Villa Meijendel | cepezed

The villa clearly reflects cepezed’s architectural principles: a kit of parts, modularity, efficiency, glass and steel, grey and black. With its demountable construction, the villa is circular ready. Although concrete has been applied in the basement as a foundation, saw cuts make it possible to remove it in loose slabs, should the villa ever be demolished. Both the concrete slabs and the glass and steel can then be reused, as can the loose volumes in the interior, forming rooms, closets, and so on.

The house has a rectangular plan with an entrance next to the garage. The floor above contains a study, guest room and living room with open kitchen, which opens directly onto the garden because of the sloping terrain. The top floor contains a study on a loft, another guest room and a bedroom. The floor plan is rectangular, summarising the house as a glass box, with some more closed volumes inside. Shifting these volumes to one long façade creates space for stairs and galleries along the other long façade.

The view inside the house extends from front to back and top to bottom. There are skylights, glass floor plates and the gangways along the rooms leave a slit between the interior walls and railings. Most striking is the view outside, a dune landscape with lots of pine trees in the garden. The large, double-height living room has glass facades with sliding doors on three sides; the fourth side is the back wall of the kitchen. When the sliding doors are opened, you are more or less sitting outside whilst still inside. 

Interior design: Cepezedinterieur, Delft smeulders

Photography: Lucas van der Wee

Photography: https://www.interieur-fotograaf.com/