Casa Kwantes bases itself around the clients? desire for seclusion and privacy, whilst having a maximum of daylight and open living spaces. From the road, the bare brick wall offers only a partial glimpse into the property and family life through an opening of the white brickwork fac?ade - a subtle indented entrance leading into an initially dark and enclosed entrance hall. In contrast, the reverse of the property completely opens up to the south with curved windows following the entire winding fac?ade wrapped around a central olive tree.

© Ossip van Duivenbode

Architects: MVRDV

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Design Team: Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries, Frans de Witte, Herman Gaarman, Arjen Ketting and Brygida Zawadzka
Area: 480.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Ossip van Duivenbode

Engineer: Md, NL

Installations: Techniplan, NL

Contractor: Villabouw Mattone, NL

Glass Fac?ade: IFS Building Systems, NL

Interiors: DK Projects, BE

From the architect. Casa Kwantes bases itself around the clients? desire for seclusion and privacy, whilst having a maximum of daylight and open living spaces. From the road, the bare brick wall offers only a partial glimpse into the property and family life through an opening of the white brickwork fac?ade - a subtle indented entrance leading into an initially dark and enclosed entrance hall. In contrast, the r...