The Longhouse is located on the clear and hard border of a typical Dutch high density neighbourhood in Amersfoort and the flat green countryside, which is marked by river the Laak.

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The location inspired Architecten Studio-PLS to balance the contrast between city and farmland, between narrow street and wide views, between dike and river and between modern

and rural by designing the Longhouse as a balancing act between the house as a sophisticated split-level industrial machine and a modest long barn-style farmhouse.
Towards the street the Longhouse is modest and calm, because of its graphical, sharp lined up, well-proportioned facades and because of the strict constraint in outside materials: wood, steel,

glass and concrete. This approach gives the impression of calmness and makes the Longhouse looking smaller than it is, giving room to a view on the farmland as background looking from the
residential area.
Towards the farmland the Longhouse is recognisable as a prototypical sign of a house by the white contour, as an introduction to the residential area in the background in which it stands out

looking from the farmland, because of its clarity. The lady of the house is schooled as an interior designer, which is why vivid and long dialogues by telephone arose between Architecten Studio-PLS and the client resulting in a thought out contrast between the modest clarity of the exterior and the rich complexity of the interior. The Longhouse is m...