Villa Fifty-Fifty Strijp-R, Eindhoven Property, New Dutch Home, Studioninedots Architecture Photos
Villa Fifty-Fifty in Strijp-R Eindhoven
3 Dec 2020
Villa Fifty-Fifty, Eindhoven Building
Architects: Studioninedots
Location: Strijp-R, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Europe

Photos by Frans Parthesius
Studioninedots? Villa Fifty-Fifty is half house, half garden, in one single home
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 maximising visual and family interaction.

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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 relation 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...