Villa Fifty-Fifty
Located on the green edge of Strijp-R in Eindhoven, Studioninedots designed family home Villa Fifty-Fifty as a pavilion where volumes alternate between open and closed, and where life happens just as much outdoors as indoors: a new typology for maximizing visual and family interaction.
Photography by © Frans Parthesius
Fifty-fifty. With the design of Villa Fifty-Fifty, the architects took the opportunity to push the typology of the transparent house. The clients, who commissioned Studioninedots some years back to design their first house, now desired a minimalist lifestyle and requested to live with nature. Studioninedots sought to investigate a rather radical translation of the view that living and outdoor functions are equally important. Avoiding the obvious locations, all functions are randomly organized as connected volumes between two horizontal planes. This resulted in a  pavilion-like house that unfolds across the garden, enhancing the relationship between the building and the landscape, and in a unique patchwork of connections between open and enclosed, between inside and outside. Half house, half garden in one single volume. Fifty-fifty.
Photography by © Frans Parthesius
Pavilion meets the tiny house. Villa Fifty-Fifty is composed of functions organized both horizontally and vertically. The shared family spaces and the parents? spaces are located on the ground floor; the girls have their own rooms in the tiny house in the towe...