Villa CG
Open and Closed
“Design the most beautiful house on the street,” said our clients for Villa CG. A tall order, perhaps, as the neighbors are all one-off villas created for private clients by prominent offices like SeARCH, Bolles + Wilson and Erick van Egeraat, but at Powerhouse Company we can never resist a challenge. Our design lives up to its owners’ ambitions by relying on perfect symmetry and a delicate balance between closed and open volumes.
We achieved a richness in spatial experiences within the simplicity of the shapes and materials.’
Brick
by Brick
by Brick
Brick
by Brick
by Brick
By framing a solid brick cube between two diaphanous glass wings and sheltering all three volumes beneath a white canopy, we create an unexpectedly high-contrast, yet harmonious, visual experience.
We realized our villa’s closed front façade in beautiful long and narrow Wasserstrich bricks, their color carefully chosen to harmonize with the walnut wood of the interior. This brick cube shields the inhabitants from the street and is flanked by transparent and frameless glass bays, anticipating the openness of the rear sgarden side of the house. A white stucco canopy, supported by slender columns, unifies the design, adds to the horizontal dynamic and creates an intermediate zone that blurs indoors and outdoors. From the street, attention focuses on the customized front door, with its strong geometric design in tombac.
Rooms and Views
Ground Floor
First Floor
Site Plan
Garden Delights
In the Zone
In the Zone
The white canopy extends out further at the rear of the villa, matching the footprint of the surrounding terrace and, together with the structural glass facade, creating an intermediate zone that enables the living room, terrace and garden to spatially flow into each other. The effect is heightened by the garden encroaching on the terrace beneath the overhang, softening the edges that define them.
The materialization reinforces the play with sight lines, openness and seclusion.’
