Dujardin
This results in a peculiar architectonic object, a wooden diamond that is experienced very differently from each of its sides, is fully integrated into the landscape and yet also makes a strong but subtle connection between its interior and its immediate surroundings.
The loft-like house recreates the experience of having a walk on the dunes in its interior as a spiraling ?promenade architecturale? around its core as one continuous path from platform to platform, each just a few steps higher than the next, that generates very interesting spatial and visual relations in between each of the rooms but also towards the landscape, as each opening in the house has been shaped, sized and positioned in a specific way, always related to the functions associated to each space.
Photography: Filip Dujardin
Through intensive dialogue between the architect and the clients, a ta...