Maxwan’s Extraordinary House G in Netherlands

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Designed by Maxwan Architects incorporated, the House G took what was a plain space and made it something extraordinary, leaving the adjacent dysfunctional and disconnected house as an office work space.

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The open space is delineated incorporated daylight and smart minimalist floor, furniture and a single wall. With the wide open space opening to the garden and a gabled roof retreat, the living space is, well, livable.

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A swath of roof was removed and replaced by a length of skylight to compensate for the small windows. A soapstone woodstove delineates the living room, and a long counter and simple table makes a kitchen.

The beam trusses were stripped of lower supports and structurally beefed up to support a platform laying across the cords.

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Upstairs is a platform retreat with built in seating and safety railing. The stairs feeding the second floor are suspended from a railing, and a couple of key tread cutouts smartly turns them into a seat to read books begging for attention at the adjacent library.

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The changes relieved the owners of an expensive gutting of a poorly designed house and provided a unique minimal retrofit retreat.

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source: inhabitat, maxwan, blueantstudio