“The first realization in MVRDV’s hometown Rotteredam is a rooftop house extension. On top of an existing monumental house and atelier, the bedrooms are positioned as separate houses, optimizing the privacy of every member of the family. The houses are distributed in such a way that a series of plazas, streets and alleys appear as a mini-village on top of the building.”

via mvrdv 

“An addition to an original weatherboard house in an inner city area. The original house maintains it’s integrity as a larger worker’s cottage with narrow weatherboards and functional details. The new addition is a reinterpretation of the two storey cottage replacing the previous utilities ‘lean to’ with a new form which echoes the existing.

This new space incorporates a living area with a children’s loft above, study nook, kitchen and dining area. The living area and loft are connected by a void which forms the termination of the circulation spine extending from the exisiting corridor through to the new spaces.

The addition is clad in a wide vertical steel “weatherboard” more often used on commercial buildings but here viewed as an appropriate response to both historical and visual contexts.

Design decisions were driven by references to existing fabric, orientation, axis of movement and, importantly, the intersection of new and old forms.”

via nobbs radford architects.