Glossy ceramic tiles in shades of green and blue cover the twisting form of Villa BW, a house in the Dutch village of Schoorl designed by architecture studio Mecanoo.
Delft-based Mecanoo, which is best known for its large-scale cultural projects, created the three-storey home to sit among a cluster of more traditional dwellings.
Mecanoo has created a tile-covered house named Villa BW
Villa BW has a distinctive double-curved roof and tile cladding, designed to allow the 308-square-metre house to be "absorbed" by the surrounding landscape of dunes, woodland and polder.
Treated with a pearlescent glaze, the bespoke tiles that cover the exterior are coloured in grey, blue and green tones that appear to shift with the changing sunlight during the day. It sits within a cluster of traditional houses
"Where the rolling dune landscape flows into the lower-lying polder terrain of the hinterland, the naturally sloping landscape embraces Villa BW," said Mecanoo.
"Colour use is consistent with the shades of the environment, ensuring that the villa is absorbed in the changing terrain," it continued. "The dune and polder landscape in various seasons is mirrored in the design's colour spectrum consisting of five shades of grey, green and blue."
It has a distinctive double-curved roof
Two vertical elements organise the interiors of the home ? a glazed void facing a garden to the southeast and the wood-lined core containing the staircase, storage, and ...