VILLA E

ENSCHEDE, 2002

The existing house was designed for a University professor in an open field in the forest of the coulisse landscape of Twente. Over the years, due to the change of ownership it was transformed into a house with a Mediterranean character: white, cubistic, embedded in beach pebbles. The new owners wanted a larger living space and asked Maxwan to design an extension to the original house. In place of the somewhat artificial Mediterranean setting Maxwan based their design on high quality living, working and relaxing in the beautiful forest garden.
The extension, a stretched volume opens up to a beautiful setting of trees embracing the garden. Placed right in the middle, the new living room will be on one side the skybox of the existing tennis court and on the other side a buffer to the private swimming pool. The house owners will drive up to the house by a scenery path through the forest garden and invite their guests to approach their private life by foot.